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Oscars 2025: we predict this year’s winners

01.02.2025 20

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David Roy

Noise Annoys: Swervedriver pump up the volume, plus Stendhal Festival seeks local talent for 15th anniversary line-up

25.01.2025 50

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2025’s top 10 movies, from Mission: Impossible 8 to 28 Years Later - and when you can see them

11.01.2025 10

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10 film favourites from 2024 and how to catch up with them over Christmas

Gladiator II (15, 148mins) Starring: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Tim McInnerny....

21.12.2024 5

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Turbo boost: New Renault 5 Turbo 3E will have 500bhp on tap

“THIS has your name all over it,” advised Drive boss Will Scholes as he forwarded an email announcing that the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, a 500bhp race-...

19.12.2024 3

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Noise Annoys: Pity the fool who misses Foo Laa Fest in Belfast, eight great Irish alternative bands on one brilliant bill

WITH less than a month to go until Christmas, now is the perfect time to keep on completely ignoring the ‘festive season’ until December is well...

30.11.2024 4

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Road test: The new MG Cyberster GT will drive you beeping crazy

WE’RE big fans of the ‘reborn’ MG here at Drive Towers, with the MG4 EV being one of our favourite cars of recent times – electric or...

21.11.2024 3

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Gladiator II: You will be entertained again by Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and co

IT’S been 24 years since Roman general turned unwilling gladiator, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) finally exacted deadly, sword-based...

11.11.2024 2

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Saoirse Ronan shines in Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ - lavish wartime family drama reviewed

OSCAR-winning writer/director Steve McQueen recreates Second World War-era London for a compelling family-friendly story centred on the...

06.11.2024 2

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David Roy