Colin Farrell’s (THE PENGUIN) latest Apple TV series SUGAR is getting the green light for another season. The tech noir drama stars Farrell as Detective John Sugar, who investigates the disappearance of a movie mogul’s granddaughter while also confronting some of his own demons. Farrell will return for season 2 which will be overseen by showrunner Sam Catlin.
BRIDESMAIDS legend Chris O’Dowd will star in the new season of BLACK MIRROR. The 44-year-old is following in the footsteps of both Domhnall Gleeson and Andrew Scott who both respectively stared in separate episodes of the show. The anthology series first aired on the Channel four in 2011 before being acquired by Netflix before it’s fourth season in 2016 with this new season set to air in 2025.
Time flies in the world of soaps, as FAIR CITY not only celebrates its 35th anniversary but also welcomes back two of its most famous characters. It’s been six years since Ciaran Holloway and Katy O’Brien first graced our screens, making a brief comeback after one of the most explosive storylines ever in Carrigstown. Back in 2016, viewers were on the edge of their seats after crazed mechanic Ciaran kidnapped Katy and held her captive in a dungeon-type room for just over a year.
THE PENGUIN stars Colin Farrell (THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN) and Cristin Milioti were among the attendees at the HBO miniseries’ premiere in New York City. The limited series marks Farrell’s return to Oz Cobb, the eponymous villain he first portrayed in the moody and noir Reeves rendition of the Caped Crusader starring Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson and premieres Sept 19.
The highly-anticipated RIVALS, starring Aidan Turner, has finally got a release date – and there isn’t long to wait to become embroiled in the new series. Based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel, the show will be released on Disney Plus on Friday 18th October! The eight-part series is packed “full of romantic entanglements, dastardly deals, sex and wit”, and centres around the ruthless world of independent TV in the ’80s.
BLITZ opens in cinemas on Friday, November 1st, and streams on Apple TV+ from Friday, November 22nd In BLITZ, director Steve McQueen ventures into the tumultuous landscape of London during World War II, crafting a narrative that marries the visceral realities of war with deeply personal stories of family and
BRING THEM DOWN initially tells its story through the perspective of Michael. Weighed down by internal conflicts, he traverses the Irish countryside almost invisibly. His brooding aggression and minimal dialogue hook you into his world. Michael’s silent fury is far more fascinating and impactful than the noise of his neighboring
FOE star Saoirse Ronan is earning rave reviews for her performance in THE OUTRUN. The film is an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s autobiographical story, in which a return to one’s origins is synonymous with inner healing. Here, Ronan finds a role tailor-made to explore the intricacies of the human soul, in
After providing the raw fodder for Charlie Kaufman’s characteristically cryptic I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Canadian novelist Iain Reid serves up more brain-bender material in Garth Davis’ FOE. Anchored by emotionally raw performances from Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, with Aaron Pierre as a stranger bringing equal parts seductive charm
The reviews for BALLYWALTER are in! The Irish Independent says “Patrick Kielty is a revelation and Seána Kerslake exemplary in this moving drama. Together they created something wonderful, something unique, something that deserves to find an audience. Armed with a moving, meaningful screenplay by Stacey Gregg, BALLYWALTER speaks only when
The reviews are in for ONCE director, John Carney’s FLORA AND SON. Single mom, Flora (Eve Hewson), struggles to keep her son Max (Orén Kinlan) out of trouble in Dublin. She gets the idea to give her teenager a guitar, but he quickly refuses it in all his teenage angst.
Straight from it’s World Premiere at Venice Film Festival, THE KILLER is earning highly positive reviews. David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman: an ascetic who in the movie’s sensationally low-key
The debut film from Irish director Andrew Legge is a pacy, thrillingly inventive found-footage mockumentary that purports to show the invention, in 1940, of a machine that can intercept television and radio broadcasts from the future. The device is named Lola in honour of the mother of the machine’s creators:
The reviews are in for WOMEN TALKING, starring Jessie Buckley. This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mainly female cast debate the repercussions of the brutality meted out to them. Sarah Polley’s sober, sombre ensemble picture stars Rooney Mara, Claire
TOWN OF STRANGERS is set in the town of Gort in County Galway, perhaps best known for being the site of Coole House, the home of Lady Gregory and the Irish literary revival of Yeats, Synge, O’Casey and Shaw. None of that is mentioned, however: director Threasa O’Brien focuses on
Charlotte Wells’ moving debut feature AFTERSUN details a father-daughter vacation at a cheap resort in Turkey. There’s something unknowable about Calum (Paul Mescal), and maybe this is because Sophie (Frankie Corio) is a child, and he’s her dad, and she’s just about coming to the age where she’s separating herself
In the new film version of Emma Donoghue’s richly absorbing novel THE WONDER, we confront what the march of history and colonialism has done to Ireland. The film opens in 1862, ten years after the Great Hunger, in a windswept midlands village where a local girl called Anna O’Donnell is
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW has confirmed a return date for later this month alongside the star-studded line-up. The BBC One chat show will be back on screens on Friday, September 27, with the red sofa set to include Lady Gaga, who will be speaking about her role as Harley Quinn in new JOKER sequel FOLIE Á DEUX. Also confirmed are Colin Farrell, who will be speaking about DC series THE PENGUIN, and Demi Moore as she promotes new movie THE SUBSTANCE.
DERRY GIRLS star Saoirse-Monica Jackson is back on our screens in THE DECAMERON. According to Netflix, the series depicts the ‘all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic, as a cast of misfits try to outlast the bubonic plague pandemic in 1348 Florence’. Netflix has described Saoirse’s character Misia as a ‘co-dependent servant of Pampinea (Mamet). She adores her demanding master and derives much self-worth from pleasing her.’