REVIEW: Netflix’s Sophie Toscan du Plantier series is the most insightful documentary yet

Explorations of mental health have become increasingly common in comedy-dramas over the last few years, from “Lady Dynamite” to ”You’re The Worst” to ”Fleabag.” Something about the structure of a 22-minute, often short season show lends itself perfectly to the topic, allowing for an equal balance of seriousness and levity.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticEven with all the havoc the coronavirus wrought in the world, cinema could not be stopped, so why should Mark Cousins, the solicitous Irish critic-cum-tour guide whose 15-hour “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” was but a tip-of-the-iceberg survey of the medium’s infinite possibilities?Making the most of his time in lockdown, Cousins has compiled an appendix/capper to that marathon series, delivering “The Story of Film: A New Generation” on opening day of the Cannes

Convicted drug mule Michaella McCollum is to feature in a new BBC true crime documentary that delves into the Peru Two scandal. The Irish woman will feature in the upcoming series which kicks off on the BBC tonight but a disclaimer at the start warns that ‘only some of the facts can be verified’.

If your other half is demanding to watch the Euros then fear not as Netflix has dropped fantastic new content this week.

Schitt’s Creek came to an end in 2020 to the heartbreak of fans around the globe. Since then the stars have gone on with their lives, while we spend our time rewatching the series.

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Mubi has taken all rights for the UK, Ireland and Turkey to American Honey filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s next picture Cow, which is set to premiere at Cannes this month.

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Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR is Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart for a fifth week, the longest consecutive reign in over five years for a female artist album.

drug mules Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum tried to smuggle £1.5million of cocaine into Spain in 2013. Melissa, from Lenzie, East Dumbartonshire, made headlines all over the world alongside Michaella McCollum from Dungannon in Northern Ireland, when they were sentenced to almost seven years in jail.

Michaella McCollum will take centre stage in a new BBC true crime documentary that delves into the Peru Two scandal. The Irish woman will feature in the upcoming series.

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“A Distant Grave,” by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Minotaur)Homicide detective Maggie D’arcy has been hoping to heat up a cross-Atlantic romance with her sweetheart, Conor Kearney, but after a body turns up on Long Island beach, her trip to Ireland appears to be off.When the murder victim turns out to be Gabriel Treacy, a Dublin resident who had just arrived in America, however, she flies to the Emerald Isle to combine business with pleasure.

Remember that longing you felt after an episode of “Sex and the City” to shop at the characters’ favourite New York haunts and drink cosmopolitans at the same bars? Or that sense of wanderlust for the seaside cliffs of Ireland after watching “Game of Thrones?”

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s death, two documentaries are set to air, one on Sky and another on Netflix, and will land on their respective platforms just days apart.

While filming for season three of Derry Girls has been put on hold, that doesn’t mean the cast is sitting on their laurels. Nicola Coughlan is, of course, starring in Bridgerton and Saoirse Monica Jackson is rumoured to be joining a superhero flick.

We will have to wait just a little bit longer for the Gossip Girl reboot to land on Irish shores. But Netflix may have the solution to tide us over until we get an official date.

The Sophie Toscan Du Plantier murder in West Cork in 1996 was one of the highest-profile murder cases in Ireland, and still, to this day no one has been charged.