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Beautiful day to be going on the radio to talk about new films you can see in a darkened cinema or tv you can watch at home with the curtains drawn: on the Brendan O'Connor Show on RTE Radio 1 in the next hour

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Ryan Coogler's Sinners is the first original live-action film to pass $200m at the US box office since the multi-Oscar winning Gravity 12 years ago. Some result.

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sweet christ Wordle 1,424 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Don't want to alarm anyone unnecessarily but there appears to be some sort of clear liquid falling out of the sky in big drops

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The funniest part of the Qatar jetplane bribe is that it's ownership will be transferred to the "Trump Presidential Library", a place that does not and will never exist

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working theory that there's been no Irish pope because all the contenders are already named John Paul or John Francis

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John Maguire on Film: Nicolas Cage’s everyman ramps up the tension in The Surfer

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The average American has three friends

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Wow, what a horrific typo. Right on the cover.

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Cherish a sunny day as much as any other Irish person but there's something deeply unnerving about sunscreen and shades and twenty five degrees in April

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My 13 year-olds face has been replaced with a black rectangle that emits a glowing light from which emerges an occassional grunt or short, mirthless laugh. Briefly switches back at meal times.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Bad actors with considerable power are going after a hip-hop band because they dare to oppose an ongoing genocide in which hundreds of thousands of innocent people are being bombed every day, deliberately starved, and denied their most basic human rights. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

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Define Cinema with an image 🎥🖤

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Being at the airport at half five in the morning is essentially a process of coming to terms with the idea that they have a half five in the morning now

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My interest in the papal election has increased significantly since discovering the frontrunner is named Pierbattista Pizzaballa

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Who gives a shit what Sharon Osbourne thinks about anything? I mean honestly.

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Brass neck, jockey's bollocks, and whatever this is.

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Who should JD Vance visit next? Putin? Le Pen? Farage? Trump?

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Good craic if he came back on Thursday

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Me trying to maintain a positive attitude

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I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap

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On the 35th anniversary of her death, here's Greta Garbo's entry in The World Film Encyclopedia (1933), her studio portrait, and the title page.

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Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

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I'll be making a few recommendations for the week's new cinema and television on the Brendan O'Connor Show on RTE Radio 1 in a few minutes. Do tune in!

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John Maguire on Film: No gods or monsters make this retelling of The Odyssey all the more effective

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