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Ciaran lives in Belfast, where he programs professionally and writes compulsively. See more of his writing and blogging at www.dailyscribbling.com or follow him on Twitter as @shinyemptyhead.

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Subtext | The Emotional Magic of the Hong Sisters

Ciaran Conliffe Jun 13, 2022 0
Hello and welcome to Subtext, a new irregular column looking at the hidden gems among the foreign language shows and movies available on streaming services. On the 18th of June, a show will arrive on Netflix that promises to be one of…
Film Features

The Art of Videogame Adaptation and Resident Evil at 20

Ciaran Conliffe Mar 15, 2022 0
Video game movies have a bad reputation. Some of this is from video game funs upset that films make sild divergences from the source material (Super Mario Bros, for example). Some of it is that the movies are often not very good (like any…
Film Features

Totally Excellent! | Wayne’s World At 30

Ciaran Conliffe Feb 22, 2022 0
Wayne’s World began life as a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch about two metalhead slackers who broadcast a TV show from their basement. The skits became a fan favourite part of the show, and after a proposed sketch anthology film…
Film

Legacy of the Road Warrior | Mad Max 2 at 40

Ciaran Conliffe Jan 19, 2022 0
The post-apocalyptic genre is older than you might think. It has its roots in the “Dark Ages” of European history, after the Western Roman Empire had fallen and left its former subjects wandering around the ruins of buildings they could…
Film Features

Reinventing The Genre | Ocean’s Eleven at Twenty

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 7, 2021 0
I love heist movies, for much the same reason that I love classic detective stories: the excitement of seeing a trick slowly dissected and laid out in front of you. A proper heist movie is about deception. Yes, there’s the core element of…
Film Features

Lively Spirits | Thirteen Ghosts After 20 Years In the Grave

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 26, 2021 0
Remakes are a pretty contentious topic among film fans. Oftentimes they’re derided as unnecessary (such as Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-for-shot remake of Psycho), while equally often they’re marked down for diverging too far from the original…
Film Features

A Classic With A Fatal Flaw: Cast A Deadly Spell at 30

Ciaran Conliffe Sep 7, 2021 0
The phrase “cult classic” gets thrown around a lot when people are talking about films. Mostly it’s used to describe a film that wasn’t very popular on release but has since become extremely well-regarded. The Big Lebowski is an example…
Film Features

Conspiracy-Theory Time Capsule | Chain Reaction at 25

Ciaran Conliffe Aug 2, 2021 0
There’s a phrase from the mid-90s that described the explosion in use of the Internet (specifically Usenet forums) at that time: “Eternal September”. Before this, with internet access primarily available in universities, new users had only…
Film Features

Call Me Snake | Escape From New York at 40

Ciaran Conliffe Jul 10, 2021 0
America has always feared its cities, and no city has inspired more fear than New York in the 1980s. From the 1960s onward crime rates gradually increased in the Big Apple, driven by ideologically motivated underinvestment in social…
Film Features

The Myth and the Magic | Clash of the Titans 40 Years Later

Ciaran Conliffe Jun 12, 2021 0
One of the most influential moments in the history of film took place in March of 1933, when a young Ray Harryhausen first saw the film King Kong. The primitive stop motion effects in the film fascinated the 13-year-old Harryhausen, and it…
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