By Kyran Leahy, Film & TV Editor TV shows come and go. When one is gone, another replaces it. It is just the way the television world works. The sad thing about most television shows is that they do not even reach their natural ending, being cancelled before they can wrap up their run. The…
By Kyran Leahy, Film & TV Editor Music biopics have always been around. Some of the most acclaimed movies of recent times have been about the careers of musicians, from Barbara Streisand’s portrayal of Fanny Brice in 1968’s Funny Girl to Jamie Foxx’s Academy Award winning performance as Ray Charles in 2003. They were released…
By Kyran Leahy, Film & TV Editor As we hopefully approach the tail end of what has felt like an eternal lockdown, we have once again reached the end of another show that has been on most people’s screen the last few weeks. The show that forced people to log off from social media as…
By Kyran Leahy – Film & TV Editor The 1970’s brought us some major figures that lit up the world during the decade and have remained in the spotlight in modern times. From the actors that have remained ever present on the screens like Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino to the music of Fleetwood Mac,…
Writes Kyran Leahy – Film & TV Editor Ireland has had its fair share of representation in film and television recently. The country has become the backdrop to several coming-of-age stories as of late that have achieved global attention. You have the college romance story of Normal People, the portrayal of teenage life during the…
By Kyran Leahy – Film & TV Editor Without any sugar-coating, it is fair to say that January 2021 was a month of complete chaos. We tried to leave the sour taste of 2020 behind us, but it only seemed to have accelerated. While we have been stuck at home because of Lockdown 3.0, which…
Finally, we have gotten to the homestretch of the year like no other. Congratulations to all of you that have managed to remain somewhat sane. There are no ifs or buts about it, this year has been the most unusual year of our time. The whole world was at a standstill as businesses were forced…
It is that time of the year again. The time where an abundance of reality TV shows come back onto our televisions during these harsh Winter months to provide us with some stellar, albeit mindless, entertainment. Families from across the country pinpoint these shows as creating the one time of the year where everyone sits…
Time to acknowledge the obvious here before we start. I am a big Pixar fan. I, like many others, was raised on the stories that the film company showed through the art of 3D animation. I remember having nearly all of them on VHS when people still knew what a VHS was. The non stop…
He returned when the world needed him most. Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakhstani journalist brought to life by the mind of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, has made his comeback after a fourteen-year-long exile in the Kazakhstan gulags with his latest documentary Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (the actual title would take up a lot of the word count…