In this latest episode we take a look at some of our favourite filmic villains. This time we’re taking a look at a whole heap of films, through the prism of four character archetypes: ...

Last time I talked about Erika’s work on here I just about got the sense of it over – “ It’ll get under your skin. You’ll want it there.” What this doesn’t quite capture is how her work feels once ...

The first time I read Preacher, I was 20 years old on the other side of the world. My year abroad at Oxford was coming to an end – and about time, too, because for this socially awkward kid from ...

You can tell I’m not the real me from the fact that I didn’t know this book existed until I tripped over Tegan O’Neil’s review in The Comics Journal. As a lifelong Eddie Campbell enthusiast and ...

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die). The Savage Beast No.15: E.T. F*CK OFF! In this fifteenth episode, we take a look at some films ...

Caroline’s fancy free exploration in the ruins on Surprise Island finally starts to pay out some of its Indiana Jones promise – ALL SPONSORED BY JUST FLIP A COIN DOT COM! THIS is the sound of ...

Blink is, in many ways, the most Steven Moffat script imaginable. So when the series had come back, he’d been a natural choice to write for it, and his two previous stories, The Empty Child/The Doctor ...

As was noted in the comments to the previous entry in this series, the analysis of sex provided in that section of The Function of The Filth wasn’t particularly attentive to the mechanics of The Filth ...

One of the jokes that the other Mindless Ones have about me is that while I often complain about not having written enough, I’m ridiculously productive (I write two or three books a year, on average).

Writer/artist/certified hunk. Collaborator with Iain Laurie on small press comics with unpleasant titles (Crawl Hole, Roachwell, acht, Metrodome’s not too grotty). Purveyor of occult wisdom (Billy ...

Scholars attempting to trace precisely the cataclysm that is known variously as “the Time War”, “the War in Heaven” and “the Wilderness Years” have placed the events of July 2000 at the centre of the ...

In this fourteenth episode, we take a look at some refracted visions of the weird American 1950s. Keep watching the skies, your neighbours, and your family! Films discussed include: ...