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In one sense the alternate history tale is a very specific kind of story: a type of speculative fiction in which a certain, often key, moment of history has been changed. In another sense, though, alternate history has a much broader…

I love the anthology format, the idea that an audience can sit down each week to watch a series they enjoy yet not know exactly what they are about to see. There is a beauty to it, particularly in this modern world where there’s an…

Rutger Hauer, while attending a 2012 Italian film festival in Milan, said of Blade Runner: “Thirty years ago I saw the future.” Now the world might not yet be an industrial wasteland populated by genetically engineered constructs and…

Released in 1995, Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell had a huge impact on some of Hollywood's more imaginative genre filmmakers, and is regarded today as one of the finest anime films ever made.  It isn't difficult to see why. The original…

Transcribed from HeadStuff Lectures #7 in Workman's Club, Dublin in February 2017. You can watch Una Mullally's Lecture, "Does The Blue Sweater Scene From The Devil Wears Prada Actually Mean Anything And If So, What?" at the bottom of the…