Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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In Dublin’s Fair City, where the girls kick you silly
29 Jan 2012Dublin is a city that works well in movies. I can buy it as a place where buskers fulfill their…
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General Zod’s Chicken
13 Jan 2012Once a year, usually around my birthday, my parents come over to visit and make sure Ang hasn’t killed me…
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Put your thumbs away
02 Oct 2011I’ve been a firm believer in the Wittertainment Code of Conduct and because of this spent many a movie under…
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Absolute Nightmare
29 Aug 2011There’s a long tradition among Western writers of lionising ancient ways of life, as if there’s something better about giving…
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Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat
01 Aug 2011I don’t like procedurals. Put CSI Whatever on the TV, I’ll yawn. The Mentalist or Lie to Me, I’ll yell…
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Cargo Cult Crackberry
16 Jul 2011Cargo Cults emerged on New Guinea during World War II after the indigenous populations saw planes landing to deliver food…
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One Long Sentence about Handjobs
16 Jun 2011In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom asks if it “would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub”. Exactly one…
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The Smell of Reeves and Worcester
29 May 2011One of the more fun stories from The Shadow Conspiracy II was Chris Dolley‘s Wodehousian pastiche, What Ho! Automaton –…
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Eat Your Heart Out De Selby
22 Apr 2011Could I have approached a book with more trepidation? From a publishing house that seems to specialise in Buddhist philosophy,…
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Kapow ComicCon, Day 1: A Wil Wheaton of Nerds
11 Apr 2011For years comic book fans in the UK have looked across the sea at San Diego and New York and…
