Masters Of The Force Awakens
A magnificent mash-up of 1987’s big-screen turkey, “Masters of the Universe”, and 2015’s winner of Most-Grating-British-Accent-Ever, “Star Wars: The ForceContinue Reading
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, VFX Before And After
Watch it while you can!
An Irish Girl Rebel And The American Poet Joyce Kilmer
I thought some readers of An Sionnach Fionn might be interested in this interview, originally published in The New YorkContinue Reading
Is MTV’s New Fantasy Offering Shannara Shore Or Shannara Cribs?
In the 1990s and early 2000s many critics decried the stunted practice in the movie and television industries of plagiarising the productions of rivalContinue Reading
The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special
With all the hype this week surrounding the release of J. J. Abrams’ new addition to the Star Wars franchise, “Star Wars: The ForceContinue Reading
The Glass Ceiling In The Star Wars Triology
Here’s something to annoy the Sad Puppies crowd, a super-cut of all the spoken dialogue from women other than Princess Leia inContinue Reading
ASF-TFIF Brings You Dancing Predators With Danny Glover
Following a purgatory week of meetings and teleconferences of questionable merit – slidey-widey PowerPoint presentations being a poor substitute for empirical evidence, no matterContinue Reading
Peter Capaldi Finds His Doctor Who
I must admit to being fairly critical of Peter Capaldi’s work in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who – havingContinue Reading
Exploring The Genre Frontier In Joss Whedon’s 2005 Movie Serenity
I have a great deal of affection for Joss Whedon’s prematurely ended science-fiction series, “Firefly”, which aired on Fox TelevisionContinue Reading
Kelly Sue DeConnick Interview With The DB
A quick post to note this Daily Beast interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick, one of the more interesting figures working in comics today.Continue Reading
Ralph Bakshi Interview With Salon
Salon has a short interview with the cult animator, Ralph Bakshi, who among other things produced a decidedly dark version ofContinue Reading
Willard Price’s Adventure Series, With Hal And Roger Hunt
Oh happy days! Well not quite, but forgive a brief moment of satisfaction following the discovery of the name –Continue Reading
Here Be Dragons, Book Images Of The Internet Archive On Flickr
Susceptible as I am to the marriage of history with technology, being the original antiquarian-technophile, my love affair with the Internet ArchiveContinue Reading
No, Ireland Did Not Inspire Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings
I love Ireland. I love the Lord of the Rings and most of the other associated works in J.R.R. Tolkien’sContinue Reading
2000 AD and Judge Dredd Quality Comics’ Collection
The problem with being a hopeless Teicógach (or Irish Geek) is the habit of collecting one’s interests – or obsessions –Continue Reading
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Hugogate Or The Hugo Awards, Sad Puppies And Rabid Puppies
When I was growing up in Ireland during the 1980s and ’90s possessing a passion for Science-Fiction almost inevitably led one toContinue Reading
Risking The Ire Of Outlander Fans
Scottish blogger Tocasaid has cast a cold eye over the Anglo-American television adaptation of the genre-defying Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon, and drawnContinue Reading
Tiocfaidh Ár Phéig!
Author Sara Baume writing in the Irish Times: “There are plenty of arguments against the inclusion of Sayers inContinue Reading
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
Neil Gaiman at the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2015.
Star Wars Versus Star Trek Epic Trailer
I’m not a huge fan of either “franchise”, however would I watch this? Damn sure I would! 😉
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Celtic Cosmology, Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland
Over the last two decades relatively few studies have been published analysing the cosmological traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples, atContinue Reading
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