Fake Faces
Horror movies work on human anxieties built into us, but why do we have the fear of the almost human doppelgänger?
READ MORE..Film/TV
Moving images that move me- Film, TV and Animation:
Pete & Chris
An appreciation of HAMMER HORROR films, the most memorable often featuring CHRISTOPHER LEE and/or PETER CUSHING.
READ MORE..Fave TV Titles
The test of a great title sequence is one that you never skip, even when binge watching multiple episodes in a row.
READ MORE..Pear Cider & Cigarettes
Robert Valley has recently completed a 35 minute animated movie that is the culmination of projects I saw him start back at Maverix Studios around 15 years ago; PEAR CIDER & CIGARETTES.
READ MORE..Wasteland Ronin
One of the greats of 1970s Ozploitation is MAD MAX: The Wasteland Ronin!
READ MORE..More TV Sketching
To close out all my recent TV sketching, here are a few more from 2014 and 2015. THE HOUR was a British TV drama that we started watching last year, about the birth of British investigative TV news in the 1960s. Two seasons of 6 episodes were made, and both Julia and I were very much … Read more
INSIDE OUT
INSIDE OUT is an unusual film for a big studio to make. It is very ambitious and abstract. I worked on the story team from 2010 to late 2012.
READ MORE..TV SKETCHING: 2013/2014
Here’s a roundup of TV sketching done in 2013/2014 that I’ve not yet posted here in this blog. These sketches of PRIS from BLADE RUNNER, were among the earliest drawings I ever did with my left hand that I actually began to like. I’d avoided drawing for the better part of 2013, because my crude left-handed … Read more
Sketch Trek: THE NEXT GENERATION
As a follow up to some Star Trek TV sketching we did months ago, Julia and I did more sketch nights of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a favourite of Julia’s that I wasn’t so familiar with. When Star Trek: TNG was first broadcast, in the late 1980s, I was working in Asia and Europe; countries where I couldn’t understand … Read more