U OK Hun? #coybig

A nation holds its breath #coybig

Blindboy on Oliver Callan saying his phenomenal documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars got bad reviews? I adored it, and said as much at the time. See it if you can.

Ole ole ole ole

Steal it from the Louvre!

I have been outside. I do not recommend it.

The "how to reboot Bond" thing confuses me. Sure, he's dead, but then a new guy gets the gig, blast of Monty Norman, and we go on. What do people think happened to the old Bonds: a retirement keeping bees in the Cotswolds?

Last primary school parent teacher meeting. Jam on the doorknob.

Breaking News: Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese film star known for “Ran” and other classic movies, has died at 92.

Ivan Yates thinks he can have his cake and lambaste it for clicks and likes too

I'll be taking a look at the week's new films and TV with Grainne Humphries on the Brendan O'Connor Show on RTE Radio 1 after 12.30, including DDL's return in Anemone and Channel 4's adaptation of Louise Kennedy's Trespasses. Do tune in!

He pretty much did this lol

Mamdani's win reminds us that what we take for granted, the Americans call Marxism.

There won't be a hunting buddy shot in the face in the Halliburton Head Office tonight

A movie you've seen more than seven times

At least that settles the Crowley/Prendergast debate

Not sure what Beirne could have done there short of dematerialising into confetti

Tune in to Arena on RTE Radio 1 right now to hear me, John Connolly, Jess Fahy, and Louise Bruton talking all things horror

Big whoop according to my mid-term layabout children, soon to discover the joy of raking and bagging wet, late-October leaves Wordle 1,593 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Between knocking down the White House and the slithering, blood-sucking parasites, the Trump era is not short on metaphors

This presidential election is a puck in the gob for the fascists, racists, and internet-addled malcontents and agitators. If Catherine Connolly does nothing else in her 7 years, she at least did that.

In todays Examiner, Martin Claffey has the story of the unlikely but thematically appropriate resurrection of Divine Rapture, 30 years after it collapsed www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

Remember, if you don't vote, you can't complain about the outcome

I'll be taking a look at the week's new films in the company of @rickoshea.bsky.social on Arena on RTE Radio 1 just after 7, including the Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere and Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. Do tune in!

Where's the guy that invented Bus Connects? I just want to talk to him. I just want to talk to him.

Boggles the mind that the strategy gonks at FG think bringing up house repossessions is a winning move.

This was an absolute pain to get past the turn in the stairs but worth it, I think

Lot of national newspaper columnists exposing their whole arses championing flop non-runners and calling for spoiled votes. Septic.

We look to the presidency for, if not inspiration, exactly, then at least not active negativity. Humphreys' ill-humoured campaign has been a disaster; like a hated Sunday visit from a cranky relative who thinks your couch is uncomfortable and your tea is weak.

I'll be talking about Rebecca Miller's superb documentary portrait of Martin Scorsese on Arena with Rick O'Shea on RTE Radio 1 after 7 this evening. Do tune in!

In today's Business Post, I interview Jim Sheridan about his obsession with Sophie Toscan du Plantier and his new film, Re-Creation, and review Kirk Jones' contagious I Swear, Myrid Carten's troubling A Want In Her, and the BBC's deceptively gentle adapation of Ronan Hession's Leonard & Hungry Paul.

Goodbye to Diane Keaton, a real one share.google/5450qmKAPKyE...

Catherine Connolly takes ages packing at the tills in Lidl #SmeartheBejaysus

What if I said the coolest man to have ever lived was deeply uncool? Would you click on it then?

Better give this guy a peace prize or he'll start a war

I call for cats to be dogs and Tuesdays to be Wednesdays

Brendan Canty's *very* Cork coming-of-age drama Christy is among the five nominees that will compete for the European Film Academy's 2026 LUX Audience Award. All five films will be screened for free across Europe between now and the awards, next April. Dowtcha boy.

Which is worse? That FF did not know their candidate, as a landlord, had a significant and unresolved dispute with a former tenant, or that they did and put him up anyway? Either is a terminal failure of political intelligence.

Jim, we hardly knew ye

The first 20 minutes of Game of Thrones. No more, ever after, forever.

Very sorry to hear that the writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan has died. A champion of language, place, people. Suaimhneas síoraí dá hanam. www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Preventing an aid convoy from reaching starving people is a crime against humanity. There is no conceivable justification for such a blatant, brazen act of evil.

See also: saxamaphone

I have called a trampoline a trampopoline since 1993

Preventing an aid convoy from reaching starving people is a crime against humanity. There is no conceivable justification for such a blatant, brazen act of evil.

I now know why they wanted to keep this one quiet.

Prime Video have a new Shane Black film based on my treasured Donald Westlake/Richard Stark Parker novels releasing today and I found out about it ten minutes ago. Promotion fatigue is real.

Master movie poster designer Renato Casaro has died at 89. Here he is a couple of years back explaining to The Guardian what makes a great film poster www.theguardian.com/film/2022/se...

No spoilers. This won't end well.