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Lights, Camera, Action Button! is a series exploring film-to-game adaptations in regard to their faithfulness, quality and value long after the original film may have passed into nostalgia. In this edition Jack Ford looks at The Da Vinci…

‘She only rides him when she has AIDS’ This week on Up to 90 we talk Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump. Emma delves deep this time, having recently discovered a new search engine called ‘Google’ which allows her to verify all her Forrest Gump…

Curracloe, 1997 In the summer of 1997 I was 14 years old. School was out and as June crept into July the weather began turning fine, into what I might now refer to as “halcyon days”, where I hadn’t a care in the world. Wexford had…

Hello people. This week's digest may have been affected by the current hot weather so remember to refrigerate it before use for three hours or until firm. 1. An Oral History of Black Jeopardy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VaXlMvAvk…

Can we ever really label a work of art as ‘the best’ of its kind? Surely to do so is reductionist, to suggest that experiencing something – a book, a movie, a painting, a play, a dance, a song – is a quantitative, rather than qualitative…

Welcome to our big 50th episode party! We took over the Vintage Room in The Workman's Club and filled it with sound people. We did a little quiz and gave away some extremely desirable prizes. Then we talked to Oscar-winning graphic designer…

In 1993 Spielberg managed the feat of dominating the box office and the awards season with a double whammy of Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Since then it seems he's attempting the same trick once a decade. In the 2005 he paired Munich…

Welcome to the 100th instalment of the Lit Review! Although it's not very literary to endorse emojis, I encourage you to imagine this post is peppered with the celebratory ones. This week we look at Marina Carr, Tom Hanks and the Ennis Book…

2016! We're nearly there. Oh god, it's been such a long, eventful year. Horrible really. Who knows what shit will have gone down between me writing this and it being published? Nothing is surprising. But still, there were good comedy things…

As Oscar season kicks in to gear, we are greeted by the inevitable array of award-bait movies. At a glance, Sully has all the hallmarks of your standard plaudit grabbing fare: it tells a harrowing true life story, it is directed by…