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Tom Rowley is a filmmaker/writer/storyteller from Dublin. He co-runs the website and app Storymap, mapping Dublin through its people and their stories. He once buttered a bagel on the wrong side while working in a café, but other than that hes an ok fella.

Literature Features

Literature on Film | Part 6 | The Godfather is Full of Shit

Tom Rowley Feb 3, 2016 2

The Godfather is full of shit. And piss. And semen, lots and lots of snot, bits of brain and skull, and, of course, plenty of blood. In the original Godfather novel, Mario Puzo has a strange need to follow nearly every moment of high drama…

Film Review

Film Review – Can Christmas With The Coopers Become a Seasonal Classic?

Tom Rowley Nov 27, 2015 0

You’re going to watch this film. One day. One Stephen’s Day, probably on RTE2 at 7pm. When you and your family are beginning to doze off from turkey sandwiches, it will come on and someone will say ‘Oh Diane Keaton, I like her’ and then for…

Brain/Body

Why time feels really strange on holidays

Tom Rowley Oct 30, 2015 0

We all know time can feel slow and long when we stew in boredom, or rush past us when we’re excited and enjoying ourselves. Sometimes though, it’s not so simple. Sometimes we feel the same patch of time as both short and long at the same…

Film Review

Film Review | Pan Fails to Cynically Revive the Story of Neverland

Tom Rowley Oct 15, 2015 0

Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara. There is one thing I find incredible about Pan. During all the many focus groups and round table discussions, did nobody consider it ill advised to call a…

Literature Features

The Open Book: Marcel Proust

Tom Rowley Jul 31, 2015 0

It’s really difficult to write or talk about Proust without coming across as a pretentious and irrelevant toolshed. ‘Proust scholar’ has become a pop culture shorthand for the most useless type of individual imaginable. Without even being…