Kim Newman

Your Daily Dracula – Jean-Michel Tinivelli, Quasimodo d’El Paris (1999)

Gene Tierney as Laura is a perfect casting choice.

More from Your Daily Dracula – Kaneta Kimotsuki, Kaibutsu-kun: Kaibutsu Land e no Shoutai(Monster Kid: Invitation to Monster Land) (1981)

Your Daily Dracula – Kaneta Kimotsuki, Kaibutsu-kun: Kaibutsu Land e no Shoutai (Monster Kid: Invitation to Monster Land) (1981)

Cast of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Hooray! Just learned @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is to air The Man From U.N.C.L.E. series!

Film review – Sisu Road to Revenge My notes on Sisu Road to Revenge

Film review - Sisu Road to Revenge
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Odyssey review: Enemy of the estate agent Gerard Johnson delivers another violent journey through a distinctly London brand of low life with a film about an estate agent in debt to gangsters.

My Sight & Sound review of Odyssey
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Your Daily Dracula – Samuka Ventura, Dracula’s Private Tutor (2021)

Your Daily Dracula – Samuka Ventura, Dracula’s Private Tutor (2021)

What a run of films Gerard Johnson is on. @annodracula.bsky.social absolutely bang on the money about this from one of the country's most exciting directors. No-one is making films like this. Go see Odyssey, one of the year's best

I'm doing this later this week - www.eventbrite.ca/e/classics-o...

... and which house would pick up Jessica Fletcher's next novel after she had her previous publisher arrested for murder?

In Back to the Future, the advance for a science fiction novel in 1985 makes Marty's Dad's family super-affluent before the book comes out.

Lynne Ramsey's much-admired and excellent Morvern Caller - WHICH IS BASED ON A NOVEL - has an absolutely insane idea of how publishing works, for instance.

Considering that, on the whole, movies are written by writers, I'm always surprised when they misrepresent the business.

Your Daily Dracula – Mickey Finn, Born to Boogie (1972)

Your Daily Dracula – PUBG Battlegrounds (2017)

Your Daily Dracula – MAD ‘After Bert/Downton Shaggy’ (2013)

Keeper review: Will creep you out A couple celebrate an anniversary at a cabin in the woods … what could go wrong?  Mind/flesh-twisting horror from Osgood Perkins.

My SciFiNow review of Keeper is online.
www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/keep...

More from Your Daily Dracula – Samia Majumder, Dracula The Twilight Years (Keytesville & Northwestern Theater Clubs, 2023)

More from Your Daily Dracula – Samia Majumder, Dracula The Twilight Years (Keytesville & Northwestern Theater Clubs, 2023)

YouTube video by Phyllis McCollum Dracula the Twilight Years

Your Daily Dracula – Samia Majumder, Dracula The Twilight Years (Keytesville & Northwestern Theater Clubs, 2023)
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More from Your Daily Dracula – Countess Nosferatu (2024)

More from Your Daily Dracula – Countess Nosferatu (2024)

YouTube video by Vincent DiGianni Countess Nosferatu

Your Daily Dracula – Countess Nosferatu (2024)
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More from Your Daily Dracula – S.S.S. Vitamin Tablets (1994)

YouTube video by The Duke Mitchell Film Club Dracula - S.S.S. Vitamin Tablets (1994) TV Commercial

Your Daily Dracula – S.S.S. Vitamin Tablets (1994)
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Sayers pioneered what is now standard series practice - case of the week with ongoing soap opera. She also realised that imposing a timeline and change on a hero meant that the series would have to end ... she began a post-honeymoon novel but abandoned it.

... where the amateur sleuth admits he's seen an execution and is now so wracked by guilt at sending murderers to the gallows he can no longer function as a detective. This calls into question the fundamental premise of the 'aristocratic amateur 'tec' mystery.

... but Wimsey starts in Whose Body? as a shellshocked veteran who wakes up screaming and eleven books later has had a life (and a serious relationship) between cases. His journey has an end in Busman's Honeymoon ...