Following on from 2020’s 80s Movie Challenge World Geekly News decided to run another year-long movie challenge for 2021, and surprising absolutely nobody, this time we chose to focus on the 1990s. However, while our list last year was taken from the book Ultimate 80s Movies by Empire Magazine’s Helen O’Hara, for The Great Year […]
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For 2020 over at World Geekly News, we’ve given ourselves the challenge of watching and writing about 50 of the most iconic movies from the 1980s. For me, rather than just do straight-up reviews, this was an opportunity to write mostly nostalgic pieces. In many of them, I share my memories of seeing those era-defining
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human:KIND is a semi-regular feature created for World Geekly News to address personal issues which affect us all, the things that make us all human. Topics like body confidence, friendship, mental health and more are covered in these pieces. Here are all the articles I have written for the series: Be Excellent To Each Other
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Written for World Geeky News while I was waiting for the final episode of Doctor Who’s twelfth season to air, this article celebrates the TV shows that had us tuning in week-on-week to see what happens next and had us all discussing how it was going to end. Read it here
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I’ve been reading Peter Laws’ supernaturally tinged crime thrillers, the Matt Hunter series since it launched with Purged in 2017. Here is my review of the fourth book in the series for World Geekly News. Read it here
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I had a rare chance to get out to the cinema and see a film early in its release schedule so managed to bagsy a review for World Geekly News of the adaptation of Stephen King’s long-awaited follow up to The Shining. Read it here
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I review Herk Harvey’s hugely influential film as part of World Geekly News 31 Days of Horror 2019 event and in the process, I also take a look back at how I happened upon it thanks to BBC2’s Moviedrome, a show which introduced a generation of film fans to some amazing cult films and B-movies.
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A review of George A Romero’s disturbing, yet thought-provoking vampire film, Martin. Written for World Geekly News’ for day 13 of their 31 Days of Horror Halloween 2019 celebrations. Read it here
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It’s not often I get the chance to write theatre reviews so I jumped at the chance to do one for World Geekly News when I went to see this ghostly play in the summer of 2019. Read it here
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World Geeky News sent me to watch this fantasy musical rom-com, a coming together of the songs of The Beatles, the pen of Richard Curtis and the directorial talents of Danny Boyle. But did I come out thinking it was it a Magical Mystery Tour or that I Should Have Known Better? Read it here
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