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Gothic Cinema
I’ve written a piece for The Guardian Guide about the history of gothic cinema.
The Martian
My notes on Ridley Scott’s new science fiction film. NB: this discusses some plot developments you might prefer not to hear about going in – though it’s a mainstream feelgood Hollywood movie, so don’t expect it to end with Matt Damon dead on Mars.
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Latest Blog Posts
- Your Daily Dracula – Brad Austin, Destruction Kings (2005)
- Film review – Transformers Rise of the Beasts (2023)
- Your Daily Dracula – Giuseppe Addobati as Stefano, Il mostro dell’opera (The Monster of the Opera) (1964)
- Film review – Alien degli abissi (Alien From the Deep) (1989)
- Film review – Man in the Shadow (1957)
- Film review – Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse
- Film review – Fast X
- Your Daily Dracula – Bruno Pelletier, Dracula Entre L’Amour et la Morte (2006)
- Film review – Hypnotic (2023)
- FrightFest review – Barbarian (2022)
- Film review – Sisu (2022)
- Film review – The Boogeyman (2023)
- Your Daily Dracula – Count Fangula (Joe Hackett), Big Bad Beetleborgs/Beetleborgs Metallix (1996-98)
- Your Daily Dracula – Walter Kliche as Gustavo, Sangre de Virgenes (Blood of the Virgins) (1967)
- Your Daily Dracula – John Doyle as Sir Alfred Terminus, Outback Vampires (1987)
