Best Movies on Netflix Ireland

AFTER MANY FILMS WERE POSTPONED DURING THE PANDEMIC, 2022 SHOULD SEE THE RELEASE OF MANY MUCH-ANTICIPATED FLICKS

Something a little like normality reasserted itself in the later stages of 2021, but the studios were still nudging big releases backwards and forwards (mostly backwards). This is the third year running in which we have predicted the arrival of Top Gun: Maverick in the summer. We can say with some confidence that, unless there is some sort of worldwide pandemic (as if), the Tom Cruise vehicle should finally arrive in cinemas. As ever, we have with later releases, had to read entrails and make with the voodoo. One or two of the potential awards-season titles listed below may end up with European releases at the start of 2023 or, if post-production delays nag, get their whole campaigns shifted by 12 months. The odd potentially tasty project may be finished earlier than feared. But we have, for now, given up on Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest. The director’s long-awaited follow up to Under the Skin is taking on the character of a great white whale.

Aisha
One of the year’s most anticipated Irish films sees Frank Berry, director of Michael Inside, investigate the direct provision system. Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor are among the cast. (No release date)

Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
Sequel to one of the silliest – yet most entertaining – of the DC superhero romps. Amber Heard and Jason Momoa are both back among the coral. (December 16th)

Avatar 2
Thirteen years after James Cameron’s science-fiction became the highest grossing film ever, we finally get the first of several sequels. You’re sceptical? Never bet against Cameron. (December 16th)

Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s saga of Hollywood’s early years stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Katherine Waterston. In the ether for a while. Surely will be ready this year. (December 25th in the US)

The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh’s first feature after his Oscar triumph with Three Billboards… stars Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan in a drama shot on Inishmore and Achill. (No release date)

The Batman
Yeah, yeah, apparently this is really “dark”. Matt Reeves directs Robert Pattinson as some crime fighter or other. (March 4th)

Thor: Love and Thunder
Taika Waititi, who directed the delightfully antic Taika Waititi, is back with a film that is allegedly set to have Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster take over the hammer. Works for me. (July 8th)

Top Gun: Maverick
You probably had your own hair when they shot this. The blockbuster most kicked around by Covid finally reaches us. (May 27th)

Turning Red
Domee Shi, winner of an Oscar for the short Bao, becomes the first woman to direct a Pixar flick on her own with this promising fable concerning a girl who periodically transforms into a red panda. (March 11th)