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The Fast & The Furious 6 – notes

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 14 May, 2013

Kim’s notes on the latest Fast & The Furious car caper. Continue reading »

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Jago Returns

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 8 March, 2013 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Kim’s novel Jago has been re-issued by Titan Books. Continue reading »

Cha Cha Cha!

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 26 October, 2012 ⋅ 1 Comment

The new Titan Books edition of Dracula Cha Cha Cha has been published. Continue reading »

Prisoners of the Action – ebook

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 21 August, 2012 ⋅ 4 Comments

‘Prisoners of the Action’, a novella written by Kim & Paul McAuley, is available as a Kindle ebook. Continue reading »

The Bloody Red Baron takes flight

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 24 April, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

The new Titan edition of the Bloody Red Baron has been released. Continue reading »

Professor Moriarty on the Case

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 23 September, 2011 ⋅ 4 Comments

Professor Moriarty – The Hound of the D’Urbervilles has been published by Titan Books. Continue reading »

Nightmare Movies 2nd edition out

Posted by Maura McHugh ⋅ 18 April, 2011 ⋅ Leave a Comment

The updated edition of Nightmare Movies, published by Bloomsbury, is now on sale. Continue reading »

On the web

The Empire Magazine krewe picked their favourites for an online list feature. Mine is here ....
My review of Swedish crime drama Easy Money is online.
My Sight & Sound review of Star Trek Into Darkness is online.
Me on Konga ... plus a cool trailer.
... the third part of a podcast study of me is up at GeekPlanet Online.
My review of Dead Man Down is online.
My Sight & Sound review of Iron Man Three is posted online.
... about old, weird British films.
... about Network's British Film initiative on the Starburst podcast.
... conducted by Jessy Pinkman, posted at Cinemasource.
For a limited time ... click here.
My Scary MoVie review is posted.
Comes from D'Israeli's blog.
... this one of seven contemporary horror series Dana Fredsti likes.
... as a book. Well, a proof. It's been a long wait.
In the mid-90s, I was a regular on Mark Radcliffe and Mark Riley's Radio 1 show, notionally discussing cult television. Here are the segments about The Addams Family/The Munsters and The Avengers.
My Guardian obituary for the Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco is online.
I advise you to get Network's DVD release of the Frankie Howerd horror comedy The House in Nightmare Park.
My review of Dark Skies is online.
My Empire review of Andrew Niccol's film of Stephenie Meyer's The Host is online.
In April, I'm hosting a double bill of First Men in the Moon and East of Sudan - the first films I ever saw at the cinema - at the Barbican Centre as part of an event honouring the 100th anniversary of the Critics Circle.
My Empire review of Danny Boyle's Trance is online.
... on Dread Central.
... are posted on the Daily Dead site and Boingboing.net.
... in podcast at Geekplanet Online.
For the 24 Hour Fast Fiction Challenge, I gave Lee 'Budgie' Barnett a title and a word. He wrote this 200-word story.
... in an interview package which includes comment from me.
... from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. Publication date is September 10th.
My liner notes for the new Criterion BluRay edition of The Blob.
My Screen Daily review of the Evil Dead remake is now online.
Kim's film review of Oz: The Great and Powerful is now up on the Empire web site.
The 1972 TV play The Stone Tape is reissued on DVD on March 25th; this edition carries over the commentary track I did with writer Nigel Kneale for a previous release.
I have just written a new introduction for my 1999 BFI Film Classics booklet about Cat People (1942),which will be reissued by the BFI and Palgrave/Macmillan later this year. It will include an addendum about The Curse of the Cat People.