The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Black Library, 2010, PB £7.99) The Black Library’s hottest new author delivers a sucker punch on behalf of the consistently amazing Horus Heresy series. For existing fans this is a key addition to the overall story arc (being book fourteen) but crucially, due to its pre-heresy setting, is also […]
The Dead Of Winter by Chris Priestley (published by Bloomsbury, PB £6.99 – out October 2011) Edgar Allan Poe. M.R. James. Wilkie Collins. Now we can add Chris Priestley to that list, as an esteemed storyteller of ghostly delights. Following on from his Tales of Terror trilogy (of which this book is a great companion […]
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The Warrior’s Way (15) 2010. Running time: 100 mins approx. Written & directed by Sngmoo Lee Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Cox, Lung Ti and Danny Huston As genre mash-ups go this is a not-bad effort. Debut helmer, Sngmoo Lee, lays on the style thick and heavy, and most of the time, […]
Season Of The Witch (15) 2011. 95 mins approx. Directed by Dominic Sena, written by Bragi F. Schut Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham, Ulrich Thomsen, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy and Christopher Lee I had every right to expect that this would be bobbins. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed it so […]
Domu: A Child’s Dream by Katsuhiro Otomo (published by Titan Books at £12.99. It is currently reprinting) A little girl and a crazy old man battle it out for the control of an apartment complex in suburban Japan. It might sound like a strange concept for a comic, but throw in some psychic powers, a […]