August 6th, 2010
There’s a good chance that the potato has gone mouldy after sitting, neglected, on the couch for the last few weeks. Time then to open up the windows, let out the smell and crack on with a brand new spud in its place. To make up for this neglect I am going to run down [...]
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July 23rd, 2010
Tron: Legacy is going to be great. Yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con Disney showed 8 minutes of footage from Tron: Legacy the sequel to the 1982 classic sci-fi adventure Tron. For those of us not lucky enough to have been their they have appeased our hunger for more information by releasing a new two and [...]
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July 8th, 2010
Good news Gleeks, your favourite show has just picked up 19 nominations for this years Emmy Awards! Leading the pack is The Pacific, HBO’s brilliant mini-series depicting the battles in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Glee is second with 19 and last year’s big winner Mad Men is in third with 17. On [...]
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June 17th, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is going to be be the biggest, most bad-ass, just plain best movie in the history of the world ever! Well maybe not quite but it should be pretty damn good. Further evidence of the magnitude of it’s awesomeness is on display today in a brand new international trailer which HeyUGuys [...]
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May 31st, 2010
After an exhausting vote Screen Cinema, D’Olier St., Dublin 2 has finally unveiled the winner of its viewers choice poll ‘Play it again, Sam’, which allowed cinema-goers the chance to vote their favourite classic back onto the big screen. The choices ranged from cult classics like Troll 2, through proper old-school movies like The Great [...]
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May 20th, 2010
Well now you can! Random trawling of the internet has uncovered this exotic gem, of a young man with an uncanny ability to mimic Sir Ian McKellan reciting the lyrics to the theme of Will Smith’s infamous TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This is simply beyond hyperbole. He does get a few [...]
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May 14th, 2010
Bollywood is coming to Dublin with the capital set to host the first Indian Film Festival. The festival is scheduled to run from June 25th to 28th and will open with a gala screening of renowned Indian director Prakash Jha’s latest film Raajneeti, at Swan Cinemas in Rathmines. The opening festivities will feature a charity [...]
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May 13th, 2010
Robin Hood is one of those enduring characters of English legend. His cunning, his daring, his leadership and friendship and of course his love affair with the fair Maid Marion is a story that has survived retelling for hundreds of years. Such a story and such a man is ideal for Hollywood film-makers in search [...]
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April 27th, 2010
Do you like rugby? Are you free this weekend? Can you get to Cork? If you’ve answered yes to the questions above then you’re in for a treat, as this May Bank Holiday weekend the rebel county plays host to Ireland’s foremost rugby sevens competition, the 2010 Heineken Kinsale Seven’s.
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April 21st, 2010
Rightio! Couch Potato is back like the proverbial bad penny (I know you’ve missed it), and is just as jam-packed full of shiny disc wonder as it’s always been. This glorious sunny weather just can’t last and when it inevitably ends it’s nice to know that there’s something good on TV that you can tune [...]
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April 14th, 2010
So Joss Whedon is going to be directing The Avengers…that should make me happy right? I mean here is creator of two of my favourite shows (Buffy and Firefly) getting the chance to helm a mega-budget blockbuster movie. Not only that, but it’s a comic-book movie, an area Whedon is infinitely familiar with having penned [...]
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April 13th, 2010
Ramping up the anticipation level for a summer release? Well look no further than Paramount Pictures and Marvel whose new interactive trailer for Iron Man 2 sets a new bar for killer marketing. This new interactive trailer contains certain highlights from the original feature trailer and allows you to click on embedded hotspots in order [...]
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March 28th, 2010
I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, and while the last trailer for the upcoming Steven Moffat and Matt Smith led season left me a little underwhelmed this new clip has made just that little bit more excited. Showing what is reported to be the opening 43 seconds of the first episode it sees an out [...]
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March 17th, 2010
An chéad, mé leithscéal as mo caighdeán Gaeilge. Nach bhfuil mé scríofa sa sean-teanga ó mo Ardteistiméireacht, agus fiú ansin nach raibh mé ag maith é. D’iarr mé mo láithreán gréasáin Scannáin.com, mar sin tá sé sábháilte a rá go maith liom scannáin. Is maith liom go bhfuil Éire ar stair mhaith de scannán a [...]
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March 12th, 2010
Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action = Great films + Box office gold. Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action + Iraq? Well that could be a little more tricky. By and large Iraq war movies have failed miserably at the box office, this despite the fact that most have been really rather good. [...]
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