The Crew!
 | Victor Barry Founder, Editor, News, Reviews, Features writer, Podcast contributor @victorbarry | I popped my cinema going cherry with The Muppets Go Hollywood back when I was 3 years old. From there on in it was a diet of Superman and Star Wars, hence Star Wars and Superman will are in my all time greats. I’ve collected alot of stuff over the years including a self propper upper ILM calculator and an pretty awesome For The Birds poster, amongst hundreds of other bits of movie related gear, not to mention DVD’s and Blu-Rays. |
 | Fergus Burke News, Reviews, Features Writer, Podcast contributor @fergggg | I've only ever been interested in two things. Films & dump trucks. The dump truck obsession died out at a fairly early age, so since then it's been film magazines, VHS tapes, DVDs, Blu-Rays, posters, memorabilia and any other film related items I could get my hands on. My favourite films include The Mist, Inglourious Basterds, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom and Shogun Assassin. I also consider myself to be a connoisseur of bad cinema. |
 | Leon McCarthy News, Reviews, Features Writer, Podcast contributor @leonade | The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was The Lion King, which as firsts go, isn't a bad one. My interest in movies grew over the years, marked by many 'landmark' movies along the way (Kill Bill, Lost in Translation). I'm the only person in the known universe who knows what the music and colours on the spaceship mean in Close Encounters. I'm definitely of the belief that a movie doesn't have to be great for you to have a fantastic time - one of the best trips I've had to the cinema was when I saw Alien Vs Predator and the audience picked sides (whoever won, we lost). Hard to pick a favourite movie-based possession, but I have a family of film-themed potato heads and I look forward to raising them as my own. |
 | Sean Cooney News / Reviews Writer | First Movie I Ever Watched: First one I can remember seeing was E.T. at my cousins when I was about 4. Not sure why, but it scared the crap out of me. Prized Movie Possession: Toss-up between an awesome signed Michael Madsen Kill Bill still, and my DVD collection. Few Of My Favourite Movies: Heat, Oldboy, Back To The Future, Die Hard, Terminator 2. |
And now a bit of background about the site and it's roots...
The site was originally founded (June 2009) as somewhere to host Vic's reviews for his old night time talk show. And from there the site started growing into news, views, podcasts and of course, the reviews.The Movie Bit aims to provide as much movie related information to the web as possible. Be it news, views, reviews, observations, interviews and basically all things Movies, from Ireland and everywhere else. It's a small, yet ever evolving and growing site.Priding itself on being easy to read and containing no bullshit.
In November 2010, the site was nominated, shortlisted and made the final of the Irish Web Awards. Unfortunately it didn't win, but it was a pretty decent achievement for a one man show. With the site growing larger and larger Vic has taken on some writers to continue to bring the movie love to the masses. The Movie Bit is a news supplier to the IMDB.
And now, a bit about it's creator..
Vic's love of the cinema has come from his Dad who would take him to see everything and anything, of a Sunday evening in the local 1 screen cinema. Even Vic's mother was persuaded to take him to matinee's of a Saturday afternoon, even though she would fall asleep on a regular basis.
For a number of years Vic was involved in 3D animation and was a self taught Lighwave user, where some of his work was published internationally in 3D World magazine. On a road that brought with it, an obsession with Industrial Light and Magic (he has quite a number of ILM memorabilia) and Pixar. He went off and got employee prospectus for the above companies, as he figured this was the life for him. At one point he had a mini render farm in operation. He also has written and directed a number of short movies. But the world of radio came knocking at this door and he ended up where he is now and loves it. Vic at some point, hopes to meander back into the world of film and is always knocking out (that too) ideas at a keyboard. He's also a dad to Cameron (guess where inspiration came from) and a husband to Geraldine and almighty pain in the ass to everyone else....sometimes.
Vic has interviewed everyone from Jon Voight and Colin Farrell to Kevin Smith and Neil Jordan and from time to time produces one off movie specials for the radio show. One such example is the Star Wars Episode 3 special where Vic interviewed the likes of Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Rick McCallum mixed in with the soundtrack and plenty of clips and giveaways. This special was the first of its kind on Irish radio. Other one off specials have included most recently Ondine, Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and many more. Most of which are available on iTunes.
Email - Vic at the movie bit dot com
Victor Barry
c/o RedFM
1 UTC
Bishopstown
Co.Cork
Ireland
