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News Round-up Week Ending 29 May

May 29, 2015
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R.I.P. Tanith Lee 1947-2015 This week saw the passing of fantasy and horror author Tanith Lee, aged 67. Lee was the first female winner of the British Fantasy Award in 1980 and subsequently won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 1983 and 1984. She also won the Lifetime Achievement Award from both …

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The Cutting Room: Scream Queens

May 28, 2015
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Scream Queens It opens in a flashback to 1995 at the sorority where something horrible happens. It’s a mystery that goes unsolved. Flash forward 20 years to today, and it looks like someone is out for revenge. Something horrible happened to a pledge and on the anniversary of that crime, someone is out for vengeance. …

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Look Out For… Disintegration by Richard Thomas and Darkest Minds

May 26, 2015
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Look Out For… … Disintegration by Richard Thomas “Disintegration takes the reader on a journey through the dark and grubby side of contemporary Chicago.” In a brilliantly stylish breakthrough thriller for fans of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Will Christopher Baer’s Kiss Me, Judas, here is the compelling tale of a man who has …

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Film Review: Rebound (2014)

May 26, 2015
3 mins to read

“This is Johnston’s first feature as a director – and it certainly shows.” After catching her boyfriend in bed with another woman, Claire decides to pack up her life and move from sunny Los Angeles to windy Chicago. After a surreal experience at a rest stop, Claire misplaces her mobile phone, and to make matters …