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This relatively short, breezy guide to writing better screenplays is full of good, practical advice. I was keen to see what it had to say ab...

The latest episode of the Bergcast podcast , devoted to all things Nigel Kneale, features an interview with Steve Rogers at Hammer Films, re...

The super deluxe collectors' edition of Quatermass 2 is now available to pre-order from Hammer Films . It's released next month. Amo...

An absolutely packed deluxe 4KUHD and Blu-ray edition of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) is now available to preorder direct from Hammer. I...

I'm the guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast, this time - for my many sins - to discuss the 2009 black comedy Observe and Report , ...

The Blu-ray set Doctor Who: The Collection Season 7 has been out for a few weeks. It includes the documentary I co-produced, Terror of the S...

On Thursday, 16 January, I received from a kind friend this enormous 500+ page book on the David Lynch version of Dune — a film we both fin...

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...