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In the Before Times, pre-Covid, when I lived in London, I would pop along to bookish events — launches, talks and readings — that caught my ...

“Something grabs the back of her shirt and Cora can’t scream, all her words extinguished in her chest. This is when she dies. The weak link,...

This short, 82-page novella first published in 1936 was recommended to me after I posted about the 1934 and 1941 editions of A Short History...

The four-part Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars was originally broadcast in October and November 1975. It was then repeated, in a one-hour...

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

This comprehensive plunge into the sci-fi horror TV serial from 1953 has been a joy to read. I should declare right away that it’s written b...

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

"There's always another way, even for you." The follow-up to Children of Time , first published in 2019,   is another epic, mi...

What a thrill to be at the Picturehouse Cinema in Crouch End yesterday, in the shadow of Alexandra Palace, for the centenary celebration of ...

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...

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 ...

I knocked through this delicious new  Doctor Who novel very quickly, revelling in its fun and invention. It's based on a movie script...

I've read loads since completing Space Odyssey - chapters of various mates' works in progress and all sorts of material for work, ...