Category: Humour
The Comedy Of Terrors/The Raven (DVD review).
I should point out that you can get both of these films separately or even as part of other collections, so you aren’t limited to choice on how you get them or which region issue. The Comedy Of Terrors (1964) 83 minutes cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown,Basil Rathbone […]
The Raven (Philip J. Riley’s Nightmare Series book 3) by Eunice Sudak (book review)
I chose ‘The Raven’ from BearManor Media’s ‘Philip J. Riley’s Nightmare Series’ books mainly because I was familiar with this 1963 film. Just in case you don’t know, its three stars were Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff with Hazel Court, Olive Sturges and Jack Nicholson in supporting roles. It was one of the […]
The Many Deaths Of Scott Koblish by Scott Koblish (book review).
‘The Many Deaths Of Scott Koblish’ is a small hardback coffee table book by comic artist Scott Koblish (Spider-Man, Deadpool) in which he contemplates ways he might meet the Grim Reaper. There are fantasy and SF elements to several of these extinctions which, along with his status as a super-hero artist, qualify it for inclusion […]
Everything Sucks! (new Netflix comedy: think Stranger Things without monsters).
Here’s the first trailer for another new series from Netflix, this one – Everything Sucks! – following the rites of passage of some AV Club geeks as they navigate retro 1990s High School in the USA. So, basically Stranger Things sans the dimensional Cthulhu-lite monsters, then? Looks good, though. We’ll fire up the 16k modem […]
Stranger Things, Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones re-shot as cheesy 1980 TV shows with power ballad soundtracks.
Have you ever wanted to watch TV series such as Stranger Things, Handmaid’s Tale, and Game of Thrones re-shot as cheesy 1980 shows with power ballad soundtracks? Well, has Michael Bolton got a treat for you. Includes such classic lyrics as: Something strange is happening here in Hawkinstown everything is turning upside down Not to mention: I […]
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts (book review).
It’s a nearish-future world in Adam Roberts’ latest novel ‘The Real-Town Murders’, wherein a large proportion of people spend a large proportion of their time in the Shine, an immersive Internet/virtual reality world where everything is better and more convenient than the Real-Town. For those like Alma, a private detective who specialises in Real-Town sleuthing, […]
Illustrators #18 (magazine review).
My usual page flick of the latest issue of ‘Illustrators’ quickly revealed that it this isn’t a normal edition. If anything, it’s darn right cartoony. Hardly surprising when the opener is ‘Mad’ caricature artist Mort Drucker. Over the years, you’ve probably seen his art but not put a name to his drew them. Drucker was […]
Early Man (trailer).
Shot in Aardman’s distinctive style, Early Man is the new prehistoric animated comedy movie from Nick Park. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his friend Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord […]
Mindhorn … the return of the buy-tonic man? (movie trailer).
Washed-up TV thespian Richard Thorncroft (played by real-life actor Julian Barratt) peaked with hit 1980s detective show Mindhorn, playing a bionic Isle-of-Man sleuth with a robotic eye that allowed him to literally “see the truth”. Decades later, when a deranged Manx serial killer demands Mindhorn as his nemesis, Thorncroft returns for one last chance to […]
Evil Thomas The Tank Engine robot (with flame thrower).
There’s garden variety evil and then there’s the evil Thomas The Tank Engine robot (with flame thrower). It’s a standard remote control hexapod with extra “Thomas” as well as extra flame squirt! Bad, bad Thomas.
