Last month I had the fortune to interview John Higgins, a vastly experienced lighting engineer in the film industry, and his most recently released work has been on the Captain America: The First Avenger movie, as Chief Lighting Director. The look of the movie is beautiful, with a golden-era Hollywood glow to the scenes (the above […]
Conan The Barbarian (15) Released in the UK 24th August 2011. Running Time: 113 mins. Directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer & Sean Hood. (Adapted from the Conan stories of Robert E. Howard) Starring: Jason Momoa, Steven Lang, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan & Ron Perlman. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. By Crom! Conan […]
Competition: Win a collection of books by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell! The Geekzine website’s debut competition is a belter. See that photo up there? You could win all that. 25 books in total. All written and illustrated by author Paul Stewart and artist Chris Riddell, most famous for their Edge Chronicles series. Their […]
Edinburgh based author, Simon Logan (above), is a writer to watch. Katja From The Punk Band is his most recent novel, and only his second novel. And it is one of the most impressive books I’ve read in a long time. It’s a stripped-down neo-noir thriller set in and on a dystopian Eastern-Bloc-esque ‘worker’ island, […]
WATERSTONE’S BOOK QUIZ NIGHT Venue: Waterstone’s Booksellers, 83 George Street, Edinburgh Start time: 6pm, Monday 26th September Event: The Waterstone’s Edinburgh George Street branch plays host to a brain-tingling Book Quiz! Over a sequence of varied rounds test your literary knowledge to win a selection of prizes, including books, vouchers, coffee and wine. Entry to […]
Humanity has become increasingly dependent upon technology. We have externalised vast amounts of our collective memory in print while our personal moments are committed to public databases and web connected devices. We augment our experience of the world through various devices every day. Already we can see the effects of Technopoly on our culture as […]