MORE HAMMER

Continuing to plough through the recent spate of Hammer BluRays, this morning it was a double-bill of  Rasputin - The Mad Monk  and The Rept...

QUATERMASS

What a treat it was to watch the new Blu-Ray of Hammer’s 1967 sci-fi classic Quatermass and the Pit . When I sat down and put it on I realis...

VALE MARZIPAN

Melbourne's cinema-going society lost one of their own over the weekend when Marzipan, who was the resident cat at the magnificent art d...

HARD TIMES

  Finally had a chance to revisit Allan Moyle’s 1980 teen rock movie Times Square last night, the first time I have seen it since its origi...

DAMIANI'S SLEAZY POSSESSION

Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Damiano Damiani’s Amityville II: The Possession is a great underrated horror movie from its period. Release...

FILMINK INTERVIEW

The current issue of Australia's  Filmink magazine (March 2013), features a small article and interview with me, discussing my new Blood...

CINEMA SEWER

Finally filled-in a couple of gaps in my collection of Cinema Sewer magazine, which I used to pick-up from one of the local comic book shops...

LEWIS' LOST SLEAZE

THE LOST FILMS OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis USA 1969/71 Studio: Vinegar Syndrome Number of Discs: 2 (Blu-Ray...

GOLDEN GODDESSES

Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema 1968 - 1985 by Jill Nelson "I made it a rule, an absolute rule for all of...

HER NAME IS BOND...

A sneek peek at my new book, scheduled for later in 2013...more details posted here as they become more concrete.   RENE BOND: AMERICA'S...

MASTERFUL MASSACRE

Just finished my annual viewing of Tobe Hooper's original  Texas Chainsaw Massacre  (1974). Just gets better to me with every passing ye...

BLOOD ON THE WINDSCREEN Out Now!

BLOOD ON THE WINDSCREEN By John Harrison   THE COLD & VIOLENT WORLD OF THE DRIVER’S EDUCATION FILM 1959 - 1975   Blood on the Windscreen...

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...