Just when you think your vote doesn’t count, it turns out it’s the only one that does. Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) is a beer-slinging, lovable loser who is coasting through a life that has nearly passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, overachieving 12-yearold daughter Molly (Madelaine...
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Taken
Taken
After a career playing mainly good guys, Liam Neeson takes a step into slightly less heroic territory in Taken as a father intent on saving his daughter from sex traders regardless of the cost. Playing a former CIA operative called Bryan who lost his marriage through a single-minded work ethic in service of his...
The Boy In Striped Pyjamas
The Boy In Striped Pyjamas
Berlin, 1940s. Eight year-old Bruno returns from playing with his school friends to find his home bustling with preparations: his father, a Nazi officer, has just been promoted to a new job in the countryside. Finding it difficult to settle into his new life, Bruno is intrigued by the existence of an odd sort of farm...
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express
After taking on the sex comedy in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and redefining the coming-of-age film in Superbad, comedy filmmaker Judd Apatow makes his first action-comedy in Pineapple Express, billed as “a Midnight Run for the stoner set” about two lazy guys on the run and their comic attempt to stay one step...
The Duchess
The Duchess
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), ‘the most fascinating woman of her age‘. But while her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married at a young age to the older Duke of...
Babylon Ad
Babylon Ad
In the not-too-distant future, all humanity inhabit a universe where thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear...
Step Brothers
Step Brothers
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who last teamed up in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, now attempt to recreate that success in Step Brothers, directed by Adam McKay. In the film, Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen)....
The Stangers
The Stangers
Champagne. Rose petals. Candlelight. It was supposed to be a night of celebration for Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) at his family’s secluded vacation home. But after leaving a friend’s wedding reception and returning to the house, everything had collapsed for the happy couple....
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan
Israeli commando Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler) – known as The Zohan – is his country’s most famous counter-terrorist. Highly skilled, seemingly indestructible, The Zohan is equally adept with the ladies as he is with taking out his enemies, including his nemesis, the Palestinian terrorist Phantom (John...
Get Smart
Get Smart
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst...
‘Green light’ for Carrigeen GAA Club
‘Green light’ for Carrigeen GAA Club
Carrigeen GAA Club has received the go-ahead to instigate its ambitious €500,000 development programme to its complex. The forward-thinking club was granted planning permission for the work last December by Kilkenny County Council but the National Roads Authority was unhappy with the new entrance and appealed the...
Hellboy 2
Hellboy 2
In a sequel to the 2004 movie based on Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse comic character Ron Perlman returns as Hellboy, a humanoid creature born ‘in the flames of Hell and brought to Earth as an infant.’ Raised in secret, the adolescent HB becomes an agent for the secret Bureau for Paranormal Research and...