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Then get out there and make it! a couple of years ago some guys asked me how I got into film reviewing. It was mostly by chance.

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I've always loved movies, my aunt used to take me to the cinemas at weekends as a child where I'd see see films I fell in love with like The Princess Bride , Labyrinth the Disney animated movies and ET, but talking about them was a fun thing to do on @McYapandFries

After I took a break from project management however, I saw on twitter that @nerdpsan & @STARBURST_MAG were looking for writers (they probably still are). These weren't paid positions but you could get review copies of books/comics and a place to show case your writing

also very handy was an "@starburstmagazine.com" email address, which made it much easier to get added to the movie distributors press lists for press screenings

After doing that an IT jobs for a while I was getting press invites to movies that were coming out here before the US & UK so I'd get an early review into both @nerdspan & @STARBURST_MAG. these eventually helped me get a paid writing gig @TheHypedGeek

This is turn lead to me appearing in some #gameOfThrones recap videos over at @IGNSEA . You can still see some of these here sea.ign.com/game-of-throne…

The ign and hypedgeek jobs came to an end however, but luckily that's when @AtTheMoviesMY picked up, I'd met both @umapagan & @bahiry through friend over thr years and even had them on our @mcyapandfries movie podcast.

you can hear @umapagan's @mcyapandfries appearance from 2015, where we reviewed Mad Max:Fury Road, Tomorrowland and SPY here mcyapandfries.com/the-uma-iain-s…

..and you can hear @bahiry's appearance on @McYapandFries where we reviewed Zoolander 2, Gods Of Egypt (!!!! ) and Zootopia here
mcyapandfries.com/episode-165-th…

Just before #TheForceAwakens came out @umapagan asked if I'd be interested in reviewing it on the @bfmradio with him ...I was but I was heading home to Ireland for Christmas and wouldn't be here!
I thought I'd blown my big chance!

Luckily, once I got back he asked me on anyway and I've been appearing almost regularly since starting with The Big Short in January 2016 bfm.my/at-the-movies-…

... and since the beginning of this year we've switched from doing 1 show a week to 5 :O thankfully there is MORE than enough movie and
TV show content to keep us going!