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monstermaker.bsky.social
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Here it is, the book I did the cover art for is finally out. Some amazing contributors in this too...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Contributor copies the @wearecultonline.bsky.social book, 'In the Lap of the Gods: A Queen And Freddie Mercury Anthology', have been sent out! The book is set to appear on Amazon in the next couple of days. Big ❤️ to my copilot @daveofandrozani.bsky.social and cover artist @monstermaker.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Watched Wicked yesterday. Actually surprised how much I enjoyed it despite some niggles (like how the munchkins aren't little any more). Not quite as enraptured as the cultists would hope but I'm looking forward to part 2.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Last year I finished watching the entire Rathbone Sherlock Holmes run. But there's a sequel! Okay not really, but The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) is spiritually as close a sequel to The Spider Woman as any of Universal's Mummy films are to their first.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Saturday night film is The Cursed (2021) aka Eight for Silver. Saw it recommended by @rocklingraves.bsky.social on YouTube and already it's got a beautiful Robert Eggers vibe, plus a brooding sense that They Deserve Everything That Happens.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Urgh. I'm sick again. Must be all the trains I have to get. So bored of coughing and snot. Annnyyyway.... Watching George Romero's Season of the Witch (1972), which features a song by Donovan and a weird electronic score.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This has been the most challenging book of my career to date. Also the biggest. It also has four essays by me in it. A lot of bang for your buck. I was fucking insane to take it on, but am so glad I did.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Starting today with John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) ... a battle scene just began with a snippet from Carmina Burana which even then was synonymous with an aftershave advert.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Saw this being discussed here earlier in the week, so this morning's film is Peter Sellars in Two-Way Stretch (1960).

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

No movies today. I be travelling. Maybe tonight. Already pondering my tea....

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Started today with the Day of the Jackal (1973), nice slow burner.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A week off began today with The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and now Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which has already made me laugh out loud five mins in.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Home after a lovely catch-up with @0tralala.bsky.social and settling in for a relaxing half hour with Boom Radio. They're playing Wonderful Life by Black, which featured bass guitar performed by my cousin Jimmy.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

I spent my birthday working on a secret project while watching some surprisingly miserable movies. So The Masked Singer was a real joy. Yayyy!!!!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Bonkers email from Hasbro apologising that my order will be 12 days **early**. How will I cope?? Seriously, I've been waiting since September. I'm sure I'll be fine. :-)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Happiest birthday to @johnjjohnston.bsky.social - class act!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of fans of Ealing's Dead of Night here, but be honest - did you know the children's party segment is about a notorious real-life child murder? Not giving any more details for now but it surprises me how often this bit gets skipped over by reviewers.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Picking up on SNL series 3 and tonight's host is... oh. Oh dear.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment