What you may need to know
1. Lilyhammer Season One divided audiences. Haters gonna hate, but hey, we had a blast.
2. The concept: The Sopranos meets Fargo (1996). In Norway.
3. Steve Van Zandt – for an actor, he’s one hell of a guitar player.
4. It’s biggest thing ever on Norwegian telly. In the US, its part of the Netflix revolution. Here, you’ll find it on BBC4.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: They should set Season Three in Donegal.
Screening Date: Spring
What you may need to know:
1. Heaven is for real. And so, believe it or not, is this movie.
2. Faith-themed cinema is so hot right now. Jesus hot, not Satan hot. Even Nick Cage wants a bit of the Holy action.
3. Heaven Is… is based on the New York Times Bestseller.
4. Greg Kinnear? Dude! Come on! You were in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)!
5. Yes, it’s based on a moving true story. So was Thor: The Dark World (2013). Fact.
Release Date: 2014
What you may need to know
1.‘From the God who brought you The 10 Commandments and Jesus Christ: Superstar…’
2. Russell Crowe should only star in biblical epics from Noah on.
3. Ray Winstone alert: ‘Noah… You slaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. I’m the Daddy now!‘
4. Who knew buzz cuts were so hot in pre-Christian times?
5. Wait! When was the last time you deliberately watched a Jennifer Connelly movie?
6. Ah, Tony Hopkins, AKA Mr. Please make payable ‘to cash’.
7. Yes, it’s directed by the same guy who did Requiem For A Dream (2000) and The Wrestler (2008).
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Where’s Morgan Freeman as God?
Release Date: Spring 2014
What you may need to know:
1.Maleficent is a live action prequel to Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty (1959).
2. Angelina Jolie hasn’t been seen in a movie since 2010 box office turkey The Tourist.
3. Angie’s all about the directing these days. Her next movie stars Domhnall Gleeson.
4. The cast also includes Elle Fanning (as Sleeping Beauty), new Dr. Who Peter Capaldi and Sharito Copley – last seen stealing Elysium (2013).
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Anyone else suffering from CGI overkill?
Release Date: May 2014
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What you may need to know:
1. All right, so, are we all over that final episode of Love/Hate? The ‘fans’ are still going MENTAL.
2, Amber is RTÉ ‘s next big Sunday night contender.
3. It’s produced by docu-genius Paul Duane, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, and stars David Murray and Eva Birthistle (above).
4. It’s already been sold to BBC4, for that prime Saturday night slot that made The Killing a smash. In fact, its pretty much been sold EVERYWHERE.
5. Fact: we’re already hearing GREAT things.
Broadcast Date: January 2014
What you may need to know:
1. We live in a world where Vince Vaughn is still a movie star, apparently. That said, he was in Swingers, Made (2001), Zoolander (2001), Old School (2003), Anchorman (2004) and Dodgeball (2004), and it looks like he’s been working hard to lose the bloat, so we’re still willing to forgive him a decade of poo – with the possible exception of Fred Claus (2007).
2. Simon Delaney with half-decent American accent @ ’20
3. Chris Pratt, AKA Andy from Parks & Recreation @ 50. He has since transmogrified into a Marvel hero.
4. What Richard Did Next: Jack Reynor makes US movie debut @ 1’02. Looking good.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Vince learns important lessons about growing up, scores possible hit in process. And yes, he’s in Anchorman 2 (2013).
Release Date: January 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj_A3vohXc
What you may need to know
1. Yes, it’s fake.
2. It’s from a recent episode of US comedy institution Saturday Night Live.
3. Ed Norton as Owen Wilson – discuss.
4. They put a lot of graft into capturing that Wes Anderson vibe. Read more here
5. We’re looking forward to this even more than the REAL new Wes Anderson flick.
Release Date: 12th of Never
What you may need to know:
1. Broken Song is a new Irish documentary, directed by Claire Dix. She’s a talent, and then some.
2. Decent Irish Hip-Hop Alert: it’s a portrait of Irish rappers GI, Costello and Willa Lee.
3. It bagged the Audience Award and the Dublin Critics Circle Discovery Award at this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
4. We’ve seen it, and its probably the best Irish movie we’ve seen in ages. Well, since Good Vibrations (2012), anyhow.
5. While you’re at it, watch Claire Dix’s brilliant short film Free Chips Forever
Release date: November 15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuZkJYXL4M
What you may need to know.
1. The Raid (2011) was the best action movie of the decade (thus far). Here’s the sequel.
2. Again, it’s directed by Indonesian-based Welshman Gareth Evans.
3. Evans did a segment of newly released horror anthology sequel V/H/S 2 (2013). It’s possibly the most indescribably intense bat-shit nuts thing ever. We’d recommend a gander.
4. Raid MVP Iko Uwais Joe Taslim turned up as a baddie in the last Fast And Furious flick. Unsurprisingly, he kicked everybody’s ass.
5. The first Raid was CRAZY. The second one looks EVEN CRAZIER. We’re down with that.
Release Date: 2014
What you may need to know.
1. TLDOM is the feature debut of Oscar nominated Irish director Ruari Robinson. He’s a talent.
2. It stars the brilliant Liev Schreiber, AKA TV bad-ass Ray Donovan.
3. The FX were all done by Screen Scene Dublin. Nice.
4. Let’s take a moment to remember the most mental Irish sci-fi movie of all time, shot up the Sally Gap.
5. Best YouTube comment: ‘how is it possible??? Mars has no gravity at all’
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: O’Methius. See what we did (badly) there?
Release Date: TBC (currently available on VOD in US)
