Friday 31 December 2010

Year's end

My latest 'Blood Spectrum' column (of DVD & blu-ray reviews) fills seven pages of Black Static #20 (TTA Press.

This issue's line-up:

Black Christmas (6/10)
The Seventh Victim (7/10)
Siege Of The Dead (2/10)
Peeping Tom (4/10)
Predators (6/10)
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (4/10)
Splice (8/10)
A Bay Of Blood (5/10)
Deep Red (7/10)
The Last Exorcism (1/10)
The Girl Who Played With Fire (7/10)
Missing  (4/10)

             Dreaming in death-pools - Guillermo del Toro collection
Cronos (6/10)
The Devil's Backbone (7/10) 
Pan's Labyrinth (8/10)

             Off the charts: round-up
Ong Bak 3 (3/10)
30 Days Of Night: Dark Days (2/10)
Lost Boys 3: The Thirst (3/10)
Lake Placid 3 (1/10)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (3/10)
Battle Royale (4/10)
Death Race 2 (1/10)

             Extra-discs (late arrivals)
Aftershock (4/10)
F (3/10)

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Vector

Vector 264
The latest issue of BSFA critical journal, Vector #264 (Autumn 2010), includes my review of SF novel Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov. The magazine doesn't have ratings for reviews, but I'd give this book four stars, or 7/10.