The story of a boy whose mother is an actress trying to make a comeback, after a series of crappy relationships and her most famous films are starting to fade into history. In the past, she's shunted her son off to his Grandparents in Ohio to be raised when things get difficult, so he really …
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The new Craig DiLouie is here and this time he's exploring the nature of horror and why we're drawn to these stories. How To Make A Horror Movie and Survive is set in Hollywood in the 80's, where movie director Max has just made Jack The Knife III, the latest in a very successful slasher …
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After being poisoned by pesticides used in her area, Diane Ladd's lungs were so scarred that she was given only 6 months to live. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, was told that getting her mother walking might help and give her mother more time, so they started going for walks together. Terrified that they were …
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Set in an alternate late 50's Hollywood, Joseph McCarthy has been made president of a Far Right government after rooting out the alleged Communists in his HUAC witch hunt, and the major studios pump out propaganda. Baker is a Holocaust survivor turned detective who is pulled off the case of a double homicide by McCarthyist …
So, this is a different post than my usual reviews, because this time I'm sharing my own work! I was asked by Lee Fearnside to write a piece for her anthology Death Never Dies. This is a follow up to Chimera Projects O Relentless Death, and was edited by Lee, and has her beautiful lino …
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The Essential Directors covers 56 influential directors from Hollywood, from the 1920's to the 70's. To lovers or scholars of film, a lot of these will be well known names to you, but there are some more obscure faces who have been forgotten in later years and are ripe for rediscovery. We get an introduction …
Billed as an "escapist thriller", The Siren is set on the Carribean island of St. Genesius, where films star Cole Power is starring in a film opposite his ex-wife, Stella. Joining them is Taylor, the producer hoping to resurrect her career and Stella's mysterious assistant, Felicity, who has a secret link to some of the …
Curl up with a good book and some homemade pumpkin bread. Rachel Bloom is the creator of the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and this book is a collection of writings on what normal is. Or rather, the fact that everyone thinks that they or their life is weird, and that out there somewhere is Normal. …
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As soon as I realised that this book was by the writer of Birdman, the film starring Michael Keaton that swept up a bunch of awards in 2014, I was really interested in reading it. The Crossed-Out Notebook is the story of Pablo, an Argentine screenwriter, who has been kidnapped and locked a basement by …
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I used to say that I'm not really a podcast person. I get why a lot of people aren't into them. But I realised that listening to podcasts is a lot like curling up with a cocoa next to the wireless and listening to the Lone Ranger. Some things have a cozy, timeless feel. And …
