It is sixteen year old Jeffrey Markham’s first time away from home and for the very first time in his life he is utterly alone. As nervous as he is at this prospect there are things that bother him more in life. One such thing is Kim, a friend only Jeffrey can see.
Kim is a little troll of a creature, mischievous and sinister certainly but Jeffrey has grown attached to him over the ten years Kim has shared his life. Unfortunately Jeffrey has no idea quite how attached to him …

Terri and Julie are twin sisters who live beside an idyllic lakeside with their mother Karen and father Mike. Over their summer break the sisters and their father are involved in a car accident which leaves Julie in a wheelchair. The accident tears the family apart, turning sister against sister and father against mother. Terri finds solace in her long term boyfriend Scott but Julie, under self imposed exile in her room, has no one except for the voice who speaks to her through her Ouija board.
Published in February 1983 …

Letterboxd is a new site, currently in its beta phase, that has been designed purely for movie enthusiasts. On it a user can write reviews and catalogue the movies they have seen including thier ratings.
The idea isn’t new, there are many sites that have a similar approach but Letterboxd ease of use makes it like a Facebook for film buffs.
It all sound really good doesn’t it?
And it is, but already I’ve seen problems arising.
Many people use iMDB for similar purposes, chatting on the forums and commenting on the films …

Over on the WorcsFF site the administrator has been considering the differences between cinema, home and streaming techniques regarding film distribution, and although he makes some very good observations regarding the current state of affairs with this technology I think there is more to be said.
one of the main issues that, for me at least, surround the current move to watch TV and movies online is that it once again it panders to the throwaway nature of modern consumers.
With so many sites offering free alternatives when it come to our …

Back in the 1980′s horror was a big thing, not only did we have the boom of horror related movies released on the new video formats (VHS and BETA) but writers such as Stephen King and Dean R Koontz popularized the genre in its written form.
But there is another thing that as a fan from the time  I remember, a series of books written specifically for teens called the “Dark Forces” series. Now if you were to do a search on the ever useful Google using the search term “dark …

 
If we were to limit ourselves to the New 52 range of DC comics we can get a glimpse of this breadth of character. At first glance they may all seem of the same ilk, but it does not take much further examination to see that this initial opinion is false.
Justice League
Justice League International
Aquaman
Wonder Woman
The Flash
Captain Atom
Firestorm
Green Arrow
The Savage Hawkman
Mister Terrific
DC Universe Presents
Batman
Detective Comics
Batwing
Batman: The Dark Knight
Batman and Robin
Batgirl
Batwoman
Nightwing
Catwoman
Birds of Prey
Red Hood and the Outlaws
Action Comics
Superman
Superboy
Supergirl
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Red Lanterns
Teen Titans
Static Shock
Hawk and Dove
Blue Beetle
Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion …

Anyone who has even a passing association with the world of comic books will know of DC’s New 52 range, a reboot of many of the distributors most popular titles as well as a collection of new titles thrown into the mix.
Among these are household names like Superman and Action Comics, Batman and Detective Comics; all four of which are cornerstones to the DC universe and, in the case of Action and Detective the reboot offers a rare chance to pick up an issue 1 at a price we can …

26 February 1977 was apparently a Saturday and on this particular Saturday I was 6 years, 2 months, 14 days and an indeterminate amount of hours old.
I was also a little boy whose reading skills were poor enough to worry those around me, bad enough in fact for my mother to have been called into a meeting with one of my teachers about the subject. I’m not sure who this particular teacher was and why they decided on the course of action my mother would ultimately take, but their advice …

People who have been paying attention will see things happening over on the Scala-Theatre site.
Paul had waded thought a phenomenal amount of information and I thought I understood this… Until I traveled up to the Historic Centre  with him and his partner in crime Lin Fletcher.
The Historic Centre was not what I had expected. I suppose a heavy diet of Indiana Jones movies had created an image of dusty books and darkened corners; but the Centre was nothing like this. It was a tiny room with half a dozen blocks …

“There is only forward.”
Her voice was harsh and distant.
Beneath my shoes I felt the thick carpet give a little and somewhere in the distance I saw as a candle flickered. Behind me the door was shut and bolted and for the moment I could not remember what horror lay on the other side of it.
Forward it was then.
The corridor was narrow and my shoulders brushed the walls, I felt picture frames shift as I moved passed them, the sound they made too loud in the silence.
“Here.” The woman said, she …