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About Declan Finn

Declan Finn is the author of Honor at Stake, an urban fantasy novel, nominated for Best Horror in the first annual Dragon Awards. He has also written The Pius Trilogy, an attempt to take Dan Brown to the woodshed in his own medium -- soon to be republished by Silver Empire Press. Finn has also written "Codename: Winterborn," an SF espionage thriller, and it's follow-up, "Codename: Winterborn." And "It was Only on Stun!" and "Set To Kill" are murder mysteries at a science fiction convention.

Game Review: The Wolf Among Us

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Declan Finn

Did you ever have one of those books where you always wanted to see it in other mediums? This is one of mine.

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The Catholic Geek Radio Show Has Begun!

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Declan Finn

So. This happened. Yes, I seem to say that a lot. 

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Alice: Madness Returns

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Declan Finn

Do you like scary movies? If you do, keep on coming, have we a doozy for you today.

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Fisking Catholic Fiction

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Declan Finn

Sometimes, I love my fellow Catholics. And sometimes, they are brain-dead stupid. If you look at this article from CatholicFiction.net, you’ll see this great example of brain death. Science fiction has also been derelict in its duty. Who does science … Continue reading →

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What We Will and Won’t Miss from the Star Wars Expanded Universe

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Declan Finn

Six things we won’t miss from the demise of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU), and four things we will. Last year, the Holy Rodent Empire (aka: Disney), released a note on the state of its expanded universe, including games and … Continue reading →

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Video Game Review of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Declan Finn

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, was an awesome, awesome game.  Does Part five, Skyrim, also hold on to the legacy?            

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Video Games: Not the Root of All Evil

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Declan Finn

There they go again. A while back, (on another Catholic site) I wrote an article about video games, essentially saying that, yes, they’re morally neutral, they are what you make of them, and the violent, profanity-ridden video games are clearly … Continue reading →

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Lego Marvel Superheroes.

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Declan Finn

This is what happens when the biggest film franchise of all times meets the safest children’s toy of all time. Title:

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Review: Specter

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Declan Finn

These two are right up there with Nick and Nora Charles Continue reading →

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Can Frankenstein Resurrect Fox?

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Declan Finn

Many moons ago, I had heard that Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein material was going to be made into a film.  But then book 3 took forever to come out, it was clear that it wasn’t going to be as good with … Continue reading →

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The Return of Minority Report

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Declan Finn

Yeah.  Minority Report as a television show.  Uh huh. So … this happened. Item the first, bad things happened to the last sci-fi cop show on television, just saying.

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More Fall TV: Blindspot

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Declan Finn

First of all, if the actress looks familiar, picture her with long hair. With battle armor.  And a Valkyrie.  Yes, this is lady Sif from the Marvel movie universe, Jamie Alexander. I guess somebody saw her on Agents of SHIELD … Continue reading →

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Coming to TV: Lucifer as Detective?

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Declan Finn

Yes, you saw that correctly, this is a real thing. Lucifer is bored with running Hell, so he moved to LA.  How he can tell the difference is beyond me. Anyway, Lucifer is also fed up with vice directly affecting … Continue reading →

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GrimDark to Grimm, Dark: the Endarkenment of Television

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Declan Finn

A while ago, Kevin Feige, currently running the phases of Marvels’ movies, has mentioned that Marvel will never go “GrimDark,” like the Batman vs. Superman trailer seems to be. As he said it, I discovered I had the perfect word … Continue reading →

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What comes after Marvel: Age of Ultron?

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Declan Finn

So, what’s next? Yes, we’ve got the upcoming movie list of the rest of Marvel, but what can we expect to see, given what’s come out thus far?  Obviously, there will be SPOILERS from Age of Ultron, so if you’re like one … Continue reading →

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Declan Finn

For the record, the title is STUPID. But this trailer looks freaking AWESOME.

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Thoughts on CBS’ Supergirl

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Declan Finn

This latest DC television show is brought to you by Greg Berlanti, who’s busy taking over the CW network with The Flash and Arrow, and whoever else he can get his hands on from DC Comics.  For some reason, CW … Continue reading →

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