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I've just received my copy of this handsome new book, to which I contributed an essay on the 1975 Doctor Who story Planet of Evil and wh...

A week ago I took the Lord of Chaos to see Dune Part Two at the cinema, him having caught up on the first part just the night before. It'...

I've met Craig Miller briefly a couple of times at the GallifreyOne convention in Los Angeles but this is the first year I got to speak ...

I'm on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo podcast all about neglected movies. This time, host Jeremy Philips and I analyse the 1977 ...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging ramble through Bond, the Beatles and the British psyche. It charts the interweaving histories of the Fabs...

I said in reviewing Martin Edwards' The Life of Crime last month that Patricia Highsmith had been "smuggling her snails in her bra...

I first read Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) and its sequel, Which Lie Did I Tell?  (2000), around the time I went freelance in 2002, ...

I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...

Charles Hawtrey of the Carry On films had an alcoholic cat. It was, “pampered with port-soaked sugar lumps, its bread and butter sprinkled ...

It's been a busy few months running the First Novel Award for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - the shortlist to be announced sh...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine boasts a cover by Anthony Lamb showing the Daleks as they blaze into action. There's lots of cove...

This remarkable book has long been out of print and copies sell for silly money, but it's well were tracking down. Alan Arnold was the p...

There's a lot by me in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine . I've written the main cover feature, "Who is Ncuti Gatwa", a...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay, "Was it obvious to everyone else that I'd fallen for a lie?&q...

My Mum recently asked how many books I've written, and I realised that I didn't know. That then led to a conversation with my boss J...

Jeremy Phillips and I discuss the merits - if there are any - of the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo...

"Somehow, Stan always managed to present himself as a modest egomaniac - an art in itself." (p. 168) These words, from ex-Marvel w...

I'm again a guest on the Cinema Limbo podcast, in which Jeremy Phillips looks anew at neglected old films. This time, he inflicted on me...

I'm a guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast , talking in detail with host Jeremy Philips about Ryan's Daughter (1970). I'm a...

I've written about the 100 year-old movie  Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari in the August 2020 issue of the Lancet Psychiatry . You need to ...