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Bryan recently finished up a course in Journalism and now spends his days considering the future and the politics of almost any country other than Ireland. In addition he dulls the bleakness of his career trajectory by watching countless hours of TV and imagining himself as the second coming of Morrissey. He tweets @Groganb2

Film

Kings of Tech | How Fincher, Boyle and Sorkin have Redefined the Tech-Biopic

Bryan Grogan Sep 30, 2017 0

David Fincher’s The Social Network is an under-appreciated mammoth of a film. A film which helped to redefine the function of the biopic, as more than merely capturing moments and personalities.The question is not whether this is the case,…

Film

When Harry Met Darkness | Alfonso Cuaron and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Bryan Grogan May 24, 2017 0

There is a certain well-known secret that is whispered in the Harry Potter Universe somewhere between the general failure of Daniel Radcliffe’s recent acting career and the strange charisma that exudes from Michael Gambon’s creepy…

Music

In Defence of Tyler, the Creator

Bryan Grogan Sep 4, 2015 0

With the news that Tyler, the Creator has been banned from performing in the UK for the next three to five years, certain things come to mind. Firstly, it feels like the world has regressed back in time, through the courtroom scenes of the…

Literature Features

Haruki Murakami and the Midnight Disease

Bryan Grogan Sep 1, 2015 0

Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who can be best described as an odd auld creature. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, it is hard to figure out why he has not yet been a winner - in lieu of the likes of recent…