Month: November 2013

It is no secret that Hollywood is the Ouroboros, the snake that consumes itself, endlessly remaking and reinventing, hoping to create itself anew so the audience doesn’t realise

The film industry is constantly in change – the introduction of sound, then colour, cinemascope, 3D, digital, each of which has seen new innovators and pioneers. As with

While the fantastical has become the dominant form of genre entertainment for children, for adults science fiction and horror have remained the prevailing forms. Despite the superficial similarities

Through the late sixties and early seventies, horror was a genre in transition. While Britain remained in the comparatively genteel but fading grasp of Hammer and its sibling

According to the blurb, Phillip Blake (“the Governor,” although anyone who doesn’t know that will probably not be particularly interested in this book) is an “uber-villain” who runs

It often seems like comic books these days are devouring themselves, and at an unsustainable rate. The hegemony of the Big Two, and their number one product, nostalgia,

How do you sum up fifty years of travel, adventure and excitement, troubles and conflicts, hopes and disappointments, with clarity and context, in just over three hundred pages?

Genre has always been looked down upon by the establishment, science fiction a ghetto occupied by fanciful writers of whimsy, horror regarded as lower still, lurid and base,

The dark world. With a subtitle like that, a scholarly dissertation may begin by looking at the different connotations of the word dark, and how the meanings may