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The Walking Dead: Episode 1

By Si Sharp ⋅ November 9, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Zombies, zombies, bloody zombies. We really should be sick of the sight of them. The most annoying thing about them is that regardless of how many zombie films come along people keep on making more of them. On the flipside, every so often someone comes up with a decent take on the shuffling corpse and [...]

Shane Meadows, Saviour of British TV

By El Vez ⋅ October 13, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Call it fate, call it sods law, call it bad luck, call it whatever you like, but sometimes the decisions we make can be all about timing. Having lived with a television as a permanent resident of every house I’ve been in from day 1 to year 32, I recently, finally, decided enough was enough [...]

The Walking Dead

By MarBelle ⋅ September 7, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Despite being urged by practically all my comic loving friends for years to check it out, I only got round to reading Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead this week (I’m currently on issue 6). I thought that few things would make me as happy as the knowledge that I have a good 70 issues ahead [...]

Seeing Red

By El Vez ⋅ March 20, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’ve never been a big fan of TV, especially TV drama, I usually find it pales in comparison to film in all aspects of production. So when it comes to the choice of putting on a DVD or flicking through the endless channels of dross that we have available now, I’ll always reach for a [...]

DN EP 126: Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? – Sam Hobkinson & Trunk

By MarBelle ⋅ March 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Rarely, the situation arises that for whatever reason (BBC refusing to give us permission to use any clips being an example!) I’ll record a great DN interview but can’t release it as our regular video/interview combo, meaning my guests’ words of wisdom don’t get to see the light [...]

Paddy’s Day

By El Vez ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Paddy Considine stuck in my head the very first time I saw him in Shane Meadow’s A Room for Romeo Brass and by the time he put in a terrifying performance in Meadow’s fourth feature, Dead Man’s Shoes, it was plain to see what a strong actor he was developing into. Not satisfied with being [...]

Riding High

By El Vez ⋅ March 7, 2009 ⋅ One comment

If you would have said to me at the start of 2009, that by March, the best new film I’d have seen so far this year was screened straight onto Channel 4, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Don’t get me wrong, I have seen some decent films at the cinema so far this year, [...]