News Round-up Week Ending 5 July

Dark Tower

Invisible Man appears on DVD Classic 70s television series The Invisible Man is released on DVD for the first time on 8 July. Starring David McCallum of The Man from U.N.C.L.E fame, the DVD will feature a full length pilot and twelve episodes. The Invisible Man will be released as a four DVD set. Dark …

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Film Review: World War Z

World War Z action

World War Z is the long awaited, often delayed, zombie opus starring Brad Pitt. Rumours of on-set bust ups, budgetary wrangles and rewritten endings have been dominating the tabloids and genre media for months. The film is a loose adaptation of Max Brook’s novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. The …

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Real writers don’t write about the supernatural

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

This month’s column topic readily sprang to mind as soon as I heard about it: one of my online author friends (who shall remain nameless) had received an email from some wag who said “I’ve never read your work and I never shall, because you are not a real writer. Real writers don’t write about …

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Interview: Joolz Denby, Part II

Poet, novelist, spoken-word performer, artist (most famously for the albums and singles of rock band New Model Army) and tattooist, Joolz Denby has been producing a powerful and varied body of work since the 1980s, much of it gorgeously dark and unsettling. Keep on reading…

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