HERE AND BACK AGAIN

It's not about the quantity, it's about the quality this week.

STREAMING:

Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video)

The Mandalorian Season 3 (Disney+)

Tonight You're Sleeping with Me (Netflix)

Wrong Side of the Tracks Season 2 (Netflix)

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery (Netflix)

Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil (Netflix)

The Pimp - No F***ing Fairytale [aka Luden] (Prime Video)

Divorce Attorney Shin (Netflix)

Finding Michael (Disney+)

Sex/Life Season 2 (Netflix)

Next in Fashion Season 2 (Netflix)

Karate Sheep (Netflix)

Abbott Elementary Season 2 Part 2 (Disney+)

The Problem With Jon Stewart Season2 Part 2 (Apple TV+)

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage LIVE (Netflix - Sat 3am)

Empire of Light (Disney+)

Fall (Netflix)

CINEMA:

Creed III

Close

An absolute box office week of content. 

Batten down those hatches, draw those curtains, lay out those salty snacks, you're gonna be busy once you get home from the insanity & loveliness playing at your local mutiplex!

CINEMA:

Cocaine Bear

What’s Love Got to Do with it?

Broker

 STREAMING:

The Consultant (Prime Video)

Fleishman Is In Trouble (Disney+)

Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 5 (Netflix)

Outer Banks Season 3 (Netflix)

The Strays (Netflix)

The Independent (Sky Cinema & Now TV)

Alcarràs (MUBI)

Die Hart: The Movie (Prime Video)

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal (Netflix)

Con Girl (Paramount+)

Bandit (Prime Video)

Pretzel and the Puppies (Apple TV+)

Oddballs Season 2 (Netflix)

Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series Part 2 on (Netflix)

Liaison (Apple TV+)

The Reluctant Traveller (Apple TV+)

Red Rose (Netflix)

We Have a Ghost (Netflix)

Small but perfectly formed week of quality streaming content and cinema releases dropping! 

STREAMING:

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 (Paramount+)

Full Swing (Netflix)

Make Or Break Season 2 (Apple TV+) 

Hello Tomorrow (Apple TV+)

African Queens: Njinga (Netflix)

The Upshaws Season 3 (Netflix)

Mila in the Multiverse (Disney+)

Community Squad (Netflix)

Ganglands Season 2 (Netflix)

A Girl and an Astronaut (Netflix)

Unlocked (Netflix)

Sharper (Apple TV+)

Gucci: Sex, Money and Power (Paramount+)

Carnival Row Season 2 (Prime Video)

CINEMA:

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Atomic Hope

The Son

Put two Movie Nerds in a Podcast studio and you guessed it, they'll never shut up talking about their hopes and dreams for the first six months of this year's cinema releases.

Andy Gaffney (founder and creative director of The Shift Podcast Network) join us for this marathon session.

Stick the kettle on. You may be here for a while.

This week sees the streamers and cinemas going the "rosemantic" route, as they prep us all like lambs to the Valentine's slaughter!

Be careful out there!

STREAMING:

YOU Season 4 Part 1 (Netflix)

Your Place Or Mine (Netflix)

Somebody I Used To Know (Prime Video)

At Midnight (Paramount+)

Love Is Blind: After the Altar (Netflix)

Love to Hate You (Netflix)

Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All? (7 February)

Brian & Charles (Prime Video)

Orphan: First Kill (Paramount+)

Funny Woman (9 February) (SKY MAX)

My Dad the Bounty Hunter (Netflix)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney+)

The Exchange (Netflix)

CINEMA:

Magic Mike's Last Dance

Women Talking

Titanic 3D

Blue Jean

Epic Tails

MUSIC:

Paramore – “This Is Why”

Looking forward to the next 6 months worth of literary treats, we are joined in this Bonus Book Podcast by Brona Looby & Maria Dickenson who reveal some absolute crackers coming our way.

PASSION PITCHES

How to build a boat - Elaine Feeney (April 20th)

My Father’s House - Joseph O’Connor (Jan 26th)

Yellowface – RF Kuang  (May 16th)

Close to Home – Michael Magee (April 6th)

Hello Beautiful – Ann Napolitano  (corrected release date - July 13th)

Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (July 6th)

FICTION

Kala - Colin Walsh (July 6th)

The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue (June 27th)

Woman on the Bridge – Sheila O’Flanagan (April 26th)

Atlas of Pa Salt – Lucinda Riley (May 11th)

Happy Place – Emily Henry (April 25th)

The Close - Jane Casey (March 2nd)

WAKE - Shelley Burr (Aug 17th)

Strange Sally Diamond Liz Nugent (March 2nd)

The Ferryman – Justin Cronin (May 2nd)

The Happy Couple – Naoise Dolan (May 25th)

Island of Longing – Anne Griffin (April 26th)

NON-FICTION

How to Buy a House in Ireland - Ciaran Mulqueen (March 30th)

Social Capital - Aoife Barry (April 27th)

Future of Geography - Tim Marshall (April 27th)

Page Boy - Elliot Page (June 6th)

Grow the F**k Up-Sarah Knight (April 4th)

The Menopause – Deirdre Lundy (Feb 23rd)

Friendaholic – Elizabeth Day (March 30th)

A smorgasbord of content dropping this week both on streaming & in cinemas.

Why NOT legion, there are some crackers out there.

STREAMING:

Dear Edward (Apple TV+)

Your Honour Season 2 (Paramount+)

Pamela, A Love Story (Netflix)

Freeridge (Netflix)

Infiesto (Netflix)

 Viking Wolf (Netflix)

Gunther's Millions (Netflix)

Harlem Season 2 (Prime Video)

Pinecone & Pony Season 2 (Apple TV+)

True Spirit (Netflix)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney+)

Physical 100 (Netflix)

CINEMA:

Knock At The Cabin

The Whale

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

EO

Saint Omer

Skinamarink

In this week's mammoth bonus episode, we are joined by the always amazing and fab Elaina Ryan (CEO of Children's Books Ireland) to help us pick and preview 23 Children's & Young Adult titles for the first 6 months of the year, a task which kept us on our toes. So many literary treats coming your way, SO many.

We are also delighted to welcome onto the pod (at 34mins 43secs) Authors of the Awesome Katherine Webber & Catherine Doyle as they discuss their fantastic fantasy romp, the Twin Crowns series.

(Please find below the full listing  of titles discussed and their release dates)

-        April 6th 

-        March 2nd  

-        Feb 13th 

-        Feb 16th

 

-        Feb 2nd & June 8th 

-        March 2nd 

-        Feb 2nd 

-        March 2nd 

-        March 2nd 

-        April 6th 

-        April 13th 

-        Feb 27th 

-        March 16th 

 Greenwild: The World Behind The Door by Pari Thomson Illustrated by Elisa Paganelli

-        June 1st 

-        March 6th 

-        March 30th 

YOUNG ADULT:

A Game of Life or Death by Triona Campbell

-        Feb 2nd

-        Feb 2nd 

-        March 2nd 

-        Mar 16th 

-        April 27th 

 Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake

-        May 4th 

-        June 6th 

 

Someone Is Watching You by Tess James-Mackey (Feb 2nd)

Swimming on the Moon by Brian Conaghan (Feb 16th)

The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Patricia Forde

Back to winning ways, this weeks streaming content drops and cinema releases are choc-full of treats and surprises. AND not enough time in the day!

STREAMING:

Extraordinary (Disney+)

Shotgun Wedding (Prime Video)

Lockwood & Co. (Netflix)

Devotion (Prime Video)

Shrinking (Apple TV+)

You People (Netflix)

Teen Wolf the Movie (Paramount+)

Wolf Pack (Paramount+)

The Snow Girl (Netflix)

Darby & The Dead (Disney+)

CINEMA:

The Fablemans

All The Beauty and The Bloodshed

Plane

The Wandering Earth II

Unwelcome

Billie Eilish Live at The 02 Extended Cut (Friday Jan 27th -  One Night Only)

BTS Yet To Come (FEB 1st) 

CINEMA:

Babylon

Let The Wrong One In

STREAMING:

JUNG_E (Netflix)

The Legend Of Vox Machina Season 2 (Prime Video)

Shape Island (Apple TV+)

Truth Be Told Season 3 (Apple TV+)

The Hanging Sun (Sky Cinema / NOW TV)

Little Demon (Disney+)

The Chemistry of Death (Paramount+)

Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Netflix)

That 90’s Show (Netflix)

Bake Squad Season 2 (Netflix)

Bling Empire: New York (Netflix)

Ator The Invincible

Ator 2 : The Blade Master