If you’re looking for something free-to-play online with your friends, these ten have been the most popular. PlayStation has revealed its end-of-year stats for 2022, including which games were the most downloaded across the world from the PS Store for both the PS4 and the PS5. However, while chances are that you’ve already paid top-dollar […]

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Including new movies from David Fincher, Zack Snyder, Emily Blunt, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Evans, Julia Roberts, Adam Sandler, Jamie Dornan and loads more! Netflix has just launched their 2023 film slate reel, showing off footage from loads of their upcoming original movies for the first time ever. While some of these have been […]

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It features a megamix from some of the most recognisable contestants from some of the biggest reality dating shows. When it comes to dating and reality shows, it seems the old saying is true: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. So is the case with Netflix’s new reality dating show Perfect Match, […]

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There is a lot to be said for keeping your cards close to your chest. What is the primary complaint people have about trailers for movies? They give away everything. Back in the summer of 2007, audiences sat down for the first Transformers movie, and in front of it ran this trailer: No official title. […]

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The new Irish horror-comedy also features what should be a star-making turn from a local up-and-coming talent. As much as Irish cinema has had some great recent successes within the horror genre – The Hole in the Ground, You Are Not My Mother, Sea Fever – there does still seem to be a stronger compulsion […]

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The Last Of Us was just the beginning… 2023 feels like it will be the year of the video game adaptation. The Last Of Us arrived this week – and it is brilliant – but there are plenty more movies and shows based on hit games arriving over the next 12 months, starting with… TETRIS […]

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Cheaper… and potentially better! If you’re in holiday hunting mode, then look no further. The travel experts at Time Out Magazine have put together a list of hidden gems, under-appreciated spots, a group of locations you might not have thought of, but are definitely cheaper and potentially even better than the destinations you had in […]

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Netflix has now cancelled three different shows following their first season in 2023 alone. Updated: 16 March 2023. They’ve gone and done it again! This week, Netflix announced that they were cancelling Uncoupled – the rom-com series starring Neil Patrick Harris, from the creator of Sex & The City and Emily In Paris – after […]

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If you reckon you’ve got the next Making A Murderer or The Tinder Swindler, then this is just for you! 2022 contained the first ever Netflix short documentary competition, in which ten winners were chosen from across Ireland and the UK, given funding to make their dream short documentary, which was then screened at a […]

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Unlucky for some, but not if you’re searching Netflix later for something good to watch! Netflix has just added a baker’s dozen of movies to its library, so you’ve plenty of options to check out during the bad weather this week. 13 HOURS Probably director Michael Bay’s most restrained movie, which admittedly isn’t saying much. […]

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This particular band has never made us feel this scared before… Spoilers for the events of the first episode of The Last Of Us. As we mentioned in our full, spoiler-free review of the entire series (which you can check out here), The Last Of Us is an absolutely incredible show, and it lets us […]

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You quizzin’ me? He’s been a part of some of the greatest movies ever made, and is regularly referred to as the greatest actor of his generation (if not of all time), so really… you should be getting a lot of these right! Three minutes, ten of his most famous movies, but can you remember […]

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Proper film fans should be getting a score of at least 7 here. Ten famous movie planets. Which we tell you. Ten famous movies. Which you tell us. Three minutes. The amount of time to do it all in. Seems easy enough, right? Let us know how you get on! Related links:  The JOE Friday […]

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GTA fans should be getting at least eight of these correct. Grand Theft Auto has been a part of the gaming landscape for a good while now, but it has also been a fair few years since the last GTA game was released. Sure, we’ve had spiritual cousin Red Dead Redemption II to tide us […]

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Babylon is one of the first major releases arriving in 2023. If you go to Babylon‘s certification page on Ireland’s Film Classification Office, you will see that it has been given an 18 cert. IFCO states that the movie features strong incidents of violence, strong incidents of drugs, strong incidents of sex and/or nudity, and […]

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Realistically, you should be getting at least 12 out of 15 here. Would you like to take a song quiz? We’ve put together this little quiz, which consists of 15 of Disney’s biggest and best songs to date. Obviously, it being a quiz and therefore a test of knowledge, they can’t ALL be super-easy-cali-fragi…. etc., […]

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Someone get the aloe, there are some serious burns here. From the outside looking in, 2022 was not a good year for Shakira. Not only did she and her partner of 11 years Gerard Piqué announce their separation, but she was also brought to court for alleged tax fraud crimes. Prosecutors accused her of not […]

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Including brand-new documentary series on the Six Nations and the FIFA World Cup. Netflix has just unveiled a slate of upcoming documentaries headed for the streaming platform, the first of which actually debuts this week! The slate covers everything from tennis, golf, Formula 1, rugby, soccer and the Tour De France, so no matter which […]

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The multiple Oscar-nominated classic is being turned into an eight-part mini-series. Released in cinemas in 1987, Fatal Attraction was an absolutely phenomenal hit. Directed by Adrian Lyne (who was also behind other seminal movies like Flashdance, 8 1/2 Weeks, Indecent Proposal, Jacob’s Ladder, Lolita, Unfaithful and … um … Deep Water), it starred Michael Douglas […]

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The trailer alone absolutely freaked us out. Instead of telling you immediately what Skinamarink is about, we’re going to show you some of the early reviews: Collider – “The uniting fear Skinamarink creates ensures it will be remembered as an unparalleled achievement in horror cinema in how it paints a portrait of oblivion that beckons […]

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Each and everyone one of these shows looks like an absolute must-watch. We’ve already done the biggest movies for 2023 and the biggest games of 2023, so now we’re on the shows we’re dying to see this year. Of course, this list isn’t exhaustive, as we’re sure there will be plenty more shows still be […]

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“It’s very gratifying to have this moment…” Mike White is really having a moment right now. After the huge success of the first season of his creation The White Lotus, which was initially intended to be a one-and-done scenario, he returned to write and direct every episode of the Sicily-set second season, and during Tuesday […]

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As if facing off Kang The Conqueror wasn’t bad enough… We’ve known for some time now that Kang The Conqueror (played by Jonathan Majors) was going to be the primary antagonist in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Having first appeared in the finale of season one of Loki, we also know that Kang is going […]

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This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was quite the emotional rollercoaster. Unlike any speech by any of the Golden Globes winner ever, we’re going to keep this intro short. So here we go… 1. Host Jerrod Carmichael’s opening monologue The host for the 80th ceremony set the tone immediately, by putting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association […]

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For fans of true-crime stories, this is an absolute must-watch. At the start of 2022, Netflix released The Tinder Swindler, a jaw-dropping documentary that became one of the most-talked about releases for the platform, and the single most-watched release on Netflix for all of 2022. They’re obviously hoping to have the same result with this […]

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The original Face/Off movie recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Arriving right in the middle of delivering three of the best action movies of all time, just after The Rock and Con-Air, Nicolas Cage wasn’t even the first choice for the role of Castor Troy (and then Sean Archer) in Face/Off. You can read all about […]

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And people are (jokingly) blaming a recent movie for its closure. Have you ever been to a Michelin restaurant? What about a two-star Michelin restaurant? Probably less likely, as there are only four in all of Ireland. What about a three-star Michelin restaurant? Much less likely, as there are only 142 of them on the […]

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One of the most anticipated new shows of all time, The Last Of Us arrives this week. When it comes to The Last Of Us, there are two types of people in the world: (1) those who have played the game and are approaching this adaptation with serious trepidation, not only because of the infamous […]

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Ten finalists have been named as delivering the best albums of 2022. The ten finalists for the RTÉ Choice Prize Irish Album of the Year 2022 were revealed today (Monday, 7 January), revealing a wide selection of genres and performers up for the title, all celebrating the very best music created by Irish musicians throughout […]

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For any Prime Video users, you’ve got a lot of new options to choose from… If you’re an Amazon Prime Video subscriber, then you’re spoiled today. Not only did they just add a must-watch new thriller series from the director of Line Of Duty, but they’ve also added 35 big movies to the Prime Video […]

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All six episodes of the new series are available to watch at home right now. The folk working on The Rig are all fantastic in their own right, so having them working all together is very exciting. The series is produced and some of the episodes are directed by John Strickland (Line of Duty), working […]

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The new megastars being added to the series have got us VERY excited… Prepare yourselves, because this is about to get complicated. Ocean’s 11 came out in 1960, starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., and it was fundamentally NOT a good movie. Jump forward to 2001, and this was remade as […]

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2023’s first must-watch movie has arrived. We should’ve known the second that trailer dropped and the internet lost its collective mind for M3GAN and her weird flowy dance sequence… We should’ve known right that very second that this was going to be a winner. While it is still obviously very, VERY early in the year, […]

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“The show’s derivativeness falls somewhere between depressing and embarrassing.” Ouch. They can’t all be winners. While Netflix has a bit of a habit of cancelling shows after one season, it seems unlikely that this new “worst reviewed” show will be cancelled any time soon, considering where it is coming from. The four-episode mini-series of The […]

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We played each and every one of these games back in the day… Looking ahead at what is set to arrive throughout 2023 in terms of gaming (take a look at our big preview of releases right here), this year also represents the 10-year anniversary for some of the biggest, best and most-groundbreaking games ever […]

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The Hollywood stars (and Wrexham club owners) were uncovered in the game this week. Back in August, Disney+ launched their new sports documentary series Welcome To Wrexham, which told the story of how struggling Welsh club Wrexham FC were suddenly taken over by two of Hollywood’s most famous stars, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. At […]

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We didn’t spot this one the first time we watched it… Spoilers for the third most-watched movie in Netflix history. During the opening puzzle sequence of Glass Onion, famed musician Yo-Yo Ma explains to his co-stars (but, really, to us at home) what a particular music tune is: “A fugue is a beautiful musical puzzle […]

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A load of big action, rom-com, horror and drama movies have just been added to Netflix. It is the first week of January, and Netflix knows we need some distractions. So many folk have decided to do Dry January, and it is mostly too cold and/or wet outside to do anything… outside’y. So here are […]

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We were NOT prepared to suddenly feel this old… We’re at the start of 2023, and as with the start of any year, it always feels like the right time to get a little contemplative. To that end, we’ve put together this list of songs that turn 20 years old in 2023, some of which […]

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The new intense horror movie has a very strong Irish connection. Evil Dead, much like the hordes of undead that faced throughout the franchise, simply refuses to stay buried for long. Since the first movie arrived in 1981, we’ve had two sequels, a reboot, and a TV series, and now we’re getting Evil Dead Rise, […]

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The film scored a brilliant 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Released in cinemas on 17 June 2022 – one week after Jurassic World: Dominion, one week before Elvis, and on the exact same day as Pixar’s Lightyear – it is safe to say that Good Luck To You, Leo Grande was overlooked last year. The movie […]

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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 January, with some taking effect from the first week […]

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Some huge games coming to PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Switch over the next 12 months. As always, games are prone to schedule changes, so the below choices are based entirely on the information we had at the time of writing. Plus, we’re sure there will be plenty of out-of-nowhere games that will completely blow us […]

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Two of 2023’s most-talked-about movies land in cinemas on the exact same date. In December 2020, the world was still very much mid-pandemic, and movie companies had no idea what the future of cinema might be. Some distributors took to releasing their new projects on streaming platforms for a premium price – remember when Disney+ […]

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We try to work out what movies will be the biggest hits in 2023. Before we get into our purely guestimated 10 biggest box office hits of 2023, we need to call out some of the dark horses that could come out of nowhere and absolutely demolish this list. Movies like Barbie, The Little Mermaid, […]

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Kaleidoscope is Netflix’s first big show of 2023. It is a concept that Black Mirror would’ve killed for. Taking place over 25 years, the eight episodes of Kaleidoscope will arrive in each Netflix account in a completely unique way. Well… sort of. The first seven episodes of Kaleidoscope will arrive in a random order, all […]

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If your New Year’s Resolution is to watch loads more movies, then we’ve got some good news for you… January 2023 is filled with Oscar hopefuls, action thrillers and dark horrors… plenty to enjoy during the coldest month of the year! Starting with… A MAN CALLED OTTO – 6 January Tom Hanks plays a grumpy […]

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Some very exciting new films and series arriving on Prime Video throughout 2023. 2022 was a very big year for Amazon Prime Video, which is proven from their year-end most-watched lists, which includes a very surprising #1 movie, and the single most expensive TV show ever made. For 2023, Prime Video has revealed some – […]

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As well as the Netflix countdown, we also reveal the most-watched movies and shows in 2022 on Apple TV+. How many of Netflix’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 Netflix (and, further down, […]

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Many, many, MANY movies to choose from this evening, if you’re in a movie-viewing kinda mood! PSA: Today is Thursday, or New Year’s Eve Eve Eve, and these are the movies on TV you can enjoy tonight, staring with: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – RTÉ2 – 5.50pm The worst one. […]

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