A Pitch Perfect performance from the Bellas again

Praise is high for the third instalment of the successful film franchise Pitch Perfect.

The third glimpse into the life of Beca, Fat Amy, Emily, Chloe, Aubrey, and the rest of the Bellas follows the a capella group postcolleg. After their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.

Not only is the third instalment of the successful film franchise highly entertaining – but also highly unusual for Hollywood.

Seeing an all-female ensemble cast in a storyline where the main objective isn’t finding a boyfriend is something you don’t often see.

Which is perhaps why the movies have become so popular.

“I distinctly remember seeing the first one in the cinema and just feeling so great afterwards,” says Hailee Steinfeld, who joined the cast in Pitch Perfect 2 and reprises her role in the third.

“I loved every minute of it, loved the musical aspect, I thought the relationships within the movie were so interesting and fun. I remember thinking if there’s ever a movie like this I have to be a part of it.”

Read more on the Pitch Perfect movies in this article from the BBC

THE LAST JEDI FULFILS ITS DESTINY AT THE IRISH BOX OFFICE

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has opened with over €2.3M in its four day opening weekend in Ireland.  This is the widest Disney cinema release of all time in Ireland and the four day takings match the phenomenal box office 4 day GBO Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With this ‘porgtastic’ opening, Disney now holds the #1 and #2 four day opening weekends in Ireland in 2017 as Star Wars: The Last Jedi joins Beauty & The Beast in these 2 top spots.

The film, which has opened to global praise from critics, has taken over $450M globally ($230M Internationally and an estimated $220M in the US). This makes it the second biggest opening of all time in America only behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“Delivers on the promise and the hope” Entertainment.ie

“A throwback to when event cinema was big and exciting” Spin 1038

“Fans will be left with an immense feeling of satisfaction” Geekireland.com

“JJ Abrams has his work cut out after the jaw-drops here” RTE

“A blazing triumph”Movies+

In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past. The film stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman. J.J. Abrams, Tom Karnowski and Jason McGatlin are the executive producers.

The dramatic coastal scenery of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way has been wowing audiences since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi – the location scouts were so taken with Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way that key locations in counties Cork, Kerry, Clare and Donegal were handpicked to represent the planet Ahch-to in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Brigsby Bear… Soft and fluffy?

Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James’s life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.

Sink into the soft and fluffy arms of Kyle Mooney’s writing debut. In Brigsby Bear, the Saturday Night Live comedian lasts himself as James, a bunker-dwelling geek who one day discovers his whole world is a lie.

Reintroduced to reality, all he wants to do is re-create Brigsby Bear, a TV series designed by his fake dad, Ted (Mark Hamill), to improve James’s grasp on theoretical maths so he can become a genius and solve a fiendishly tricky problem called “the Vansmithe conjecture”.

James’s cathartic, DIY film-making project gets off the ground thanks to his black best friend… read more from the Evening Standard

The Countdown is on for the arrival of the latest Star Wars movie

As the excitement builds for the release of the latest in the Star wars movie, The Last Jedi, we take a look at everything that we know happened since the Return of the Jedi over 30 years ago…

There’s still so much left undiscovered—especially thanks to the fact that much of the information released so far falls into two camps: The period immediately after Return of the Jedi, chronicling the continued fall of the Empire, and the events which set up the galaxy we see in The Force Awakens, over a handful of years before the events of the movie.

But if you’ve not been keeping up with the utter behemoth that’s the tie-in universe of Star Wars media, there’s an awful lot to dig through. Here’s everything you need to know about the major events of Star Wars’ post-Return of the Jedi history, as well the source material that covered those events, in case you want to explore them for yourselves.

James Whitbrook of io9 Gizmodo give us a detailed timeline that will have you right up to speed in time for Star Wars: The Last Jedi arriving on our screens…

For simplicity’s sake, we’ll be using the standard Star Wars “BBY/ABY” calendar, which simply refers to “Before the Battle of Yavin/After the Battle of Yavin”—a.k.a the events of A New Hope. Return of the Jedi is set four years after A New Hope, so it took place in 4 ABY, The Force Awakens occurred in 34 ABY, and so on…. read more