Griff delves into a war-torn anthology of heresy and betrayal from the vaults of the Black Library…. There is an old saying that the Devil gets all the best songs. In the Grim Darkness of the 41st millennium, it is almost comforting to know that little will have changed: Chaos has some damned excellent stories, […]
Jonny revisits a cult horror film starring Zach Galligan and David Warner, and discovers whether it’s actually any good…. The back of the DVD case describes Waxwork as “The Rocky Picture Show-meets-House of Wax” and in some ways it’s right (there is a house of wax central to the plot), but in many more it’s […]
Ryan casts a critical eye over a reissue of the sci-fi legend’s earlier work. The Bloodline Feud isn’t a ‘new’ new book from the unstoppable Mr. Stross, but I’d be a bit surprised if you’ve read it before. It was previously published in the UK as two separate books with fairly forgettable covers and titles […]
There’s an urban myth in the writing business: if a book devotes more space on the cover to the author’s name than anything else, then it is trying to sell that book on the strength of the author. Stephen King novels remain the perennial example of this. Books where the author’s name is less obtrusive […]
And so we bid a fond farewell to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. A typically diverse programme of movies from around the world brought us touching drama, thrilling action, surreal fantasy and insightful documentaries, and made for a fascinating fortnight of cinema. The festival always concludes with a “Best of the Fest” line-up shown […]
Nazis make the best movie villains; that’s something almost everybody can agree on. Officious, racist bureaucrat-soldiers with a fevered devotion to a pseudo-mystical ideology are perfect fodder for the “stock bad guy” role, and it helps that for half a century the vast majority of cinema-goers have been raised to instinctively hate them. The fact […]