Category: Humour
Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1988) (Blu-ray film review)
I haven’t seen ‘Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark’ for some time. Now with its blu-ray release, I’ll be watching it four times, as three of them contain audio commentaries. Unlike the Americans, we British only really came across Elvira originally in this film and the Marvel magazine, so we didn’t know much about her other […]
Terry Pratchett’s The Watch coming to TV screens.
The Watch, based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, is to become an 8 episode (each 60-minutes long) TV series, produced by the BBC. This comedy thriller centres on Terry Pratchett’s misfit cops as they fight to save a ramshackle city of normalised wrongness. The Watch features many Discworld creations including City Watch Captain Sam Vimes, […]
Star Wars: Star Destroyer Halloween costume wins – just wins.
Andrew sent in word that after many months of gluing and painting, his Star Wars Star Destroyer costume was finished just in time for his kid’s Halloween. It comes equipped with a speaker to blare out the Imperial March, if it wasn’t cool enough already.
The Quanderhorn Xperimentations by Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall (book review).
Like other great comedy Science Fiction novels before it, ‘The Quanderhorn Xperimentations’ is based on a BBC Radio series or, at least so the cover of the book says, though it also claims to have travelled back in time to be written before it occurred and also possibly to be a true story, so who […]
Office Uprising (zombie movie trailer).
In the film Office Uprising, the office comedy movie genre gets blended with zombie horror, then the staff get put into a blender of extreme violence. Hey, just pretend it’s your boss getting a baseball bat through the old noggin!
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 […]
