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Posted on April 6, 2016

Football movies (review of Goal! in SAU blog, September 2005)

Continuing my ressurection of my sport-themed writing, here is another piece from the Social Affairs Unit Blog.  Ostensibly a review of Goal! this is really a mini-essay on football movies – I had written…

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Posted on September 17, 2015

A Question of Silence: review of “Berberian Sound Studio” and “The Numbers Station”, Nthposition, early 2014

The original is here . Recently I watched Computer Chess which is similar to Berberian Sound Studio in many ways – an unusual setting and milieu usually ignored by filmmakers, and a main character’s…

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Posted on August 29, 2015March 23, 2017

The Last Battle of World War II, piece about Die Hard, originally written for Miscellany (TCD magazine, possibly during its brief UCD/TCD existence)

This ultimately ended up as a review on the Internet Movie Database . Originally it was a piece for Miscellany. Miscellany is a TCD magazine with a long history. For one year,…

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