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© Netflix & Film 4 Just weeks after Thea Sharrock's sweary comedy ' Wicked Little Letters ' hit cinemas in Britain, another film of her's has come along. 'The Beautiful Game' is a Film 4 and Netflix backed comedy drama about the Homeless World Cup. However instead of going into cinemas, it has headed straight for the streaming platform. Counting Colin Farrell among its producers, the Dubliner first became involved in the Frank Cottrell-Boyce scripted movie after narrating the 2008 documentary ' Kicking It ' by Susan Koch and Jeff Werner which was also acquired by Netflix. © Netflix & Film 4 He and his ' In Bruges ' and ' The Banshees of Inisherin ' co-star Brendan Gleeson were initially attached to the project when it was being developed at Fox Searchlight Pictures. But as is always the case with films of this kind, potential leads come and go before the cameras start rolling. The version hitting our TV screens and smart devices h...

© A24, BBC Film, Access Entertainment & Lionsgate Films UK Is professional wrestling a sport? Some people would argue it used to be until US wrestling corporations took it over in the 1980s and started scripting matches. With its over the top pre-bout trash talk and its emphasis on story arcs for its outlandish stars, wrestling is hard to take seriously. In fact, it's fair to say it's panto - with the emphasis on pants. © A24, BBC Film, Access Entertainment & Lionsgate Films UK Nevertheless it continues to fascinate filmmakers and it has to be admitted there have been some pretty decent movies about it. In the past two decades, audiences have been exposed to comedic takes on wrestling. These have ranged from Jared and Jerusha Hess and Mike White's 2006 Mexican wrestling comedy ' Nacho Libre ' with Jack Black to Stephen Merchant's ' Fighting With My Family ' with Florence Pugh starring in 2019 as Paige, a real life WWE wrestling legend from Norwic...

© HBO When you think of Season Three of 'The Sopranos,' one episode comes to mind - The Pine Barrens. Has there ever been an episode of any TV drama that has matched the brilliance of its writing, acting and direction? Some would argue that possibly the episode of Season Two in ' Breaking Bad ' where Walt and Jesse get stuck in the middle of the desert in their RV after cooking crystal meth is that show's equivalent of 'The Pine Barrens'. © HBO 'Succession' also had some terrific episodes - particularly the ones in Season Three where Logan had a medical emergency at a shareholder meeting and the Tuscan wedding and of course in Season Four episodes featuring a  surprise death and the subsequent funeral . ' The Wire 's best moments include one episode where Stringer Bell meets his demise and another that revolves around the downfall of Frank Sobotka. Yet even measured against those impressive yardsticks, 'The Pine Barrens' still holds ...

© ITV, RTE & Element Pictures After delivering a really impressive debut season , the pressure has been on Nancy Harris' series on ITV and RTE to really raise the bar. Not only does her Dublin comedy drama do that, it does it with ease. Directed by Paddy Breatnach, 'The Dry' tells the story of Roisin Gallagher's Shiv Sheridan, an alcoholic who returns from London to live with her dysfunctional middle class family. (SPOILERS ALERT) At the end of Series One, Shiv's battle to stay sober spectacularly came off the rails. © ITV, RTE & Element Pictures An affair with the posey, vain, feckless love of her life, Moe Dunford's artist Jack saw her lose her job. Treated as a screw up by the rest of her family, she ditched a plan to return to London and instead turned up drunk at a reception for her uptight sister, Siobhan Cullen's doctor Caroline and her doormat of a boyfriend, Eoin Duffy's Rory in the art gallery where she had been working. Her parents...