Blake’s 7 And Gareth Thomas
A quick post to note the passing last week of the seventy-one year old Welsh-born actor Gareth Thomas, who is bestContinue Reading
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Two Irish Fantasy Writers On The 1916 Easter Rising
A quick post to recommend this short essay, “The Political Imagination: Irish Fantasy Writers and the Easter Rising“, by Rob MaslenContinue Reading
Internationalised Domain Names To Be Introduced For Ireland Namespace
It seems likely that the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company that manages Ireland’s “.ie” country code top-level domain (ccTLD), is to go aheadContinue Reading
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Rowling’s History Of Magic In North America Is Not Magical To Native Peoples
Some of you may be aware of yesterday’s launch of “History of Magic in North America”, an expansion of theContinue Reading
The New Rockstars Need A Lesson In History And Geography
The pretentiously-named geek website, The New Rockstars (“What The Internet Cares About Right ****ing Now!”. By which they mean maleContinue Reading
Biggs Darklighter And Other Deleted Characters And Scenes From Star Wars
Most hardcore Star Wars’ fans will be aware of these deleted scenes from the original trilogy of movies, the eponymousContinue Reading
Trouble In Fantasy Fiction
The phrase, two bald men fighting over a comb, springs to mind when reading this Guardian report on the legalContinue Reading
The Power of Privacy With Aleks Krotoski
Technology journalist and psychologist, Aleks Krotoski, presents a Guardian documentary, “The Power of Privacy”, examining growing concerns about private data and onlineContinue Reading
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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, VFX Before And After
Watch it while you can!
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
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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