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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Following a rather mean-spirited takedown of the family favourite 2001 animated film by a national newspaper on the 20th birthday of the film’s release, I decided to write something much more positive and upbeat, celebrating everything I enjoy about Shrek. What was supposed to be a short celebratory piece for World Geekly News took on …
Horrified is a brand new web magazine which focusses on British Horror and features articles and short stories from a variety of writers. I’ve written twice for them in 2020: The Signalman – As part of a series of essays about the BBC’s series A Ghost Story For Christmas, I looked at the 1976 short …
I’ve written a piece, albeit under the pseudonym Eliza Hindergraph, about a UFO sighting for Chine, a special edition magazine looking at the unusual phenomena on The Isle of Wight. Although entirely fictional it is presented as a serious, journalistic publication, drawing on real folklore for inspiration. You can still buy a digital copy of …
Felt Trips is a collaborative feature on Bob Fischer’s Haunted Generation website in which his readers are invited to send in their childhood artwork and share the stories that inspired them. Here’s mine, where I talk about my last Christmas as a “child” and share a prize-winning drawing inspired by the toys I got that …
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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Cultish Club is World Geekly News’ newest feature in which we revisit the films which have become somewhat passed-by over the years, but which have amassed a large underground following. For my first entry in the series I chose Black Moon Rising, the 1986 John Carpenter penned entry in the very 1980s oeuvre of the …
Nostalgia Done Right is World Geekly News’ occasional look at the films and shows which trade in retro-goodness but don’t just use obvious era-appropriate music, fashion, props etc for a quick response of “Oh, I remember that…”. The callbacks they make to the bygone times and the beloved properties they reference come from a place …
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 …
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
