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Posted on January 16, 2019

“Gravity18” – Tokyo Cigar

Tokyo Cigar is a hip hop  artist / producer… who made this atmospheric short film as a personal diary of his 2018:

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Posted on March 25, 2017

Review of “Blockbuster”, Tom Shone, SAU Blog, February 2005

  Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now –  indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…

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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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Posted on August 29, 2015

Review of “Adaptation”, Limerick Event Guide 2003

In early 2003 I lived and worked in Limerick, a much maligned city that I remain very fond of. I contributed to a local magazine with the self explanatory name…

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