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A 2003 Manx stamp celebrating the work of Nigel Kneale
You realise what you’re implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects?
So wrote Nigel Kneale, premier British screenwriter, in what is probably his most famous work: “Quatermass and the Pit”. As both BBC drama (1958) and Hammer-produced feature film [...]
It’s interesting, if not comforting, to get some sort of “official” confirmation of what we already knew: that the US-led War on Terror and occupation of Iraq has served to give strength and focus to worldwide terrorism. So suggests a consensus report on the State of Play by 16 intelligence agencies within the US government, [...]
As everyone who knows such things knows, Uwe Boll is a less-than-talented film maker who makes pseudo-blockbuster horror flicks based on computer games. So far he’s produced a trashy zombie gutchewer (House of the Dead) and a trashy scifi-horror opus (Alone in the Dark). Given how bad these films are, I was bemused to discover [...]
So this is a Great Age of TV Drama, with certain shows we could all name (and then argue the value of) achieving a high level of creative brilliance. Must be wonderful for the sponsors, eh?
Unfortunately DVD technology and boxed sets of TV shows have killed any tolerance I (and no doubt others) might [...]
After decades of suffering under a regime of poorly dubbed re-edits, bad prints and TV-oriented pan-and-scan claustrophobia, Toho Studio’s classic daikaiju eiga are finally being released to DVD in the West in properly tidied-up original formats — sweeping Tohoscope and with vibrant colours, clear sound and decent subtitles. Suddenly all those narky mainstream critics who [...]
The American Godzilla is in the process of being re-born, across time and media-space and against all the odds, by virtue of one fan’s enthusiasm (not to mention talent) and the wonders of the internet.
In 1998, Tri-Star released producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla remake to much pre-event anticipation and even greater post-event [...]
I recently re-read H.G. Wells’ 1904 novel The Food of the Gods — and was thinking what a damn fine film it would make, now that the technology exists to do it properly. The problem is, anyone who took it on would want to contemporise it, adding lots of nifty technology, government conspiracies and covert [...]
Serif or sans serif? When and where is it best to use one or the other style of font? Which is most readable?
Among the many dilemmas currently plaguing mankind, this appears to be the least dire. But the answer is crucial, for it involves us as writers not only because our priceless verbiage will appear [...]