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• My notes on the Japanese slapstick horror Jigoku no chimidoro Muscle Builder (Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell).  Available on DVD from Terror Cotta on April 24. (more…)
• My  notes on Park Chan-wook’s Ah-ga-ssi (The Handmaiden).  Spoiler warnings apply, obviously. (more…)
• My notes on everyone's 32rd favourite Steven Spielberg film. (more…)
• My notes on the 2011 science fiction film. (more…)
• My notes on the Weird Hippie Shitsploitation movie. (more…)
• Some notes I wrote in 2011 about a brace of biopics. (more…)
• My notes on some 1971 British smut. (more…)
• My notes on the 1971 TV movie.  NB: spoilers abound (more…)
• My notes on Ken Russells' musical biopic. (more…)
• And here are my notes on the other Burroughs adaptation. (more…)
• My notes on the Burroughs adaptation. (more…)
• Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters.  It will be published by Titan Books this Autumn. (more…)
• First official poster for my play ... (more…)
• My notes on the 2010 TV horror movie. (more…)
• My notes on German ordeal horror Break, which I didn't like much.  I've calmed down since. (more…)
• My notes on the North Korean kaiju epic. (more…)
• My notes on Michael Powell's rarely-seen The Queen's Guards, made after a rare 2012 screening at the BFI Southbank.   (more…)
• Today’s entry in the films-I-should-have-seen-years-ago-but-have-only-just-caught-up-with stakes … Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). (more…)
• My notes on the 2012 science fiction film you can barely remember. (more…)
• My notes on the 2012 science fiction action film. (more…)
• My notes on the 1999 Nollywood horror movie End of the Wicked. (more…)
• My notes on the obscure video era horror film. (more…)
• My notes on Voice Over, a BFI Flipside release.   (more…)
• My notes on the weird American-Japanese science fiction monster movie. (more…)
• I am interviewed as an extra on Arrow Video's dual format release of the Riccardo Freda SF/horror film, released on April 10th.  Details here.
• My notes on the 1932 Czech comedy Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese (Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes). (more…)
• My notes on Nicholas Ray's 1956 film. (more…)
• My notes on the 1973 TV movie. (more…)
• My play, Magic Circle, will preview/premiere in Harrogate in July.  Details here.  Watch this space for announcements of the London run and tour dates/venues.  More on production company Brother Wolf.
• My notes on the new British horror film, which opens in cinemas April 7th. (more…)
• My Empire review of the French cannibal movie Raw is online.
• ... here's the link.
• My notes on the Dolph vs Demon movie Don't Kill It, on release in the US. (more…)
• My notes on SyFy Films' Atomica (aka Deep Burial). (more…)
• My notes on the gothic western Brimstone, available on demand in the US now. (more…)
• My notes on the live-action Ghost in the Shell. (more…)
• My notes on the claustrophobic thriller Cage, available on Amazon Prime from April 3. (more…)
• My notes on Network's release of the 1988 miniseries.   (more…)
• My notes on the new British ghost story Don't Knock Twice. (more…)
• My notes on Ben Wheatley's Free Fire. (more…)
• My Empire review of The Autopsy of Jane Doe is online.  Here's a trailer.
• Here's my Screen Daily review of The Void, which is in UK cinemas from March 31. (more…)
• ... is online here.
• My notes on the space-set monster movie Life. (more…)
• Picture by Paul McAuley.
• Tom Mandrake's cover for #4.  Meet the Mysterious Irma Vep.
• Martin Stiff's cover for #4
• Paul McCaffrey's cover for #4
• My notes on The Eyes of My Mother, which opens this week. (more…)
• The authors' copies of #1 of the Anno Dracula comic have arrived.