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WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the TV movie options available this week.
We’re giving you three options for this evening because the news will be grim and we know you might need a bit of an escape.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Look, we know it’s not even Halloween yet but we also know there are people who are obsessed with Christmas and who love a festive flick no matter what time of year it is. And this is a classic. Sit back and watch Kevin make absolute fools out of Harry and Marv again – this time in New York.
Double Jeopardy
When her husband fakes his own death and frames her, Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is convicted of murder. When she realises her husband is still alive, she manages to get early release for good behaviour and sets out to track down him down, knowing that she can now actually kill him and get away with it.
Bruce Almighty
TV reporter Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) has a go at God, telling him he’s not doing his job properly. Unsurprisingly it doesn’t go down well and Nolan is offered the chance to show he can to do a better job of it.
Ghostbusters (the reboot)
This reboot of the 1980s comedy franchise stars Melissa McCarthy, Kirsten Wig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. The four women and their assistant start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Yes, it bombed in the box office when it was released, but by Friday you might really need something lighthearted to watch and this at least won’t make you cry.
The Queen’s Gambit
It’s not exactly a movie, but it is a limited series drama so it’s like one very long movie. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess. Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to succeed in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
In the French Riviera, two con men compete to scam a rich woman out of $50,000 using some elaborate (and amusing) tactics. If you have never seen it, it’s a must watch.
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He was homeless not because of policies but because he was a heroin addict.
True joe but the media stories all ignore this
The poor guy had two houses given him which he lost due to heroin. The 170 or so homeless in Dublin (which have 23 charities looking after them btw) would be better served having proper addiction counselling and addition services. Some of those charities are businesses that don’t really want the problem solved.
I was in Vatican once, homeless people everywhere. I mean….
I hope the occupier is not away on holidays !! The poor man did not have a life or a proper death. At peace, hopefully !
44 steps thing is a load of nonsense. The Dail didn’t kill him.
Completely agree. A ridiculous addition.
Do they need planning permission for that plaque?
Have the results of his post mortem been made public? Just wondering if cause of death was released…
Hypothermia seems to be a safe assumption. It was an especially cold night and sleeping outdoors with minimal shelter is such conditions is not to be recommended.
Nice touch, it would have been nicer if he didn’t have to die in the first place but hopefully his death won’t be in vain and the issue of homelessness will be seriously tackled! R.I.P John
16 red thumbs on this comment, wtf??
Some people just need a kick up the hole!!!
Maybe the red thumbers are aware of the fact that this man came from a wealthy family, who bought him two different houses to live in. It’s also clear his family did everything they could to help him conquer his addiction, but sadly he was unable to do so. What exactly could the government have done for this man that his family had not already done? It’s too easy to just blame “the government” for everything. At the end of the day, if people aren’t wiling to accept help, they can’t be helped.
On rte theyve gone from the vote of no confidence in Kenny, to slagging off Sinn fein, to how cheap irish water will be. Im utterly convinced now they are getting their orders from the minister of communications. Jonathan Corrie will be gone from the politicians memories next week. Simply because they have nothing to gain from it
Sad but true Truth, sad isn’t it that they use a dead man to score political points, lowest of the low!
Dead men and dead women. Once theres a vote to be had
Does anyone know what the building is used for, is it a house or a business?
This country is going down the swanny when you see a plaque commemorating a deceased drug addict whose only contribution to society was becoming a political football for the Liberal Left in his death.
I knew a man over 20 yrs ago died of cold on the streets of Dublin … The army where called in to open the closed section of Brendan’s hospital for the homeless . They swore then they would deal with the homeless problem .. They didn’t care as soon as the winter was over nothing was done empty promises … I only hope this time it will be different
Typical. Despite all the warnings, someone had to physically for before the government did something.
Is it not the same with everything in life? Train seat belts will be next!
Podge, could you give some specific examples of what you think the government – or anyone else – could or should have done?
Buy him a house to live in? His family did that – twice – but he sold both houses and ended up back on the streets.
Provide emergency accommodation? “‘Repeated offers of emergency accommodation were provided, however, Mr Corrie did not avail of these, as was his right,’ the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said in a statement”.
Provide healthcare/addiction support? “He wasn’t easy to deal with. For instance, he once said he didn’t want to attend the health clinic because he thought he’d be ordered to stop drinking” according to a homeless support worker.
Short of forcibly removing him from the streets and confining him in an institution, it sounds like not much else could have been done for him. And there would be outrage if we still locked people up just because they are homeless.
There are names of more than a few living politicians and bankers which I would prefer to see as plaques to recently deceased. Our inglorious Taoiseach would have us believe that after a life time in politics, he has just discovered that being homeless is truly miserable!
Well said Tony Daly.
Lets gets real for at least a second. This guy had two houses which he sold and spent it all on drugs and ended up homeless. Well there you go…!! I feel sorry for any homeless person but this guy made his bed.
Done and dusted man.
Regardless of what he had or done no one should judge we all have our own stories an journey. No one is perfect RIP
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