So earlier this week Indie Wire posted their top 100 horror movies of all time. Yesterday I posted in their choices from 100-51, with some random thoughts or comments on each of them from me. Here's the list from 50 to number 1. Tomorrow, a few overall thoughts, and my personal top 10... Once again, all... Continue Reading →
Indie Wire’s Top 100 Horror Films Part 1 with some thoughts
As we're building up to Halloween, here's an interesting list - Indie Wire have released their list of the top 100 Horror Movies of all time. I thought it would be interesting to list them here, with full credit to Indie Wire, and include my own comment on each - the comments are off the... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: Movie of 2009
Note: no embarrassing video of number one son this week, instead a bit of self-humiliation as I dig through some old files I found from the original version of this here blog post, and found some of my old movie pics...My god, but I was a naive young thing back when I was a mere... Continue Reading →
Bad Times at El Royale
It’s been 30 years since I wrote film reviews in print, and a good few years since I last did random reviews on the original incarnation of Bewbob, so in this day of ‘see anything you want on Netflix/ Amazon Prime whatever dodgy stream you might happen to use, I thought I’d start reviewing movies... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday:Movies of the Year 2010: Video
Well, let the embarrassment commence... Several years ago myself and #1 son used to do a regular series of video reviews. We called ourselves 1 1/2 go to the movies, and then later, C.R.A.P movies (Charity Related Art Pieces) - where we would visit charity shops and select a DVD available whihc had to be... Continue Reading →
Authors: An Extended Profile of Joe R. Lansdale
Series Note: This is one of a series of 10 posts looking at my favourite authors writing today. Not just the writers I like; I’m talking the ones I pre-order anything new that they release and spend unhealthy amounts of time and money searching out back catalogue books that have been written under pseudonyms or via... Continue Reading →
5 Great Documentaries
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) The tag line in the poster above sums up as much as you should know about this documentary: On Nov 5 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered. To memorialize him, his friend Karl began making a documentary film. Then the killer revealed she... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: Coming Soon
Today while clearing up my writing space I came across my old Macbook, last used approximately four years ago...(my son loved the Mac, I've never really got on with them myself but did use it occasionally for movie editing and sometimes a bit of writing...) Anyway, I found some interesting things on there (if interesting... Continue Reading →
Monday Funday: Movie Reviews of a Different Kind
There's a lot of writers out there who have never written a novel, a play, a poem, a screenplay...but they certainly write a lot online - and there's more and more places to do it. So here's a few reviews of movies via popular review sites...guess the film: and if you can't drop me a... Continue Reading →