BACK WITH A VENGEANCE

After a week or so in flu-filled limbo I’m now back, and I’ve just added six RIU film reviews and three Clothesline book reviews, which you can read all about as follows…

Ramin Bahrani’s 99 HOMES is here.

Terry Jones’ ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING is here.

Francis Lawrence’s THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 is here.

Terrence Malick’s KNIGHT OF CUPS is here.

Billy Ray’s SECRET IN THEIR EYES is here.

And Sam Mendes’ SPECTRE is here.

Plus THE COMPLETE BEATLES SONGS: THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY TRACK WRITTEN BY THE FAB FOUR is here.

And MORE LETTERS OF NOTE: CORRESPONDENCE DESERVING OF A WIDER AUDIENCE is here.

And WOULD I LIE TO YOU? PRESENTS THE 100* MOST POPULAR LIES OF ALL TIME is here too.

FOUR SOMEWHAT DIVERSE MOVIE REVIEWS

I’ve just added four film reviews written for Rip It Up and/or The Adelaide Review, so you can read my thoughts on Peter Sollett’s FREEHELD here, my opinion of Davis Guggenheim’s HE NAMED ME MALALA here, my take on Ben Palmer’s MAN UP here and my surprisingly positive write-up on Christopher Landon’s SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE here.

TWO WEEKS WORTH OF FRENZIED WORK, OR THEREABOUTS

I’ve just added a huge amount of writing after almost two weeks off, so you can read a bunch of RIU and Adelaide Review film pieces and Clothesline Digital Arts Magazine interviews, book reviews and DVD reviews as follows. Deep breath…

FILM

Peter Andrikidis’ ALEX & EVE is here.

Steven Spielberg’s BRIDGE OF SPIES is here.

Jocelyn Moorhouse’s THE DRESSMAKER is here.

Noah Baumbach’s MISTRESS AMERICA is here.

Gregory Plotkin’s PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION is here.

and Leslye Headland’s SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE is here.

INTERVIEWS

Dean Haglund, an X FILES star and guest of Supanova 2015, is here.

Butch Patrick, a.k.a. Eddie Munster and another guest of Supanova 2015, is here.

and Andrew P. Street, author of THE SHORT AND EXCRUCIATINGLY EMBARRASSING REIGN OF CAPTAIN ABBOTT, is here.

BOOKS

Jesse Eisenberg’s BREAM GIVES ME HICCUPS & OTHER STORIES is here.

Brett Morgen and Richard Bienstock’s COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK is here.

Mick Frost’s TRUTHS, HALF TRUTHS & LITTLE WHITE LIES: A MEMOIR is here.

and Susan Hill’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK AND OTHER GHOST STORIES is here.

AND DVD

Alan Taylor’s TERMINATOR GENISYS is here. And whew!!!