Monthly Archives: August 2014

Some reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #31:- EIBONVALE FEATHER (Eibonvale pb, 379pp, £8.99) is the second collection from Eibonvale publisher David Rix, and features a selection of stories, several of novella length, linked by the enigmatic figure of … Continue reading →

Okay, it’s not Pink Floyd, but I really like this video from the Scissor Sisters:-

Three films starring the mighty Meryl Streep, watched over the course of last weekend:- Dark Matter (2007) This film is based on the Iowa University shootings of 1991. Chinese student Ye Lui is all sorts of a genius, so much … Continue reading →

Three reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #32:- SOLARIS THE FACELESS (Solaris pb, 415pp, £7.99), Simon Bestwick’s second novel, is set in the Lancashire town of Kempforth, where people are inexplicably vanishing and the Spindly Men, a local legend, … Continue reading →

Here’s a review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #41:- IN THE NIGHT ROOM by PETER STRAUB Harper Collins hb, 330pp, £17.99                            http://www.harpercollins.co.uk This book is a sequel of sorts to lost boy lost girl, which features here as … Continue reading →

Written and directed by Frank Miller, who is now on my list of obnoxious people, this looks big on style, but I wonder if it has any substance:- Actually, I wonder if I care.

Three films by director Danny, watched over the course of a slow weekend. Sunshine (2007) 2057 and the sun is dying, so a team of astronauts are sent to reignite it with a massive bomb. At the point we meet … Continue reading →

Two reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #34:- CHAPBOOKS Paul Kane’s CREAKERS (Spectral Press chapbook, 29pp, £4) is the story of Ray Johnson, who makes a comfortable living by fixing up old houses and selling them at a profit, … Continue reading →

I really must get my hands on a concert DVD by these guys.

Following on from May’s Books Read in 1985. The numbers are down again, this time to a round 100 titles, though at the same time I note that quite a few of them were rather large books, with nineteen over … Continue reading →