An everything-we-know feature for Empire about Paul Feig’s “controversial” new Ghostbusters. I enjoyed trolling the trolls on this one, but I… Read more Ghostbusters 2016

An everything-we-know feature for Empire about Paul Feig’s “controversial” new Ghostbusters. I enjoyed trolling the trolls on this one, but I… Read more Ghostbusters 2016
I did a lot of work for Empire on Deadpool. I travelled to Vancouver to the set and wrote the… Read more Deadpool – Empire Magazine cover feature
This was my third year at Night Visions in Helsinki, and as usual I came back with a lot of… Read more Night Visions Festival 2014
My third interview of three for Empire‘s 2014 horror week, since deleted from the Empire site so now re-posted in… Read more Tony Todd – Candyman interview
An interview with the actor Andrew Hubatsek, who played the properly terrifying Zelda in Pet Sematary and psychologically scarred a… Read more Pet Sematary’s Zelda – Andrew Hubatsek interview
This is a feature I wrote for Empire a couple of years ago, for the centenary of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan… Read more Tarzan: Planet of the Ape-Man
The first instalment proved so popular that we decided to immediately follow it up, this time using the suggestions of… Read more Trailer Cheats 2
A sequel to a feature about sequels! These are another 30 lesser-known follow-ups that mostly went straight to video or… Read more Unbelievable Sequels 2
I mentioned in an earlier post that one of my favourite ever interviews was with Sammo Hung. It was originally… Read more Sammo Hung interview
Bryan Singer’s cryptic Twitter announcement of “X-Men Apocalypse 2016″ prompted a wave of internet speculation about the apparent follow-up to… Read more X-Men: Apocalypse
Pretty self-explanatory, this is a 50-entry list feature on actors and actresses who changed their names professionally. Some are the… Read more Stage Names
This colossal piece for the Empire website was a joint effort by me, Chris Hewitt and Simon Crook (and designed… Read more 666 Great Horror Characters
Guillermo Del Toro supervised the opening sequence for the 2013 Simpsons Hallowe’en special (Treehouse of Horror XXIV), and in the spirit… Read more Simpsons Horror Tribute
Slightly strangely, this was a commissioned feature for Empire about another magazine: the horror bible Fangoria. Fango haven’t reciprocated with… Read more Fangoria
This interview with the thoroughly excellent Peter Stormare is intended as the inaugural entry in an occasional series called Rogues… Read more Peter Stormare interview
Here’s something in full for once, rather than just a link. I wrote a large feature on Clive Barker’s Nightbreed… Read more Clive Barker – Nightbreed interview
Following the protests by the Visual Effects industry that the 2013 Oscars tried very hard to pretend weren’t happening (Rhythm… Read more VFX Protests
Sometime in 2008. Another ‘Top 10’ from Empire magazine, recycled for the website (I’ve actually only just learned that these… Read more Movie Weapons
Sometime in 2007. This feature, on performances from behind a ton of make-up, was part of a ‘Top 10’ series… Read more Hidden Performances