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My Conflict with Conflict
So I saw one of these "Be a better writer..." ads pop up on my newsfeed recently. Maybe I was tired and my mental defences were low, but I read the first paragraph. The key thing, this short story...
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The Year the Music Died
Within the space of 10 minutes my morning radio channel was haunted by two cover songs: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and John Lennon’s “Imagine”. Not before this I saw everyone go crazy on social...
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EU English Civil War
I don't need to be told about how important the upcoming EU Referendum is to the UK. I am not in need of scaremongering on either side and I appreciate the irony in me moaning yet adding to an already...
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Night to Remember?
Plot:1930s West Virginia: A bogus preacher, Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), who has been secretly murdering wealthy widows, finds himself in a cell with a robber, Ben Harper (Peter Graves),...
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The Great Organic Swindle
Making my way over to my hotel’s breakfast bar I was immediately struck by the many odd-shaped fruits that greeted me. Their roughness and complete lack of uniformity seemed at total odds with the...
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Worst.Vampire. Hunters. Ever.
“The Strain”, it would appear, was a puzzling labour of love for director/writer Guillermo del Toro. In 2006 he put the idea for a vampire TV series to producers, but it wasn’t picked up. Not to be...
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Continuiry Bond - A Review of "Spectre"
With this, Eon Films’ fourth instalment of their James Bond reboot starring Daniel Craig, there was clearly a strong intention to both pay homage to the previous franchise and to reward those who have...
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Striking from the Shadows of '50s Pulp Fiction - Review of Robert Bloch's...
Just off a junction on a busy highway there still exists Bates Motel. This struggling business is run by Norman Bates who endures an oppressive relationship from his unhinged mother who seems...
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A Fresh Cut - A Review of "Byzantium"
Eleanor Webb (Saoirse Ronan) and her mother, Clara (Gemma Arterton), are vampires. They have been this way for over 200 years. The pair regularly flees from the pursuit of The Brethren, an all-male...
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“Gums 2” or “Why a Jaws Remake will Probably Suck!”
Jaws (franchise) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Following on from my article regarding reboots, my attention was recently drawn to the threat that a remake of “Jaws” was in the works. Forgive me for being...
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Art and Artist?
I read the below article, "Our Woody Allen Problem" a few days ago in "Psychology Today". It is interesting that others have pondered the cognitive dissonance we seem to face when we don't agree with...
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Saving the Soul of a Movie Franchise
The Batsuit of The Dark Knight, worn by Christian Bale. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Forgive my pedantry here, but there are feature film Remakes, feature film Re-Adaptations of non-feature film material...
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Of Ravens and Wolves - Tribute to Joan Aiken
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Today I was reminded by a very nice doodle on Google that is the 91st birthday of the great children's novelist, Joan Aiken. Aiken was one...
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Bride of Frankenstein - "to gods and monsters!"
With Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)In honour of the 80th anniversay of "The Bride of Frankenstein" I have unearthed this short review I submitted a fair few...
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Digging This One Up in Time
Please excuse the terrible punning in the title, but it was all that sprung to mind. The "re-discovery" of Josephine Tey's bookin recent times has been met with mixed feelings on my behalf. I say mixed...
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Beowulf and Bollocks
Beowulf is the best known example of Old English literature. We are told that, much like the works of Shakespeare, the piece stood out against other works of the same era because the creativity in its...
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Broadening Attitudes?
Whilst season 2 of “Broadchurch” is still up for the people’s jury to decide upon its critical merit, I thought I would cast a thought back to the original show. It began as a story where the body of a...
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Fond Farewell to the Freaks
I came into the "American Horror Story" series late with season 4. For those who do not know, the series was created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season is a self-contained mini-series of 13...
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You Could Say the Same About Me
“You could say the same about me… And you probably do”. That cutting end to a sentence uttered by the Sir Thomas Cromwell of the BBC2 adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” was delivered with such...
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The Blooded Lens Filter Part 2
The Blooded Lens Filter Distorting Horror Fiction through Cinema (Part 2)Back to a bit of self-indulgence and my list of fictional horror icons and archetypes that have been changed so much by...
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