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Published: Tue 10 Oct 2023, 4:45 PM <\/p>\n
This critically acclaimed drama series returns for a fourth season, as the World War II focus shifts to the Mediterranean, where Germanys U-Boats face impossible odds. At home, secrecy and intrigue lurk within their ranks at German Navy Command in Berlin, where a dangerous conspiracy unfolds. <\/p>\n
In this first episode of season three an unforeseen UK environmental disaster causes enormous destruction and loss of life, and the crisis spirals to encompass the governments secret connections to the malignant corruption of the arms industry and the rise of shadowy corporate security firms. <\/p>\n
Mary Lamb Waugh, daughter of renowned painter Charles Lamb, is 90 and blessed with an unquenchable zest for life. Her story is a kaleidoscope of subjects that bookend the emerging nation: feminism, emigration, art, education, sailing the high seas, and a deep and abiding love of Connemara, an affection she carried all her life. <\/p>\n
Lifts the lid to reveal the inner workings of various areas of life in Ireland, the Secrets series takes audiences behind the scenes and into the shoes of some remarkable people. With an access-all-areas approach, these stories take us into the private thoughts of often unsung everyday heroes. <\/p>\n
Sun, Sea and Scalpels follows some of the thousands of Irish people opting to travel abroad for cosmetic surgery, and delves behind their stories to outcomes where many Mummy makeover dreams of whiter teeth, tighter tummies and pert posteriors are fulfilled but also including the traumatic downside where botched work causes some tales of terrible trauma. <\/p>\n
From Steven Spielberg comes a loosely autobiographical drama based on the directors own childhood, which shaped his life and career. Its a universal coming-of-age story about an isolated young mans pursuit of his dreams and artistic ambition. An all-star cast includes Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen. <\/p>\n
This modern take on Cyrano de Bergerac stars Steve Martin as a witty fire chief of a small Pacific Northwest town who, due to his enormous nose, indirectly pursues the girl of his dreams by feeding a colleague the words of love to win her heart. A winning romcom with Daryl Hannah. <\/p>\n
Ben Affleck is a mathematics savant who makes his living as a freelance accountant for some of the worlds most dangerous criminal organisations. But with a Treasury agent hot on his trail, the million dollar secret accounts are in jeopardy as the body count starts to rise. <\/p>\n
Tom Hanks stars in this winning adaptation of one of Stephen Kings most acclaimed novels. He plays a kindly death row chief warder who has walked the final mile with a variety of convicts on their way to the electric chair. Then he meets John Coffey a man possessing a supernatural gift at odds with his supposed guilt as a murderer. <\/p>\n
An all-star Irish cast led by Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle, Adam Scott and Laoise Murray is set around two apparently happy Dublin couples and the deadly ripples into everybodys lives that follow an affair. Written and directed by Mark ORowe, the engaging plot explores modern ideas of love, lust, and family relationships, <\/p>\n
The hilarious antics of Lulu, Frankie and Bruce as they move from Australia to a B&B in an isolated west of Ireland seaside town called Tubbershandy with their parents who happen to be zombies <\/p>\n
Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a new perspective the weird and wonderful patterns covering Earth. The Australian outback is covered in pale spots; a clearing in the Congo rainforest has been created by an elephant gathering; and the twists and turns of the Amazon make a home for rehabilitated manatees. <\/p>\n
Mass UFO sightings from the last 50 years are investigated in this docuseries featuring eyewitness accounts, expert interviews and new evidence. Strange lights over a small town in Texas; submersible space crafts haunting a Welsh coast village; an alien encounter with schoolchildren in Zimbabwe; and non-human intelligence reportedly interfering with a nuclear power plant in Japan. <\/p>\n
A musical comedy-drama film written and directed by John Carney, Flora And Son features original songs by the late, great Gary Clark. Starring Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor and Orn Kinlan, the plot centres on a Dublin single mother trying to keep her rebellious son out of jail by finding an old guitar in a skip discovering one persons rubbish can be another persons salvation. <\/p>\n
Delta Goodrem is a fiercely independent private plane pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat who starts to fall for the man sent by a large corporate rival to ground her operation forever. A watchable romcom whose main appeals are the spectacular locations filmed in Australias Whitsunday islands. <\/p>\n
Brie Larson takes a break from the Marvel franchise to play a disrespected scientist in the early 60s who becomes a TV chef. Despite her skill as a chemist, the male dominated field leads to her sacking. Nurturing a desire for revenge, she becomes a TV cook using her experience to teach housewives more than the kitchen allows. <\/p>\n
Here we are, at that fateful place where Ireland have sadly met the end of the dream down the decades of the Rugby World Cup theyve beaten them before, and whod bet against them repeating the feat? <\/p>\n
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