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The clock is ticking on a number of noteworthy titles leaving Netflix this month.

Below, we’ve assembled a complete list of everything leaving Netflix in January 2022, and it includes quite a few films you may want to prioritize on your watchlist. Leaving Jan. 6 is “The Green Knight” filmmaker David Lowery’s quietly mesmerizing drama “A Ghost Story” starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. Also leaving on Jan. 6 is Illumination Entertainment’s animated retelling of “The Lorax,” while Jan. 5 marks the exit date of all five seasons of the Matt LeBlanc comedy series “Episodes.”

But the highest profile departure this month is all five films in the “Twilight” franchise, which are due to leave the streaming service on Jan. 15.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for other films to check out before they depart, the Wachowskis’ epic “Cloud Atlas” and Martin Scorsese’s Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted psychological thriller “Shutter Island” both leave Jan.

Haifaa Al-Mansour’s A Storm In The Stars and comedy Halal Daddy among those supported in latest funding round.

A culture-clash comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) in its latest round of funding decisions, which totals more than €3m.

Halal Daddy - the story of a young Muslim’s struggle to manage a rundown abattoir in the West of Ireland - has received a production funding commitment of €500,000.

It is one of a number of comedies backed by the Ifb as it faces the challenge of building on what has been a buoyant period for the Irish film industry, with a number of projects performing strongly throughout awards season. Comedy traditionally performs well with domestic audiences.

Halal Daddy will begin shooting in Sligo in early summer and was written by Conor McDermottroe (Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne) and Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul...

Disney's Wreck-It Ralph maintains its momentum at the UK box office as half-term gave a lift to children's films

The winner

It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).

Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...

The Hardy Bucks debut feature film was this weekend's most popular new movie at the Irish box office. Universal Pictures anounced that The Hardy Bucks Movie debuted at Number 2 at the Irish box office with €176,887 from 57 locations. (screen average: €3,103) This positions The Hardy Bucks Movie as the highest grossing new release in Ireland. 1. Wreck It Ralph €209,200 2. The Hardy Bucks Movie €176,887(including previews)(New) 3. Mama €150,918 (New) 4. A Good Day To Die Hard €122,553 5. This Is 40...

The Hardy Bucks movie hits Irish cinemas tomorrow (Feb 21st) and we rather liked it alot! Over the last couple of days we asked readers of the site to mail, tweet or facebook us some questions for The Hardy Bucks. We picked a few at random and Eddie, Buzz and Boo were kind enough to tackle everything from loaning money to Zombie hoards! With some hilarious results! Check out the video yourself!

Here’s a success story. The first youtube series to ever be made into a film. The Hardy Bucks started out on youtube, then ended up on Rte and now they’re hitting the road on the big screen. For the unaware, The Bucks hail from a little town in Co.Mayo called Castletown. Eddie, Buzz, Boo, Frenchtoast and Viper are a nice bunch of lads who partake in the kind of antics nice bunches of lads would partake in. Drinking, riding, getting stoned and the occasional game of football. Their big screen debut sees the Bucks hit the road for the European Championships in Poland. On the way they end up in Amsterdam and find themselves in a spot of bother after running up a rather large bill in a club. With no way of paying their bill, the club owner comes up with a payment method. They have...

The Hardy Bucks finally hit the big screen this Thursday and we’ve got hold of the Bucks themselves tomorrow evening ahead of the Cork premiere for The Hardy Bucks movie! So, this is where you come in! Ask The Hardy Bucks Anything! Simply tweet your question to @themoviebit, leave a comment on this article using either Facebook or Disqus. Alternatively email them to vic@themoviebit.com putting Hardy Bucks in the Subject Line. We’ll film their responses and get them online! So, if there’s ever been a question you want answering, then let The Hardy Bucks do their thing! We need all questions into us no later than 3pm (GMT) on Tuesday Feb 19th.

They’ve amassed quite the following from their days on youtube, to television and now The Hardy Bucks are hitting the big screen. We’ve got our hands on the first trailer from Universal, which is below for your viewing! Synopsis: The Hardy Bucks Movie' sees the lads finally leave Castletown and head out on a wild road trip across Europe. Eddie Durkan, the self-proclaimed leader of the 'Bucks is dreading spending another summer bored out of his skull. Ireland has qualified for the Euros in Poland, but with no money and apathetic mates, the task falls to Eddie to get them out of Castletown and onto the road in search of football and the craic. A small inheritance and an old van provide an escape plan, but the trip takes a turn for the worse after an unscheduled stop-off in Amsterdam. To pay off a huge strip club bar bill,...

Ifta-nominated filmmakers Souljacker (Origins) have received support from the Cavan Arts Office for a new live-action short to be filmed in the area. Sean Smith has written and will direct Irish-based horror 'The Gloaming' which will be filmed over two days in Bruskey bogland in Cavan. Filming is due to begin at the end of April, with Smith and his Souljacker partner Brian O'Brien looking to recruit as many Cavan natives as possible to fill crew roles. Already on board are Cavan-born Matthew Smith (assistant on Game of Thrones) and Kevin McGahern (Hardy Bucks), who will play the lead.

The ninth annual Irish Film & Television Awards took place tonight at a Gala Awards Ceremony held at the Convention Centre Dublin.

In the field of film 'The Guard' was the big winner of the night receiving the Ifta for Best Film, with writer/director John Michael McDonagh named Best Director, Best Screenwriter and the Irish Film Board Rising Star for his feature directorial debut. Fionnula Flannagan who was honoured with a lifetime achievement award also won best supporting actress for her part in 'The Guard'.

Michael Fassbender picked up best actor for 'Shame' while Saoirse Ronan picked up best actress for her role in 'Hanna.' Ryan Gosling picked up the best international actor for 'Drive,' Chris O'Dowd picked up best supporting actor for 'Bridesmaids', and Glenn Close picked up best international actress for 'Albert Nobbs.'

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy...

Albert Nobbs and the other nominations for the 2012 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards have been announced. The 9th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) “sole aim is to celebrate Ireland’s notably talented film and television community. The ceremony is considered to be one of Ireland’s most prestigious awards event, and can be viewed as the Irish equivalent to the American Oscars.” The awards ceremony will be held on February 11, 2012 at the Convention Centre Dublin (Ccd).

The full listing of the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards is below.

Film Categories

Best Film

Albert Nobbs – Alan Moloney, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn and Glenn Close (Parallel Film & TV Productions)

Charlie Casanova – Terry McMahon (Source Productions)

Stella Days – Jackie Larkin & Leslie McKimm (Newgrange Pictures)

The Guard – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Larke, Flore Fernandez Marengo(Element Pictures)

Director Film

Rebecca Daly – The Other Side of Sleep (Fastnet Films)

John Michael McDonagh...

The second series of the former Storyland Success, 'Hardy Bucks', is due to hit our screens later this year on RTÉ Two. Filmed in Swinford, Co. Mayo in June and July in HD, the second series sees the return of the Casteltown boys. Exploring the life in small town Ireland for a group of 20-something slackers. The 6x30 series is produced by Mike Cockayne of Integral Productions and directed by Liz Gill (EastEnders). 'Hardy Bucks' scooped the top voters spot in RTÉ's online Storyland competition in 2009, and a first series was subsequently shot and shown on RTÉ in 2010.

Tuesday, October 12th will see the broadcast of ‘Hardy Bucks’, a new series that was produced following its nine webisodes landing over three million hits. Created by Chris Torduff and Martin Maloney in 2008, the series first came to audiences’ attention when it was competing in RTÉ’S Storyland in 2009. ‘Hardy Bucks’ reigned victorious and is thus debuting on Irish television this evening. We spoke with Martin Maloney – creator and star of the series about his hope that the series doesn’t bomb, his expectation of tonight’s reaction in Swinford and how character The Viper came into existence.