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What you may need to know:

1. While visiting his brother in Colombia, Surfer Nick Brady (Josh Hutcherson) falls in love with the niece of drug lord Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro).

2. Nick becomes embroiled in Colombia’s criminal underworld as he falls increasingly under the influence of the charismatic Escobar.

3. And you thought your in-laws were overbearing.

4. So, not an adaption of John Milton’s blank verse epic, then.

5. For our money, Del Toro’s career-defining role of was as Oscar Zeta Acosta in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). Let’s not mention The Wolfman (2010).

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Meet The Parents meets Traffic.

7. Pardon our French poster/subtitles.

Release Date: November 26 (USA)

(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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Fupping better be, in fairness.

A dispatch from the rental front.

Aisling writes:

“Roommate and I are house hunting and saw a particular ad on Daft we liked that was in our price range so we arranged a viewing for today. Went to check its location on a map this morning and saw that the price had gone up by over €300 per month. I called to ask about the larger price and the person told me that it had always been that price and that “Daft had made an error” and that the person who made the appointment with me should have told me. He didn’t, though he somehow remembered to ask me to bring photo ID and my PPS number. Nobody will know because they took the ad down and renewed it completely, so Daft don’t have the price tracked like they usually do….”

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Independent.ie will run a ‘behind-the-scenes’ documentary, hosted by Barry Egan, about FAI chief executive John Delaney from Sunday.

The documentary, called John The Baptist, will feature Denis O’Brien who pays 70 per cent of Ireland football manager Martin O’Neill and assistant manager Roy Keane’s wages, or €910,000 of their combined €1.3million wages.

In it, Mr O’Brien praises Delaney’s running of the FAI, which recently secured a debt write-down of €11.7million.

“John Delaney could run anything. John Delaney could run UEFA easily. He could run FIFA as far as I’m concerned — certainly better than [FIFA President] Sepp Blatter, and more honestly.”

Right so.

And sure he’s great craic too.

Coming soon: John The Baptist (Independent.ie)

H/T: Balls.ie

Previously: Meanwhile, At The FAI

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Lilly writes:

“Apparently it’s not THAT Assange.”

Dr Martens Assange Boot – Always one step ahead of the authorities ™

Broadsheet.ie