Daily Archives: December 14, 2009

Awards Season Begins

  By Niall | December 14, 2009 - 1:22 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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December is the traditional beginning of Awards season for Hollywood and we’ve already found out who the nominees shall be for the 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards. Sure it’s not the Oscars or even the Golden Globes but it’s a good indication of what we should expect when those two list come out. Ireland is represented in the list of nominees by Saoirse Ronan, the 15 year-old, Carlow born, actress who is starring in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. Previously nominated for an Oscar at age 11 for Atonement, the 7th youngest Best-Supporting Actress nominee ever, she has a chance in two categories at the Critics Choice Awards, having been nominated for Best Young Actor/Actress and Best Actress. Brendan Gleeson starrer Into the Storm is nominated for Best Picture Made For Television but that’s it in regards to Irish nominees.

History has been made….

  By NaRocRoc | December 14, 2009 - 12:51 pm | The Culch
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He’s taken more bangs than Tiger Woods and Silvio Berlusconi combined. With more fight than Paul Gogarty. And more personality than Ryan Giggs (wouldn’t be hard in fairness). Forget about the Apprentice and the X Factor. The real story of today ladies and gentlemen, the only story, is this…. An Irishman is the new WWE champion!!! Recently I wrote about Cabra born Sheamus O’Shaunessy on these very pages. And now the man known as both the Celtic Warrior and the Irish Superstar has turned the tables (literally) and reached the peaks of the mega sports entertainment industry that is the WWE. In a match of “bone-crushing blows” that has stunned the WWE Universe SOS overcame the former champion John Cena in a tables and ladders matchup. He has now become one of the fastest rising Superstars to earn the WWE Title in WWE history. Cena and Sheamus delivered a battle … There’s more →

Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.12

  By Niall | December 14, 2009 - 9:12 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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We’re past the half-way stage in this countdown and we’re getting down to the nitty-gritty. Each one of the movies left is cinema at it’s absolute finest. Today brings us to another of the movies to score big nominations in the last Oscar ceremony. A monumental story and a superb film it absolutely deserves inclusion in my list. The 12th best movie of 2009 is…