HERE AND BACK AGAIN

Soft Day, Thank God!

Perfect week so for an absolute Box Office week of streaming content dropping and Cinema releases opening. 

STREAMING:

 The Last of Us (Now TV / Sky Atlantic – Monday 16th)

Welcome to The Chippendales (Disney+)

Hunters Season 2 (Prime Video)

Servant Season 4 (Apple TV+)

Mayor of Kingstown Season 2 (Paramount+)

Dog Gone (Netflix)

Break Point (Netflix)

Super League: The War for Football (Apple TV+)

The Test Season 2 (Prime Video)

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (Netflix)

Koala Man (Disney+)

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (Netflix) 

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (Netflix)

Sexify Season 2 (Netflix)

Sky Rojo Season 3 (Netflix)

Noise (Netflix) 

Trial By Fire (Netflix)

Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 (Netflix)

The Estate (Sky Cinema)

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (Prime Video)

CINEMA:

M3gan

Tár 

Empire of Light

New Year. New Content.

Batten down the hatches - 2023 is gonna be busy!

STREAMING:

Reservation Dogs Season 2 (Disney+)

Our Flag Means Death (BBC2 & BBC Player) 

The Rig (Prime Video)

The Menu (Disney+)

Aftersun (MUBI)

The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix)

The Lying Life Of Adults (Netflix)

Copenhagen Cowboy (Netflix) 

Woman of the Dead (Netflix)

Ginny & Georgia Season 2 (Netflix)

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (Netflix)

Star Wars : The Bad Batch Season 2 (Disney+)

Sometimes When We Touch (Paramount+)

The 1975 At Their Very Best - Live from Madison Square Garden (Prime Video)

CINEMA:

Till

A Man Called Otto

The last podcast of the year and we've kept the best for last.

You will NOT be short of things to watch, while drooling on the couch in your expando pants and having one more waffer thin mint!

STREAMING Now:

Banshee of Inisherin (Disney+)

Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount+)

Glass Onion – A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)

Barbarian (Disney+)

Strange World (Disney+)

Emily in Paris Season 3 (Netflix)

Jack Ryan Season 3 (Prime Video)

Alice in Borderland (Season 2)

STREAMING Soon:

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse (BBC1 – Christmas Eve)

The Smeds & The Smoos (BBC1 – Christmas Day)

The Witcher : Blood Origin (Netflix - Christmas Day)

Treason (Netflix – St. Stephen’s Day)

How Ireland Rocked the 80’s (RTE1 – Dec 27th)

Mayflies (BBC1 – Dec 28th)

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (Disney+ - Dec 28th)

Ireland’s Fittest Family Celebrity Special (RTÉ One - Dec 28th December) 

The Honeymoon (Prime Video – Dec 29th)

Coach Prime (Prime Video – Dec 29th)

They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix – Dec 30th)

White Noise (Netflix - Dec 30th)

Wildcat (Prime Video – Dec 30th)

Kaleidoscope (Netflix – New Year’s Day)

Happy Valley (BBC1 – New Year’s Day)

Taskmaster’s New Year’s Treat (Channel 4 – New Year’s Day)

CINEMA:

I Wanna Dance With Somebody – St. Stephen’s Day

CINEMA:

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

STREAMING:

NATIONAL TREASURE : EDGE OF HISTORY (Disney+)

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery Special (Netflicks)

LAST CHANCE U Season 2 (Netflicks)

DON’T PICK UP THE PHONE (Netflicks)

KANGAROO VALLEY (Netflicks)

DANCE MONSTERS (Netflicks)

DR. SEUSSS BAKING CHALLENGE (Prime Video)

BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (Netflicks)

GLITTER (Netflicks) 

1923 (Paramount+)

IF THESE WALLS COULD SING (Disney+)

METALLICA : THE HELPING HAND CONCERT (Paramount+)

THE RECRUIT (Netflicks)

NANNY (Prime Video)

I BELIEVE IN SANTA (Netflicks)

SNOWY DAY (Paramount+)

SONIC PRIME (Netflicks)

HIS DARK MATERIALS (BBC ONE Sunday Dec 18)

HARRY & MEGHAN PART 2 (Netflicks)

More going rogue on the podcast this week, as we focus our attention on Christmas Book Gifts for Adults.

We have called in the big guns for this one, as we welcome Brona Looby (Book Promotions Manager – Easons) & Maria Dickenson (General Manager - Dubray Books) on board to guide us through the literary seasonal gifting chaos.

Featured Xmas Tuneage - Laura Bryna - "Wishlist" (Thanks, as always)

List of Books featured -

More Midweek Meals – Neven Maguire

Persiana Everyday – Sabrina Ghayour

Everything is Washable by Sali Hughes

 CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Quinn by Trevor Birney

Web of Lies by Aoife Gallagher

Climate book by Greta Thunberg

Gaffs by Rory Hearne

There’s been Little Incident by Alice Ryan

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

Marriage Portrait by Maggie O Farrell

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

 

Surrender by Bono

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

You don’t know what war is by Yeva Skalietska

My fourth time we drowned by Sally Hayden

 SPORT:

Kellie by Kellie Harrington with Roddy Doyle

The Rodfather by Roddy Collins with Paul Howard

Point to Point – Pat Healy and Richard Pugh

A History of the GAA in 100 Objects – Siobhan Doyle

How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch by The Athletic Tifo

I Know This Much is True paperback by Miriam Margoyles

Waterford Whispers Vol 9

Eliots book of bookish lists by Henry Eliot

Emotional dictionary by Susie Dent

 

STREAMING:

Harry & Meghan  (Netflicks)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio  (Netflicks)

Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?  (Disney+)

Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22 (Paramount+)

Emancipation  (Apple TV+)

The Bad Guy  (Prime Video)

I Hate Christmas  (Netflicks)

Smiley  (Netflicks)

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area Part 2  (Netflicks)

In Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case  (Netflicks)

The Elephant Whisperers  (Netflicks)

Too Hot to Handle Season 4  (Netflicks)

Little America Season 2  (Apple TV+)

Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again  (Disney+)

Dragon Age: Absolution  (Netflicks)

Lookism  (Netflicks)

Something From Tiffany's  (Prime Video)

Meet Cute  (Prime Video)

Decision To Leave  (MUBI) 

Amsterdam (Disney+) 

CINEMA:

Silent Twins

Ghosts of Baggotonia

Nocebo

We are going rogue this week with a bonus episode of non-streaming content.

Having trouble deciding what to buy the small literary child in your life for Christmas?

Want to know what's hot out there on the bookshelves?

Well, in this bonus episode, we are joined by Elaina Ryan (CEO of Children's Books Ireland) to discuss all of the above.

Thanks to Andy Gaffney for producing and thanks to Laura Bryna for letting us use her awesome Christmas tune!

U MAY need to slow your podcast speed down, as the excitement of being in a studio with such amazing books, may have caused us to babble continuously and at a speed faster than light!

Christmas Tune :

Laura Bryna - Wishlist

Age 0-4 :

 

Be Wild, Little One – Olivia Hope, illus. by Daniel Egnéus

Fox & Son Tailers – Paddy Donnelly

The Wilderness – Steve McCarthy

Cloud Babies -  Chris Judge & Eoin Colfer

3 Billy Goats Gruff – illus. Jon Klassen & story by Mac Barnett

Meanwhile Back On Earth – Oliver Jeffers

What The Ladybird Heard At Christmas - Julia Donaldson, illus. Lydia Monks

The Baddies - Julia Donaldson, illus. Axel Scheffler

Well Done, Mommy Penguin – Chris Haughton

Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Wooden Eve -  illus. by PJ Lynch, story by Robert Frost

The Sleep Scan by Niall Breslin, illus. Sheena Dempsey

Sir Adam The Brave and The Moody Monsters – David King, illus. by Rhiannon Archard

AGE 5-12 :

The Chestnut Roaster – Eve McDonnell

The Lost Girl King – Catherine Doyle

Bunny vs Monkey Machine Mayhem - Jamie Smart

Batpig: When Pigs Fly - Rob Harrell

The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions – Isabel Thomas, illus. Aaron Cushley

Looking for Emily – Fiona Longmuir

Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk - Erika McGann illus. Phillip Cullen

The Ministry Of Unladylike Activity - Robin Stevens

 

TEEN/YOUNG ADULT :

Blood to Poison – Mary Watson

Things I Know – Helena Close

Five Survive - Holly Jackson

Demon in the Wood - Leigh Bardugo illus. Dani Prendergast

The Heartstopper Yearbook - Alice Oseman

GIFT :

The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories - various, illus. Sarah McIntyre

The Magic of the Ballet - Vivian French, illus. Lauren O’Hara

The Grumpus - Alex T. Smith

Girls Who Slay Monsters - Ellen Ryan illus. Shona Shirley MacDonald

Creature : Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections - Shaun Tan

The Great Irish History Book by Myles Dungan, illus. Alan Dunne

Another bumper week of streaming & cinema content, with some big viewing decisions to be made.

Settle in & Choose wisely.

STREAMING:

Willow (Disney+)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Rodrick Rules (Disney+)

Scrooge : A Christmas Carol (Netflicks)

Blue’s Big City Adventure (Paramount+)

Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

His Dark Materials Season 3 (BBC Sunday December 5th)

Firefly Lane Season 2 (Netflicks)

Three Pines (Prime Video)

The Flatshare (Paramount+)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Netflicks)

George & Tammy (Paramount+)

Avenue 5 Season 2 (Sky Comedy)

The Patient (Disney+)

Your Christmas or Mine? (Prime Video)

The Christmas Retreat (Paramount+)

Hot Skull (Netflicks)

Warriors of the Future (Netflicks)

The Lost Patient (Netflicks)

Man Of Action (Netflicks)

My Name Is Vendetta (Netflicks)

Dead End (Netflicks)

Troll (Netflicks)

Sr. (Netflicks)

Take Your Pills : Xanax (Netflicks)

The Masked Scammer (Netflicks)

CINEMA:

Violent Night

North Circular

CINEMA:

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

Strange World

She Said

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Bones And All

Million Dollar Pigeons

Living

STREAMING:

Wednesday (Netflicks)

Echo 3 (Apple TV+)

The Swimmers (Netflicks)

Blood, Sex & Royalty (Netflicks)

Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (Netflicks)

Good Night Oppy (Prime Video)

Our Universe (Netflicks)

Good Rivals (Prime Video)

The Confession (Prime Video)

Tokyo Vice (BBC & iPlayer)

American Horror Story: NYC (Season 11) (Disney+)

Fantasy Football (Paramount+)

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (Disney+)

The Hip Hop Nutcracker (Disney+)

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (Netflicks)

PARAMOUNT+

A Christmas Plus One (Nov 25th)

Christmas In Washington (Nov 26th)

Six Degrees Of Santa (Nov 27th )

A Christmas In Glenbrooke (Nov 28th )

A Loud House Christmas (Nov 28th )

My Favourite Christmas (Nov 29th )

The Christmas Retreat Nov 30th )

The Noel Diary (Netflicks)

Late Late Toy Show (RTE & Player)        

Quite possibly one of the best week's content drops since we started this madness. Something for everyone and anyone.

Box Office Stuff!

You may need to change your weekend plans to keep up.

STREAMING:

Spirited (Apple TV+)

The Santa Clauses  (Disney+)

Christmas With You (Netflicks)

Best in Snow Special (Disney+)

Paramount Plus Christmas Movies :

Saying Yes To Christmas (18th)

A Christmas Masquerade (19th)

Destination Christmas (20th)

The Picture Of Christmas (21st)

One Snowy Christmas (22nd)

Loving Christmas (23rd)

A Christmas In Switzerland (24th)

Disenchanted (Disney+)

Slumberland (Netflicks)

R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned    (Netflicks)

Run for the Money  (Netflicks)

Limitless With Chris Hemsworth (Disney+)

Pepsi, Where's My Jet? (Netflicks)

The Wonder (Netflicks)

Dead to Me  Comedy Season 3  (Netflicks)

1899  (Netflicks)

I Am Vanessa Guillén (Netflicks)

Elite Season 6 (Netflicks)

The Violent Action (Netflicks)

The People We Hate at the Wedding   (Prime Video)

Stutz (Netflicks)

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (Disney+)

Fire of Love  (Disney+)

Krampus (Disney+)

Rare Exports : A Christmas Tale

A Christmas Horror Story

Gremlins

Silent Night

CINEMA:

The Menu

Aftersun

Armageddon Time

MUSIC:

Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM Act 1

Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow