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Synchronic

The BENSON and MOORHEAD films appeal to me because they do what I love most – drop ordinary folk into extraordinary situations.

WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING is a short and wonderful book about distance running and writing.

There's a good chance you won't enjoy IN THE EARTH. It might frustrate you, but isn't that how life sometimes just is?

DEAD AND BURIED is a claustrophobic and genuinely creepy tale about small town secrets. Part TWILIGHT ZONE, part NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Horror great DONALD PLEASANCE stars alongside the magnificent TOM BAKER in JACK CARDIFF'S THE MUTATIONS (known in the US as THE FREAKMAKER).

Have I told you about SHEPHERD.COM before? It's a unique book discovery site I've been using (and enjoying) for a while.

People think of FREAKS as an exploitation flick and, to an extent, it clearly is. But it’s far much more than that.

Based on a JB Priestley novel, THE OLD DARK HOUSE is one of my favourite films. Drenched with atmosphere, it both created and defined a genre.

What a cast, what a concept, what a hotchpotch eighties movie DREAMSCAPE is. I loved it back then, not sure I feel quite the same today...