Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Adaptation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep
November 2023
Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne
Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment
September 2023
‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett
The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles
June 2023
Julian Sands had the heart of a child-man in which scorpions and bluebirds nested
Gabriel Byrne
Byrne worked with the late Sands on three films – Gothic, Siesta and All Things to All Men. He remembers a fierce, mysterious and much-loved man, fearless as both actor and adventurer
December 2022
2022 in Culture
The best theatre of 2022
In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout
September 2022
The week in theatre: The Clinic; The Snail House; Who Killed My Father; Walking With Ghosts – review
Family celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabriel Byrne brilliantly channels his early Dublin years
July 2022
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
From the ballet in Odesa to a shark attack survivor, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in July 2022
Death of a Ladies’ Man review – Gabriel Byrne charms in Philip Roth style dramedy
The Irish actor is compelling as a womanising professor who begins to realise his best days are over, with added Leonard Cohen
Gabriel Byrne: ‘I was never not conscious of being Irish’
The actor discusses the stage adaptation of his memoir Walking With Ghosts, playing Samuel Beckett in a new film, and making peace with being an exile
March 2022
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Mum, Hamlet, Oliver Twist and more
In a new monthly roundup, we pick 10 of the best shows to enjoy from home – including Shakespeare filmed in a church, a lavish musical and Gabriel Byrne’s return to Dublin
February 2022
Walking With Ghosts review – Gabriel Byrne’s trip down Dublin’s memory lanes
The actor adapts his impressionistic memoir for the stage, giving life to the characters he observed as a boy in the ‘theatre of the street’
October 2021
The books of my life
Gabriel Byrne: ‘I’ve never played Hamlet, but in many ways I am him’
The actor on preferring girls’ comics, being politicised by fiction and finally understanding The Great Gatsby
July 2021
Books that made me
Monique Roffey: ‘William Golding’s The Inheritors gave me ideas for how I could write a mermaid’
The Costa winner on the James Baldwin novel she most cherishes, devouring Willard Price adventures as a child, and the sex scene she wishes she had written
November 2020
Book of the day
Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne review – an elegy for Ireland
The G2 interview
Gabriel Byrne: 'There’s a shame about men speaking out. A sense that if you were abused, it was your fault'
October 2020
Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama
Released in the same year as Goodfellas, and disappearing fast as a result, the difficult prohibition-era noir deserves a fresh analysis
January 2019
Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die
From seminal crime sagas and grim comedies to deep dramas and meta humour, here’s our writers’ guide to the best streamable shows right now
December 2018
Top UK films 2018
The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: No 10 – Hereditary
Increasing the sense of impending horror to almost unbearable intensity, Ari Aster’s terrifying debut caused convulsions – without a jump-scare in sight
June 2018
Hereditary review – shock horror? Only up to a point...
Genuine scares give way to generic cliche in Ari Aster’s much garlanded debut feature
