by Dave Bradley | Sep 3, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
VIDEODROME Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated R Canadian ‘Body Horror’ legend David Cronenberg was on the cusp of going mainstream after Shivers, Rabid, The Brood and Scanners when he made this notorious, already-dated-looking but still fabulously trippy shocker back in 1983....
by Dave Bradley | Sep 3, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Rob Morrison (Wakefield Press) 2019, 198pp, RRP $24.95 Academic, writer, broadcaster, muso and Adelaidean Morrison’s memoir is structured as a pleasingly non-chronological series of reminisces, many of which revolve around Channel 9’s Curiosity Show, which ran from...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 2, 2019 | Books, Reviews
JP Delaney (Hachette Australia) 2019, 435pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback) The pseudonymous Delaney’s next trick after The Girl Before and Believe Me is another twisty psychological thriller, albeit one with lots of thorny themes surrounding the concept of AI (Artificial...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 4, 2019 | DVDs, Movies, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA First-time co-writer/director Dominique Rocher’s low-budget, memorably-titled French zombie drama found an unexpected ally in Stephen King who (much like he did with Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead years ago) loved it and was...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 1, 2019 | Books, Reviews
S.K. Vaughn (Sphere) 2019, 469pp. RRP $32.99 (paperback), $39.99 (hardback), $16.99 (e-Book). This veritable doorstop of a book from Vaughn (a pseudonym for a very successful author and screenwriter) looks and sounds science fictional and indeed is, to a point, but...