Before Dirk Malcolm’s World of Film there was The Projection Room, Bolton School’s Film Society. There had been film societies at the school in the past, but this incarnation was […]
For the record, I want it noting that this is not listed under the ‘Objects of Desire’ series of Starburst Memories. I am a ‘new man’ – Mrs Dirk said […]
I didn’t read FAMOUS MONSTERS in 1980. I was too busy studying the classified ads in SMASH HITS. There were adverts for clothes that were impossible to buy from STOLEN […]
There was time when STARBURST was appealing to the FANGORIA market and the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON issue (No. 40, Volume 4, Number 3, 1981) has a cover that is […]
This week’s guest publication has been provided by Dom. Its a copy of FAMOUS MONSTERS (number 160) published January 1980. Despite its title and its history of featuring monsters from […]
The monthly Dirk Malcolm Film Club goes something like this: A catch up for an hour on what we have been up to – books we’ve read, people we’ve seen […]
DUCK SOUP brought to mind, the book “Cult Movies” by Danny Peary. Published in 1981, it remains an important book in the film canon as it gave serious, passionate insight […]
As Dom-Dirk noted in his review of The Thing, the ‘classic horror’ movies of the 1930s – 1950s were the stock-in-trade of BBC2 for the later period of the 70s […]
Watching HIDDEN again, I was struck by how the presence of video tapes seemed to date a film that was made relatively recently. I have just gone through a painful […]
A friend of mine was convinced that he had a Moff Tarkin figure in the 1970s. Regular readers of Dirk Malcolm will know that this is impossible, as the figure […]
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