Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode Three: The COVID Effect on Film and TV

Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #21: Sports and TV Rights

Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the relationship between sports and TV  

Things Get Better?: LGBTQ Representation in Animation in 2022

In January 2022, I wrote that there was a possibility that in 2022 things would “get better” in terms of LGBTQ representation, with new fandoms developing from shows which take risks by telling diverse stories. Although 2022, in some regards, more than lived up to this possibility and went beyond, there were challenges. In the […]

Britflix: V for Vendetta

Dystopian stories are a subgenre fiction that the British have mastered, including Alan Moore’s famous graphic novel V for Vendetta. It was famously adapted by the Wachowskis in 2005 and the film immediately became a cult classic. In the near future, Britain has become a fascist state. The government constantly blasts religious propaganda, Islam is […]