NATURE STRIKES BACK!

MASSACRED BY MOTHER NATURE: EXPLORING THE NATURAL HORROR FILM by Lee Gambin   The ‘nature amok’ movie has always been one of my favourite ge...

BIBLE CLASS

The Epic! exhibition  ( 100 years of film and the Bible ) was small but impressive - a stunning collection of Bible-themed movie memorabili...

THE CATMAN DISHES ALL

Having finished the Peter Criss book (Make-Up to Break-Up: My Life In and Out of Kiss ), I think it’s easily the most entertaining (and scan...

ST. KILDA'S LUNA PARK TURNS 100

I remember as a younger man in the late-eighties, I would finish up my shift at St. Kilda Video at 10pm then head across the road for a few ...

THE TREASURES OF LONG GONE JOHN

USA/2006/Directed by Greg Gibbs   Celebrating the life and work of independent record producer/distributor Long Gone John (who founded the r...

PIMPIN' IT

Recent portrait of me, taken by Coreen down Inkerman St (a street in St Kilda noted for its streetwalkers).  

SCHOOL'S OUT

The old high school (CBC St. Kilda) as seen from the rear. Was a strange experience going back there last Thursday for the class reunion - g...

ARGO

Argo  easily takes top spot in my list of best movies I have seen this year. Directed by/starring the ever-improving Ben Affleck ( Hollywood...

HIP POCKET SLEAZE Sample

For anyone interested, Amazon have now introduced the 'Look Inside' option for Hip Pocket Sleaze , so you can peruse a few sample p...

DREDD

What a nice surprise Pete Travis' Dredd turned out to be. An ultra-violent, pacey comic book actioner which at times made me think of C...

BURY ME DEEP by Megan Abbott

A native of suburban Detroit, Megan Abbott has established herself in the past few years as one of the prime writers in the pulp noir genre...

TOURIST TRAP

Charles Sobhraj and the Bangkok Hippie Killings by John Harrison         Looking at the somewhat grainy, aged photos of him in his 1970s pri...

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

Highly recommend Andrew Dominik's new film Killing Them Softly if you are fan of character-driven crime dramas. Has a great cast (Brad ...

KISS: DESTROYER (RESURRECTED)

Picked up a copy of the ‘new’ KISS album Destroyer (Resurrected) over the weekend. Essentially, it is their landmark 1976 album Destroyer ...

TWINS OF EVIL

My review of the Synapse Blu-Ray/DVD release of the 1971 Hammer Horror classic Twins of Evil is now up on the Cinemedia website at:   http:/...

COLLECTING ALIEN

The new issue of Collectables Trader magazine (Aug-Sept 2012) is now 'on the rack' in Australia, featuring my article on vintage  A...

MUG SHOT

A photo of me in that appears in the new issue of Tattoos Down Under magazine (#82), taken at the 2012 Rites of Passage tattoo convention i...

ZAAT

Don Barton's Zaat (1972) turned out to be a real hoot, an aquatic horror flick filmed in Florida that is more Horror of Party Beach t...

V/H/S

Thought V/H/S was ultimately a disappointing waste of a great concept. A melding of the found footage and anthology horror genres (with eac...

JILL NELSON INTERVIEW

Head over to the Headpress website to read an interview I recently conducted with Jill Nelson , co-author of the John Holmes bio Inches and...

MARS WILL RULE!

My new, super cool Mars Attacks! bobblehead....

THE DARK KNIGHT, RISING

The Dark Knight Rises gets 4 out of 5 from me. Breathtaking opening sequence. A serpentine plot that takes a good 40 mins to get going but d...

ALIEN MEMORABILIA

A sneak peek at the first couple of pages of my article on  Alien memorabilia, coming up in the new issue of Collectabes Trader magazine. ...

THE WIZARD OF GORE

Volume 2.6 of the Headpress Journal is now out. Devoted to the art of the Grand Guignol, this issue contains my article on Herschell Gordon...

GRINDHOUSE HONEYMOON COLLECTION

My review of THE GRINDHOUSE HONEYMOON COLLECTION (two discs of vintage stag smut from the sick 70s) is now up at the Cinemania site at: htt...

BACHELOR PAD INTERVIEW

Watch for an interview with me, discussing HIP POCKET SLEAZE and the world of vintage adult paperbacks, which appears in the new issue (#20...

SHOCK CINEMA

Another excellent review for HIP POCKET SLEAZE , this time from Steven Puchalski in the latest issue (#42) of his essential Shock Cinema ma...

THIS BED WE MADE

The taste of cigarettes and cheap bourbon was stale in my mouth as I lay naked on my back, my eyes contemplating the old ceiling fan that wh...

LADY OF VENGEANCE

Lady of Vengeance Cold .45 strapped to her warm naked thigh (Which is the deadlier weapon?) Intense hazel eyes Passionate yet predatory Pla...

BIZARRE 'HIP POCKET SLEAZE' Review

Here's a transcript of the review of Hip Pocket Sleaze from the current issue (Feb 2012) of the UK magazine Bizarre . SLEAZY READS Back ...

HER SMILE WAS SWEET POISON

The elevator doors pinged and drew open, all eyes in the lobby turning as if they instinctively knew there was something exceptional to see....