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News Round-up Week Ending 28 September

September 28, 2012
2 mins to read

Daniel Radcliffe will play Hunchback in Frankenstein The Woman in Black star, Daniel Radcliffe, has been reported to be interested in playing the lead role of the Hunchback in Paul McGuigan’s remake of the classic, Frankenstein. It is currently in the works at Twentieth Century Fox. The script is being finalised before serious talks can …

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Writers are full of shit (and where ideas really come from)

September 27, 2012
1 min to read

Writers, gentle reader, are SO full of shit it beggars belief! Considering I’m a writer myself, and knowing the silo loads of shit with which I’m stuffed, it shouldn’t really beggar my belief. But let’s just say, for the benefit of this column, that it does. Let me give you an example of this outrageous …

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Review: What gets left behind by Mark West

September 26, 2012
1 min to read

Mike Bergen is a married man from Barnstaple, where he happily lives with his wife and son. The story opens in Gaffney, where Mike is attending a work-related conference. Gaffney, however, is also the place where a terrible occurrence took the life of his best friend almost thirty years ago. Desperate to lay to rest …

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The Summer Blockbuster – A History of Horror Cinema

September 26, 2012
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There is a period in cinema – roughly May to September – that is well known as the summer blockbuster season. This is the time of the year that studios vie for release dates against other studios to unleash their tent-pole movie that will hopefully clean up at the box office and ensure a healthy …