Reviews
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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes Ian Doescher with his Shakespearian interpretations of the original STAR WARS trilogy. His original book, simply titled William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, was received to critical acclaim. His follow-up, The Empire Striketh Back, is equally rewarding for fans of the Bard, STAR WARS, or just fine…
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Revisionists put their loving arms around Richard III a long time ago. He became a poster boy for misunderstood royals everywhere as historians sought to reclaim his reputation from the gutter, where it had allegedly been tossed by Shakespeare’s Tudor propaganda. read more Book review: Digging For Richard III by Mike Pitts – Reviews –…
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An expert on past and present paganism, Ronald Hutton revises his 1991 survey of practices in the ancient British Isles to narrow it to Great Britain. He peers back thousands of years at rituals, monuments, and remains to surmise how people sought to connect with the sacred and the natural. Those two force-fields mingled in…
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“I hope you don’t scare easily,” the professor says, as he welcomes his students to his latest parapsychology experiment.Well, maybe he thinks that. But clearly the makers of “The Quiet Ones” hold very different hopes.Because if you do scare easily — if all you need is a lot of herky-jerky camera movements, sudden noises and…
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There are certain things I simply don’t question. I don’t ask my wife why it’s so important that I put the toilet seat down. I don’t question why you shouldn’t eat silica gel although I really, really want to. And I don’t question the popularity of zombies. The reasons that I don’t question these things…
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You can feel this movie’s attempts at Big Ideas about technology get weighed down by a dopey, nonsensical plot“Transcendence,” the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister “The Dark Knight” is a sleek, smart techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas — until it stops being any of those things.Like a snazzy new laptop that immediately heats up…
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Ghost Stories From The North Of England Edited by George White £12.00 (Paperback) 366 pages The basis for this volume are the five pamphlets written by Rebecca Dane and Craig MacNeil between 1972 and 1982 and now long out of print; all are scarce and therefore this book, edited by George White, is a welcome…
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The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who; an incredible achievement for a show that has survived against the odds – the BBC having taken a weirdly contemptuous attitude to it in times past, reducing budgets, moving schedules, forcing it into the dread territory of ‘Childrens’ TV’ and – a crime against humanity – hiring Bonnie Langford.
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Strangely Strange but Oddly Normal is in my opinion one of the best books in the genre. I read this anthology with avid interest and an inane grin on my face. Not only does Andy capture the peculiar nuances of a Yorkshire childhood, he also manages to impart at least a little of his extensive…
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Storr has managed to put together the most candid and earnest account of Supernatural exploration that I have ever read. Approaching the subject as an interested and eager-to-learn novice, he takes the reader on an engaging personal journey driven by his own desire to ‘know’.
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In ‘Jack the Ripper – A 21st Century Investigation’, a retired British police murder squad detective (his own description) and Ripperologist, Trevor Marriott, presents the results of his cold case investigation in a two and a half hour show that dispels many theories previously accepted as fact.
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Paranormal Essex David Scanlan & Paul Robins Amberley Publishing ISBN 9781848684607 The thing that I like most about Amberley publishing’s books, are the covers, And Paranormal Essex is one of their best, but let’s look inside and hope it’s not filled with TOWIE stupidity, and cross our fingers for some reality. The first thing I…
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Haunted Spalding: Gemma King. 97807524569928. Published by History Press 7/8/12, £9.99 “A terrifying collection of spine-chilling tales from Spalding”, Gemma King’s insight into the haunted history of Spalding takes the reader on a whistlestop tour of this lovely Lincolnshire town. Unlike most books of this genre, this attractive little tome contains not only a fascinating…
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Ghosts Of York. Rob Kirkup Amberley. 12.99 9781848682368 Hmmmmm… This review is a bit of a difficult one for me. Although we both claim to be paranormal investigators, Rob Kirkup and I clearly have very little in common regarding investigative procedure – Of course I’m not saying that Rob and his team arent doing it…