Black Mirror is back, and arguably at its best. Charlie Brooker’s most talked-about series is as surreal, yet scarily relevant, as ever. The newest season re-visits the futuristic possibilities of social media, technology, and life in general. Exploring topics such as growing old, humanity vs propaganda, virtual reality, and the impact that social media could,…
2016, on paper, is a renaissance of sorts for video game movies, with Ratchet & Clank, Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed all releasing this year. Yet video game movies have rarely come to life successfully on the big screen. If studios fail again, someone will have to say enough is enough – stop ruining my nostalgic…
‘The Netflix Treatment’ is, if you didn’t know, when a forgotten film or television series finds new legs on the streaming platform, typically in the form of a new series. Famous examples of the ‘Netflix Treatment’ at work include the liberation of Arrested Development from Fox (though we’re still waiting on that film, Hurwitz), the…
You’ve got to hand it to RTE: no matter how many arrows pile up at the foot of the comedy TV show bullseye, every year they get their bow & arrow out and dutifully aim for that target again. The list of failed RTE original comedy programming is getting depressingly long at this stage –…
Halloween is coming up fast, folks: we get to dress up as monsters, chase people around and have a laugh; but what if we lived in a society where the monsters dressed up as people? Where the people chasing you would tear your body apart without a second thought? Imagine a post-apocalyptic society: a world…
Pick a film any film and hopefully it will make your boredom disappear. In 2013 director Louis Letterier brought the world of cinema a heist film with a difference. A quartet of up and coming magicians known as “The Four Horsemen” pull off daring robberies before the eyes of their audiences in true Robin Hood…
Directed by Richie Smyth, based on the true story “Siege at Jadotville” (Maverick House) by Declan Power As a small boy growing up in the wilds of West Waterford, I occasionally heard my late father speak of this place in the Congo called ‘Jadotville’. An Irish army unit was surrounded and held out for six…
24’s Keifer Sutherland returns to the television screen with a new ABC Political Thriller, “Designated Survivor”. He Plays Tom Kirkland, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who finds himself thrust into the Presidency of the United States following a devastating attack on the Capitol Building. This attack, striking during the State of Union address, wipes…
From the hilariously epic Deadpool to the long awaited clash of the DC titans Batman Vs Superman it is safe to say that on the nerd calendar, 2016 has officially been the year of the superhero! It is not just the big screen that is crowded with capes. In the last few years fans of…
The constant evolution of how we access our entertainment is always an interesting, almost unpredictable guessing game, with sure-things flopping unexpectedly and bizarre ideas gaining steam. It can be particularly interesting in an Irish context, especially when looking back at the long, dark days of “two channels, and maybe a dodgy static-y feed of BBC…