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Next up: I will be featuring in the short films Dark & Stormy and Belfast Caliber 9.

Just a quick entry about the fact that I was researching one of the locations for None Of That podcast, and came across this blog by an Italian writer.

http://www.bohemianwanderer.com/en/2014/08/serendipita-bookfinders-cafe-bookshop-a-belfast/

𝕻ilot season is the early months of the year, when a lot of production companies in Hollywood are creating new TV shows in the hope that th...

The Fallacy of Britpop's 'Big Four' Revisionism.

Britpop was a glorious era for British and Irish music, when bands from almost every major city in the country were generating enough ground...
Film: Jackalope [2017]

This is the film Jackalope I made last year with the always brilliant Frontier Pictures . It's a skin-crawling comedy horror, about a e...
The West Wing's powerhouse ensemble cast elevated the brilliant writing

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing was a monumental achievement in 21st century television, showing that the medium could be as ambitious as c...
The London Cinema Museum faces closure, please help save it

A few years back I had the unique pleasure of attending the London Cinema Museum - a little, volunteer-run collection of movie posters, earl...
Harvey Weinstein and the silent men.

This past week has seen the whole of the Hollywood power structure completely upended by revelations that one of the most powerful people in...