The Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual, written by me, is now available in the UK and and the US. The “Augmented Reality” bit of the title refers to the app you can download, allowing you to put Xenomorphs on your bedroom ceiling or take a selfie being exploded by a chestburster. You can read an interview… Continue reading Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual
Conversation with Alex Kurtzman, the director of the first of Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ films, The Mummy. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/alex-kurtzman-mummy/
This feature was originally published in Empire Magazine, Issue #328: October, 2016. He’s been hailed as a genius, a provocateur, and something of a taskmaster – and that’s just by his friends. We go in search of the real Oliver Stone… It often feels, four decades into his Hollywood career, that Oliver Stone was born… Continue reading Deconstructing Oliver Stone
A set visit and interview feature on Alice Lowe’s horror-comedy Prevenge, published in two parts at Rue Morgue. Part One: http://www.rue-morgue.com/single-post/2017/03/21/Exclusive-interview-Writerdirectorstar-Alice-Lowe-takes-PREVENGE-Part-One-On-Set Part Two: http://www.rue-morgue.com/single-post/2017/03/22/Exclusive-interview-Writerdirectorstar-Alice-Lowe-takes-PREVENGE-Part-Two-On-Set Update – January, 2018 The above links now seem to be dead, so here’s the whole thing (in a single instalment as originally submitted to RM). PREVENGE – ALICE LOWE Pregnancy… Continue reading Alice Lowe – Prevenge
MAN ON A MISSION (Originally published in Empire magazine, August 2016) On Deadly Ground was Steven Seagal’s directorial debut, the peak of his seemingly unstoppable rise to action-hero superstardom. Yet his movie career never quite recovered… Amid the snow-topped mountains and vast pine forests of Valdez, Alaska in May 1993, Steven Seagal was taking charge.… Continue reading Steven Seagal: The Making of On Deadly Ground
Empire magazine feature from 2012, recycled for an “Arnie Week” on the website marking the release of Aftermath. This originally went with a map, so the talking points were stops on a journey. That concept has been lost a bit in translation from page to online, but I still really like this piece. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/predator-complete-history/ … Continue reading Predator
An interview with director Caradog James and actress Katie Sackhoff from the set of the British indie horror Don’t Knock Twice. Published at Rue Morgue. http://www.rue-morgue.com/single-post/2017/02/10/On-set-Report-IFC-Midnight’s-witchy-frightfest-DON’T-KNOCK-TWICE
