Marvel March Preview

February's almost finished which means we at the Sci-fi Society are gearing up for our annual Marvel March - a month dedicated to the prestigious comic book publishers and their best franchises. Last year, the screenings revolved around The Avengers with each hero's movie being screened and culminated in a trip to the Irish premiere of Avengers: Assemble. Though the Avengers soaked up much of the limelight, other Marvel franchises were honoured in the Marvel quiz, the X-Men quiz and the competitions we ran throughout the month.

This year, we'll be paying a similar homage (albeit with less of the Avengers this time) with a Marvel screening each week so brace yourselves for some of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

Monday, 4th March

Wolverine (Anime) -  7pm, Boole 3

Logan has to travel to Tokyo to rescue his girlfriend, Mariko Yashida, from her father.

More info here.

Wednesday, 6th March

Game of Thrones -  7pm, Boole 3

The television adaption of George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy novels, Game of Thrones follows the Stark household as they deal with conspiracies surrounding the throne and a threat to their own survival as they reveal more secrets.

[Not to be confused with Tony Stark!]

IMDB Link.

Monday, 11th March

Tron: Uprising -  7pm, Boole 2

The Disney cartoon based on the Tron franchise in which a young program, Beck, is trained by Tron to become the new protector of the grid.

IMDB Page.

Tuesday, 12th March

Tonari no Totoro <<My Neighbour Totoro>> (Joint event with JapSoc) -  7pm, Boole 3 (subject to change)

Produced by Studio Ghibli, this anime movie revolves around two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, moving to the countryside where they the mysterious Totoro - a forest spirit that can only be seen by children.

More info.

 Wednesday, 13th March

Thor -  7pm, Boole 3

Banished to Earth by his father Odin, the arrogant Thor is forced to live amongst humans and must find a way back to his home realm of Asgard to thwart his brother Loki's schemes.

IMDB Link.

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Can you find all 3 hidden fairies in the posters above?

UPDATED: The joint screening with JapSoc is going to be My Neighbour Totoro. Apologies to any inconvenience caused.

We Can Rebuild It

Hey all. We're in the process of rebuilding the Sci-fi website due to technical issues that rendered us unable to use the old site.

Fixing the website will take some time but until then, we can use this Blogspot page to gauge your general interests. We want to know what you all want from the website so that we know what parts to keep and which to remove from the final site. Our aim is to use the site to host articles and features about all aspects of our society including all forms of media relating to science fiction and anime. Examples of such articles would be previews of our screenings and possibly even reviews of them from regular members of the society. We have a lot of ideas on the table that we want to experiment with and use what we've learned on the main site when it's ready.

We'll still be using the other pages (FaceBook, Twitter) and running this blog concurrently. Hopefully, we can use this to offer content beyond the screenings. We're also considering getting a new message board, once again as a test for the main site.

Any suggestions/criticisms are quite welcome.

Anyway, we'll be screening 2001: A Space Odyssey in a joint-event with the Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists & Humanitarian Society tomorrow night at 7pm in Boole 3. As always, there'll be banter abound!