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Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

I stopped buying DVDs quite some time ago. I started collecting VHS tapes when I was a pre-teen and still have the majority of what is a quite considerable collection. I was one of the first people I know to own a DVD player ( a huge hulk of a machine from Sony which was [...]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes (1968) was a very significant part of my early development as a cinephile. There was a class to it that defined it as not only a spectacular science fiction movie, but as a reputable and intelligent piece that stood alongside the more mainstream classics of the time. Charlton Heston may not [...]

Food Inc

Where to start? Whatever you are eating this evening, Food Inc is gauranteed to make you think twice about where it came from. Written off by some as propaganda and conspiracy led nonsense, there is simply no denying the fact that as we evolve, we are becoming unhealthier and subject to attack by our own [...]

The Fall of Detriot

The situation deteriorated after the downfall of the motor trade, leaving mass unemployment and civil unrest in its wake.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

For a collective of pill-popping, line-snorting, weed-smoking reprobates, it doesn’t take long before you begin to empathise and admire this family for sticking to their pioneer ethics and numerous shotguns

Hammer Season: The Anniversary (Bette Davis 1968)

The director Jimmy Sangster is a man who gained high praise and admiration for his Hammer productions. Movies like ‘The Quatermass Xperiment’, ‘The Mummy’, ‘Brides of Dracula’, ‘Deadlier than the Male’ and ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ had displayed his talents as a writer and director. Taking leave of the classic horror mantle for an altogether [...]

Hammer Season: Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

It’s a title that will be familiar to any worthwhile music fan, but the inspiration behind the Misfits classic is far less well known or acknowledged. Released in 1965, the same year as the Bette Davis classic The Nanny, Die! Die! My Darling! shares the connection of a sadistic and crazed older woman who is [...]

Hollywood Is Dead : Iconic Posters Reanimated

It’s exactly the kind of thing you want to show to a film buff buddy

Hunting The Zombie Yeti

Zombie Yeti is an illustrator whose biography may read slightly different to what you see printed above.

Sit and Listen. Look and Love.

This is not art that is viewed to be enjoyed, it is art to be absorbed.