Author

Cethan Leahy 4 posts 0 comments

Cethan Leahy is a writer, drawer, and filmmaker. At parties, he can do all three. He is Assistant Editor of the Penny Dreadful and his short stories are published in Looking Glass Magazine, Wordlegs and Five Dials. His animation short The Beast of Bath won first place in the Signal Arts Centre Film Fest and broadcasted on 3e. His blog is cethanleahy.wordpress.com and he tweets at @Cethanleahy

Film Review

Oscar Watch | Why Room Should Win Best Picture

Cethan Leahy Feb 28, 2016 0

(Spoilers for Room and The Revenant) If the only thing you know about Room was the premise, it would be very easy to imagine a different film, perhaps a version that would play in the much coveted 2am slot on the Horror Channel between a…

Film Features

Literature on Film | Part 3 | “Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer!” – A Tribute to The…

Cethan Leahy Dec 23, 2015 0

Jim Henson was dead: to begin with. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Published in 1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is among the most adapted stories to Film…

Literature

Review | Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Cethan Leahy Jul 15, 2015 1

In as much as it’s possible to make such a statement, To Kill a Mockingbird is a perfect book; the rare modern literary classic that everyone has actually read. (If someone found an earlier, radically different draft of, say, Ulysses, it’s…

Short Fiction

The Countryside of the Apes

Cethan Leahy Feb 1, 2014 1

The radio shrieked with report of simian rebellion. “The apes… the apes… They have rebelled and there are too many… I... Don’t know what to…” The signal was too distorted to say for sure, but Farmer Jones was fairly confident that he…