I never had any interest in watching Korean dramas as both subtitles and dubbing bother me. However, recently, I kept seeing season two of a show I never heard of before popping up in Ireland’s Top 10. It must have been there for at least a month or two. I ummed and awed about giving it a try when my …
Awards season is well underway as the 2023 Academy Awards quickly approaches – here’s a rundown of our dream wins and predictions for the main categories. Best Picture Personal Pick: Everything Everywhere All at Once Prediction: 1. Everything Everywhere All at Once 2. The Fabelmans 3. The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once is a rollercoaster experience demanding …
Babylon is a beautiful, chaotic, messy three-hour epic centred around the transition from silent films to sound. Damien’s Chazelle $80 million project follows three protagonists – Manny Torres (Diego Calva), Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) and Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) – as they navigate this shift from different angles. It is a ridiculous picture with incredible highs and disastrous lows as …
Set in the ’50s, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) are living the perfect life in the refined town of Victory. The couple is hot for each other – they lead sociable and exciting lives, party hard and still manage to have their perfect little suburban life with no worries and everything where it should be. That is until …
Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin is a tragicomedy that confronts the viewer with the question of whether one’s existence is meaningful. The film follows Colin Farrell’s Pádraic in his attempts to regain the friendship of ex-drinking buddy Colm, played by Brendan Gleeson, who makes an out-of-the-blue decision to end their friendship. Colm wants to spend what he feels …
Uncharted is based on the popular video game series developed by Naughty Dog. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, the movie reimagines treasure hunter Nathan Drake in all his sarcastic glory as he begins his adventurous career. The story follows Nathan in his twenties, working as a bartender while side-hustling through some petty theft. Showing a deep interest in history’s most famous …
After 18 years of absence, Sex and the City finally returned to our screens on December 9th, 2021 in the form of And Just Like That. While many of us weren’t around to enjoy the original series in all its glory, the reboot was the perfect way to introduce the cult classic to a new generation. Upon hearing about the …
TikTok has had an incredible effect on the world of TV and film. It can introduce us to new shows and films, tell us which ones to avoid and more often than not spoil them on us. So, when The Fallout appeared all over my feed, I decided to watch it before I ended up seeing the whole movie through …
This review contains spoilers. Some would say the journey towards the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home is a movie within itself, and who can blame them? From persistent leaks that range from blurry images to Hollywood scoopers’ posting everything about the film’s ambitious plot on the likes of Reddit and 4chan. That being said, Spider-Man: No Way Home lived …
My Mad Fat Diary made its debut on E4 in 2013 and has now made its return to our screens on Netflix this year. It is based on the book My Fat Mad Teenage Diary by Rae Earl and the messages it imparted through Rae, Chloe, Tix, Archie, and many more, are as important today as they were when the …