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First wave of films announced for this year's Mayhem: IMPOSTERS, MUM I'M ALIEN PREGNANT and a new 4K presentation of Guy Maddin's CAREFUL

As torrential rainwater lashes the city, and neo-Nazi gang The White Chickens terrorises the population, there's only one man you can depend on. Jason Statham is THE RED WHEELBARROW

Samsung TVs have a whole selection of free movie and TV channels which you can find by scrolling right to the end of the TV guide and it was on one of those - I can't remember exactly which one. They also have a Seinfeld channel which started randomly playing episodes in German the other day.

The René Clair version of And Then There Were None often plays on one of the free channels on my TV, but with an odd bit of censorship - they blur any pipe, cigarette or cigar, but only when it's actually in a character's mouth.

First wave of films announced for this year's Mayhem: IMPOSTERS, MUM I'M ALIEN PREGNANT and a new 4K presentation of Guy Maddin's CAREFUL

Ha! Hopefully not for a very long time!

I only have a few that are from the libraries of writers, but they're quite good ones.

Today’s reading - a book by one Elizabeth from the library of another

I’m packing my pulps to move to California. This is a daunting task. To keep myself moderately entertained I am going to post 4 random covers from each shelf I finish packing until I’m done.

Your blog was very useful in selling me on them both!

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles). This is #77 and it's called 'Wind'. It's a sequel to #56: Pigeon Curse bsky.app/profile/adri... and #46: Magic bsky.app/profile/adri...

Today's best second-hand buy - this lovely pair of early 60s Penguin paperbacks.

#77: Wind

When people keep coming in and asking if you sell ceiling fans

A rare week in which my last four are all new movies. My favourite of these was Is God Is, a highly stylised revenge drama, though I also enjoyed a lot of They Will Kill You, even if it isn't as good as Kirill Sokolov's previous two, Why Don't You Just Die! & No Looking Back. #lastfourwatched.

Mayhem is back! 15th-18th October 2026 at @broadwaycinema.bsky.social in Nottingham. Four days of the best new horror, sci-fi and cult cinema from around the world. Early Bird passes and our first announcements to come on Monday 27 July.

THE HALF MAN (kindle or paperback) "a gloriously OTT occult comedy-thriller that has echoes of films like 'The Old Dark House'. Bloody entertaining fun." "Great fun - a mix of Dennis Wheatley and Sam Raimi" "it’s an absolute ‘blast’!"

CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback) "the perfect book for cat lovers" "Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV" "one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years” "possibly the greatest book ever"

I'm teaching (for the third time!) my 10-week course on how to work on your ideas BEFORE you start the grind of writing, it's been a huge amount of fun the last 2 times we did it, with all kinds of surprising & amazing stories coming out of people. Starts Sept. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles). This is #77 and it's called 'Wind'. It's a sequel to #56: Pigeon Curse bsky.app/profile/adri... and #46: Magic bsky.app/profile/adri...