Released first in 2015, historical documentary Mr Deng Goes to Washington will screen in Ireland as part of the China Ireland International Film Festival. Watching my screener in 2019, I was transported back to the 70's. This was to the…

Figures in the gaming community are often seen as living in their own bubble. They are stereotyped as hoodie-wearing shut-ins, hunched over their consoles, mashing away on their controllers and keyboards and somewhat alienated from the real…

Sports comedies seem to have become a dying breed. Your typical entry in the genre sees a team of underdogs achieve the unlikely by beating the impossibly good and evil team and winning the big game – perhaps saving a rec centre in the…

The most basic definition of data science is that it involves the collection, storage, organisation and analysis of massive amounts of data. Yet without a deeper understanding, one might think a data scientist sits in a dark room, huddled…

There's a joke in the opening stretch of the Child's Play reboot that sums up the movie's problems as a whole. After 13-year-old deaf kid Andy (Gabriel Bateman) is given a high-tech Buddi doll (voiced by Mark Hamill) by his single mom…

Need parenting advice that doesn’t read like you joined a new age cult? Ask Grainne for the unvarnished truth about modern Irish parenting. Dear Grainne I haven’t bought myself clothes in a decade but I just bought our 6-year-old clothes…

Anyone who’s seen Planet of the Apes will remember the climactic scene at the end of the film where George Taylor discovers the ruins of the Statue of Liberty, promptly realising that the dystopian Ape-ruled planet he’s on is in fact…

We recently honored D-Day and it brought to mind the life of my father-in-law, who was on the run from the Nazis and eventually captured by them. His name was Thomas Alfred Boyd Parselle (known as Tabs), and he was a Royal Air Force…