We didn’t expect to hear THIS word on the Oscars stage… It was a bit of a rollercoaster night, both for Hugh Grant, but also for the concept of “jokes”. We’ll start off with the latter, with most of the nights “jokes” told by Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel. They were almost entirely split between toothless […]

3 years ago

This will likely go down in Oscars history. Following the losses of Barry Keoghan and Brendan Gleeson for Best Supporting Actor, and Kerry Condon for Best Supporting Actress, it was looking like it wouldn’t be a great night for the Irish nominees at the 95th Academy Awards. Then came the award for Best Live Action […]

3 years ago

2023 is already a stellar year for Irish film, but this is only the beginning. You’d be forgiven for thinking that we might never get another year as good as this for Irish cinema and for Irish filmmakers. Between the awards success to date for the likes of The Banshees of Inisherin, An Cailín Ciúin, […]

3 years ago

We’ve put this quiz together to celebrate the arrival of the superhero sequel in cinemas this month. We can’t believe it has already been nearly four years since we last hung out with Shazam!, but he is finally making his big screen return on Friday, 17 March in Shazam! Fury of the Gods. As that […]

3 years ago

She is up for Best Actress at this Sunday’s Academy Awards. Everything Everywhere All At Once actress Michelle Yeoh may have broken Academy rules with a now-deleted Instagram post. On Tuesday, Yeoh shared a screengrab from a Vogue article which details a lack of diversity at the Oscars, as the last non-white Best Actress winner […]

3 years ago

That is on top of the three Star Wars movies already cancelled in recent years. Between 2015 and 2019, there were no less than FIVE Star Wars movies released into cinemas, and at the time, there were plans for plenty more on the horizon. The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson was to direct his own, […]

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The directors also reveal the one sequence they were most excited to film. During our recent ranking of the Scream movies, we announced that Scream 2 was the best Scream movie, and that movie also features the best Scream kill to date. The scene in question involves Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Hallie (Elise Neal) forced […]

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You can’t put a price tag on a great romantic comedy… The most expensive romcom ever made was back in 2010, when How Do You Know cost a whopping $120 million to produce. Part of the reason for that is the cast – Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd – and writer/director James […]

3 years ago

A great selection of horror, comedy, drama and thriller added to the Prime Video library. For anyone with a Prime Video subscription, you’ll be happy to hear that the streaming service has recently added 19 big movies to its library. And, better still, a lot of them are very, very good. Not ALL of them, […]

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There are also some similarities between his new character and a classic Batman villain. At the beginning of March 2022, Barry Keoghan was nowhere near as famous as he is right now. Prior to that, his biggest movie was Eternals (which also happens to be one of the MCU’s least successful movies), and outside of […]

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Be prepared to pay for it, though… Samsung have released their latest round of new phones – all part of the Galaxy S23 series – and we’ve had some time to play around with the absolute top end phone from that group, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. Now, the bad news first: this phone doesn’t […]

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The last great sitcom was…? It felt like there was a time when great sitcoms ruled the world of television. The back-to-back arrivals of Fraiser, Seinfeld, Friends and Will & Grace dominated the ’90s, while the ’00s brought us the likes of Arrested Development, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother and It’s Always Sunny […]

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Loads of new Netflix additions to choose from this month. Once again, Netflix has deposited a large amount of movies to its streaming service library, some brand new, some golden oldies, and some… should be avoided at all costs. We’re here to help you with those categories! THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE An all-star voice cast […]

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The movie is available to watch at home right now, and definitely deserves a (re)visit. In the last decade or so, when it became abundantly clear that the folks making the decisions about the future of James Bond would never let the role be played by a female, Hollywood became infatuated with the idea of […]

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

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Your mid-week movies on TV menu has arrived. Looking for something good to watch this evening? Look no further! The Iron Lady – FilmFour – 6.55pm Meryl Streep stars as Margaret Thatcher in this drama about the former British Prime Minister who looks back over her time in power. 52% on Rotten Tomatoes feels about […]

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Nice work if you can get it… There was a time when Charlie Sheen was the highest paid actor on television ever. Yep, he was getting $1.8 million per episode of Two And A Half Men, and considering he was in 177 episodes of that show… well, you do the math. However, TV stars don’t […]

3 years ago

Blockbuster season is beginning earlier than ever before… Sports dramas, romantic comedies, huge sci-fi action thrillers… whatever you’re in the mood for, it is coming to your local cinema. We’ve picked out the 10 must-watch movies arriving throughout the 31 days of March at your local cinema, starting with… CREED III – March 3 For […]

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The James Bond books will also now come with a warning for readers. Hot on the heels of the news that Roald Dahl’s books are being revised to swap out some words and terms that are offensive and/or problematic, another much-loved British author is having their work somewhat rewritten to match modern sensibilities. According to […]

3 years ago

A quiz on the biggest of bangs. We all love action movies, and we all love explosions in those action movies. Size doesn’t ALWAYS matter, but in this case, yes, the bigger the better. To celebrate the cinematic history of great big bangs, we’ve put together this little quiz on some of the best, biggest […]

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Netflix has revealed its full slate of new movies and shows arriving in March. Here it is, every new movie, show and documentary arriving on Netflix throughout the month of March for all of their subscribers in Ireland and the UK. NETFLIX SERIES Cheat – Mar 1 Danny Dyer and Ellie Taylor host this high-stakes […]

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Maybe one of these is your local staycation spot… Over 50 hotels from 18 counties across the island of Ireland were spotlighted by the Gold Medal Awards, including a breakdown of the best 3-star, 4-star and 5-star hotels in the country. Below is a breakdown from each county that featured one of the winning hotels, […]

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That isn’t including the already announced new movie arriving in 2024. During their Thursday earnings call, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav announced that they have brokered a deal to make multiple new movies based on the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, which – like the previous Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Trilogies – will be […]

3 years ago

The darkest of Dark Knights… After the relative disappointment of Gotham Knights when it was released in October 2022, fans of the Dark Knight / the entire DC universe have been left wanting a decent video game entry in this particular comic book universe. Considering that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is being made […]

3 years ago

A brand new way to discover new music and rediscover your favourites. Part of the reason why users love Spotify as much as they do is because it can feel very tailored to our particular tastes, be it each day with the Daily Mixes, or the now annual tradition of checking our Spotify Wrapped come […]

3 years ago

The new Creed sequel arrives in cinemas this week. Creed III is the ninth movie in the Rocky franchise. NINTH! Let that sink in for a moment. The first Creed movie was itself the first entry in the series’ second attempt at rebooting itself, with 2006’s semi-successfully Rocky Balboa arriving 16 years after the previous […]

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If you love Spielberg’s work, then this one might be on your rewatch list. Not sure what to watch tonight? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Kindergarten Cop – FilmFour – 6.50pm Arnie is a dangerous cop who is sent undercover as a teacher at a kindergarten school, as one of the pupils may be […]

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Tubridy has a busy night ahead of him! Busy week this week on The Late Late Show, which sees Ryan Tubridy chatting to Best Actor Oscar-nominee and red carpet Irish language advocate Paul Mescal about his new movie God’s Creatures, and he’ll also be joined by his movie’s co-star Emily Watson (Angela’s Ashes, The Boxer). […]

3 years ago

Its score of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes actually feels too low. Comedies on the big screen are a dying breed. Thanks to the one-two punch of streaming services and the pandemic, plus the fact that comedies are often one of the cheapest genres to produce, it was and is too easy to simply sell off […]

3 years ago

If you’re anything like us, you’ll be up late watching the Oscars live on the night. The 95th Academy Awards are due to take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, 12 March, and is pretty much the World Cup Final / Super Bowl / Eurovision / [insert big event here] for movie fans. It will […]

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We can only imagine how much this might cost to make… Steven Spielberg’s last two movies, West Side Story and The Fabelmans, are considered some of his very best work, with both projects garnering huge Oscar attention… but both winding up as big box office flops. Never a man to allow his creativity to be […]

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And as it is a mini-series, you only have to invest your time into this one season. Does anything bring audiences closer together than a good mystery? Be they big, world-altering mysteries like in Lost or Severance, or closer to home mysteries like Big Little Lies or Mare Of Easttown, we love to speculate and […]

3 years ago

This will be a must-play for fans of fighting games. The previous entry in the Tekken franchise, Tekken 7, arrived in arcades back in 2015 before arriving on consoles in 2017. It remains one of the greatest fighting games in gaming history, standing out in the crowd alongside some of the latest entries in the […]

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If you’re a Prime Video subscriber, you’ve loads of new additions to choose from this week… Comedy, horror, action, drama, thriller, romance… all of the genres are covered by the latest batch of Prime Video additions. BRUNO Sasha Baron Cohen tries to do for American interpretations of sexuality what Borat did for American interpretations of […]

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It comes from one of the show’s most famous episodes. After over 700 episodes and 34 seasons (and predicting the future more than once), there is a good chance that each and every one of you has a particular line from The Simpsons that you quote in real life over and over again. For us, […]

3 years ago

In the same way that Father Ted is actually a British TV show. You’d be forgiven for thinking that there is no movie in existence more Irish than The Banshees Of Inisherin. Headed by a quartet of internationally recognisable Irish stars, set in a fictional but obviously Irish location, against the backdrop of a landmark […]

3 years ago

We make our argument for why Top Gun Maverick should win the Best Picture Oscar. In case you missed it last week, Steven Spielberg pulled Tom Cruise aside at an awards luncheon to tell him that Top Gun Maverick may have single handedly saved movies as we know it. In an interaction shared on social […]

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Paul Rudd returns as the MCU’s smallest Avenger (or, sometimes, the biggest) this weekend. Before Avengers: Infinity War, there were some questions around the validity of the threat of Thanos within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That purple guy who mostly just sat in his throne and made vague threats about wanting to own a golden […]

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The creator’s previous project scarily predicted the future, in a way that impacted the entire planet. In an interview with The Washington Post back in October 2020, writer Scott Z. Burns said: “It is sad, and it is frustrating. Sad because so many people are dying and getting sick. Frustrating because people still don’t seem to […]

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If you’re looking for two hours of a really good time, then look no further! Released in cinemas in August 2022, Bullet Train is the latest action epic from director David Leitch. The guy who had previously delivered us John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2 and Hobbs & Shaw had amassed a spectacular cast for […]

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There will be over 30 games available on the PSVR2 within a month of its launch. The PlayStation VR2 launches in just a few days time, and we’ve been lucky enough to spend some time with both the device itself and some of the games prior to launch. You can check out our review of […]

3 years ago

Here are our thoughts on Sony’s new virtual reality system. When was the last time you were playing a game and you were literally so overcome with entertainment from what you were playing with, that you couldn’t help but actually laugh out loud in delight? That is exactly what happened with the PlayStation VR2, within […]

3 years ago

If you remember how I Am Legend ended, then this might come as a surprise… Spoilers for 2007 movie I Am Legend ahead. In case you’ve forgotten, at the end of I Am Legend, the character of Dr. Robert Neville (Will Smith) sacrifices himself with a grenade, taking out a cluster of the vampiric creatures […]

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Loads of new additions to Netflix for you to enjoy this week! Earlier this week, Prime Video added 27 new movies to its library, so between those and these Netflix additions, you’ve got plenty to choose from for your viewing pleasure, staring with… BLACK SEA Jude Law headlines this decent thriller about a crew attempting […]

3 years ago

“I’ve made a huge mistake.” – Netflix, probably. Back in March 2022, Netflix lost the rights to Marvel shows such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, which is how those shows winded up back on Disney+ a few months back. Jump to almost exactly a year later, and Netflix are about to lose the […]

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It scored a spectacular 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Released in cinemas in this part of the world just six months ago, Official Competition immediately stood out as one of the very best comedies from the last few years. Unfortunately, after its initial cinematic release in August 2022, it failed to get the attention it deserved, […]

3 years ago

There are actually quite a few romantic movies to choose from this evening… The Valentine’s Day Movies Menu has some more romantic options than usual, but don’t worry, if you’re not in a particularly romantic mood this evening, there are plenty of other options to choose from too… Sense & Sensibility – FilmFour – 6.15pm […]

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We’d say avoid it completely, but you might want to watch out of morbid curiosity… One of the reasons why most of use psychologically survived the pandemic is likely because Hollywood didn’t stop churning out their goods. We all collectively enjoyed Normal People and Tiger King and the likes, and they helped us stay connected […]

3 years ago

FIFA 23 was the final game by EA Sports in their deal with FIFA. Back in 2022, it was confirmed that EA Sports and FIFA would be parting ways, officially making FIFA 23 the final outing in their partnership. Reports at the time suggested that FIFA had been looking for “at least double” the €142 […]

3 years ago

Today is the day for rom-coms. There is never really a BAD day to watch some rom-coms, but if there is any day that you really should watch some rom-coms, then that day is February 14th. Unless you’re single, in which case you’re legally obligated to watch some horror movies. So if you are in […]

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