Happy World Book Day!
From Little Brown: “To celebrate the launch of our new horror writer, Christopher Ransom, we’re inviting UK & Ireland based horror scribes (aged 18+) to send [...]
IMPORTANT. Fantasycon contact address
Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the previously published email address for Fantasycon. In the interim, please use fantasycon2009@gmail.com — and this [...]
The Shawshank Redemption
Review by Gary Couzens At this time of year, the cinema trade press (Variety, Screen International etc) carry large adverts touting certain films for Oscar consideration. In [...]
Vault of Horror, Vol. 1
Review by Gary Couzens This series of three tapes gathers together the Tales From The Crypt cable TV series under the banner Vault of Horror. And a good idea it is, too. Each [...]
Killing Zoe
Review by Gary Couzens Zed (Eric Stoltz), an expert safecracker, arrives in Paris to help his childhood friend Eric (Jean-Hughes Anglade) pull off a bank robbery. Offered [...]
Vampire State Building, Unholy Collection
Review by Whispering John Carter This review of a five-track German Import Maxi CD was originally published in the January/February 1995 issue of the BFS Newsletter (Vol. 19, [...]
Heavenly Creatures
Review by Gary Couzens In 1953 New Zealand, plain Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) meets in school the beautiful, patrician English Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet). The two girls [...]
Star Trek: Generations
Review by Gary Couzens The maiden voyage of the new Enterprise and the retired Kirk, Scott and Chekov are honoured guests. However, they receive a distress signal from two [...]
Charles Urban’s Brutal Spirits, “edited” by Gary McMahon
Review by Jim Steel This is the fourth chapbook in Swan River’s series of imaginary histories of real buildings. Gary McMahon has taken the multi-storey carpark in [...]