James McAnespy News and Blog

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

I was recently interviewed by Holly Bartolo at the fantastic comedy blog The Phoenix Remix about my involvement in Ecumenical Matters - The Father Ted podcast.

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 lead single: can it sink an anticipated album before it's even dropped?

𝕴've been blogging a lot this summer about Arcade Fire's lead single from Everything Now. It's an instantly-catchy, room-grabbi...
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...
Moving to LA for Pilot Season - the actor's Mecca

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...