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I'm a full time writer living in England. I currently run film and culture website Strange Conversation and I'm the Editor of a construction trade magazine printed and distributed throughout the UK and Ireland. In the past I was a staff writer for the UK's

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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Dog Soldiers: 2 of 6
It has been a long time since the words 'good', 'horror' and 'British', could be said in a film review, but Dog Soldiers emerged from 2002 as one of the better films of the year and certainly provides some thrilling entertainment during its run time, as well as some good old, working class British humour.On a routine training... More..
Entertainment > Movie Analysis Movie analysis: Flight of the Phoenix (2004): 1 of 3
It's fascinating how isolation and the deprivation of the very things people hold sacred can affect human psyche. The studies have shown people beginning to hallucinate after a few days, the movies have shown us in desperation we'll turn to the very thing we all know - animalistic preservation, and we'll start eating our budd... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Cursed (2005): 1 of 3
It seems a little pretentious, almost too easy for the team that introduced a whole generation to a horror sub-genre, to continue to tread very familiar ground with their post-mod posturing and teen-angst, 18-30 styled preaching. It isn't like self-reference and pop-culture has passed them by before as what was perfected in S... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Changeling: 1 of 3
The following review is of Peter Medak's 1980 ghost-story starring George C. Scott and not the more recent Clint Eastwood film. Both movies, as you might have gathered, have the same title but that's their only likeness. Eastwood's film is a completely original movie and has no relation to Medak's horror story.Quietly, The Ch... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Withnail and I: 1 of 3
For many, the first introduction to Bruce Robinson's tale of friendship at the end of the 'greatest decade in history', appears not in the form of a video, a curry, and a group of mates, but by the discovery of an intoxicated body lying forlornly on the living room floor. 'What happened here,' someone will ask, to hear the re... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: A Knights Tale: 1 of 3
Heath Ledger gets his first major starring role as William Thatcher, a peasant who has a piece of luck when his master dies during a jousting final leaving him the armour, the horse and the chance to become a champion jouster. After his initial success, the hefty winnings leave him and his band of merry men panting for more, ... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Hitcher (1986): 1 of 3
Driving through America's mid-west can be a tough thing, especially if you're just a young kid transporting a car to another state to earn a little extra cash. Night falls, an eerie mist envelops the road, rain crashes down and thunder roars. Your eyes feel weary, tired and you just want to go to sleep, but you know you've go... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Paycheck: 1 of 3
A Hollywood sci-fi with a great premise - it must be an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story then. It's testament to the recent Hollywood machine that Paycheck keeps everything light, fast and entertaining, ditching the dark moral and ethical undertones of the source work prevalent in some of the writer's other film adaptatio... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: April Fools' Day: 1 of 3
April Fool's Day plays like a toned-down Friday The 13th, gaining its chauvinistic attributes from PG-13-styled sexual innuendo (you know the type where giddy high school girls read 'what kind of orgasm does your man give you' from teen market magazines) whilst sticking itself together on the well-worn conventions of the slas... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Money Pit: 1 of 3
A disaster movie that involves nations falling to their knees is epic, dramatic and sentimental; a disaster movie that involves two people moving into the house from hell is either nail-biting horror, or unadulterated, unsentimental hilarity; here, it is the latter.This is eighties comedy at its best, a disaster film that doe... More..