One of the Disney+ additions is literally one of 2023’s best movies so far. Loads to choose from for Disney+ subscribers this month, so you should be marking in your viewing calendar accordingly, starting with… A SMALL LIGHT Two new episodes every week from Tuesday 2 May This powerful series is based on the true […]

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Universal Studios will be releasing the new horror just in time for Halloween this year. David Gordon Green and Jason Blum, the director and producer of the recent Halloween reboot trilogy, are tackling another fresh take on a classic horror, this time taking on The Exorcist. It was revealed back in 2021 that Universal Studios […]

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Robbie Williams, David Beckham, George Michael and Tyson Fury have all been announced as the subjects of brand new Netflix documentaries. On the evening of Wednesday 26 April, Netflix invited a select few to a top-secret location in London to glimpse some of their upcoming exclusive movies and shows arriving on the streaming service throughout […]

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Netflix have revealed the very impressive cast list for the new season. It has been nearly four years since Black Mirror Season 5 debuted on Netflix, and even longer since the incredible Bandersnatch interactive movie, and fans of the darkly comic sci-fi series have been wondering if – or at all – the series might […]

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We are trying to remain calm. Trying and failing. In the run-up to 2018’s The Meg, we may have gotten a little bit too excited in calling it The Greatest Movie Ever Made in our lengthy preview at the time, especially in hindsight of the film that eventually landed in cinemas, which ending up being […]

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An absolute must-watch. Originally airing on Channel 4 from 2015 to 2019, Catastrophe doesn’t have an exceptional premise. As per its almost hilariously unfunny Wikipedia synopsis: “Irish primary school teacher Sharon is single and lives in London. She meets single American advertising executive Rob in a bar whilst he is visiting London on a business […]

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The new feature begins rolling out worldwide today. If you’ve ever been working with more than one phone at a time, then you’ll know WhatsApp requires you to effectively sign into your new phone each and every time you use the app, which can be a bit of a time-consumer if you’re in a rush […]

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The show debuted on the streaming service in 2017. We’ve previously covered the full, expansive list of shows that Netflix have cancelled after just one season – four of those in 2023 alone so far – so for a show to be made, to get one season, and then to get beyond that first season […]

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We’ve played some of the game and it is absolutely bonkers and brilliant. Whenever PlayStation announce that they’ll be making a Day One release free for players, then you should absolutely sit up and pay attention. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does – such as with Stray last year – then you […]

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It will follow in the footsteps of other adult-aimed Marvel movies like Blade, Deadpool and Logan. CinemaCon is taking place in Las Vegas right now, a festival of previews where the biggest movie companies in the world show off footage from their biggest upcoming movies. Sony Pictures were up first on Monday night, revealing scenes […]

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Prime Video has given you loads of viewing inspiration this week! If you’re a Prime Video subscriber in Ireland and the UK, then you’ve got 14 big new additions to the library to enjoy this week, starting with… THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN Steve Carrell is the four-decades-old man who has never been intimate with a woman […]

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And it comes from the creator of… Twitter! BlueSky Social is the another creation of Jack Dorsey, the former co-founder and co-CEO of Twitter. In October 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and Dorsey used some of that money to create BlueSky Social. If you don’t have a Twitter account or haven’t been […]

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The character will have its name officially changed worldwide for the first time since 1985. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was filled to the brim with some great nods towards the game series’ long and detailed history, including mentions of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out to mention of Jump Man, which was Mario’s game title before the […]

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If you’re a long time Simpsons fan, you might have been wondering about this joke for decades. The Simpsons, Season 3, Episode 22, titled “The Otto Show”. The one where Bart wants to become a rock star after attending a disastrous Spinal Tap concert. This results in him showing off his new guitar to Otto, […]

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Your Thursday evening movie menu has arrived! On top of Netflix added a great new series AND 10 new movies to its library, there are also plenty of options to choose from outside of streaming. If you’re searching for a movie to enjoy this evening, look no further! Ghostbusters – FilmFour – 6.20pm The all-female […]

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Some great (and some not so great) additions to the Netflix library this week. A lot going on at Netflix this week, between added their own (very good) version of The West Wing, to the news that their crackdown on password sharing could be arriving sooner than anyone thought. And now we’ve got 10 more […]

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How well do you know the peaks of Ireland? For such a small country, Ireland sure does have a wide range of terrain! One of the reasons why Hollywood loves making movies and TV here is because of the beautiful natural landscape of the country, but if you know the country at all, then you […]

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Spoilers: it is actually a very entertaining show. There is a lot of talk about the Netflix algorithm, and whether you believe it is a real thing that exists or not, you can’t help but feel like it has been ramped up to maximum capacity for The Diplomat. And in no way is that a […]

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It might be the first time a phobia has been dealt with in this way. If you’ve never heard of thalassophobia before, then that probably means you or anyone close to you don’t suffer from it. If you have, then you likely already know that it the term used to describe the fear of deep […]

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The team at Mother are taking over Collins Barracks for two days in June. JOE attended the Mother Pride Block Party in The National Museum of Ireland last summer, and after the party-filled weekend, we felt the event officially put Dublin on the global map as one of the best places to celebrate Pride. So […]

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Important information for any Switch users. Nintendo have issued an official warning via their social media channels to Switch users about a potential issue with the battery of the handheld device that could make it completely unplayable. Six years since its release, and with one of the most anticipated games of 2023 about to arrive, […]

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The new mystery thriller arrives this Friday. It is no coincidence that Missing kicks off with an episode of Unfiction, a made-up Netflix true-crime docu-series, retelling the events of 2018 movie Searching, to which Missing is a sort-of-but-not-really sequel. That is because this new thriller has the kind of murder-mystery plot that you could imagine […]

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12 years after the original, the sequel finally arrives this week. Dead Island 2 has been a looooooooong time coming. A sequel to the 2011 original, with first gameplay footage revealed way back in 2014, fans of the good-but-by-absolutely-no-means-great open world zombie horror have been left wondering if their interest in this franchise might also […]

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‘The new trailer is unique to Ireland, this cut is nowhere else in the world.’ While we’ve come a long way from the Ban-Everything-Too-Risqué attitude we might associate with 1980s Ireland, there are still some elements of that mindset in place, which new horror movie Evil Dead Rise had to deal with on its way […]

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Turns out even the best of the best aren’t safe from the worst of the worst. Very few actors get to the top, and even fewer stay on top for as long as Al Pacino did. The Godfather, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, Glengarry Glen Ross, Scent of a Woman, Carlito’s Way, Heat, Donnie Brasco, […]

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It is the new show from the minds behind Euphoria. We’ve been waiting for The Idol for a while now, with its release date kept as a secret for way too long. However, thanks to the newly released teaser trailer (below), that date has finally been revealed. Co-produced with A24 (who recently had a great […]

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“Had I been producing the movie, that sequence would be in the movie.” Somewhat unbelievably, Renfield is the first major Hollywood production that Nicolas Cage has starred in in quite some time. Not including his voice work in the likes of The Croods or Into The Spider-Verse, we haven’t actually seen Cage in a major […]

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Unlucky for some, but not for anyone with an Amazon Prime Video subscription… Another eclectic mix of new additions to the Amazon Prime Video streaming library here, a baker’s dozen of movies to check out… or avoid… starting with: 8 MILE Eminem basically stars as himself in this semi-autobiographical tale of the trials and tribulations […]

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The movie is based on a hit book first published in 2019. Say what you will about The Banshees of Inisherin, but it was no In Bruges 2, which may have disappointed some fans of that darkly comic crime caper. However, if you’re a lover of that genre of movie, you will soon have your […]

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Your Wednesday evening movie menu has arrived! On top of Netflix adding one of the best action movies of the decade, they’ve also added a new thriller series that has the most embarrassing sex scene we’ve ever seen. If neither of those appeal, then you’ve also got the movies on TV to choose from this […]

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The spin-off show to The Batman will fill in the gaps before the big screen sequel. As part of HBO Max’s new revamp, now just called Max, we got our first look at The Penguin. Alongside new trailers for True Detective, the new Harry Potter series, and Kate Winslet’s new show The Regime, HBO revealed […]

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A sequel is reportedly already in the works. Released in cinemas in March 2021, pretty much exactly around the time when people decided that avoiding sitting in crowds of strangers might not be good for their health, Nobody unfortunately didn’t get the audience that it initially deserved. It did okay at the box office ($56 […]

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It isn’t ALL bad… but it is mostly all bad. Anyone who has ever been watching a movie with their parents will know the very specific type of embarrassment that arises when, as if out of nowhere, a very explicit sex scene arrives. Now, if you can imagine that embarrassment, but somehow achieved even if […]

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If you haven’t watched this show yet, chances are you’re in the minority… You can’t say we didn’t call it… because we did. You know we would never recommend anything unless we really, REALLY meant it, and obviously so, soooo many of you listened, because now The Night Agent is officially one of the top […]

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If you missed out on some of these at release, now is the time to snatch them up. Two weeks ago, PlayStation announced the first part of their Spring Sale, which included some big titles marked down by as much as 75% from their regular price tag. At the time, PlayStation announced that this was […]

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The movie has been described as having ‘vomit-inducing tension’. Bring it on! Premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, there is a lot of talk around Talk To Me, with many declaring it to be the scariest movie of the year to come, as well as arguably the scariest horror that A24 have ever released. […]

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From some absolute classics to brand new Prime Video exclusives. Prime Video has just added quite the selection of movies to its streaming library, so if you’re looking for something to watch this evening, here are some new viewing suggestions… THE BREAKFAST CLUB One of the ultimate teen movies, with a brain, an athlete, a […]

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If you checked the Super Mario movie out of the weekend, you probably noticed the cinema was fuller than usual… Released worldwide on Wednesday 5 April, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has already turned into something of a phenomenon. As we suggested in our Must-Watch recommendations for the weekend, we genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if […]

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There are reports that the plane’s nose gear had collapsed. At approximately 5.25pm this evening (Sunday 9 April), the official social media account for Dublin Airport reported that a full emergency had been declared. As per the tweet sent on their social media account: “A Full Emergency was declared at Dublin Airport this afternoon following […]

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We caught up with the actor ahead of his new horror-comedy arriving in cinemas this week. We recently caught up with Ben Schwartz about his role as a villainous gangster leader in new horror-comedy Renfield, in which he acts with Nicolas Cage, who happens to be playing Dracula! Schwartz grabbed everyone’s attention as the spoiled […]

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Chocolate + Movies = Perfect Easter Sunday! Musical, sci-fi, action, comedy, horror… whatever your favourite genre of movies happens to be, it is on the TV this evening. The Greatest Showman – E4 – 8pm Hugh Jackman, Zendaya and Zac Efron star in this much-loved musical romantic drama. To be fair, whether you like the […]

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Your Saturday evening movies menu has arrived! In between handfuls of broken Easter Eggs and hot cross buns, here are the movies that should have you reaching for the remote control to check out this evening… Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery – Comedy Central – 8pm The first of Mike Myers’ trilogy of Bond […]

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The original version was released 30 years ago this week. Released in cinemas on 7 April 1993, Indecent Proposal was a huge box office success, making over $266 million worldwide on a $38 million budget. This was during a time when erotic thrillers and erotic dramas were some of the biggest cinematic genres going, but […]

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This could be a (pun-intended) game changer… Having pushed immersion in gaming to a new level with the recently released PSVR2, the folks at PlayStation are pushing that envelope once again, if the patent on their new controller is to be believed. The new tech would include a magnetic fluid which, when used within the […]

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Having said that, we still definitely want one of these… What is old is new again, what is out-of-date will become retro and cool, and now it looks like Apple are looking into their our technological past for the next step in their AirPods line. Apple have put forward a patent application for an AirPods […]

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It will be Johnny Depp’s first major cinematic role since 2018. It has been confirmed that Johnny Depp’s next movie, titled Jeanne Du Barry, will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This is Depp’s first big screen appearance since a jury unanimously found in favour of Depp following a defamation lawsuit between him and his […]

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The show currently has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. What is the very best Netflix show of all time? Sure, everyone will have their personal favourites – be it down to actual quality or their own personal tastes – but if we’re judging by review scores, then these would be considered some of […]

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The movie featured one of the most talked-about “first kiss” scenes in cinema history. Released in cinemas in 1999, Cruel Intentions wasn’t necessarily a massive critical (54% on Rotten Tomatoes) or commercial ($76 million worldwide on a $11 million production budget) hit, but it did leave a last impact with pretty much anyone of a […]

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Good news for anyone with a Netflix subscription… Last week, Netflix quietly added 12 big movies to their library (that full list here), and now they’ve added another 14 to choose from. Starting with… BURLESQUE Christina Aguilera and Cher headline one of the campest musicals of all time. Good fun if you’re in the right […]

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There has been no escaping The Barbie Poster over the last 24 hours. Between the one million(ish) new variations of the Barbie Poster and the new Barbie Trailer (oh, and Trump being arrested), yesterday pretty much felt like The Simpsons had predicted the future again:  Is it possible for something to immediately become a […]

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