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IF YOU LIKE nothing better than anticipating your next trip to the cinema, then you’re probably already mentally taking stock of what films you can look out for in 2018.
We’ve taken a trawl through the international films due out – big and small – to highlight some for you. While not all will get the big cinema release, they’re worth getting excited about seeing (and discussing afterwards).
What happens when the world runs out of space? Everyone gets, well, smaller. Matt Damon stars as a man who decides with his wife (Kirsten Wiig) to ‘downsize’ and live their best life in Leisureland.
The next Marvel superhero film, this one is set after Captain America: Civil War, and is set in the African nation of Wakanda. With a heap of big names (Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker) and an incredible look, this is one to look forward to.
Based on the book by Jason Matthews, Jennifer Lawrence stars as a spy who’s trained ‘to use her body as a weapon’. Sounds a little bit objectifying to us, but let’s see what we make of this spy film.
The children’s book this is based on is an absolute classic, and with Ava Duvernay at the helm, hopes are high that this will be a stunning film. Starring Oprah, Mindy Kaling and Gugu Mbatha-Raw amongst others, it tells the story of a girl’s journey to find her missing father.
This Steven Spielberg adaptation of the science fiction book by Ernest Cline is due out in March. Set in 2044, it’s based in a world where people escape the desolation around them by escaping into a virtual reality world called Oasis.
Our own Saoirse Ronan stars in this highly-anticipated Greta Gerwig-directed film about a mother and daughter’s relationship. We can’t wait to watch this in full.
This is a remake of the 1937 film (the other remakes were in 1954 and 1976, the latter starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson) and is directed by Bradley Cooper. While there were initial talks about Beyoncé starring, Lady Gaga (billed as Stefani Germanotta) stars in the lead role as singer Ally.
Han Solo gets his own film in this, a standalone movie all about the young Hans, and directed by Ron Howard.
The next installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, it again stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and some more familiar faces. Expect dinosaurs.
The Little Stranger
No trailer yet, but this is based on the Sarah Waters novel and directed by one Lenny Abrahamson. It’s about a doctor who’s called to the great house where his mother once worked: “But it is now in decline and its inhabitants – mother, son and daughter – are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.”
In the wake of the Weinstein revelations, it will be an interesting year for films made by the Weinstein Company. This is a religious epic about the biblical character, and is directed by Garth Davis. Stars Rooney Mara (as Mary Magdalene) and Joaquin Phoenix (as Jesus).
The all-female Ocean’s film that we’ve all been waiting for is here – with Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett and more starring in it.
A horror starring and directed by John Krasinski, alongside his wife Emily Blunt. A family is forced to live a life of silence and communicate using sign language in order to avoid dark supernatural forces.
A couple decides to take Game Night to the next level – but what’s real and what’s fake?
Taraji P Henson stars as a hitwoman working for a family in Boston – but after a hit goes bad, she crosses the path of a young boy and things change for her.
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I’m counting at least three UFOs in the picture…
They’re here… and not a moment too soon…
If you have identified them are they still technicaly ufos
I only spotted them, still don’t know what they are; ergo UFOs…
I can only see two ufos and a smudge
I’m certain the smudge is swamp gas tho
Up above the streets and houses
Rainbow flying high
Everyone can see it smiling — over the sky.
Thanks Jazz, now the rainbow theme tune is stuck in my head. Paint the whole world with a RAINBOW
Sorry Bungle.
Quick get the pot of gold
Looks like it’s coming from Berties house.
Some great views from the Ulster bank building all the same.
Buildings
Go jump off one ;)
Keaneland. Thats the custom house building. Not the 4 courts.
Anyone know why some rainbows appear flattened? Is it to do with the shape of the raindrops?
Nice symbolic image for litigious Ireland, there is always a croc of gold to be found in the courts.
Rainbow coming from Berties house.
First I thought u were talking about the big UFO shaped cloud on the left but then saw the 3 shapes, is it just a blurry pic?
Yes, it really is magical. So magical that even though it was taken on May 23, 2015 (the day the result of Ireland’s Marriage Equality Referendum was announced), not only did it travel all round the world to places as far away as America, where it was seen as proof that Nature and/or ‘god’ approved of the result (see here at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/23/1387196/-Best-photo-on-the-Internets-today ), but it somehow also got magically teleported by Time Machine all the way back to The Journal in October 2013. Strange and mysterious indeed are the ways of The Great Joker in the Sky :)
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