Barry Forshaw

Covering New Blu-rays on Crime Time: Strongroom/BFI (for which I provided a couple of essays), The Bone Collector/Kino Lorber, Cutter's Way/Radiance, Columbia Noir 7/Indicator, Illustrious Corpses/Radiance
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In the FT, I've covered: The Final Score/Don Winslow, Witch Trial/Harriet Tyce, Caller Unknown/Oliver Johnson, The Living and the Dead/Christoffer Carlsson, The Final Problem/Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Cut Up/Louise Welsh, plus Nicci French & M.K. Oliver

Covering in the FT: The Final Score/Don Winslow, Witch Trial/Harriet Tyce, Caller Unknown/Oliver Johnson, The Living and the Dead/Christoffer Carlsson, The Final Problem/Arturo Pérez-Reverte plus M.K. Oliver, Louise Welsh, Nicci French
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Did my pleasurable revsion for the commentary on Idle on Parade for @indicator.bsky.social

Idle on Parade also includes a Newley-knowledgable commentary by me and Kim Newman

Agreed, but -- as with fellow jazz great Art Pepper -- one can never forget what addiction was to do to those chiselled good looks....

Connery: I asked John Bleasdale to talk to Crime Time about his new novel www.crimetime.co.uk/connery-i-as...

The cover of Fantastic Fifties #26 reads 'Barry Forshaw is Ice Cold in Alex'; I'm neither, but this issue covers the matchless Hell Drivers,The 4D Man and other gems with colleagues Richard Holliss, Brian J Robb, Bruce G Hallenbeck & Stephen Laws

Mark Billingham receives highest accolade in crime writing; see Crime Time:
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I’ve contributed two booklet essays to Vernon Sewell’s lean British B film Strongroom (BFI Blu-ray, March), which counts Tarantino, Scorsese & Edgar Wright as admirers. Includes another cult Sewell film, The Man in the Back Seat. (Commentaries: Dr. Josephine Botting, Vic Pratt)

Even though Bela Lugosi's Dracula is on the cover of Cryptology #7, I persuaded editor Peter Normanton to let me write about the film enshrining (for me) the definitive vampire count, Christopher Lee...

You did the right thng, Jasper!

I'm sure you want to see footage of me as a very young man, right? BBC4 on Sun 4 is showing Hitchcock at the NFT – you can see me some way in asking Hitchcock a question about Psycho...

@pgjonesvenice.bsky.social You're the target reader for this, Philip – -- a man deeply conversant with both music and horror films (and who lives in the watery city of Monteverdi and Vivaldi!)

Pleasurable to be talking all things Hammer Films with colleagues Jonathan Sothcott & Troy Howarth -- albeit separately -- for @househammerpod.bsky.social

Reviewing Columbia Noir #7 (Terence Fisher's 'The Last Man to Hang' ) Glenn Erickson/CineSavant notes: 'The Terence Fisher connection explains the presence of a commentary track by horror experts Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman.' True, but our crime film expertise gets us gigs too..

Much enjoyed chatting Hammer Films with Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social

Covering The Symphony Behind the Screams: Hammer's Musical Heritage by John Mansell. There was a time when aficionados of Hammer Films’ memorable film scores had to make do with the odd recorded scrap - a situation that has thankfully been remedied... dvdchoices.co.uk

For the new release from Hammer Films of Whispering Smith Hits London, fun to be filmed in a crypt by Sarah Appleton with colleagues Vic Pratt & William Fowler. Also on board: the very capable Josephine Botting Richard Hollis et al.

Covering Georges Simenon's The Cat on European Literature Network: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

Classical CD Choice Best of the Year: Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Strauss, etc: The finest discs of 2025 from LSO Live, Chandos, Naxos, BIS, Capriccio, Signum
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On Crime Time: New Blu-rays: link: crimetime.co.uk/new-crime-th... CAUGHT STEALING, Darren Aronofsky, WICKED GAMES, Robert Hussein, Radiance,
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, Norman Jewison, Indicator, HITCH HIKE, Campanile, THE AMBULANCE, Larry Cohen, Eureka et al

Any viewing of a Nicholas Ray film has one necessary adjunct: reading the relevant chapter in Geoff Andrew's invaluable study of the director. Next time I see him, I'm going to ask whether he thinks it's worth re-watching Ray's misfires such as A Woman's Secret.

Great afternoon chatting to the veteran Alan Class – so important to British comics history. Alan was happy (phew) with the foreword I wrote for his new Creepy Worlds Annual (Jack Kirby cover!). Talked to Steve Jones about the book he and I are working on-- copacetically!

New Blood for Oscars of the Crime Genre: the crime writing genre’s oldest and most famous award has had an injection of new blood thanks to a new sponsor. See Crime Time: www.crimetime.co.uk/new-blood-fo...

For a to-camera piece on Hammer Swashbucklers, I'm joined by my friends and colleagues Allan Bryce, Richard Hollis and Bruce Hallenbeck (expertly filmed by Sarah Appleton); you'll find it in the deluxe Hammer set of Men of Sherwood Forest & Wolfshead

Best Crime of the Year in the FT, inc. Abir Mukherjee, Denise Mina, Peter Swanson, S.A. Cosby, Cara Hunter et al: www.crimetime.co.uk/best-crime-o...

In sight of one of the best statues in London (Betjeman at St Pancras), a lively Century lunch listening to two lively authors talk about their 2026 books, British Sabine Durrant and American Laura Dave... (w. Lizzie Curle, Vaseem Khan, Charlotte Heathcote)

Covering in the FT: Patricia Cornwell, Antti Tuomainen, John Grisham, Jake Arnott, Georges Simenon, Abir Mukherjee, Joël Dicker, Louise Penny

Covering in next Saturday's FT: See link:
www.crimetime.co.uk/genre-roundu... Sharp Force/Patricia Cornwell,
The Winter Job/Antti Tuomainen, The Widow/John Grisham, Blood Rival/Jake Arnott, The Cat/Georges Simenon, The Burning Grounds/Abir Mukherjee, Joël Dicker, Louise Penny