Another one from the vaults. This is an interview with the horror author David J. Schow, one of two credited screenwriters (with John Shirley) on Alex Proyas’ The Crow (1994). The conversation – conducted by email – was for a planned Empire magazine Crow feature that didn’t end up happening, so I’ve never been able… Continue reading The Crow
An obituary feature, co-written with my Empire colleague Phil De Semlyen, celebrating the late David Bowie’s subsidiary career in film. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/david-bowie-film/
I visited the LA set of the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton while it was shooting, and wrote the subsequent feature for Empire‘s print magazine. Ice Cube was keen to tweet it, however, so, unusually, it also immediately went online. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/straight-outta-compton-set-visit/
With the news that Radiohead would not, as had been rumoured, be providing the Spectre theme – Sam Smith having won the gig – this is a feature about other Bond themes that didn’t get as far as the opening titles. Like Alice Cooper’s The Man With The Golden Gun. Hence the picture. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/lost-bond-themes/
This was originally a two-part feature on filmic vanity projects. One was ‘straight’ and the other was specifically about films made by musicians and bands. Since Empire has migrated to a new site, however, the first seems to have been lost, and only the musical version survives. So this is that. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/vanity-projects-music/
Various retrospective 2014 features and lists went up daily on the Empire website during December. The following are the ones I either wrote outright or contributed to significantly. Pictured is Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, which was not Empire‘s number one film of the year, but was definitely mine. The soundtrack’s fantastic too. The… Continue reading Empire Review of 2014
This isn’t actually an interview with Lamb of God, but with the filmmaker Don Argott. Argott was already making a documentary with and about the band when Randy Blythe’s arrest in Prague for manslaughter happened, causing a drastic shift in the film’s focus. I followed the whole saga from early on, and got Argott to… Continue reading Lamb of God
