I hate the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’; one should never feel guilty about something one enjoys, no matter how unfashionable or knowingly poor quality it is. There are lots of films I like that basically aren’t very good, but often I’d … Continue reading 6 Films I Adore, For All Their Flaws
When Raymond Chandler, the godfather of hard-boiled detective fiction, passed away in 1959, he left behind 4 chapters of an unfinished novel featuring his best-loved character Philip Marlowe. They lay untouched for another 30 years before author Robert B. Parker, … Continue reading ‘Poodle Springs’ by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
A personal tribute to the author Terrance Dicks, who died recently. When I was a boy growing up in Sunderland, I used to walk with my Mother to the public library, which was roughly half way between our house and … Continue reading Growing Up and Growing Old with Terrance Dicks
Famously, upon hearing the final cut of Blondie’s AutoAmerican, the A&R man at Chrysalis Records hated it and said, “I don’t hear a single.” The band had risen from their punk roots in New York’s Bowery to conquer the world … Continue reading I Don’t Hear a Single: Blondie’s AutoAmerican
Netflix’ new version of Lost in Space is not, of course, the first time that Irwin Allen’s classic sci-fi series of the 60s has been rebooted; there was a big budget movie version in 1998 starring William Hurt and Gary … Continue reading Lost in Space… Again
In the golden olden days of the Target novelisations, there were a few casualties that never made it through to the end of the run. The two Patrick Troughton Dalek stories were novelised shortly afterward by John Peel under the … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Resurrection of the Daleks’ by Eric Saward
As I reach my late 40s, the opportunities to say I’m too young to remember something become less and less. And yet, friends just a few years older than me will wax lyrical about The Singing Ringing Tree and how … Continue reading I’ve Never Seen ‘The Singing Ringing Tree’… Until Now!
Red Harvest was the first full-length book by Dashiell Hammett, the godfather of the American crime novel. Adapted from a four part serial in the crime magazine Black Mask, It’s a tremendously – and often surprisingly – hard hitting novel; … Continue reading ‘Red Harvest’ by Dashiell Hammett
Time Bandits changed my life. No, scrub that Sunday supplement bullshit; it didn’t really, but it did barge into me at an early age and jostle me in a direction that I’d probably have found anyway, only not as quickly. … Continue reading All the Dreams I’ve Ever Had (And Not Just the Ones About Time Bandits)
This is a Doctor Who story that I wrote in early 2016, less than a year before the series explored similar superheroic themes in ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’. Hope you enjoy it and take it in the humorous manner … Continue reading ‘With Great Power…’ by Paul Ferry
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