A new international trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road has been unveiled, take a look here.
Tom Hardy stars in the titular role, with Charlize Theron playing Imperator Furiosa, while Nicholas Hoult, Riley Keogh, Zoe Kravitz and model Rosie Hungtington-Whiteley have supporting roles.
George Miller, who directed the three original Mad Max movies, is back in the director's chair for the reboot.
Mad Max: Fury Road hits cinemas on May 15.
Telly review show Gogglebox (9.00pm, Channel 4) is back, there's a live episode of EastEnders (7.30pm, RTÉ One/BBC One), while Bear Grylls: Mission Survive (9.00pm, UTV) brings eight celebs on a rainforest adventure
Gogglebox, 9.00pm, Channel 4
One of the most enjoyable shows in recent years, Gogglebox returns for a new run and the return of many familiar couch potatoes. Often hilariously opinionated TV viewers never short of a word or 12, they share their sharp, insightful, passionate and sometimes emotional critiques of the week's biggest and best shows. Who knew that watching other people watching telly could be so much fun?
EastEnders, 7.30pm, RTÉ One/BBC One
Now this is pretty much unmissable. The culmination of the UK soap's 30th anniversary comes in the shape of this live episode, which should add more than a little electricity to what will be a very exciting evening on Albert Square. With the truth about Lucy's killer now out, certain residents must face the brutal truth about her death. And as other secrets and revelations come to light, will things ever be the same for the residents of Albert Square?
Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, 9.00pm, UTV
Dubliner Vogue Williams is among the eight celebrities who face a 12-day survival mission unlike anything they've ever experienced before. To stay alive they must learn to navigate difficult terrain, build shelter, make fire and eat food that nature provides. And it all takes place in a rainforest in Costa Rica, no less. From abseiling down ferocious waterfalls, crossing perilous rapids, trudging through swamps and eating rats and scorpions; this promises to be quite an epic adventure for all involved.
It kind of had to happen - Sesame Street's Big Bird has made a parody of Michael Keaton's comeback movie, Birdman.
The Watercooler and Sesame Street joined forces to create Big Birdman.
The parody features the incomparable Caroll Spinney, the man who has been playing Big Bird on Sesame Street for over 45 years.
Best line? 'How did we get here? How did we get to Sesame Street?'
Here it is in all its yellow-feathered glory:
Going to the flicks? Read our reviews of new and just released movies here.
Cake
Director: Daniel Barnz
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Lucy Punch, Felicity Huffman, Mamie Gummer, Chris Messina, Sam Worthington, William H Macy
****
15A
A long way from Central Perk
After a decade going global as Rachel in Friends, another decade starring in rom-coms of varying irritability, which adds to 20 years a-tabloiding, she also wants to be taken seriously as an actor.
And, despite an occasionally manipulative script, she pretty much pulls it off in this entertaining look at a damaged woman suffering physical and mental scars in the wake of a family tragedy.
Claire Bennett is an LA divorcee hooked on painkillers and pretty angry with the world . . .
Read John Byrne's full review here
The Wedding Ringer
**
Starring: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting
15A
Chalk-and-cheese guys
Despite the best efforts of its two likeable leading men, Kevin Hart and Josh Gad, The Wedding Ringer disappoints by failing to deliver any genuine laugh-out-loud moments.
Director and co-writer Jeremy Garelick has brought us a fairly predictable bromance about two chalk-and-cheese guys who are brought together under extreme circumstances and are forced to pull off the stunt of a lifetime . . .
Read Sarah McIntyre's full review here
Blackhat
2.5 stars
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang
Duration: 133 minutes
Certificate 15A
An escalating situation
Blackhat looked like a definite couple of hours of fun, but it turned out to be quite disappointing.
For starters, it's directed by Michael Mann, who has been behind films such as Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Collateral and Ali, and is widely regarded as one of the greats of modern Hollywood.
The cast is pretty impressive too: Viola Davis (The Help, How to Get Away with Murder) gives weight to any role, while Chris Hemsworth is both a fine actor - as he showed in Ron Howard's Rush - and a bankable bulk, thanks to his ongoing gig as Norse God Thor in a relentless range of Marvel movies . . .
Read John Byrne's full review here.
Pelo Malo
****
Director: Mariana Rondón
Starring: Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange, Nelly Ramos
Duration: 93 minutes
Pelo Malo
Love is Strange
****
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows, Charlie Tahan
Duration: 94 minutes
Alfred Molina and John Lithgow
Don't approach this movie thinking that The Everly Brothers' classic, Love Is Strange, is going to run through it like a theme song. For it is not that type of movie at all, being dependent on Chopin and painting and bourgeoisie stuff.
Yet the love of the title - strange, or otherwise - underpins this charming, thoughtful movie as a subtly diffuse theme. Seventy-one-year-old Ben (John Lithgow) and the younger George (Alfred Molina) have been an item for 39 years . . .
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
Fifty Shades of Grey
**/2.5 stars
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Duration: 125 minutes
Certificate 18
Dakota Johnson
You may have heard of this one. Read our male and female perspective reviews here and here
Jupiter Ascending
2 stars
Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Starring: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Booth, James D'Arcy, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Duration: 127 minutes
There's no chemistry between Tatum and Kunis in this whizzbang sci-fi
The Wachowskis return with a galactic epic that is overly in debt to better, smarter movies like Dune and The Fifth Element. Soylent Green may even get a nod but this is one space opera that makes Battlefield Earth look like Solaris.
From The Matrix to Cloud Atlas, Andy and Lana W have displayed a talent for real high wire verve and inventiveness but it's easy to see why Jupiter Ascending's release was delayed for nine months and why a post-production overhaul was also required - all of it is very visible in nearly every single scene in the two-hour running time.
It sure looks glossy and epic . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
The Interview
***
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park, Diana Bang, Malcolm, Reese Alexander
Duration: 112 minutes
Certificate 16
C'mon! Nobody said it was going to be Duck Soup!
There were plenty of raised eyebrows and maybe even some sniggering late last year when hackers broke into Sony's computer system and leaked numerous yet to be released movies and some pretty sensitive e-mails. The real thoughts of corporate paymasters about `the talent' made very interesting reading.
But the story surrounding The Interview soon turned very sinister indeed when terrorists, putatively originating from North Korea itself, threatened attacks on cinemas screening the movie . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
The Shaft franchise is set to be rebooted, again.
According to TheWrap, New Line Cinema has acquired the rights to the iconic police action series.
Producer John Davis is on board for the remake, having worked on Predators and the upcoming The Man from UNCLE.
The original Shaft movie was a hit in 1971 and starred Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, a private detective who navigates mob neighbourhoods in New York trying to find the missing daughter of a gangster.
The film was given the reboot treatment in 2000 with Samuel L. Jackson playing the nephew of John Shaft.
Check out a trailer for the 2000 Shaft movie:
She's had lots of fun attending some of the hottest shows that London Fashion week has to offer, and now TEN's Sinead Brennan wants to find out why YOU love LFW. Is it the creativity? The style? The bags? The shoes? Check out some voxpop snaps below.
"The innovation and creativity. London is a hot bed for new talent more so than other cities."
"There are so many emerging designers"
"The bags. I love the bags"
"The shows are just the best"
"There's actually creativity after looking at New York"
"All the crazy outfits. It's inspirational"
(Left) - "Seeing peoples street style, it's quirky"
(Right) - "Seeing what people wear - in London everyone has such a sense of style"
(Left) - "Seeing all the new trends and designers"
(Right) - "Seeing the emerging trends"
"I'm really interested in seeing people wearing different styles. Everyone has their own interpretation of fashion and Londoners are so stylish"
Kasabian and Jamie T, both picked up top gongs at the 2015 NME Awards last night, while Australia's 5 Seconds of Summer were named as the worst band in the world.
The event, which took place at London's O2 Academy Brixton and was hosted by Radio 1's Huw Stephens, saw rockers Kasabian take home the awards for Best British Band, Best Quote and Best Album for 48:13.
Singer-songwriter Jamie T took home the Best Video and Best Track awards for Zombie, and his comeback with 2014's Carry on the Grudge was deemed the Music Moment of the year.
Meanwhile, Australia's 5 Seconds of Summer were named as the Worst Band in the world.
Also picking up prizes on the night were Suede, Jimmy Page, Royal Blood, Jake Bugg, Foo Fighters and Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX.
Check out the full list of winners below.
Check out our NME gallery here
NME Awards 2015 winners in full:
Best British Band (supported by Marshall Amplification) -- Kasabian
Best Album -– Kasabian, 48:13
Best International Band (supported by Austin, Texas) -- Foo Fighters
Best Live Band (supported by Dead Crow Spirit Flavoured Beers -- Royal Blood
Best New Band -- Royal Blood
Best Solo Artist -- Jake Bugg
Best Festival -- Glastonbury
Best Track (supported by Tito's Handmade Vodka) -- Jamie T, Zombie
Best Video -- Jamie T, Zombie
Best Music Film -- Pulp: A Film About Life, Death And Supermarkets
Best Film -- Northern Soul
Best TV Show – Game Of Thrones
Best Quote -- Kasabian
Dancefloor Filler -- Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX, Fancy
Worst Band -- 5 Seconds Of Summer
Villain Of The Year -- Nigel Farage
Hero Of The Year -- Alex Turner
Music Moment Of The Year -- Jamie T's comeback
Best Fan Community -- Muse
Small Festival Of The Year -- Liverpool Psych Fest
Book Of The Year -- Viv Albertine, Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
Reissue Of The Year -- Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible
Best Band Social Media -- Liam Gallagher's Twitter
Blur have confirmed an April release for The Magic Whip, their first album since 2003's Think Tank.
The band announced details of the new album at a press conference in a Chinese restaurant in London which was webcast on their Facebook page earlier today.
"Finally, we can confirm that we will be releasing an album, The Magic Whip on April 27th, our first as a four-piece in 16 years!" says a post on the band's Facebook page.
The recordings began during a five-day break in touring in Spring 2013 at Avon Studios in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The tapes were put aside when the group finished touring and returned to their respective lives.
Last November, guitarist Graham Coxon revisited the tracks and, drafting in blur's early producer Stephen Street, he worked with the band on the material. Frontman Damon Albarn then added lyrics.
The tracklisting for The Magic Whip is: Lonesome Street, New World Towers, Go Out, Ice Cream Man, Thought I Was a Spaceman, I Broadcast, My Terracotta Heart, There are Too Many of Us, Ghost Ship, Pyongyang, Ong Ong, Mirrorball.
Blur will also play the British Summer Time gig in Hyde Park on June 20, their fourth headline show at the London venue.
Watch the lyric video for new Blur song Go Out
Blur and producer Stephen Street talking to former BBC DJ Zane Lowe this afternoon
Don't Tell The Bride is back on RTÉ2 tonight with a brand new run as six more blushing - and very brave - brides leave the biggest day of their lives in the hands of the men they love.
The groom gets €10,000 and three weeks and the bride gets NO say in how it's spent. It's all tears, tantrums and total meltdowns.
In tonight's opener, born entertainer Richie wants his wedding to be the Greatest Show on Earth so he's going all out with a circus theme wedding in a field. He wants to organise a tent complete with fire eaters, lion tamers, tight rope walkers - the lot!
Speaking to TEN about tonight's show Richie revealed that he is "nervous" about what his other half will make of his pre-wedding shenanigans.
He said, "I am nervous about tonight as Amanda doesn't know what happened over the three weeks. I'm interested to see what she thinks of it all."
When asked about picking a circus-themed wedding, he added: "I applied for the show without Amanda knowing. I didn't realise that you needed to pick a theme. When the researcher rang me to say that I was through to the next round, I wasn't sure what to say. So, I just googled 'themed weddings' and came up with circus. I thought it was going to be easy to do, but it turned out to be more challenging than expected."
Doesn't Richie look radiant in the pic above? So how on earth did he end up sporting a wedding dress?
"I decided to pick the best dress in the shop and figured if it looks good on me, it will look even better on Amanda," he said.
Don't Tell The Bride is on tonight at 9.00pm on RTÉ2.
Below is a sneak peek at some of the antics Richie gets up to over the three weeks:
X-Files star David Duchovny has opened up about the chances of the show making an epic comeback.
The 54-year-old actor, who played FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the science fiction horror drama series, hinted at a possible reunion with his co-star Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully on the popular show.
When asked about a show reunion, he told The Talk: "It looks good. It looks very good. I can't say for sure, but it looks better than it did two weeks ago."
The X-Files originally aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002.
