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How To Get To Heaven From Belfast Reviews: Critics Hail ‘Hilarious’ Series

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast Reviews: Critics Hail ‘Hilarious’ Series

Published by Sam Flores

The creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, has a new show to cure your February blues. Amid the never-ending rain in the UK, Netflix has released How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, a new comedy crime caper starring Irish actors Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, and Caoilfhionn Dunne as three childhood friends with a huge skeleton in their closet. The trio of childhood friends is summoned to the eerie fictional village of Knockdara in County Donegal after they learn about the death of their estranged friend, and soon discover that there is more to the situation than meets the eye. This starts the women on an eccentric odyssey through rural Ireland, and their past. Critics are in love with this new crime drama, praising the balance of thrills and comedy. and highlighting the performances from the ensemble cast, which also includes Ardal O’Hanlon, Emmett J. Scanlan and Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson. Here’s a selection of what the critics are saying about How To Get To Heaven From Belfast so far… “It’s all written with McGee’s …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

Published by Daniella Wilson

While the subject matter and twists of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast are enough to keep you going, the Netflix series certainly doesn’t shy away from its fair share of epic needledrop moments. The music of the series is one of the main draws of the new Lisa McGee comedy-drama, with tracks from the likes of B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, S Club 7 and Tatu transporting us right back to our younger years. There’s also, much to McGee’s personal delight, plenty of Girls Aloud – a group with Derry connections (Nadine Coyle) that McGee couldn’t have used in seminal comedy series Derry Girls due to the timeline. Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com, McGee said: “I think because Girls Aloud has a Derry girl in it, that felt fun to sort of work that in. Some of the tracks in Derry Girls that we had to use, we cut off at ’98. So Girls Aloud, I could never use. I was like ‘Well, I’m using them now – all the time!’.” As for whether the music …

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub | Zack Polanski

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub | Zack Polanski

Published by Sam Flores

WAKEFIELD 17 JANUARY 2026 “I’m dying for a wee,” Zack Polanski says as he gets off the train at Wakefield Westgate. Why didn’t you go on the train, I ask? “It was very busy and too many people recognised me on the way to the toilet. I knew I’d never get there for all the conversations, so I came back.” When did it become hard for him to go to the toilet on a train? “2 September,” he says. “The day I was elected.” At first, I wonder if Polanski is bigging himself up, but over the next couple of weeks I see for myself he is not exaggerating. While Polanski says it’s not, and cannot be, about one individual, in Green circles there is much talk of the Polanski effect. Since he was elected in September 2025, the Greens have risen by an average of four points in the polls. Just before going to press, the Guardian’s latest poll tracker had the party at 13.5%, only five points behind Labour, on 18.6%; 20% of …

How Shaker Design Crafts Visions of Heaven on Earth

How Shaker Design Crafts Visions of Heaven on Earth

Published by José Betancourt

Just as the new movie The Testament of Ann Lee brings the Shakers back into the public eye, an exhibition at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art celebrates the movement’s lasting contributions to art and design. “The Shakers: A World in the Making” is a collaboration between the ICA, Vitra Design Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Shaker Museum that brings historic Shaker objects into dialogue with contemporary art, including works newly commissioned for the show. A religious sect founded in the late 18th century by an Englishwoman named Ann Lee, the Shakers emigrated to the United States and established communities dedicated to both shared living and celibacy. The latter would hardly seem conducive to an expanding influence, but the Shakers managed to gather over 4,000 members (some estimates have it as high as 6,000) at their peak in the 19th century. Their lives of devotion involved crafting a vision of heaven on earth through exquisitely made everyday objects: brooms, chairs, and oval boxes that radiate a quiet perfection. Related Articles Amanda Seyfried and ensemble …

Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ — here’s what won her over

Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ — here’s what won her over

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more When the Queen of Pop called the Kentish town of Margate her “idea of heaven”, I knew I had to see it for myself. Stepping off the train after an 80-mile trip from London, I was immediately met by a riot of murals, thoughtful graffiti and street art. With its dense concentration of studios, galleries and grassroots creative spaces, it is clear art does not just exist here, it’s woven into the town’s fabric. That may help explain why Madonna has become a regular presence on the south-east coast. Her latest visit coincided with Margate’s Off Season winter art festival, where the Material Girl singer appeared in support of her friend Dame Tracey Emin. open image in gallery Madonna posted a series of pictures …

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more With its sandy beach, popular market and growing arts scene, more and more visitors have been visiting Margate amid an impressive revival for the Victorian seaside town – but its latest tourist has taken it to new fame. Posting on her Instagram profile to her 20million followers, Madonna shared pictures from her visit to an arts festival in the town last weekend, the second time she has reportedly visited in three months. Pictured with Turner Prize winner Dame Tracey Emin, she praised her friend’s “quite remarkable” residency programme for artists in the community, before providing a glowing review on the town, which has a population of just over 60,000 and is around 80 miles from London. “The whole town seems to be inhabited and …

‘The closest I’ve come to heaven while falling asleep’: the best weighted blankets in the UK, tested | Health & wellbeing

‘The closest I’ve come to heaven while falling asleep’: the best weighted blankets in the UK, tested | Health & wellbeing

Published by Sam Flores

Anyone who’s ever nodded off under the weight of a purring cat or snoring dog already knows how weighted blankets work. The warmth, the softness, the hefty pressure that renders you unable to fidget or indeed move. Worries subside, and you have no choice but to slide into slumber. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Studies have demonstrated some success for weighted blankets as sleep aids, but where these hefty quilts seem to excel is in alleviating anxiety – and not just according to TikTok influencers. Scientists, medics and the NHS are trialling them to comfort dementia patients, soothe neurodivergent children and even relieve chronic pain. I’ve long been intrigued by weighted blankets. The list of maladies they’re said to soothe is like looking in the mirror (anxiety, check; restless legs when I’m trying to fall asleep, oh, very check), and I’m always open to drug-free remedies. However, being pinned down never struck me as relaxing, and weighted blankets can even be …

3 things Will Douglas Heaven is into right now

3 things Will Douglas Heaven is into right now

Published by skeptic

Finding signs of life in the uncanny valley Watching Sora ­videos of Michael Jackson stealing a box of chicken nuggets or Sam Altman biting into the pink meat of a flame-grilled Pikachu has given me flashbacks to an Ed Atkins exhibition at Tate Britain I saw a few months ago. Atkins is one of the most influential and unsettling British artists of his generation. He is best known for hyper-detailed CG animations of himself (pore-perfect skin, janky movement) that play with the virtual representation of human emotions.  Still from ED ATKINS PIANOWORK 2 2023COURTESY: THE ARTIST, CABINET GALLERY, LONDON, DÉPENDANCE, BRUSSELS, GLADSTONE GALLERY In The Worm we see a CGI Atkins make a long-distance call to his mother during a covid lockdown. The audio is from a recording of an actual conversation. Are we watching Atkins cry or his avatar? Our attention flickers between two realities. “When an actor breaks character during a scene, it’s known as corpsing,” Atkins has said. “I want everything I make to corpse.” Next to Atkins’s work, generative videos look …

Caught Up To Heaven, then Prayers Brought Him Back – OpentheWord.org

Caught Up To Heaven, then Prayers Brought Him Back – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

When Gabe Poirot arrive at the hospital emergency he was suffering from a traumatic brain injury, CBN reports. Gabe and his friend John Michael were skateboarding when Gabe’s board hit something on the road. The impact sent him flying six feet in the air and landing on his head. Gabe, who was not wearing a helmet, was knocked unconscious. As they waited for the ambulance Michael prayed that Gabe would not die. Gabe said that he was aware his friend was praying for him, but added something strange started happening to him. “By the time the ambulance had gotten there, honestly, I was suctioned up by light to this tunnel of light suctioned me up out of there,” Gabe said. “I immediately knew that I was being suctioned up to an appointment with Him,” Gabe added. “It was like this city of pure glory, pure light, pure love. But then as the closer I got to the center of the city, He was – He was there waiting for me. Seeing Him changed everything.” After …