There have been more complaints about movies in 2023 so far than in the last three years combined. In the first nine months of 2023, IFCO – the Irish Film Classification Office – has received a total of 24 complaints from the public about movies shown in cinemas this year. That is more than the […]

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The movie was released in cinemas less than two months ago. As premises for movies go, you can’t say that Apocalypse Clown doesn’t have a unique one: “When a mysterious technological blackout plunges Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a group of failed washed up clowns are forced to traverse the country for one last shot […]

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Your Tuesday evening movie menu has arrived! As we get closer and closer to Halloween, there are more and more spooky movies on the TV each night to choose from! And tonight, you’ve got SIX to pick from. Not all of them great, mind you… Star Trek: Nemesis – FilmFour – 6.45pm The one where […]

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Months later we’re still learning more about Logan Roy and his love-hungry children. WARNING: Spoilers for the final season of Succession ahead. For the final batch of episodes of Succession, all eyes were on Logan Roy and his children, and what direction the titular succession of power might find itself in. Turns out, it was […]

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It is also arguably the most violent superhero movie ever made. 2021’s The Suicide Squad should not be confused with 2016’s Suicide Squad, despite the fact that it keeps a number of that first movie’s major characters (played by Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis), and seems to carry on as if it is […]

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Start off your week with some great movies! Looking for a movie this evening? Prime Video has just added loads, and so have Netflix, but here are all of the movies on your telly for you to choose from too… The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Sky Showcase – 8pm The best of the Hunger […]

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Prepare yourself… because with Saltburn, the Irish actor has delivered an incredible warning shot to other young actors around the world. Who had Barry Keoghan blazing a trail as the homme fatale in an darkly comic erotic thriller on their 2023 bingo card? Not us, that’s for damned sure. In a CV that is already […]

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We’ve spent some time with more of Google’s latest devices. Last week, we reviewed the Google Pixel 8 Pro phone device, so if you want to know more about that one, right here. It is a tremendous phone and if you’re looking for an upscale phone, then that should be your go to. If you’re […]

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We’re happy we didn’t watch this during the pandemic… Kevin Williamson’s latest movie Sick is finally available to watch at home in Ireland and the UK. In case you didn’t know, Williamson was the writer and creator of iconic horror franchise Scream, having written the scripts for the first movie, as well as Scream 2 […]

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By all accounts, the Arctic Monkeys went out with a bang. Playing to a packed out 3Arena in Dublin on the evening of Thursday 19 October, the Arctic Monkeys ended their entire world tour right here in Ireland, their fourth date in Ireland in one week. These were to replace the cancelled performances that were […]

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The play from the writer/director of In Bruges has a limited run in Dublin this month. Martin McDonagh has a consistent vibe and tone throughout his work, and that is ever-present in Hangmen, which returns to Dublin for a limited run this month. The darkly comic crime drama shares quite a bit of DNA with […]

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Stir it up with Pot Noodle. 10 questions on 10 of the biggest video games of all time. Whether you’re a fan of retro games like Tetris, or you’re a Minecraft mastermind, there’s no denying the fact that gaming can be hungry work. Next time you build up an appetite during a gaming session, pop […]

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Your weekend starts here! Between the 12 new movies added to Netflix and the 23 new movies added to Prime Video this week, any film lovers are absolutely spoiled this weekend. But if none of those are suitable, here are all of the movies on your telly to choose from this Friday night… The Longest […]

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The new Netflix prices will impact some customers across the island of Ireland. Four months back, Netflix implemented a password crackdown in Ireland and the UK with immediate effect, and off the back of it, Netflix has managed to massively increase its total subscribers. Variety reports that the streaming service say they’ve had an 8% […]

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A great mix of new additions to the Netflix catalogue this week! If you’re looking for the best new Netflix movies to check out this week, we’ve trawled the library for the latest additions and picked out a dozen of the biggest titles, and we’ll let you know if they’re a must-watch or a must-avoid […]

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Here is your Thursday evening movie menu! If you want to check out this De Niro thriller, you better watch it tonight, because it isn’t available anywhere else online at the moment! Aside from that, here are the other movies on TV for tonight… The Old Man and the Gun – FilmFour – 7.10pm Robert […]

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The new King Kong game needs to be seen to be believed… Big games based on huge intellectual properties are not having a good 2023. A few months back, it looked like The Lord of the Rings: Gollum might be taking the trophy home for worst game of the year (current Metacritic score: 34%), another […]

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Happy days for those in the middle of the Venn Diagram of Prime Video subscribers and movie lovers! Loads of Prime Video additions this week, including plenty that are ONLY available on Prime Video… APEX Bruce Willis stars in this sci-fi action thriller with a stonking 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. THE BURIAL One of many […]

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This is where you can watch the scariest of the scary movies. We recently wrote about the 15 scientifically-proven scariest movies of all time, including the single scariest scene in movie history (more on that here). If you’re a scary movies fan, then you’ll definitely have seen most – but maybe not all – of […]

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Action, horror and very dark comedies are among the movies on TV tonight. Say hello to your mid-week movie menu for stuff on the telly, which is almost entirely made up of action movies and scary movies. Enjoy! Goldeneye – ITV4 – 9pm Pierce Brosnan’s first and best outing as 007. London Has Fallen – […]

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The new movie from the director of Fight Club, The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is here. The opening scenes of The Killer mostly remain inside one room in an abandoned WeWork office, where an unnamed assassin (Michael Fassbender) lies in wait for the curtains to open in the penthouse hotel […]

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We’ve all seen every episode of Friends multiple times… so could this Friends Quiz BE any easier… With this Friends Quiz, we’re not messing around. This isn’t going to be something easy like name the six friends. No no. This will be putting your Friends knowledge to the absolute test. We recently put together The […]

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A pretty decent Tuesday night movie menu, if we do say so ourselves… As we get closer and closer to Halloween, more and more spooky movies are on your TV, and there are SIX to choose from tonight! But don’t worry, if you’re not a horror mood, there are dramas and comedies and sci-fi action […]

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 arrives this week. Sometimes games can get so caught up in pushing the envelope with graphics, with making things feel so realistic, with giving huge worlds to get lost in, that they actually forget to be entertaining, to be fun. In this writer’s opinion, the most purely fun game to arrive on […]

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The scariest scene in horror movie history comes from a film released in 2010. The single scariest scene in horror movie history has been recorded in a new scientific study, so if you’re looking for a singular moment to completely freak you out this Halloween, look no further. As part of the Science of Scare […]

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Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan’s new movie arrives in cinemas this week. An Irish star getting a lead role in a big Hollywood movie is always cause for celebration, but to our knowledge, Foe might be the first time that both leading roles in a non-Irish movie are taken by Irish performers. The story revolves […]

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Your Monday evening movie menu has arrived! Loads and LOADS of decent movie picks to choose from this evening, starting with… The Hunger Games – Sky Showcase – 8pm Ahead of the prequel arriving in cinemas this November, now is a good time to go back and check out our introduction to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer […]

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The seventh biggest box office hit of all time is now available to watch on Netflix. Released in cinemas in December 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home went on to bank over $1.9 billion at cinemas worldwide, becoming the seventh biggest box office hit of all time, behind only Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way Of […]

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The documentary will get its Irish Gala Screening in November. Among the impressive line-up for this year’s Cork International Film Festival, which includes the opening gala screening of Poor Things (a huge 2024 Oscar hopeful for Ireland) and the international gala screening of All Of Us Strangers (ditto), you will find One Night in Millstreet. […]

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We’ve spent some time with the new Google device. Here are our findings. The new Pixel 8 Pro is the flagship item on Google’s latest series of phones, and before you do anything with it, you’ll probably notice the price hike. Yep, it starts off around €200 more expensive than last year’s Pixel 7 Pro, […]

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Your Saturday evening movie menu has arrived! If you’re in a movie mood this Saturday, you’ll be happy to hear that Netflix has just added 12 big movies to its library. But if none of those suit, here are all of the movies on your telly this evening: The Lord of the Rings: The Return […]

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Happy days for all you Netflix subscribers! Loads of new additions on Netflix to enjoy this weekend, including the brand new horror series that debuted with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you’re in more of a movie mood, the following dozen films have been added to the Netflix library this week: A JOURNAL FOR […]

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It is also being called one of the best films of the 2020s so far. As we said in our review of The Fabelmans when it was released in cinemas in Ireland and the UK at the start of 2023: “2021’s West Side Story, very good but also the biggest financial flop of Spielberg’s career. […]

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It is also being called one of the best action movies ever made. There have been some very entertaining action movies released in 2023 so far – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 – but without a doubt, the best action movie of 2023 […]

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As another option, The Snapper is also on the telly tonight. The weekend is upon you now, and you’ve got some great viewing choices to pick from, especially if you’re a horror fan. Disney Plus has added a very, very, very scary movie, while an excellently reviewed new Netflix horror series has also just dropped. […]

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The new series will focus on the crimes of five murderers from Ireland’s history. New series Ireland’s Most Evil Killers will be available to audiences to check out at home in Ireland and the UK very soon. The official synopsis for the new series, which comes from the same producers of the hit series Britain’s […]

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A perfect watch at home in the lead up to Halloween. Released in cinemas this summer, The Boogeyman arrived on the very same day as arguably 2023’s best movie so far, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. So chances are you missed it completely on the big screen, and why the movie was a medium-but-not-massive box office […]

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Another of tonight’s movies on TV features the single most unsettling scene in cinema history. Welcome to your Thursday evening movie menu! Loads to choose from, starting with… Pacific Rim Uprising – FilmFour – 6.50pm The sequel to the Robots Versus Monsters epic, this time fronted by John Boyega. Its not clever, but it is […]

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26 questions. Only the biggest fans of The Simpsons will get them all correct. Whether or not you’re still watching The Simpsons religiously is irrelevant, because there is no denying that at its peak it was one of the greatest TV shows of all time. There are certain episodes and seasons that many of us […]

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Killers of the Flower Moon sees Martin Scorsese bringing together Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro for an epic true crime story. There has been a lot of talk around Killers Of The Flower Moon since it kicked off its festival run a few weeks back, beginning its long, inevitable run towards some form of […]

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Your Wednesday evening movie menu has arrived. You’ve made it to the middle of the week! Congratulations! Celebrate this achievement with some movies on your telly! I, Robot – FilmFour – 6.45pm Will Smith stars in this very entertaining sci-fi action blockbuster about a robot accused of murder, despite all robots having an in-built code […]

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The new PlayStation 5 is arriving just in time to be added to lists for Santa! We’ve been keeping a close eye on the arrival of the next generation of PlayStation 5 consoles for a while now, and Sony have finally confirmed that (A) yes they are 100% on the way, and (B) when we […]

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One particular location in Ireland has been named the single best location on the entire island for any users of Instagram. We all know that one of the main reasons why travel anywhere is so we can share our trip on Instagram, not only to show off our exceptional photography skills, but also to spur […]

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Rarely has a movie felt this relentlessly tense and aggressively intelligent. Premiere in festivals in late 2019, Parasite arrived in cinemas here in February 2020, right around the time it was defeating new films by Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes and Todd Phillips at the Academy Awards. Directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, […]

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Your Tuesday evening movie menu has arrived! We’re getting further in October, so spooky season is definitely upon us. Maybe you’ll want to check out the scientifically-proven scariest movie ever made (more on that here), but if not, there are plenty of other options to choose from on the telly this evening… Hidden Figures – […]

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Tarantino’s most instantly recognisable character was actually based… on another Tarantino character that he hadn’t yet created. Off the top of your head, who is the most iconic Tarantino character? It is open to some mild debate – Jules from Pulp Fiction? Stuntman Mike from Death Proof? Calvin Candie from Django Unchained? Cliff Booth from […]

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The new show will be a reunion with one of the stars of Better Call Saul. It is very rare for any Hollywood writer to be responsible for the creation of one of the best TV shows ever made. It is next-to-impossible for a writer to be behind TWO of the best shows ever made. […]

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In case you should want to, the “scariest movie ever made” is available to watch at home right now. If you’ve ever wondered what was the scariest movie ever made, and how could it be proven, then look no further… Released in cinemas in Ireland and the UK on 5 October 2012, Sinister proved to […]

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We still can’t quite wrap our heads around it. Over the years there have been some huge mysteries presented in movies that have never actually been properly answered. Who was the killer in Zodiac? Was that really a magical creature in The Blair Witch Project? Did DiCaprio really know what was going on at the […]

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We’ve spent some time with Apple’s biggest and most expensive new phone. Here are our findings. We’re in a weird position here with the iPhone 15 Pro Max, because the device feels like it is simultaneously representing all change and all upgrades, while also not feeling like it is THAT much different from what came […]

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