Posted on August 2, 2025 by Darren
Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, with week with special guest Conor Murphy, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This August, we are taking a look at the films on the Irish Leaving Certificate Curriculum. This week, Gabriele Salvatores’ Io non ho paura.
In Italy, during the late 1970s, Michele Amitrano is enjoying the pleasures of a youth that seems like it might last last forever. One day, Michele makes a strange and unsettling discovery about what lurks in a strange hole on the edge of the village’s golden fields. What Michele finds might shake his world to its very foundations.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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Posted on February 8, 2025 by Darren
Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Joey Keogh, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This week, Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey.
It is 1719. Naru is a young member of a Commanche tribe, trying to prove her value to the community extends beyond her knowledge of medicine and cooking, and so sets out into the wilderness to hunt a lion that has been stalking the woods. However, Naru quickly discovers that there is something far larger and more dangerous waiting out there in the darkness.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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