Despite some heavy setbacks this year, Netflix still has more weight of influence than most. Looking back over the last 12 months, Netflix has had one hell of a 2022. Since we are coming to the end of the year, we’re taking stock of some of the biggest stories of the year, and for this […]

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Amazon Prime Video had a big year, not least of which involved releasing the single most expensive TV show ever made. How many of Amazon Prime Video most popular shows and movies of 2022 have you watched? We’ve compiled the data from Flix Patrol to reveal the top ten most watched movies and shows on […]

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If you’ve got Disney+, then chances are you’ve watched some or ALL of these over the last twelve months. How many of Disney+’s most popular shows and movies of 2022 have you watched? We’ve compiled the data from Flix Patrol to reveal the top ten most watched movies and shows on the streaming platform for […]

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Public Service Announcement: today is Wednesday. Here is your movie menu for Wednesday, 28 December. Enjoy! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – RTÉ2 – 5.40pm Remember when we thought this was going to be the last one? Nope! The Day After Tomorrow – FilmFour – 6.40pm Dennis Quaid has to save his son Jake […]

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Unlucky for some, but not if you’ve got Prime Video… For maybe the last time in 2022, Prime Video has added a load of movies to its library for its subscribers to enjoy. And so, in alphabetical order, we start with… A QUIET PLACE Writer, director and star John Krasinski delivers this incredibly tense horror […]

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Brought to you by NOW You might have missed these box sets this year, or you might simply want to rewatch some of the best shows ever made! There is a section of time around the end of December and the start of January when time loses all meaning. We call that box sets time. […]

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Netflix has revealed its line-up of original films and series arriving in the first month of 2023. Netflix knows that January is a tough month, as we’re all in a bit of a post-Christmas funk, and it is still too cold and dark outside to do anything fun. Thankfully, Netflix will also be provided loads […]

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You might have played them all, but let us see how well you remember them… 2022 has been quite a year for video games, hasn’t it? It feels like we’ve got some incredible, game-changing (pun… intended? I’m actually not sure), envelope-pushing releases over the last 12 months. But there has also been some huge events […]

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We imagine there will be a lot of googling for volcano-locations after watching this. Doing for volcanos what Netflix has already successfully done for using Tinder or going to expensive music festivals, prepare for another documentary to scare you silly. As we mentioned in our recent list of the 22 most important movies of 2022, […]

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Plan your Christmas Day viewing menu accordingly! We’ve painstakingly gone through all of the movies that will be shown on TV on Christmas Day, and we’ve picked out what we reckon are 10 of the best. So here you go, all of the best movies to watch on Sunday 25 December, starting with… Kindergarten Cop […]

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Tonight’s movies on TV menu is quite the varied selection… Outside of the movies on TV tonight, you’ve got some options. The biggest box office hit of the year has just been made available to stream at home, as has one of the biggest Oscar hopefuls of the year. But if you’re insisting on checking […]

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Some of the very best Xbox games of the year have been massively marked down. To celebrate the countdown to the end of the year, Xbox has launched a huge 2022 sale, with massive price reductions on some of the biggest and best games released over the last twelve months. And that includes the winner […]

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If you’re in the mood for some decent movies this evening, look no further. The full list of all of the great, the good and the not-so-good movies on the telly tonight, starting with… The Personal History of David Copperfield – FilmFour – 6.40pm A very funny adaptation of the classic Dickens novel featuring an […]

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This is when you can watch one of the best movies of the year at home. Absolutely nobody expected this, but here we are, several months on, still in awe, because when Top Gun Maverick was first announced in 2010, filming began in 2018, was due for initial cinematic release in 2019… then was pushed […]

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It comes from the creator of some of the best scary movies of recent years. Released in cinemas in June, there was so much anticipation for Men. It was coming from the mind of Alex Garland, the guy who had previously directed brilliant sci-fi/thriller/horrors like Ex Machina and Annihilation, as well as providing the scripts […]

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Some of the very best shows of the year that might have gone completely under your radar. There are some shows this year that everyone has watched and/or already heard about. House of the Dragon, The White Lotus Season 2, Wednesday, Stranger Things Season 4, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Euphoria Season 2, etc., etc. […]

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Prime Video has added another collection of big movies to check out this week. Amazon Prime Video’s early Christmas present this week is a selection (box?) of 14 big movies added to the library for you to enjoy (or avoid). Staring with… 300 / 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE The movie that made everyone sit […]

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Five of the 15 worst movies of the year were Netflix exclusives. As we get closer and closer to the end of the year, it is time to take stock, and that includes putting a spotlight on the single worst movie of 2022. Already we’ve looked at the best-reviewed movie of the year, 22 great […]

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Brought to you by Virgin Mobile Cinegame Plenty of big screen action to choose from! During that mysterious time around Christmas and New Year’s when you’re not entirely sure how to spend the long, winter’y school/college/work-free days, you really can’t go wrong by spending a few hours enjoying the latest blockbuster or Oscar-hopeful on the […]

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To be honest, we would’ve gone to see both of these on the same opening day. Tomorrow Never Dies was given the green light by production studio MGM based entirely off the massively popular reaction to the release of the GoldenEye trailer. Not the movie of GoldenEye, the trailer. Of course, it helped a lot […]

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Some of the best movies. Some of the worst. Some of the most talked about. Some already completely forgotten about. You might have seen some of these movies. Or all of them. Or none of them. You might have liked some of these movies. Or hated all of them. Or have no opinions. Regardless, these […]

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Sorry Elden Ring. Apologies Ragnarok. But this might actually be our game of the year. 2022 has been a great year for games giving us what we know we already want. God Of War: Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West both pushed their respective technical envelopes to their limits, but did still very much feel like […]

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The Batman sequel already has the rumour mill going into overdrive. Since before the first movie even arrived in cinemas in March of this year, fans have been trying to guess what to expect from The Batman sequel. While there were plenty of breadcrumbs scattered throughout the 2022 movie – including Barry Keoghan’s last minute […]

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Cavill revealed he got the “sad news” following a meeting with the new heads of DC. It is all go and all change over at Warner Brothers when it comes to the future of its DC Extended Universe. They recently installed James Gunn and Peter Safran as the new co-heads of the DCEU, which has […]

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Some great movies that might have gone under your radar this year… Be it either because you simply didn’t get around to watching them, or maybe some of them passed you by entirely, but these great movies all deserve a watch. The end of the year, in that nether region between Christmas and New Year’s, […]

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Warn your neighbours in advance because you’re going to be screaming the house down in fright. 2022 has been killer for horror fans – we’ve jumped in our cinema seats to the likes of Nope and X and Scream and Smile, but if we were to pick a single scary movie that ranks as our […]

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The White Lotus Season 2 has come to an explosive ending… but we’ve still got questions. If you haven’t finished The White Lotus Season 2, then let this be a HUGE warning to you, as we are going to be breaking down the finale and possible future ramifications to this season – spoiler alert! After […]

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Some great new additions to Amazon Prime Video if you’re in the mood for a big movie night in… Not sure what to watch tonight? Well, you’ve got plenty of options! You could check out this classic horror movie that turned 25 years old this week? Or you could watched one of the 25 movies […]

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Brought to you by NOW Christmas movie season is upon us! It is that time of the year again… the time of the year when we can start watching Christmas movies as much as we like, and you’ll be happy to hear that there are LOADS of them available with a NOW Cinema Membership. Elf, […]

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This movie is considered to be the very first to have its production significantly impacted by an internet leak. Spoilers for a movie that is a quarter of a century old, and also some of the other movies in the series too. March 1997. Producers decide that the $173 million return on their $15 million […]

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Avatar: The Way Of Water arrives on the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s Titanic. Released afloat some tremendously bad press, James Cameron released what was at the time the single most expensive movie ever made, Titanic. As we all know, it turned out really well for Cameron and the movie, making the most money at […]

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If you’re going to watch a movie, it might as well be one of the best movies ever made. Your Wednesday evening movie menu has arrived, starting with… Fantastic Four – FilmFour – 7.05pm There are about 10 good minutes in this movie, when Doctor Doom returns to Earth and starts popping heads all over […]

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“This is movie making and story telling at its absolute finest.” We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: never bet against James Cameron, and never bet against Avatar: The Way of Water. Yes, 13 years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but this is the writer/director who delivered sequels to Alien […]

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Google has also revealed what the single-most Googled thing was for all of 2022. Come the close of the year, Google does its own version of Spotify Wrapped (even though Google has been doing this for longer), but for the entire country. Yep, the gigantic search engine lets us all know what the most-searched for […]

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Sitting in and in a movies kinda mood, then you’ll want to check this list out. Not sure what to watch tonight? Amazon Prime Video recently added 38 very big films to its library. You can also stream the best reviewed movie of 2022 at home right now, too. Beyond that, here are the movies […]

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The downloadable content will be available from Wednesday. Ever since it was released in February of this year, Elden Ring has maintained a stranglehold on any and all conversations around the best game of 2022, so once those lists start being compiled, don’t be surprised to see it get mentioned. A lot. While there are […]

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It is apparently the only movie this year not to receive a single negative review. Before we get into the Rotten Tomatoes top 10, some qualifiers. First of all, what qualifies as a “fresh” (i.e. good) review on Rotten Tomatoes is for the reviewer to give the movie an above average score. For example, if […]

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Big, BIG spoilers for the second-last episode of the second season of The White Lotus. Okay, we’re going into prediction territory here, so if we guess the ending to The White Lotus Season 2 correctly, don’t come back crying that spoiled it for you. Your guess is as good as ours! Now, on with the […]

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It comes from the director of what is arguably the best movie of the 21st century so far. While there are some big movies to come in 2023 that we’re still dying to see a trailer for – we’re looking at you, Barbie! – Warner Bros. has gone ahead and released a teaser trailer for […]

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Brought to you by NOW Including some VERY big arrivals on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Saint Stephen’s Day! Tis the season… to sit in on the couch because it is FREEZING outside and enjoy some fantastic movies and shows. NOW has revealed its very impressive line-up of stuff to watch in December, so all […]

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Disney+ providing a great early Christmas present for its subscribers. Arriving in cinemas in late October, it has been very exciting to see just how much Oscar talk there is around The Banshees of Inisherin. The movie received an incredible 13-minute long standing ovation following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival – a reaction […]

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Prime Video has just added LOADS of new movies for you to enjoy. Action, comedy, horror, drama, musicals, animation… pretty much whatever genre you’re looking for, the new Prime Video additions provide. Now, whether they’re actually all any good or not, that is a completely different question… ANGEL HAS FALLEN / LONDON HAS FALLEN / […]

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In a movies kinda mood? Then look no further… We’ve gone through all of the movies on the telly this evening, and picked out which movies you should watch, and which movies you should avoid… Wedding Crashers – ITV2 – 9pm Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are BFFs who frequently attend strangers’ weddings in order […]

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How many of the newly-revealed 100 best movies of all time have you seen? Ever since the first poll in 1952, once every ten years critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics from all over the world are asked by Sight & Sound Magazine to place their votes to decide on what is, essentially, the best […]

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Brought to you by NOW Riddle me this… Taking some notes from The Riddler, we’ve put together this toying, teasing, testing quiz on all things The Batman to celebrate the fact that we can stream it at home with a NOW Cinema Membership. Arguably the best blockbuster of the year, the latest adaptation of the […]

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If you’ve got the PS Plus and/or Games With Gold subscriptions, here are the new additions coming to your PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4 and Xbox One this month. Both PlayStation and Xbox have announced the additions to their gaming subscription services for the month of December, with some taking effect from the first week […]

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Netflix kicks off December with plenty of new additions. If you plan it out just right, Netflix has added one movie for you to enjoy every night of December, except for New Year’s Eve, but you’ll probably have other plans for that evening. THE AMERICAN George Clooney headlines this slick but sombre assassin thriller. ANOTHER […]

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Check to see how many of these you’ve YouTube videos you’ve seen, or maybe completely missed… Wow. 2022. What a year, huh? And we spent so much of it watching stuff on YouTube! Below is the list of the ten most-watched YouTube videos in Ireland through 2022 (excluding music videos), and while some of them […]

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Banks also discusses directing Ray Liotta in his final acting role. On Monday evening this week, the official movie account for Cocaine Bear released its first official poster, and the internet promptly lost its mind. ICYMI, here it is, complete with Very Good Tagline: Don’t coke the bear. #CocaineBear pic.twitter.com/3FmY8WmAdv — Cocaine Bear (@cocainebear) November […]

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Brought to you by NOW Like any good murder detective, we hope you’ve been paying attention to the details! We’re more than halfway through the second season of The White Lotus, with new episodes streaming every Monday with a NOW Entertainment Membership, and we hope you’ve been paying close attention! Because besides from having total […]

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