What you may need to know:
1. Less a trailer, more a preview of 3e’s new animated series for grown-ups.
2. Newsbag was created by Gerard Barrett, writer/director of no-budget arthouse darling Pilgrim Hill (2013).
3. Barrett’s day job is working for genius Irish animation house Brown Bag
4. TV3 have also got a Bottler cartoon with Brendan Grace on their schedules.
5. Fact: animated sitcoms are big business these days. Our favorite: Bob’s Burgers.
Broadcast Date: 3e, Saturday 12th Oct at 10pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJH4Nf4jcLg
What you may need to know:
1. Hollywood loves it some po’ white trash.
2. Casey Affleck – either way you look at it, he’s Batman’s brother.
3. The film contains ACTING. Please note capitals.
4. Woody Harrelson – always a pleasure.
5. Authenticity shorthand – get Sam Shepard in.
6. @ 2′ 10 – What, Willem Dafoe, too?
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Wind Between The Cheeks
Release Date: December (U.S.)
What you may need to know
1. Jack Ryan is BACK! He was Alec Baldwin, then Harrison Ford, then Ben Affleck, now he’s… Captain Kirk?
2. Ryan creator Tom Clancy passed away last week. Never read his books, but his video games ROCKED.
3. Shadow Recruit is directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, who doubles up as the bad guy to save a few quid.
4. Keira Knightly plays the love interest, because you have to be in a big stupid hit every once in a while.
5. Kevin Costner is to hand, to remind audiences what an actual movie star looks like.
6. We’re still not convinced by the whole Chris Pine thing, particularly after that second Star Trek movie.
7. Best YouTube comment: ‘So…a movie trailer that starts with a man outrunning bullets…does not instill confidence in me.’
Release Date: Xmas
What you may need to know:
1. Let’s give it up for Saoirse Ronan, shall we?.
2. She’s been Oscar nominated, starred alongside Bill Murray, James Gandolfini and Marky Mark Wahlberg AND been in RTE’s The Clinic.
3. She’s in the next Wes Anderson movie. And Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut.
4. She just auditioned for Star Wars. And turned down Avengers 2.
5. She’s the greatest living Carlowwoman.
Release Date: Tomorrow
What you may need to know
1. It’s not a trailer, it’s a webisode, if you don’t mind.
2. The Oath is directed by Greg Nicotero, who does all the zombie FX.
3. The first season of Walking Dead was pretty great. Then the guy who created the show got fired.
4. The second season managed the seemingly impossible: it made a show about zombies boring.
5. Season three picked up somewhat, apparently. We’re still stuck on Season Two, on that bloody farm.
6. For the upcoming season four, they’ve got another new showrunner in.
7. Anybody still watching it?
Broadcast Date: October 13 (US)
What you may need to know:
1. The internets is only bursting with promos for L/H 4. Here’s our favorite one.
2. Each season has been better than the last. Fingers crossed for this one. It’s looking pretty sweet.
3. RTÉ brought the screening date of season 4 forward so they could get the DVD out for Xmas.
4. They initially had a hard time selling it abroad on account of the first season being dodgy. Now it’s on Channel 5 in the UK.
5. King Nidge is Officially an Irish Style Icon – discuss.
6. And yes, Darren is definitely dead. We think.
7. Are we over the end of Breaking Bad yet?
Screening Date: Starts Sunday
What you may need to know.
1. Jude Law: lovely fellow, but has he ever truly given a great movie performance?
2. All right, he was decent in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), but that was a long time ago.
3. We’re hearing that this is the best thing he’s ever done.
4. The director, Richard Shepard, did the same thing for Pierce Brosnan in The Matador (2005).
5. Richard E. Grant – always a pleasure.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Rude Jude & Withnail = comedy gold.
Release Date: November
What you may need to know:
1. Steve Carell goes full dark. He’s nigh on unrecognisable here.
2. Bonus points for barely unrecognizable Mark ‘The Gruffalo‘ Ruffalo.
3. Director Bennett Miller got Best Picture nominations for his first two movies Capote (2005) and Moneyball (2011). We predict a third.
4. Naturally, its based on a true story.
5. Carell has another movie out this Christmas that we’re even more excited about
Release Date: Xmas TBA
What you may need to know.
1. Breaking Bad ends this weekend. Aaron ‘Jessie Pinkman’ Paul is off to be a movie star.
2. It’s a movie based on a video game. Great movies based on video games include… Oh, wait.
3. That said, this looks like fun. Big stupid fun.
4. And Michael Keaton’s in it, even if he isn’t in the trailer. We do love Michael Keaton.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Drive, Bitches.
Release Date: March
https://vimeo.com/70408891
What you may need to know:
1. It’s a new documentary from Irishman Paul Duane.
2. It’s about cult music legend Jerry McGill, a forgotten one hit wonder with a criminal streak. He died in June.
3. Duane did an incredible doc, Barbaric Genius (2012), on writer John Healy, and produced RTE’s new drama contender Amber. He’s the real deal.
4. We do love a good music doc. This is a great one.
Release Date: October
