Rory Cashin

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Entertainment Editor at JOE.ie, Lovin Dublin, and Lovin.ie. Professional lover of all things movies, TV, games, music, books, food, travel, tech and ..... did I say movies?

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  • Fast & Furious 10 director steps down after just a week of filming

    Fast & Furious 10 director steps down after just a week of filming

    The internet is currently abuzz with speculation on who might replace him Universal has been hit with a major movie setback as Fast & Furious 10 director Justin Lin, a long-time figure of the franchise, has stepped down after barely a week of filming. It was just a few days ago that we reported Vin […]

    4 years ago

  • The Northman contains one of the best action sequences in years

    The Northman contains one of the best action sequences in years

    The movie’s stars and director tell us how the epic, massively complicated scene came together. It all kicks off with a spear throw. A group of pillaging Vikings are hiding in the trees outside a settlement when they are suddenly spotted by a guard on the wall. He throws a spear at them, but it […]

    4 years ago

  • Netflix has just made its first ever adults-only movie

    Netflix has just made its first ever adults-only movie

    We imagine this movie is going to get A LOT of people talking… Believe it or not, it has only been seven years since Netflix began making its own original movies. It kicked off in 2015 with Beasts Of No Nation and ever since then, it has managed to create a very eclectic menu for […]

    4 years ago

  • Warner Bros. is opening a real-life interactive Arkham Asylum in 2022

    Warner Bros. is opening a real-life interactive Arkham Asylum in 2022

    Batman fans won’t have far to travel to check it out Fans of The Dark Knight are about to be very excited, as there is a real-life Arkham Asylum opening in London in autumn of 2022. The infamous institution for the criminally insane – which featured in Batman Forever, Batman & Robin and (obviously) the […]

    4 years ago

  • Sky One will be replaced on our TVs in under a week after 40 years

    Sky One will be replaced on our TVs in under a week after 40 years

    Sky has revealed what to expect on its new channel when it launches in September. Initially launched as Sky Television in 1982, before being renamed as Sky Channel in 1984, and finally Sky 1 in 1996 (and then rebranded again, kinda, as Sky One in 2017), the longest-running non-terrestrial channel in the UK and Ireland […]

    4 years ago

  • Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show to cost $465 million for one season

    Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show to cost $465 million for one season

    That isn’t including the quarter of a billion they spent buying the rights to the show It was over three years ago when we first reported that Amazon Prime Video had spent $250 million (in US currency) on the rights to The Lord of the Rings, with the intention of creating a new series that […]

    5 years ago

  • The first trailer for the new Aliens video game has arrived

    The first trailer for the new Aliens video game has arrived

    They mostly come on PS5. Mostly Video games based on the Aliens movies can be extremely hit or miss. For every absolute must-play like Alien: Isolation, we get something like Aliens: Colonial Marines, which should have every copy put into an air-lock and blown out into space. With the arrival of the first trailer for […]

    5 years ago

  • Where to stream all of the 2021 Golden Globes-winning movies and TV

    Where to stream all of the 2021 Golden Globes-winning movies and TV

    Almost all of Sunday night’s big winners are available to watch at home right now The 78th Annual Golden Globes Awards took place on Sunday night, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-hosting from two different sides of America, all to celebrate a very different year of TV and movies. While 99% of the big […]

    5 years ago

  • These are the free games coming to PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold in March

    These are the free games coming to PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold in March

    This is what we’re all going to be playing for the next month or so Everything month, those subscribing to the console online game services – the PS Plus and the Xbox Live Gold/Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – get access to a number of free games, and both consoles have announced what players can expect […]

    5 years ago

  • Star launches on Disney+ today, here is the very first thing you need to do

    Star launches on Disney+ today, here is the very first thing you need to do

    You’ll need to do one quick thing to access all of the new sweet content Today is the day, folks. While we’ve all made the same joke about ‘completing Netflix’ over the last year or so, you’ll be very happy to hear that today brings a tsunami of new content to consume over the coming […]

    5 years ago

  • 10 years on, the ultimate example of Great Trailer/Terrible Movie has yet to be topped

    10 years on, the ultimate example of Great Trailer/Terrible Movie has yet to be topped

    The trailer was amazing. The movie was amazingly bad Released in cinemas in early March 2011, there was a lot of excitement around Battle: Los Angeles. It had a great young (at the time) cast, including Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Bridget Moynahan and… eh… Ne-Yo. It had an up-and-coming director in Jonathan Liebesman and […]

    5 years ago

  • WandaVision Episode 7 answers two of the show’s biggest mysteries

    WandaVision Episode 7 answers two of the show’s biggest mysteries

    WandaVision goes full creepy horror, and make sure to stick around for the post-credits scene! We shouldn’t really have to warn about WandaVision spoilers here, because everyone should know better by now, but just in case: Spoilers below for Episode 7 and all previous episodes of WandaVision. Moving on. Holy moly. We’ve only got two […]

    5 years ago

  • Wednesday Addams is getting her own Netflix series

    Wednesday Addams is getting her own Netflix series

    The dryly murderous teen girl Wednesday Addams is getting her own series on Netflix, and all to be directed by the legendary (and most perfect fit imaginable) Tim Burton. Netflix announced the new show is on the way, with their press release as follows: “Netflix and MGM/UA are thrilled to announce the new live-action coming-of-age […]

    5 years ago

  • WATCH: The new Mortal Kombat movie goes all in on the fatalities

    WATCH: The new Mortal Kombat movie goes all in on the fatalities

    “GET OVER HERE!” It has been over a quarter of a century since the previous big screen attempt at a Mortal Kombat movie, and while that adaptation wasn’t an out-and-out critical dumpster fire (48% on Rotten Tomatoes), it was a decent box office hit ($122 million on an $18 million budget), and is still considered […]

    5 years ago

  • All seven seasons of The Golden Girls are coming to Disney+

    All seven seasons of The Golden Girls are coming to Disney+

    “Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidante…” This morning Disney hosted an online press conference for the soon-to-launch Star, the new brand coming to Disney+ on Tuesday, February 23rd. Disney had already revealed a number of classic shows coming to the Star brand at launch, but part of today’s press conference focused on […]

    5 years ago

  • 20 of the best documentaries you can watch at home right now

    20 of the best documentaries you can watch at home right now

    If you’re in the mood for a gripping true story, then look no further Thanks to series like Tiger King and Making A Murderer, gorging on documentaries has become as commonplace as enjoying a blockbuster. But if you’re looking for some of the very best documentaries you can check out at home, then look no […]

    5 years ago

  • The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel review: Netflix’s new docu-series overlooks the bigger mystery

    The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel review: Netflix’s new docu-series overlooks the bigger mystery

    The four-part mystery documentary arrives on Netflix this week Oscar-nominated director Joe Berlinger has been behind some absolutely brilliant true-crime documentaries, including the still-talked-about Paradise Lost trilogy. However, he has also tried his hand at dramatic movie making, with 2019’s exceedingly mediocre Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, with Zac Efron as Ted Bundy (in […]

    5 years ago

  • Five things we definitely do not want to see in the new Harry Potter TV series

    Five things we definitely do not want to see in the new Harry Potter TV series

    Our patronus is in the shape of a scriptwriter. As reported earlier this week, HBO and Warner Brothers are in early development of a new Harry Potter TV show, with no writers or cast are currently attached, and no details on how it could fit into the Harry Potter timeline. There have been meetings with […]

    5 years ago

  • Family Guy creator in talks to reboot The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson

    Family Guy creator in talks to reboot The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson

    “It’ll either finish my career or bring it in another direction” While a lot of film fans will attribute Liam Neeson’s action movie career redirection to Taken in 2008, it’s much more likely it was instigated by Batman Begins in 2005. Since then, it feels like he’s been in a million action movies, but in […]

    5 years ago

  • QUIZ: How well do you know the Grand Theft Auto games?

    QUIZ: How well do you know the Grand Theft Auto games?

    GTA fans should be getting at least eight of these correct Grand Theft Auto has been a part of the gaming landscape for a long time now, but it has also been quite a few years since the last GTA game was released. Sure, we’ve had spiritual cousin Red Dead Redemption II to tide us […]

    5 years ago

  • Disney to begin work on a Marvel Land at their theme parks

    Disney to begin work on a Marvel Land at their theme parks

    Can’t wait to visit Wakanda Despite only opening in May, the new Star Wars-themed Galaxy’s Edge area at Disney World in California is already hugely popular, and a similar attraction is set to open in Florida this August. So following in their money-making footsteps, The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Disney is now gearing up to make […]

    7 years ago

  • Here is what all the major stars of Game Of Thrones are doing next

    Here is what all the major stars of Game Of Thrones are doing next

    Unsurprisingly, none of them have any big TV projects on their upcoming CVs… It is all too easy to be typecast when you’re part of a show that is hugely popular, and viewers only want to see you in that one thing. Sure, it is possible to sometimes break free of that curse (Idris Elba […]

    7 years ago

  • Netflix have confirmed that Russian Doll Season 2 is on the way

    Netflix have confirmed that Russian Doll Season 2 is on the way

    Fantastic news for fans of one of the best new comedy shows around If you haven’t watched it yet, then stop what you’re doing – even if that means you’re in work or college or whatever – and switch on Russian Doll right now. It is a brilliant, inventive, hilarious, and powerful comedy drama, one […]

    7 years ago

  • The big theory about Star Wars: Episode IX has been officially completely shut down

    The big theory about Star Wars: Episode IX has been officially completely shut down

    Well. That’s that then. Cast your mind back to Episode XIII: The Last Jedi. Yes, we know, for half of you, that brings happiness and joy, and the other half are immediately overwhelmed by tremendous disappointment. Deal with it, we’ve got a story to tell. So you’ll remember when Kylo Ren told Rey that she […]

    7 years ago

  • Leo DiCaprio’s new global warming documentary actually gives us some hope

    Leo DiCaprio’s new global warming documentary actually gives us some hope

    Another must-watch from the Oscar-winner. Back in 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio was executive producer and narrator on National Geographic’s powerful documentary Before The Flood, which focused on the worldwide impact that global warming has had so far, and the terrifying future it holds for all of us. Since then, DiCaprio has been busy with his acting […]

    7 years ago

  • It sounds like Stallone is done with Creed, but not done with Rocky

    It sounds like Stallone is done with Creed, but not done with Rocky

    We could be getting another spin-off with another new fighter The two Creed movies have made almost $400 million at the worldwide box office, along with huge critical acclaim, amassing their own die-hard fan-bases. Across both of the movies, which focused on Michael B. Jordan’s young fighter with Sly Stallone’s aging trainer, viewers expected Rocky […]

    7 years ago

  • HBO boss kills off any hope of an Arya spin-off

    HBO boss kills off any hope of an Arya spin-off

    But he does give an idea of when we can expect to see the first of the Game Of Thrones prequel shows One of the best jokes we’ve heard since the finale aired is directly related to the future of fan-favourite Arya. “What is west of Westeros? The resteros.” Now that Arya has decided to […]

    7 years ago

  • WATCH: The first trailer for HBO’s His Dark Materials is finally here

    WATCH: The first trailer for HBO’s His Dark Materials is finally here

    If anything can fill that epic fantasy void left behind by Game Of Thrones, it’ll be this. If you didn’t already know, the His Dark Materials Trilogy is one of the best series of books of the last two decades or so, and we really can’t recommend enough that you give them a read. We’ll […]

    7 years ago

  • Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has died aged 74

    Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has died aged 74

    He played Chewbacca in five of the Star Wars movies In a statement released by his family, it was announced late on Thursday evening that 74-year-old actor Peter Mayhew had passed away in his home on Tuesday 30 April. Mayhew was best known for playing the role of Chewbacca in the original Star Wars Trilogy, […]

    7 years ago

  • Superstar gymnast Katelyn Ohashi performs her final college championship routine

    Superstar gymnast Katelyn Ohashi performs her final college championship routine

    Yep, it is another absolute jaw-dropper of a performance If you’ve never heard of 21-year-old Katelyn Ohashi, there is probably still a chance that you’ve seen one of her performances in the last few months. Earlier this year, she performed at the Under Armor’s 2019 Collegiate Challenge, and she found that her routine had gone viral within […]

    7 years ago

  • Two teenagers arrested in connection with killing of journalist Lyra McKee

    Two teenagers arrested in connection with killing of journalist Lyra McKee

    The men are reportedly aged 18 and 19 years old 29-year-old Lyra McKee was shot dead following an outbreak of orchestrated violence in the Fanad Drive area of Creggan in Derry on the night of Thursday 18 April. It had previously been believed that McKee was wounded by gunshots fired by a single gunman – whom […]

    7 years ago

  • The original Jurassic Park Trilogy has been added to Netflix

    The original Jurassic Park Trilogy has been added to Netflix

    The dinosaurs are loose on Netflix… Released in 1993, 1997, and 2001 respectively, the original Jurassic Park trilogy were must-see blockbusters back in the day, and fans will be very happy to know that they’ve all been added to Netflix as of Tuesday 16 April. While, obviously, the original is still the best (even with […]

    7 years ago

  • No less than six of the Avengers are getting their own spin-off TV shows

    No less than six of the Avengers are getting their own spin-off TV shows

    All of the original actors will be staying for their roles, too On Thursday evening, Disney gave a select few people an early look at their new Netflix competitor, Disney+, which is set to be released worldwide before the end of 2019. On top of their back catalogue of animated movies, Pixar movies, live-action movies, […]

    7 years ago

  • Michael Jackson’s family defends him in new documentary Neverland Firsthand

    Michael Jackson’s family defends him in new documentary Neverland Firsthand

    Jackson’s niece refers to her ex-boyfriend Wade Robson as “an opportunist” Ever since HBO’s documentary Leaving Neverland aired a few months back, the reactions have continued to be felt, from the follow-up hour-long interview hosted by Oprah Winfrey, to the effect that the documentary has had on Jackson’s album sales. The latest addition to the […]

    7 years ago

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