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Sunday World
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Inside luxurious €10m ‘once-in-a-generation' home that boasts Bono and Enya as neighbours
Mount Mapas House: Georgian home with unobstructed views of the sea from Killiney Bay to Bray Head Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. A luxurious six-bedroom property in south Dublin which boasts U2 frontman Bono and the singer Enya as neighbours has been put up for sale, with a guide price of €10 million. Mount Mapas House, a Georgian home with unobstructed views of the sea from Killiney Bay to Bray Head, has a drawing room, a sauna, multiple marble fireplaces and direct access to the beach below. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. It has been owned by many high-profile figures throughout it's lifetime, including a prominent Dublin surgeon, top civil servants, a former manager of the Daily Irish Independent in the 1900s and the late Cormac O'Connell, one of Ireland's best-known pharmacists who bought the property for £2.3 million at auction in 1997. Neighbours past and present have included Bono and his bandmate Larry Mullen, singer Van Morrison, former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine and Simple Minds star Jim Kerr. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. The six-bed, four-bath property has been described as 'one of the finest homes to come to market' this year, offering 'a once-in-a-generation opportunity to own a coastal Georgian masterpiece'. It has landscaped gardens spanning 1.25 acres and was one of the first houses built on the corner of Vico Road in the affluent area of Killiney, just beyond Dalkey, around 1800. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. The property has been described as a house with 'timeless grandeur' and as 'a fine example of an early 19th-century villa with a graceful ironwork veranda at first floor level that lends it a distinctly colonial elegance', with a terrace that once provided 'driveway space for carriages'. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. The house, which spans approximately 585 sq m, with 'stately architectural heritage and refined contemporary luxury' is private despite it's place on one of Dublin's most sought-after roads. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. 'Mount Mapas House is not merely a residence – it is a legacy. A home that offers stately elegance, modern comfort, unmatched views, and a prestigious address,' the estate agent, Lisney Sotheby's, have said. It boasts a reception hall, a drawing room, a dining room, sash windows, a split-level staircase with 'a magnificent cathedral-style skylight', a family bathroom with a sauna, a 'guest cloaks area' and a reception room. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. The main bedroom, along with a bay window and panoramic views, also has an intercom to the front door, a digital security alarm panel and a CCTV camera control panel. One en-suite bathroom has a jacuzzi bath, while another has 'a power steam shower room'. Mount Mapas House on Victoria Road in Killiney, Co Dublin. A conservatory overlooks 'the pond and bridge to the rear gardens and planting to the side and double folding double glazed French doors opening out to the patio area which looks directly out over the grounds and Killiney Bay'. There is also a dining terrace in the tiered gardens, which include direct private access to Killiney Beach and a 120m deep natural well with a pump and filter for drinking water and garden watering.
Sydney Morning Herald
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Brad Pitt goes full movie star in skilfully made but monotonous motor-racing drama
F1 ★★★ (M), 155 minutes 'Thrilling' and 'lulling' can be oddly close together, and that's how it feels watching the cars speed round and round the track in the skilfully made if somewhat monotonous F1, which is the victory lap for its director Joseph Kosinski following his box-office triumph with Top Gun: Maverick three years ago. Both films involve a seated hero moving at high speed in a confined space, although where Top Gun: Maverick verged on being a war movie, F1 is strictly a sports movie, which lowers the stakes even if Formula One driving is riskier than, say, tennis. Tom Cruise, the star of Top Gun, has also been swapped out for Brad Pitt, which probably makes just as much difference. Both are movie stars in the full sense, unabashedly there to be looked at, and both have retained a boyish mystique into late middle age. But Cruise has never once in his whole career played a character who could be called relaxed, whereas cultivated laziness is what Pitt is all about. As Sonny Hayes, the hero of F1, he does a lot of sleepy-eyed smirking, though we're meant to understand that his mind is going a mile a minute under the surface. Sonny is the Rip Van Winkle of the Formula One world, induced to make a comeback as a driver long after his promising career was cut short, as if he'd just woken up from a 30-year nap. In fact, he's been up to a range of things in the meantime, including supporting himself as a New York cab driver and as a professional gambler, besides having several failed marriages under his belt. A gambler is what he remains, the kind who's studied the odds and believes he knows how to beat the house. On the track, he has a range of tricky strategies that test the limits of the rules, which the commentators outline for us in voiceover. These typically involve starting from behind and using this to his advantage, roughly his approach to life in general.
The Age
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Brad Pitt goes full movie star in skilfully made but monotonous motor-racing drama
F1 ★★★ (M), 155 minutes 'Thrilling' and 'lulling' can be oddly close together, and that's how it feels watching the cars speed round and round the track in the skilfully made if somewhat monotonous F1, which is the victory lap for its director Joseph Kosinski following his box-office triumph with Top Gun: Maverick three years ago. Both films involve a seated hero moving at high speed in a confined space, although where Top Gun: Maverick verged on being a war movie, F1 is strictly a sports movie, which lowers the stakes even if Formula One driving is riskier than, say, tennis. Tom Cruise, the star of Top Gun, has also been swapped out for Brad Pitt, which probably makes just as much difference. Both are movie stars in the full sense, unabashedly there to be looked at, and both have retained a boyish mystique into late middle age. But Cruise has never once in his whole career played a character who could be called relaxed, whereas cultivated laziness is what Pitt is all about. As Sonny Hayes, the hero of F1, he does a lot of sleepy-eyed smirking, though we're meant to understand that his mind is going a mile a minute under the surface. Sonny is the Rip Van Winkle of the Formula One world, induced to make a comeback as a driver long after his promising career was cut short, as if he'd just woken up from a 30-year nap. In fact, he's been up to a range of things in the meantime, including supporting himself as a New York cab driver and as a professional gambler, besides having several failed marriages under his belt. A gambler is what he remains, the kind who's studied the odds and believes he knows how to beat the house. On the track, he has a range of tricky strategies that test the limits of the rules, which the commentators outline for us in voiceover. These typically involve starting from behind and using this to his advantage, roughly his approach to life in general.
Toronto Sun
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
Review: From bumper to bumper, 'F1' is Formula One spectacle
Published Jun 19, 2025 • 4 minute read Damson Idris and Brad Pitt in 'F1'. Photo by Apple Films/ Warner Bros. The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski's 'F1,' a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Kosinski, who last endeavored to put moviegoers in the seat of a fighter jet in 'Top Gun: Maverick,' has moved to the open cockpits of Formula One with much the same affection, if not outright need, for speed. A lot of the same team is back. Jerry Bruckheimer produces. Ehren Kruger, a co-writer on 'Maverick,' takes sole credit here. Hans Zimmer, a co-composer previously, supplies the thumping score. Brad Pitt stars in 'F1,' a new race-car drama heading to theatres this summer. Photo by Warner Bros../ Apple And, again, our central figure is an older, high-flying cowboy plucked down in an ultramodern, gas-guzzling conveyance to teach a younger generation about old-school ingenuity and, maybe, the enduring appeal of denim. But whereas Tom Cruise is a particularly forward-moving action star, Brad Pitt, who stars as the driving-addicted Sonny Hayes in 'F1,' has always been a more arrestingly poised presence. Think of the way he so calmly and half-interestedly faces off with Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.' In the opening scene of 'F1,' he's sleeping in a van with headphones on when someone rouses him. He splashes some water on his face and walks a few steps over to the Daytona oval, where he quickly enters his team's car, in the midst of a 24-hour race. Pitt goes from zero to 180 mph in a minute. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Sonny, a long-ago phenom who crashed out of Formula One decades earlier and has since been racing any vehicle, even a taxi, he can get behind the wheel of, is approached by an old friend, Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) about joining his flagging F1 team, APX. Sonny turns him down at first but, of course, he joins and 'F1' is off to the races. The title sequence, exquisitely timed to the syncopated rhythms of Zimmer's score, is a blistering introduction. The hotshot rookie driver Noah Pearce (Damson Idris) is just running a practice lap, but Kosinski, his camera adeptly moving in and out of the cockpit, uses the moment to plunge us into the high-tech world of Formula One, where every inch of the car is connected to digital sensors monitored by a watchful team. Here, that includes technical director Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon) and Kaspar Molinski (Kim Bodnia), the team's chief. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Verisimilitude is of obvious importance to the filmmakers, who bathe this very Formula One-authorized film in all the sleek operations and globe-trotting spectacle of the sport. That Apple, which produced the film, would even go for such a high-priced summer movie about Formula One is a testament to the upswing in popularity of a sport once quite niche in America, and of the halo effects of both the Netflix series 'Formula 1: Drive to Survive' and the much-celebrated driver Lewis Hamilton, an executive producer on 'F1.' Whether 'F1' pleases diehards I'll leave to more ardent followers of the circuit. But what I can say definitively is that Claudio Miranda knows how to shoot it. The cinematographer, who has shot all of Kosinski's films as well as wonders like Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi,' brings Formula One to vivid, visceral life. When 'F1' heads to the big races, Miranda is always simultaneously capturing the zooming cars from the asphalt while backgrounding it with the sweeping spectacle of a course like the U.K.'s fabled Silverstone Circuit. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. OK, you might be thinking, so the racing is good; is there a story? There's what I'd call enough of one, though you might have to go to the photo finish to verify that. When Sonny shows up, and rapidly turns one practice vehicle into toast, it's clear that he's going to be an agent of chaos at APX, a low-ranking team that's in heavy debt and struggling to find a car that performs. This gives Pitt a fine opportunity to flash his charisma, playing Sonny as an obsessive who refuses any trophy and has no real interest in money, either. The flashier, media-ready Noah watches Sonny's arrival with skepticism, and two begin more as rivals than teammates. Idris is up to the mano-a-mano challenge, but he's limited by a role ultimately revolving around — and reducing to — a young Black man learning a lesson in work ethic. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in 'F1'. Photo by Apple Films/ Warner Bros. A relationship does develop, but 'F1' struggles to get its characters out of the starting blocks, keeping them closer to the cliches they start out as. The actor who, more than anyone, keeps the momentum going is Condon, playing an aerodynamics specialist whose connection with Pitt's Sonny is immediate. Just as she did in between another pair of headstrong men in 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' Condon is a rush of naturalism. If there's something preventing 'F1' from hitting full speed, it's its insistence on having its characters constantly voice Sonny's motivations. The same holds true on the race course, where broadcast commentary narrates virtually every moment of the drama. That may be a necessity for a sport where the crucial strategies of hot tires and pit-stop timing aren't quite household concepts. But the best car race movies — from 'Grand Prix' to 'Senna' to 'Ferrari' — know when to rely on nothing but the roar of an engine. 'F1' steers predictably to the finish line, cribbing here and there from sports dramas before it. (Tobias Menzies plays a board member with uncertain corporate goals.) When 'F1' does, finally, quiet down, for one blissful moment, the movie, almost literally, soars. It's not quite enough to forget all the high-octane macho dramatics before it, but it's enough to glimpse another road 'F1' might have taken. RATING: Three stars out of four Read More News MMA NHL Editorial Cartoons Soccer
Perth Now
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Damson Idris accidentally 'spat in Brad Pitt's face'
Damson Idris accidentally "spat in Brad Pitt's face" on the set of F1. The 33-year-old actor stars alongside Brad, 61, in the new motorsport film, and Damson has opened up about the challenges of shooting one particularly "rageful" scene in the movie. During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he shared: "It's so funny working with Brad. He's such a beautiful human being, such a giving actor. And we once did a scene where I had to scream in his face, and it was like the biggest scene for me. I was so nervous. "In between the takes, I spat in Brad Pitt's face. It was an accident. It was a rageful scene." Damson was amazed by how Brad handled the incident. The actor - who plays Brad's on-screen rival in the movie - recalled: "He kept going, and in my head I'm like, 'Oh my gosh. I just spat on Brad Pitt's face.' I was like, 'I'm going to lose my job now.' And I watched the spit the whole take, it was just there dribbling down." Meanwhile, Brad recently admitted that he craved the approval of motorsport fans while filming F1. The Hollywood star plays a Formula One driver in the new racing film, and Brad admits that having the support of sports fans means "everything" to him. He told Extra: "If we didn't pass their bar, then we were dead, you know? "And to get that kind of, I don't know, response means a lot to us, because we have, again, so much respect for these drivers, for this sport, for everyone, the teams, everything they put into it. They made the movie too. They're a big part of the film." Brad was always confident that the Joseph Kosinski-directed movie would win over the sceptics. He explained: "I felt pretty confident in what we have. "You know, I feel like we successfully thread this needle that's for longtime fans that really understand the sport as well as newcomers, and they understood that was our goal, and, I don't know, I think they had fun too. I think it's just fun. It's really good fun."
