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What you may need to know

1. We’re loving the new wave of Irish horror movies: The Canal (2014), Grabbers (2012), Citadel (2012) and now this. What about a Rawhead Rex (1986) remake?

2. Brian O’Malley has been one of our best (and most prolific) commercial directors for years. You’ve all seen his stuff, you just haven’t realised it.

3. Let It Prey is his feature debut, shot in Galway and Glasgow. It’s already been described as ‘Carpenteresque‘. We’re down with that.

4. LIAM CUNNINGHAM POWER. All hail our most underappreciated big-screen badass and choice Game Of Thrones beardie. What about that seventeen minute single take scene in Hunger (2008), then?

5. It’s getting an Irish premiere at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival later this month.

6. We say: future cult classic in the making

Screening: Friday March 27, Light House Dublin

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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a new documentary from filmmakers Treasa O’Brien (left) and Mary Jane O’Leary, fusing (and we quote) ‘observational footage, street voxpop, archive material and metaphorical visual essay language mixed with on-the-road verite’. We do love a bit of verite.

2. O’Brien and O’Leary emigrated, then returned, and set about trying to make sense as to why we (and again we quote) ‘have an apathy, or even an antipathy, towards protest’. Have they been to Tallaght recently?

3. The title comes from Swift’s A Modest Proposal.

4. It’s screening at this year’s Jameson Dublin Film Festival. Russell Crowe’s going to be there, too. Not at this screening, although you never know. He’s a live wire, that Rusty Crowe.

5. We say: Not exactly the type of horror film we were hoping for, but possibly essential all the same.

Screening: March 22nd, Screen Cinema Dublin

Big-Game

What you may need to know:

1. When Air Force One is shot down over Finland (wait, doesn’t Air Force One have anti-missile defence systems?), the US President (Samuel L. Jackson) jettisons in an escape pod (wait… oh, forget it). As he is hunted down by terrorists, his only ally is 13-year old bow-carrying tyke Oskari (Onni Tommila).

2. More planes; no snakes.

3. In terms of “will work for cash,” Samuel L. Jackson is giving Michael Caine’s 1980s  a run for its money. But Jim Broadbent really should know better.

4. Big Game is the second feature from director Jalmari Helander, and is the most expensive movie ever produced in Finland. Having said that, the €8.5 million budget probably wouldn’t cover craft services on Pirates of the Caribbean.

5. It may look as dumb as a bag of hammers, but Big Game is a nostalgic throwback to the 1980s kid-friendly action movie, and has been getting some pretty decent reviews.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: A guilty pleasure. Very, very guilty.

Release Date: May 8

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

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What you may need to know:

1. The door closes on Don Draper after eight years and seven-and-a-bit seasons.

2. At the end of last season, Roger Sterling sold 51% of the company to McCann Erickson. Which is just as well as “Sterling Cooper Draper Price Cutler Gleason and Chaough” wouldn’t fit on the front of the building.

3. Not even Dick Whitman can make the seventies look cool.

4. Vincent Kartheiser is looking forward to letting his hair grow back.

5. The poster (above) was created by design legend Milton Glaser, responsible for ‘ I ♥ NY’ and the DC Comics bullet logo.

6. One of the final episodes is directed by Jared Harris (poor old Lane Pryce).

7. The finale will be written and directed by series creator Matthew Weiner.

8. The stink of cigs in that office must be something fierce.

9. Broadsheet Prognosis: The end of an era.

Release Date:  April 9  (Sky Atlantic).

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

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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a new sitcom created by and starring Will Forte. LOVE Will Forte.

2. The first two epiodess have just aired in the US, to a rapturous response.

3. The first two episodes were directed by Phil Lord & Chris Miller, who did The LEGO Movie (2014) and 21 (& 22) Jump Street. They know comedy.

4. Forte insists that the sequel to MacGruber (2010) is still going to happen.

5. Our favourite Forte character from SNL? It’s gotta be Hamilton.

6. That said, we do love his occasional Tim & Eric bit.

7. We say: Loving the beard.

Broadcast date [Ireland]: TBC

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What you may need to know:

1. The sitcom that refuses to die is BACK!

2. Community has seemingly been upon the verge of cancellation since it debuted – it finally got the chop, whereupon Yahoo picked it up for their Yahoo Screen platform.

3. Series creator (and mad genius) Dan Harmon was sacked after Season 3, then rehired for Season 5, whereupon he spent a decent amount of time slagging off the seriously iffy Season 4.

4. Original cast member Chevy Chase walked after a spat with Harmon. Donald ‘Troy’ Glover left last season, along with Yvette Nicole Brown (AKA Shirley) – that said, we hear Chevy’s coming back for a cameo. Even though his character is dead.

5. Seasons 1-5 are on Netflix. Binge IMMEDIATELY.

6. Guest stars this time out include Matt ‘Toast Of London’ Berry and STEVE GUTTENBERG.

7. We say: Six seasons and a movie? Nearly there.

Release Date: March 17  (via Yahoo Screen)

Zombeavers

What you may need to know:

1. A weekend trip turns into horror for a group of teenagers in a beaver infested swamp.

2. No beavers were harmed during the making of this film. As you can probably tell.

3. Just as well. You don’t want to go up against Brian May.

4. Yes, I know Brian is all about the Badger, but I couldn’t find any famous beaver supporters (fnar).

5. Single entendre alert @1:20!

6. “Hey honey, what about Zombeavers? It’s from the guy who secured a bridging loan for American Pie.” I’m not saying that this is pretending to be Citizen Kane, but when exactly did the producer become a selling point? David O. Selznick is turning in his grave.

7. As with Sharknado (2013) or Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) the story is secondary to the title. From Wererats to Vamporillas, the possibilities are endless.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: “Nice beaver…”

Release Date: March 20 (VOD).

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

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What you may need to know:

1. Ever so slightly NSFW.

2. Charlie Wolfe (Simon Pegg) is a professional assassin sent to kill Alice Taylor (Alice Braga). He soon discovers that he’s not the only one trying to kill her.

3. Pegg: “This script is awful. It’s lazy, generic, sub-Tarantino rubbish. And it’s painfully unfunny.”
Agent: “It’s three months in sunny Australia. Plus expenses.”
Pegg: “Can I grow a moustache?”

4. Kill Me Three Times is described as a black comedy. The total lack of jokes in the trailer is not a good sign.

5. Simon Pegg is growing increasingly Marmite with every role. Starting with How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008), he’s clocked up an impressive list of unlikeable characters in poorly received movies. Shaun of the Dead (2004) seems like a very long time ago.

6. As co-writer of the next Star Trek movie, Pegg now has the unenviable task of cleaning up the mess left by Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Fast and Furious helmer Justin Lin will take over directing duties from J.J. Abrams, who is otherwise engaged.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Go rewatch Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) instead.

Release Date: April 10.

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

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What you may need to know:

1. This 14 minute short has nothing to do with the Power Rangers of your youth. It’s a dark examination of what would happen should a truce between Earth and the Machine Empire occur.

2.  Haim Saban is morphing into the Green Ranger.

3. Director Joseph Kahn says he is not making any money from the short and uses original material so that’s cool. But it is really all about the Power Rangers though no?

4. Doesn’t the Blue Ranger’s antics remind you of Ozymandias from The Watchmen (2009) making his billions from Watchmen action figures but still kicking ass in secret? No? That’s probably for the best.

5. Where is Pacey. I guess he’s having an affair with his mentor Zordon. Dawson still has Joey issues.

6. Kahn is mainly associated with music videos and TV ads. The producer Adi Shankar is behind a string of other ‘unofficial’ shorts such as The Punisher: Dirty Laundry and Venom: Truth in Journalism [.

7. Lionsgate is in the middle of filming their own official Power Rangers feature. The franchise has been knocked for promoting violence. This short is not helping, in fairness.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Go Go Power Attorneys

Release Date: Available NOW

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What do you mean you ‘weren’t invited’?

What you may need to know:

1.  The night’s big shocker was Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman bagging four golden naked guys, including the two biggies for best director and best picture. One-time favourite 12 Years of Emo – sorry – Boyhood took home a single, solitary statuette.

2. First-time presenter Neil Patrick Harris was… okay. What worked: The Birdman bit and an early salvo at the inherent whiteness of the nominees (at least David Oyelowo got a good seat). What didn’t work: His opening number (ugh) with dancing stormtroopers and Jack Black (double ugh), not to mention choosing to follow the best short documentary winner’s heartfelt speech about suicide with an ill-judged joke about the woman’s dress.

3. Thank you count – Spouses and/or parents: 23. Agents: 11. Wes Anderson: 6. God: 1. It was a bad year for false idols with Harvey Weinstein failing to garner a single expression of gratitude.

4. Patricia Arquette gave a well-received (mainly by Meryl Streep) speech about equal pay, while John Legend and Common used the opportunity to express some rousing and heartfelt sentiments on civil rights. But the best speech of the night was undoubtedly Ida’s Pawel Pawlikowski, who gallantly barrelled through not one but two rounds of cut-off music. Well played, Sir.

5 In spite of some fine work from John Travolta, the weirdest presenter award goes to Terence Howard, who tried to break the microphone and seemed to be publicly working through some personal issues.

6. Commiserations to Irish nominees Cartoon Saloon, Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney. Sadly both Song of the Sea and Boogaloo and Graham lost out in their respective categories.

7. If you’re shocked or surprised that your personal favourite didn’t get the love, then The Hollywood Reporter’s series of “Brutally Honest” interviews with Academy members casts a light on the process behind who gets what and why.

8. For example, one anonymous voter picked Leviathan (2014) for best foreign film based on the poster. “I didn’t get around to seeing any of them. I shouldn’t have voted, but I did. Everywhere I looked, I saw pictures of this stupid carcass and I thought, ‘That’s a cool-looking thing.’ And I voted for a movie based on the dead whatever it was in the ad thinking that it looked cool.”

9. And it gets worse: On casting his vote for best documentary feature, he added “I didn’t see any of the nominees, but goddamn Virunga is running commercials late-night every freaking hour, and those gorillas, man — I was like, ‘Wow, that looks heavy.’ And I voted for it.” So now you know.

10. Broadsheet Verdict: As these things go, it wasn’t bad but it was far from exceptional. But more importantly – who were you wearing? This special was brought to you in association with Quinnsworth Yellow Pack Vodka – even better than the real thing.Highlights of the 87th Academy Awards are on RTÉ2 tonight at 9pm.

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