The Cutting Room: Alien 5

  • March 5, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Alien 5 Toothy, acid blooded xenomorph terrorises various citizens of the galaxy, and quite possibly an old nemesis. Why we’re looking forward to this: After the somewhat lackluster Alien Resurrection and the unforgettable duo of Alien vs Predator films (we’ve tried, believe us!), you’d have thought that the world would have been done with the …

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Film Review: Beyond (2014)

  • March 5, 2015

  • 6 mins to read

“Beyond a joke!” There is no greater sin in storytelling than “it was all a dream”. One might be screaming “SPOILERS!” at this review right now, but there’s a get out technicality here. The reason “it was all a dream” is such a sin is because it entirely nullifies the story that preceded it. And …

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Look Out For… Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley and Modern Mythmakers

  • March 3, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

Look Out For… Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley “There’s no ‘probably’ about it: here be monsters.” From British Fantasy Award-winning author Ray Cluley comes Probably Monsters – a collection of dark, weird, literary horror stories. Sometimes the monsters are bloodsucking fiends with fleshy wings. Sometimes they’re shambling dead things that won’t rest, or simply creatures …

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Bloodlines: Lost and Found – Mary Butts’ With and Without Buttons

  • March 3, 2015

  • 8 mins to read

It may surprise some of you to know that award-winning writer Conrad Williams has a penchant for photographing lost gloves. He even has a website dedicated to them (oneglove.wordpress.com) a kind of repository for the “partnerless”, for the “severed shadows” that are left behind on park benches, hidden beneath fallen leaves or swept into gutters. …

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