Blog posts   A load of bloggox?   When you start off something new you are inevitably going to get a lot of things wrong. It’s always been the case with me anyway. I think the one regret I do have is not bouncing back(1) quickly enough from disappointment. But enough introspection. There’s plenty of…

    I watched 4 films this weekend. There was a bit of down time between college projects so I said to myself why not? The others were fine but the pick of the bunch was a Mike Leigh film from 1996. I am ashamed to say this is probably only the fourth film of his…

If you’re expecting this to be an apocalyptic message of doom, relax. I can’t compete with all those other media sites telling you that Donald Trump is going to blow up the world or that Europe will be destroyed within the next 12 months. All that might be true but it doesn’t matter. Why? Because…

It is rare that modern cinema can work so well on a number of different levels. This definitely ticked a lot of the right boxes… It would remiss of me not to decry the overabundance of comic strip cinema spewing from the studios of America but in its defence it has thrown up some pertinent…

The familiar refrain of David Guetta’s theme tune dies out and all we have now are the memories. It was alright while it lasted. Maybe even better than alright. After months of fear mongering about potential terror threats, people from all over Europe turned up and had some fun. The football itself was average, though…

Here is a link to a piece I wrote for a friend’s website. Kevin Shields is a bona fide cinema buff and has an incomparable knowledge of all things cinema. Follow him on Facebook if you can. http://cracked-reel.blogspot.ie/2015/02/pakulas-paranoia.html

Here is a 2013 piece I wrote regarding the Gay marriage referendum-interesting to look back on it, see what I got right, see what I might have got wrong. https://ifihadaminutetospare.com/category/guest-post/ray-hyland/ Many thanks to Conor O’Reilly who published the original piece. Please take a gander at his website. He has been at it far longer than…

My initial thoughts on Brexit