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2013
THE H0T11"
From movies to music, film to food, our critics reveal their
Hot 100 choices for the year ahead. Mark your diaries...
Major films on the way this year include,
above, Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis as
the 19th century US president; below, Diana
with Naomi Watts in the lead role.
MOVIES
Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving 21 The Lone Ranger Aug 9
and Jim Sturgess co-star.
Armie Hammer plays the eponymous
masked man, but Johnny Depp, playing his
10 About Time Mar 22
Native American sidekick Tonto, narrates
1 Gangster Squad Jan 11
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a man who the story and provides the star wattage.
Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone and travels back and forth in time in pursuit of
Josh Brolin lead an all-star cast as the LAPD the woman of his dreams. Written and 22 Diana September tbc
battle to keep LA mobster-free during the directed by rom-com guru Richard Curtis. Naomi Watts plays Diana, the former
1940s and '50s. Adapted from Paul Lieberman's
Princess of Wales, in a biopic that focuses
bestselling book, with Ruben Fleischer 11 The Host Mar 29
on the last two years of her life. Oliver
directing.
A sci-fi thriller written and directed by Hirschbiegel directs.
Andrew Niccol, and adapted from
2 Les Miserables Jan 11
Stephanie Meyer's novel, this stars Saoirse 23 Captain Phillips Oct 11
The epic musical, set in 19th century Ronan as a young woman who has a Action adventure as Captain Phillips (Tom
France, gets the big screen treatment with parasitic alien injected into her body. Hanks) and his crew encounter Somali
Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell
pirates in the latest offering from former
Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and Helena Bonham 12 Oblivion Apr 12
Bourne director Paul Greengrass.
Carter starring. Tom Hooper directs. Tom Cruise stars as a court-martialled soldier
sent as punishment to a distant planet 24 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Nov
3 Django Unchained Jan 18
to obliterate an alien race.
22
Quentin Tarantino returns with a gritty
The sequel to The Hunger Games stars
western, in which a slave turned bounty 13 Byzantium April tbc
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen as
hunter sets out to rescue his wife. Leonardo Saoirse Ronan stars again, this time as one she readies herself for the Quarter Quell, a
DiCaprio, Samuel Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Kerry half of a mother-daughter vampire duo in a killing games that takes place every 25
Washington and Don Johnson star. gothic thriller directed by Neil Jordan. years.
4 Zero Dark Thirty Jan 25
14 Iron Man 3 Apr 26
25 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The hunt for Osama Bin Laden, courtesy of Robert Downey Jnr returns to play superhero Dec 13
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, Iron Man, this time to face his ultimate The second in the proposed Hobbit trilogy,
and starring Jessica Chastain as a hardnosed nemesis: the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). this continues Bilbo Baggins' (Martin Freeman)
CIA operative determined to bring
adventure as he seeks to reclaim his
down the Al Qaeda leader. James Gandolfini, 15 Star Trek Into Darkness May 17 gold from the Dragon, Smaug (Benedict
Chris Pratt and Joel Edgerton co-star. The reboot of the Star Trek franchise continues, Cumberpatch).
The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio will
with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and
turn green in March as part of a promotion
5 Lincoln Jan 25
Zoe Saldana starring in a tale that finds the
Dedan Burke for Irish tourism.
A biopic of the iconic American president Enterprise crew battling a one-man weapon
Abraham Lincoln, as played by Daniel DayLewis of mass destruction. JJ Abrams directs.
and directed by Steven Spielberg.
32 Of Monsters and Men, Olympia, Feb
16 Dead Man Down May tbc
21
6 This is 40 Feb 1
A New York crime lord's trusted lieutenant
Written and directed by Judd Apatow, this is seduced by a victim's lover in a thriller MUSIC This Icelandic five piece had huge summer
hit with chirruping single 'Little Talks'.
is a sequel-of-sorts to Knocked Up which starring Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace and 26 Gary Barlow, Olympia, Dublin, Jan 7
discovers how minor characters from that Dominic Cooper. Niels Arden Oplev directs. Take That singer turned X Factor judge 33 Example, 02, Dublin, Feb 21
movie, Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie
embarks on a small-scale theatre tour. If Eminem was from a British sink-estate
Mann), are coping with life. Chris O'Dowd, 17 Man of Steel Jun 14
and could sing a bit he'd sound like Elliot
Jason Segel, Melissa McCarthy and Megan Another superhero reboot, this retells the 27 Ed Sheeran, 02, Dublin, Jan 11, 12 Gleave (chart-friendly rapper Example).
Fox co-star.
origin tale of how Superman came to live Ginger strummer takes his quest for world
on Earth. Henry Cavill plays the hero, Amy domination up a gear. Hits such as A-Time 34 Mark Eitzel, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb
7 Hitchcock Feb 8
Adams plays Lois Lane, and Russell Crowe have proved irresistible to teenagers. 22
A behind-the-scenes exploration of the tensions does a turn as Jor-EI. Zack Snyder directs.
For those in the know a rare Irish show is
underpinning the filming of Alfred
28 Two Door Cinema Club, 02, Jan 19 not to be missed.
Hitchcock's Psycho, with Anthony Hopkins 18 World War Z Jun 21
Bequiffed Downpatrick trio bring their fizzy
playing the movie director, Helen Mirren his Brad Pitt stars in a dystopian sci-fi tale, synth-pop to our largest indoor venue. 35 The Killers, 02, Dublin, Feb 22
wife Alma Reville, and Scarlett Johansson playing a UN envoy travelling the world
The Killers' latest LP, Battle Born, channelled
playing Psycho star Janet Leigh. trying to put a halt to a zombie epidemic. 29 Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive naff '80s rockers such as Boston and Toto.
Taste album, Feb 9
8 A Good Day to Die Hard Feb 15 19 Despicable Me 2 June 28
The potty-mouthed New Yorker had a big 36 Atoms For Peace, Amok album, Feb
The fifth in the Die Hard series sees Bruce Steve Carell returns to voice the arch-villainturned-good-guy
YouTube hit with the expletive-drizzled 212. 22
Willis reprise his John McClane role, this
Gru in this sequel to the Can she sustain the hype on a full album? Radiohead's Tom Yorke is joined by Red
time in Russia helping out his CIA operative blockbusting animation, and he's joined by
Hot Chili Pepper bassist Flea, and producer
son Jack (Jai Courtney). Irish director John a host of voice talent including Al Pacino. 30 Jake Bugg, Academy, Dublin, Feb 10 Nigel Godrich for murky side-project Atoms
Moore helms. •
This, his first stand-alone Irish date, sold out for Peace and their bleep-infused debut
20 Monsters University Jul 12 in a heartbeat.
album, Amok.
9 Cloud Atlas Feb 22
A sequel to the classic Pixar animation
Tom Twyker and Andy and Lana Wachowski Monsters (2001), even if it's a prequel-ofsorts, 31 Bloc Party, Olympia, Dublin, Feb 12, 37 Foals, Holy Fire album. Mar 25
direct an adaptation of David Mitchell's as it follows Sulley (John Goodman) 13
Great excitement precedes the third record
bestselling novel, with Tom Hanks playing a and Mike (Billy Crystal) as they meet and Whiny Britrockers tour their so-so reunion from Oxford indie-funkateers Foals.
number of roles in a multi-narrative tale. feud in Monsters University.
album 'Four'. Will anyone care they're back?
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HOT 100 2013
ARTS BOOKS
51 First Fortnight Festival, Jan 2-12 61 Ratlines, January
The festival established to create a better The ingredients of Stuart Neville's Ratlines
understanding of mental health issues will (Harvill Seeker, €14.99) are gripping: it is
feature contemporary British artist Stuart the eve of JFK's presidential visit to Ireland
Semple, along with home-grown talent in 1963; a German is killed at a seaside
such as Le Galaxie, We Cut Corners and guesthouse, the latest of three foreign
actress Mary McEvoy.
nationals murdered in a few days; while the
Minister for Justice, Charles J. Haughey, has
52 RTE National Symphony Orchestra to protect a shameful state secret — the
Horizon 2013, Jan 22 — Feb 12 dead men were all former Nazis granted
RTE National Symphony Orchestra's contemporary asylum by the Irish government.
music series features free lunchtime
concerts by the cream of today's 62 A Possible Life, January
young composers, Linda Buckley, Jonathan in A Possible Life (Hutchinson, €14.99),
Nangle, Raymond Deane and Ann Cleare. Sebastian Faulks turns his pen towards the
Second World War, to the interweaving
53 Temple Bar Trad Fest, Dublin, Jan 22 stories of an English soldier holed up in a
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prisoner-of-war camp, dreaming of village
Temple Bar Trad Fest is one of the biggest cricket back in Hampshire; a girl hopping
annual celebrations of traditional music in out of a Chevy with a guitar; and a father
the country. Headliners for the 2013 programme too ashamed to acknowledge his son.
include Sharon Shannon, Martin
Hayes and Declan O'Rourke. Venues include 63 Give Me Everything You Have: On
Christ Church Cathedral and Dublin City Being Stalked, February
Hall and the Button Factory.
In Give Me Everything You Have: On Being
Stalked (Jonathan Cape, €16.99), James
54 Veronica Dunne International Singing Ladsdun has written a true-life account of
Competition, Jan 25-31
his travails at the hand of a former student
The triennial opera competition runs at the who becomes obsessed with him.
National Concert Hall in Dublin and is open
to all singers aged 20-34. The total prize 64 The Childhood of Jesus, March
fund is €30,000, and winners will also be Nobel Prize laureate and two-time Booker
engaged to sing at the Wigmore Hall in Prize winner J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of
London and Wexford Festival Opera. Jesus (Harvill Seeker, €18.99) is a modem,
dreamy take on the early days of Jesus.
55 King Lear, The Abbey Theatre, Dublin,
Feb 6 — Mar 23
65 Trespassers, March
The Abbey's first production of William The stories Julia O'Faolain has to tell about
Shakespeare's King Lear in over 80 years will her father, the writer Sean O'Faolain, would
be directed by Selina Cartnell and star be enough to fill a book. The fact that she
Owen Roe as the unfortunate monarch. can add her own luminous life adventures
make for an exciting memoir, entitled Trespassers
56 Cork Spring Poetry Festival, Feb 13 (Faber, €16.99).
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Richard Fitzpatrick
Munster Literature Centre's Spring Poetry
Festival will kick off with the launch of
Horse Music, the tenth volume of poetry by
University College Cork writer-in-residence
Matthew Sweeney. Other guests include the
Lana Del Ray plays two nights at Vicar Street in Dublin in May.
American poet, Julian Talamantez Brolaski,
and the Estonian, Triin Boomets. TRAVEL
66 View from the Shard
Opening Feb 1, the View from the Shard
57 12 Points Festival, Dublin, Feb 13 — claims to be the highest viewing point in
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Western Europe, providing visitors with 40
38 Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob album, tour their fantastic second record. The "small but perfectly formed" jazz festival mile panorama over London. The 1,016-foot
Jan 26
will feature 12 acts over four days. The view is matched by an eye-watering £24.95
Sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn have been 45 Tom Baxter, Pavilion, Cork, Mar 24 programme has yet to be announced, but fee. See theviewfromtheshard.com.
working with Lily Allen songwriter Greg Crooning heartthrob Tom Baxter is In Cork one can expect it will draw on the wealth of
Kurstin. Their new LP is billed as their to road-test material for his next LP. young talent working in the genre across 67 The Gathering
catchiest yet.
Europe.
There's no getting away from The Gathering
46 Bon Jovi, What About Now album.
in 2013. 1,700+ events will feature everything
39 The Script, 02, Feb 28, Mar 1 Mar 25
58 Jameson Dublin International Film from John McColgan's Riverdance
The Irish group stage what promises to be The rockers play Slane next year and have a Festival, Feb 14 — 24
sequel (Heartbeat of Home) to family gettogethers.
(yet another) triumphant homecoming. new album on the way.
Actor, director and producer Danny De Vito If you can't beat 'em? Join 'em, at
will be the guest star at Ireland's biggest thegatheringireland.com.
40 One Direction, 02, Dublin, Mar 5, 6 47 Ellie Goulding, Olympia, Dublin Apr 7 festival of international film, featuring the
Expect the decibel level to be off the scale Soft-pop singer Goulding hits the road with usual abundance of Irish and international 68 Cruise control
for their two night stand.
chart topping second LP, Halcyon. features, documentaries and shorts. Still they build them. And still they come.
Some two dozen new cruise ships set to
41 Lianne La Havas, Olympia, Mar 5 48 Fun, Olympia, Dublin, Apr 14 59 Ennis Book Club Festival, Co Clare, launch in 2013 include the 3,500-passenger
Mercury-nominated singer brings her sweet, A band who would like to be the American Mar 1-3
MSC Preziosa in March, and Norwegian
savvy soul to the capital.
Coldplay are shamelessly slushy but with The festival includes author readings, workshops Breakaway, carrying over 4,000 passengers,
songs so catchy it (almost) doesn't matter. and walking tours. Authors and in April. See cruisecritic.com.
42 Girls Aloud, 02, Mar 16, 17
speakers confirmed for 2013 include Marina
The reunion we never thought would happen 49 Lana Del Rey, Vicar Street, Dublin Lewycka, John Banville, Fergal Keane and 69 The Marker, Dublin
is upon us.
May 26, 27
Kate Bateman.
April 2013 is the opening date for The
Del Rey invaded our collective consciousness
Marker, the five-star, Manuel Aires Mateusdesigned
43 Jessie J, 02, Dublin, Mar 18
with the gauzy, bewitching Video 60 Cork French Film Festival Mar 3 — 10 hotel in Dublin's Grand Canal
Mouthy pop star and Voice UK judge Games in 2011. Now she is touring. Cork French Film Festival has boasted Dock. The €130m project will include 187
follows up 2012's Live at the Marquee date
guests such as the veteran director Agnes rooms, a 23m infinity pool, and a rooftop
in Cork with her biggest Dublin headliner. 50 Selena Gomez and the Roses, new Varda, the screenwriter Jean Claude Carriere bar. See themarker.ie.
album Spring 2013
and the actor Pierre Etaix in the past few
44 Villagers, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Mar Justin Bieber's ex-cranks up her campaign years.
70 Rio goes green
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for grown-up fame with the latest LP from
It's a marketing brainwave. For minimal cost,
Conor O'Brien's critically lauded indie crew her pop-rock band The Scene.
Marc O'Sullivan, Arts Editor Ireland gets maximum exposure by arrang-
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ing to have iconic buildings around the
world turn green on St. Patrick's Day. New
this March is Rio's Christ the Redeemer
statue. Could you be there to see it?
71 Holiday World, Dublin & Belfast
Can't decide where to go in 2013? Hit the
Holiday World Show in Dublin (Jan 25-27)
or Belfast (Jan 18-20) for a cabin-bag full of
ideas, as well as tips on new trends, showonly
deals and advice. See holidayworldshow.com.
72 Springtime in the skies
Aer Lingus is starting a new route from
Dublin to Corfu from Mar 31, and this is the
first spring Ryanair are flying to Poland and
Lithuania from Cork. From the end of
March, Aer Lingus is adding extra capacity
from Cork to Barcelona and Faro, too.
73 A bulging Blue Book
Ireland's Blue Book has added three exclusive
new properties for 2013. They include
Mount Juliet Country Estate in Co. Kilkenny,
Screebe House in Connemara, and the
Martello Tower in Sutton. For special offers
see Irelands-blue-book.ie.
74 Sin City strikes back
50,000 people will travel to Las Vegas in
2013. That's according to John Donohue,
the city's Convention and Visitors' Authority
rep in Ireland. Amongst the new openings
awaiting them are the world's first Nobu
Hotel in Caesar's Palace (February).
75 Cities rise... and fall
Hostelbookers.com is predicting Geneva,
Chicago and Havana as its most popular
destinations for budget travellers in 2013.
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FOOD
FASHION
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90 THE WEDDING JOURNAL SHOW LIVE!:
Citywest Complex, Dublin; King's Hall,
Belfast, Jan 11-13; Feb 22-24, €9,
www.weddingjournalonline.com
Over 300 local exhibitors under one roof.
Anne-Marie O'Connor
91 TELEVISION
Family Tree, BBC
Chris O'Dowd is the king of TV comedy at
the moment, and 2013 looks set to be
another biggie for the Irish actor with a
second series of Moone Boy and this new
collaboration between HBO and BBC.
Christopher 'Spinal Tap' Guest is the main
man behind a mockumentary that will have
O'Dowd in the role of Tom Chadwick, whose
bad luck in life gets turned around by a
mysterious box left to him by his great aunt.
92 Vikings, History Channel
The feared invaders may have plundered
here, but in true Irish style we've eventually
managed to make a few bob from them.
Filmed in Wicklow, the historical drama
starring Gabriel Byrne spent €20m in
Ireland. March 3.
93 Quirke, BBC
Gabriel Byrne really had a busy 2012 on this
side of the Atlantic. In November, he started
filming this three-part adaptation of the
novels by Benjamin Black/John Banville, and
looks the perfect man to play the harddrinking
pathologist in 1950s Dublin.
94 The Following, Sky Atlantic
This big-budget new series from Fox has
Kevin Bacon as is the alcoholic former FBI
agent who gets called back into action
when an imprisoned serial killer uses Facebook
to recruit a willing band of copycats.
81 Smoking sections
95 The Village, BBC
Expect to see a growing number of Irish
Charlie Murphy (Siobhan in Love/Hate) stars
76 Dine in Dublin
restaurants smoking their own meats and
alongside Maxine Peak and John Simm. Set
It's a whizz of an idea — dozens of a city's fish in 2013. At the vanguard is Weafer &
in 1914, the series begins filming in the
best restaurants serving set menus at Cooper in Glasthule, where a new Bradley
Peak District later this year.
86 WOMEN'S LITTLE CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON
affordable prices (typically 20% savings). Smoker is infusing produce with hints of TEA The River Lee Hotel, Cork, Jan 6,
Dine in Dublin runs from Mar 25 to 31. maple, hickory, alder and oak. Weaferandcooper.com.
96 Hello Ladies, Sky Atlantic
€30,1890-998998, www.breakthroughcancerresearch.ie
When will Cork get in on the act? Dineindublin.ie.
Stephen Merchant looks set to join his old
mate Ricky Gervais from The Office in
Catch up with the girls and take part in this
82 Sligo's Italian Quarter
making a name for himself in the US. Taking
annual tradition that is one of Cork's oldest
77 Super Bowl Sunday at the Strand When Sligo's Bistro Bianconi moved to
its title and much of its material from
customs. Tickets include a drinks reception,
American football fans are given a sporting Tobergal Lane recently, a whole new Italian
Merchant's stand-up show, the comedy
afternoon tea, makeovers and style advice,
chance at a night away this Feb 3, when Quarter followed. It's early days, but the
drama will get an initial eight-episode run.
boutique market stalls, a fashion showcase
Limerick's Strand Hotel hosts an American addition of a bakery, deli and wine bar in A of Munster's top boutiques and goody
Pop-up Bar for Super Bowl XLVII. B&B, a Casa Mia, and the newly revived Gulliver's bags. All proceeds going to cancer research.
97 Love/Hate, RTE
burger, pint and late checkout Monday are restaurant, signal an exciting project for the
Series three caused quite a stir and banished
available for €60pps. Strandlimerick.ie. New Year.
87 SHOWCASE FASHION 2013: RDS,
any accusations that it was glamorising
Dublin 4, Jan 20-23, €20 for non-registered
the world of crime. Gangland violence,
78 Good Food Ireland's online shop 83 RAI Irish Restaurant Awards visitors, www.showcaseireland.com
prostitution, drug addiction and sexual
Since 2006, Good Food Ireland has been Can it really be that time again? Nominations Fashion curator and producer Sonia
violence were all deftly — and appropriately
promoting the top producers, restaurants for the 2013 Irish Restaurant Awards Reynolds is partnering with Showcase to
brutally — portrayed by a show that gets at
and food experiences in the country. An commence in February, with regional
least one more run in the autumn.
create Showcase Fashion 2013 — Ireland's
online shop is expected early this year, awards announced through March and creative expo.
enabling customers to have their favourite April in Ulster, Leinster, Connacht and Munster.
98 Dublin Ink, TV3
produce shipped as far as the US. Goodfoodireland.ie. National awards follow on May 20.
This 12-part series will be set in a tattoo
88 HENNESSY GOLD CUP 2013: Leopardstown shop on Cow's Lane in Dublin, primarily
Racecourse, Co. Kildare, Feb 9, from
84 Galway Food Festival...
focusing on the two sets of brothers who
€20, www.hennessybestdressed.ie;
79 Blazing Salads 2
Galwa/s culinary star is on the rise, and this www.facebook.com/HennessyCognaclreland
own and manage the business.
After Christmas indulgences, spring is a festival (Mar 28 — Apr 1) celebrates all that
fallow time for foodie literature. This March, is good about food and dining in the city. Stakes are high as Ireland's style set compete
99 The Gilded Age, NBC
however, watch out for Lorraine Fitzmaurice's The Waterford Festival of Food follows for the title of 'Hennessy Gold Cup
Yes, Julian Fellowes is working on a fourth
Blazing Salads 2 (Gill & McMillan; shortly afterwards from Apr 11 to 14. See Best Dressed Lady' and a €7,000 voucher
series of Downton Abbey, but it's this American
€19.99), with recipes including everything galwayfoodfestival.com.
for the Design Centre in Dublin's Powerscourt
commission that has really whetted the
from party food to protein-packed soups.
Townhouse Centre.
appetite. Set in late 19th century New York,
85 Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food &
it follows some of those who made huge
80 Irishfest
Wine
sums of money during a period of massive
89 XPOSE LIVE: RDS, Dublin; Silver Springs,
After decades drinking of mass-produced Ballymaloe's first Literary Festival of Food Cork, April 19-21; May 24-26, €15,
industrial growth for the US.
stouts and lagers, Ireland has finally cottoned and Wine takes place from May 2 to 6. Held www.ticketmaster.ie;www.tv3.ie/xposelive
on to craft beers. Irishfest, formerly at both the house and cookery school, Glenda, Karen, Kirsteen and Lisa take over
100 Breaking Bad, TG4
the Irish Craft Beer Festival, runs from Mar guests will include Madhur Jaffrey and Alice
The superb tale of Walt, Jesse and their
Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre to host a
14 to 18 at the IFSC, with some 20,000 Waters, with demos, tastings and foraging series of fashion shows as part of the Xpose
adventures in the world of crystal meth
aficionados expected. Irishfest.ie. events all in the works.
manufacture comes to a conclusion.
Live In The City Fashion Experience. Each
Pol 6 Conghaile ticket gives discounts on high street brands.
Des O'Driscoll
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