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WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the TV movie options available this week.
Happy Gilmore
Adam Sandler plays an unsuccessful ice hockey player who discovers he’s incredibly good at golf.
Room
Based on the book by Emma Donoghue, Room tells the story of 5-year-old Jack and his mother – played by Brie Larson – who has been kept captive in a 10 foot by 10 foot room for seven years. It starts off very grim, but stick with it.
27 Dresses
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, Jane (Katherine Heigl) finds herself being asked to put on her 28th bridesmaid dress as her sister announces she’s marrying a man Jane is secretly in love with. What could go wrong?
The Butcher Boy
This dark Irish comedy centres on 12-year-old Francie Brady, a boy who retreats into a violent fantasy world to escape from his family’s dysfunctionality. As he loses his grip on reality the boy begins to lash out.
The Adventures of Tintin
A Spielberg animated adventure based on Herge’s comic series. Tintin the intrepid reporter heads off on a treasure hint for a sunken ship.
Johnny English Strikes Again
The original movie wasn’t a massive barrel of laughs (and we love Rowan Atkinson!) so you won’t be surprised to hear the 2018 sequel, which was recently added to Netflix, is also unlikely to deliver the kinds of laughs you need to forget for a moment you’re living through a global pandemic.
Also scrap the USC scam for all workers.
@der Fussballmeister: also VRT with fuel taxes.
An extra thirty cent an hour but yet the prices of diesel and household bills has gone up months ago, how does this help anyone?
@LFC_MAD94: it doesn’t because sometimes the idea isn’t to help but to milk as much out of you as possible!
Its a really high minimum wage relatively speaking but when the cost of living is going up by the week then it really doesn’t matter. After MUP kicked in we have to work the longest time in the EU to earn our cans. Its just not enough to live on this island.
Instead of heaping more hardship on people through the illusion of mandated pay rises, our government should be looking at it’s role in why your €uro buys feck all. Consistently rising wages damages competitiveness and hurts job creation.
Rent inflation alone in the privatised sector is “rising at an annual rate of 6.8 per cent” — https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/rent-inflation-surges-to-6-8-amid-unprecedented-shortage-of-homes-1.4724045
That’s not including high increases in Household Bills, or Cost of Living bills.
Meaning that your salary suffers from a negative salary growth (ie. a big pay cut yearly).
Why post the same story twice
@Mick Dunne: to be sure, to be sure :)…… I’ll get my coat…..
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