Sunday, September 13, 2020

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For my considerable sins I have this year found myself serving on the programme team of Octocon , the Irish science fiction and fantasy conv...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Where to find the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards finalists

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Popular blog File 770 has a post by JJ on Where To Find The 2020 Hugo Award Finalists For Free Online , a useful resource for anyone wantin...

The spice did not flow: "Jodorowsky's Dune" (2013)

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This was shown in the Irish Film Institute as the opening film in their season of films by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Unlike the others however t...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Where to start with classic Doctor Who?

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Over on popular social media site Facebook, one of my pals said she was planning to explore the world of classic Doctor Who and I took it u...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

"Tomb of the Cybermen" (1967)

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This is a four episode story from the popular TV series Doctor Who . In this one the second Doctor and his pals Jamie (Scottish) and Victor...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip ‘I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper’ (1978)

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All the space stuff I was doing over the summer decided me that I wanted to download this amazing tune, which is one of very few instances ...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Derek Jarman corner: one exhibition, two films

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Derek Jarman died some time ago but there is currently a retrospective exhibition of his work on in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and I t...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

TV: An episode of "Game of Thrones" (2017)

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When I was on an aeroplane to Canada I took the opportunity to watch a random episode of popular TV series Game of Thrones to see what I co...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Film: "A Star Is Born" (2018)

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On a flight to Canada with my mother I watched this film, which is the one about Jack, an ageing alcoholic cock-rocker, played by Bradley Co...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Podcast: "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (2018)

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This is a dramatisation by Sweet Talk Productions' Julian Simpson of HP Lovecraft's popular short novel of the same name. It is avai...