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A re-review of Let The Right One In after another viewing at The Electric and the short ten minute film shown beforehand, over at my blog, Tears All Over Town
Well worth it for the short movie by Jay Dahl, There Are Monsters. Fantastic little idea that had the whole audience leaping out of their seat. Watch it in the dark with the volume way up!

A new post on one of the great cinema auteurs, Saul Bass.
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A new review of Howard Hawks classic The Thing From Another World over at my blog
Tears All Over Town.

This is excellent. Watchmen if it were a Saturday morning cartoon. Very funny. Just click on Watch This Movie!
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A new post covering Hard Case Crime, Derek Raymond, Joel Lane and my own crime fiction. Plus some cool Hard Case artwork...

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Over the last couple of days we've seen a couple of extraordinarily good movies and a pretty good bit of TV. Last night, after seeing Dev Patel appear on Jonathan Ross, we finally decided to give Slumdog Millionaire a go. I'd resisted it purely due to the massive press and award attention it's received, and also because I've never really got on ( Read more... )

I have a new post up at my blog, Tears All Over Town, this time a review of Paul Malmont's splendid pulp homage to the creators of The Shadow and Doc Savage, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.

Last week I heard a news story about a Birmingham writer who sold her novel to Harper Collins after previewing it on their Authonomy site. This obviously piqued my interest, so I decided to go have a look and find out if it might be helpful to me and my novel ( Read more... )