The Watchlist
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OK, time now for The Watchlist, our guide to the best film and TV for the week ahead. And I'm joined today by arts journalist Zara Hederman and business post film critic John McGuire. Welcome, guys. Hello. Zara, Love Island is back for the summer. We've a bit of local interest as well.
We do. Kirsty, you have one of the most cringe audition tapes I think I've ever seen in my life. I don't know if you saw it, but Sean Fitzgerald, Galway GAA player, his audition tape went viral a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah. He got the result?
What highlights are discussed about Love Island's return?
He got the result. It's about two minutes long, and I struggled so much watching the two minutes, so I can't wait for eight weeks of this lad. Okay. So yeah, coming back 13th season of it, and I think people are a bit more interested in it this year. It had been kind of dropping off a bit, But last season was actually very good. There was a lot of drama in it. And producers are promising to shake things up even further from the first episode.
Given the whole married at first sight drama that's happened recently and allegations of all kinds of welfare issues and everything on it, how come Love Island still keeps going and respectable people are happy to watch it? Because...
and especially with Love Island because you know we've had a few you know deaths from that show as well throughout the years and they have somehow it skates along without being cancelled yeah because I guess the audience it keeps getting younger and younger as well like you know I have a niece who's in her early teens she watches it um and I think people just kind of as glib as it sounds we just like to switch off and watch other people for for eight weeks but yeah no that is definitely a big concern with it okay so it starts on Virgin Media 1 at 9pm tomorrow night uh
John, Spider Noir, all episodes now on Amazon Prime. I'm not really a Marvel person, but this sounds so crazy.
It could be good. After 20 years of Marvel and absolute domination and hegemony at the cinema, you'd think there's nothing more that can be done with superheroes. But what about Nicolas Cage as a middle-aged gumshoe, a kind of a Sam Spade figure, working in 1930s New York at the height of the Great Depression? who goes up against Brendan Gleeson's ruthless Irish bootlegger. He's a gangster, a crime lord, to restore peace to the metropolis. Nobody would have thought of that.
No, and I'm totally there for both those men.
Well, you are. This is it, exactly. And it's shot in black and white, lustrous black and white. It looks absolutely beautiful. You can watch it in a kind of a dot matrix format. four-way colour scheme as well if you like and it's just an homage to that kind of noir the films of the 1930s and the early 1940s so it's kind of cynical it's kind of nihilistic it's kind of dark it's not really for kids the violence is kind of graphic And then you've got Nicolas Cage pulling on his woolly Spider-Man mask and, you know, waves through the skyscrapers. So it looks phenomenal. But the story is what's going to keep you there. And Cage is having the time of his life. Gleeson revels in that kind of juicy bad guy. And there's excellent support all the way through Lucas Haas, Lee John Lee.
Jack Houston is superb in it. It's really good.
Great. Spider Noir, all episodes now on Amazon Prime. Zara, briefly, the classic Irish film The Field is on tonight on RT1 at 9.30 for anyone who hasn't seen it or who wants to watch it again.
Yeah, I actually only saw it for the first time about two months ago and was blown away by this film. Like, I'd obviously heard quite a lot about it. I'd been to Linan where it was filmed. But just Richard Harris as the Bull McCabe is kind of incomparable. He's so magnetic on that performance. And even like Sean Bean as his son, I didn't realise Sean Bean was in that. Another very effective informant, John Hurt as well. I just love how that story, I love John B. Keane as a writer. The Barrel Makers is one of my favourite books of all time. I just love how he like focused on Ireland in that time, 1930s, and also the way it deals with like outside figures within this close-knit.
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