Thought this was a Santa statue I am that mithered

Someone stole my wife's maroon Raleigh Motus bike in Dublin City Centre this afternoon. If you see it, give me a shout

Tom Cruise’s wild comedy, Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, Miranda Priestley’s return: The movies in 2026

The tin whistles were a poor choice, in hindsight

Happy Christmas Eve to all the home chefs poring over their checklists this morning.

My wife is watching An Cailin Ciuin for the first time and I have passed four tissues already

The howls of laughter coming from the kids watching Love Actually in the other room suggests this thing isn't genetic

*No* explanation. None at all? I can think of at least one.

It's beginning to look a lot like Listmas - here's my best films and television of 2025 for the Business Post: www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...

Film book recommendations for your gift-requiring cinephile, or yourself Daniel Kehlmann's The Director, Hollywood: The Oral History (Basinger & Wasson eds.), Tim Robey's Box Office Poison, Al Pacino's Sonny Boy, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Best Possible Place, John Bleasdale's Magic Hours

It's beginning to look a lot like Out Of Office Autoreply

Having inhaled William Boyd's Gabriel Dax novels, one after the other in a gulp, just ordered Somerset Maugham's Ashenden: Or, The British Agent, with which I am told it shares themes and tones.

Having inhaled William Boyd's Gabriel Dax novels, one after the other in a gulp, just ordered Somerset Maugham's Ashenden: Or, The British Agent, with which I am told it shares themes and tones.

That run of Rob Reiner films people are sharing were independent productions by his Castle Rock company; few if any of them would have been made by the studios, and not as we know them.

What a tragic story. May they rest in peace. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Appropriately, this image is an unattributed theft and diminuation of someone else's creative work

What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Neeson excusing his stupidity with the Ron Burgundy get-out, claiming he just read what was put in front of him www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

This morning's purple sky, already fading by the time I finished typing this sentence

People surprised that an Irish government minister is doing precisely what the tech oligarchs command musn't have been paying attention for the last thirty years. The only difference is that it's now a spurious question of child safety and not jobs, jobs, jobs.

Oh yeah Wordle 1,635 2/6 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Alan Shearer's fake chuckle makes me want to smoke crack

Cheap, valueless shit generates cheap, valueless shit

You will be visited by three spirits

Jamie Lidell's Multiply keeping the show on the road this afternoon

So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

The Dublin District Schoolboy's League Division 3 Peace Prize

You shouldn't expect to sing in the singing competition or play international football or be welcomed into the wider culture while committing genocide, creating famine, and murdering journalists with impunity.

You shouldn't expect to sing in the singing competition or play international football or be welcomed into the wider culture while committing genocide, creating famine, and murdering journalists with impunity.

My Spotify playlist is Fuck Spotify

I'll be taking a look at the week's new cinema on RTE Radio 1's Arena in a few minutes including Clooney channelling Cary Grant in Jay Kelly and Irish drama Horseshoe. Do tune in!

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language

The UN says Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture” but Sally Rooney is the problem www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms...enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?

A long profile of comics legend Alan Moore. “For the first time in his 45-year career, Alan Moore is alone on the page.” [metropolitanreview.org]

Breaking my "No mention of Christmas til Christmas" rule to bring you this; the greatest Christmas story ever told

The Lost Films of Covid coming to American cinemas. We should do something similar variety.com/2025/film/ne...

My phone has predictive text. Should it be in charge of the World Bank?

Filmmaker Margo Harkin has declined an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Galway because of the universities partnership with an Israeli educational institution. Integrity. www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...

Nice first night back on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social last night, even if we did have to mark the passing of Jimmy Cliff and Paul Costelloe. Listen back any time... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I'll be reviewing Michael J Fox's latest memoir Future Boy and discussing the actor's life and career on Arena on RTE Radio 1 after 7pm. Do tune in!

When Udo Kier popped up, eyes blazing, you knew you were watching the best worst film of your life

This one has left me scratching my head

I got a letter from the government The other day Opened and read it It said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me giving a damn I said never

What a moment from Crowley

Ireland reduced to 12. Shambles.

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Really hope this army doesn't need roofs over their heads or travel to and from work or engage with public services or educate their kids or attend a hospital or