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I wrote several weeks ago about how the genesis of Saved by the Bell represented an uncomfortable dychotomy between the lives young people want and the lives they're ultimately presented with. For the most part, teen dramas seem to err on…

Over the weekend my friends and I decided to sit down and watch every film in the The Fast and the Furious franchise in one sitting starting at 8:40 am and ending at 12 midnight. I had previously only seen the first one at a hellish…

There are a lot of superheroes right now. There are nine big comic book releases lined up for 2016 alone and that’s not even counting the tidal wave of new TV shows being commissioned based on various superhero properties. For comic fans…

The decade of the 1980s still holds a gargantuan treasure chest of blissfully stupid B-movie actioners and schlock science fiction. Travel back to your earliest memories of going to the cheapest, flimsiest video shop you can think of and…

A couple of weeks ago, Kelly Kapowski, Jessica Spano, Albert-Clifford Slater, Mr. Richard Belding and the 5-dimensional trickster-God known as Zachary Morris were born again on the set of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Fans…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is as good now as it ever was, and it’s one of the best TV series of all time. I’m sure ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘The Wire’ and ‘True Detective’ probably still surpass it in terms of sheer quality, but ‘Buffy’ has a scene…

Have you ever found yourself watching a repeat of something, be it a perennial favourite or a guilty pleasure, only to find that something’s not quite right? You might have seen an episode of How I Met Your Mother (or How I Met Your Late…

Character Select concerns moments in film, television and gaming where music had such a significant impact that, for better or worse, it became a character in its own right. Rob Ó Conchúir casts a wary eye over some of the more out-there…

Character Select concerns moments in film, television and gaming where music had such a significant impact that it became a character in its own right. First up, Rob Ó Conchúir tackles a subject close to his heart; movie tie-in songs.  A…