Virtual Citizens

On this first half of a special VC edition, it's that yearly podcast tradition of looking back on the year that's transpired and pick out the bits that were good! If that was even possible in the year of our Lord 2018. With the good help of Barry Ironic Snap Neenan, the gang pick through their favorite bits, from Netflix shows to Netflix shows to the written word and getting into sports! Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each...

On this holly jolly edition of Virtual Citizens, the gang convene to ponder that most Christmas of figures: Santa Claus! We took a tour through his most recent screen incarnations and see what decades of irony and post-modern thought had wrought on that most sacrosant of Christmas figures not named Jesus Christ. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern media and pop culture in odd...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the gang try to grapple with the weirdly mainstream and blockbuster appeal of the genre that is disaster movies! Why are films where natural calamities are inflicted on large groups of people weirdly popular? Whether they be giant waves, volcanic eruptions or just inexplicable birds, we try to grapple with what it is that makes them popular. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, we are joined by Virtual Citizens Founding Father Mark Crabbe to basically do a good ole WhatchaWhatcha - what we've been watching, reading, playing from the phantasmagoria that is today's pop culture! Hear about the chilling illustrations of H.R. Giger, learn about speedrunning video games and oh no, another elongated rave about why tabletop roleplaying games are good! The horror! Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a...

On this spooktacular edition of VC, we tackle that most modern of movie monsters, the zombie! Their origins, their many permutations, the differences between fast and slow and how they came to be the movie monster that basically hijacked the early 00's! Joined by the ever-effervescent Zoe Brennan-Whitmore, as the title says. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern media and pop culture...

On this special guest edition of Virtual Citizens, we're delighted to be joined by YA author extraordinaire Susin Nielsen to talk about her long career in Canadian teenage television, her transition into writing books, her catalogue of works such as We Were Optimists and Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom and her latest release, No Fixed Address, about a young boy dealing with the specter of his homelessness. Check it out! Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the table becomes a trio! Kealan Hegarty joins Leandro and Emmet on one of our patented strolls through an Oscars category, this one on documentaries! From current affairs to weird stories all the way to sports, we run the gamut of what makes documentaries great at capturing life in its many-splendored glory. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern...

On this special edition of VC, Leandro and Emmet sat down and had a chat with prolific author Melvin Burgess to talk about his long career as an author of Young Adult fiction, including his first book in five years, The Lost Witch, various controversies around books such as Junk and Doing It, the state of YA fiction, and Billy Elliot! Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern media and...

On this VERY SPECIAL edition of Al-leluia, Alastair Dennehy got to chat with a bevy of Ireland's up-and-coming video game developers at Dublin Comic-Con 2018 and find out what's in store for the future of the Irish gaming scene.

On this edition of VC, the original quartet (now hereafter known as the Cool Ranch)reconvene to talk about another film genre, this time British romantic comedies! That twee, flighty, frothy world of average guys, dazzling girls, meet-cutes and a sense of romantic hutzpah that's completely not reflected at all in our broken, ridiculous reality. How does the gang fare? Check it out. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each...

Virtual Citizens takes a look at one of the offerings from the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018, a satirical black comedy about a would-be men's rights activism college society and the bumbling group of idiots caught up in its creation. https://smockalley.com/white/ PRESENTER & PRODUCED: Leandro Pondoc INTERVIEWEE'S: Pea Dineen, Caoimhe McGowan, Alastair Dennehy, Cathal O'Rourke ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Alastair Dennehy, Neil Ferren (Patreon) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emmet Jones

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the Man Of A Soulful Voice, Adam Halpin, rejoins the crew to talk about stop-motion animation! That most laborious but most glorious form of animation which involves taking real materials and making them move in monstrous but wonderful ways. From Greek myths to the danse macabre, from otherworldly faerie worlds to Wonderland reimagined as a dusty Czech attic, we cover the gamut of the form here. ADDITIONAL NOTES History of Stop-Motion Animation...

On this special report, Virtual Citizens went down to Dublin Comic-Con 2018 to take in the sights and sounds of one of Ireland's biggest gathering of passionate nerds and geeks around. SPECIAL THANKS: Nerds & Geeks www.nerds-n-geeks.com https://twitter.com/nerdsngeeksie Canvas Warriors www.canvaswarriors.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/canvaswarriors/ Bowled Over NI https://www.facebook.com/bowledoverNI/ Crazed https://www.crazedaristocrats.com/ https://www.instagram.com/CrazedAristocrats/...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, we were absolutely delighted to be joined by the erudite Kevin Kelly, co-host of Trust Me It's Good! and knower of good music to talk about concert movies! Films that capture bands at specific moments through the prism of a specific performance, whether at the height, the end or the twilight of their careers. From rockstar legends still plugging away to dynamic, larger-than-life presences, it's a veritable gamut of music opinion! A selling point if there...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the table is joined by the VC Website Writing Team of Barry Neenan and Mark Laherty to wax lyrical about sequels! But not just any sequels, ones that emerged decades after the original! What happens when movies lay fallow and suddenly they gain an extension decades after the fact? Listen and find out! Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern media...

On this special guest iteration of Virtual Citizens, we were joined by author and podcaster extraordinaire Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about a veritable smorgasbord ofstuff about her career, from the post-Celtic Tiger days, living in San Francisco and coming back, podcasting about childish things on Juvenalia, a post-apocalyptic Dublin, her latest works and why she doesn't like endings. Sarah also stuck around to tackle a subject that would strike fear into the hearts of mortals: VIDEO...

On this week's Virtual Citizens, the gang is rejoined by teacher and voracious book reader Stephen Dennehy on the topic of books! Not just on books but on the myriad ways people fall off reading and ways to get back on board. We talk about the whys, the hows and the whats when it comes to climbing back on the reading train, along with some macho posturing over who has read the MOST books so far this year. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture...

On this special report, Virtual Citizens headed down to the 2018 installment of the Dublin Ghost Story Festival to talk to authors and fans about the shivering delights of the macabre and the supernatural.

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the gang is joined by Kealan Hegarty to talk about all things music and pictures, that is to say music videos and their evolution! We take a trip through the decades as music videos rose from cheap promotional marketing tools to expensive promotional marketing tools that also happened to define pop culture in their respective eras. It's a hefty but meaty dive through Kate Bush, Nirvana, the glimmerings of the Bush Era and a channel that claimed to have...

On this edition of Virtual Citizens, the gang is rejoined by Billy Keenan to take a dive into another classic Hollywood genre, film noir! When lighting was set low and Venetian blinds were all the rage, private detectives, seductive femme fatales, sad criminals and a seedy underbelly of terrible people permeated the screen. Virtual Citizens is a pop culture podcast, as the parlance goes, from a pop culture generation, with each episode taking in the trappings of modern media and pop culture...