It’s nearly twenty years since I experienced the brief but intense rollercoaster ride that was the failed TV/film adaptation of my first novel, Dragoncharm. Bob Keen, an effects artist who’d worked
Category: Special effects
Harbinger Down – Film Review
For a sci-fi horror movie set on a frost-covered trawler in the middle of the icy Bering Sea, Harbinger Down positively oozes warmth. A warm respect for its genre.
“Alien Outpost” – Cinefex Blog
This month on the Cinefex blog, I interviewed filmmaker Jabbar Raisani about his feature directorial debut, the low-budget sci-fi thriller Alien Outpost. Filmed in South
Rush – heading behind the scenes
Regular visitors to this blog will know I’ve been writing about the world’s best visual effects journal Cinefex for quite some time now. Well, I’m
Cinefex through the 1980s
On May 14th 2011 I wrote my first retrospective review of Cinefex, the journal of cinematic illusions. I did it on a whim, thinking it
Harbinger Down
Huge congratulations to Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff and the rest of the ADI team for raising the $350,000 they needed to make their feature-length sci-fi