These are typically combination reviews, where I cover a franchise, a topic or some other selection of films which have a common theme. There are also interviews and general film articles to be found here. The reviews will also appear, on their own, in the appropriate place on the review indices.
Franchise reviews
- The Angel Guts series
- Blade-s of Gory: When vampires were cool
- Dogfight: Top Gun vs. Top Gun: Maverick
- The Evil Dead trilogy
- The Friday the 13th franchise
- The Guinea Pig series (1985)
- Harry Potter
- The Hellraiser franchise
- The Hobbit trilogy
- Keep On, Carrying On
- Midnight Diner
- The Mr. Vampire series
- The Prophecy franchise
- Romero’s Dead Trilogy
- Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy
- Trainspotting vs. T2 Trainspotting
- The Witchcraft series
- Yippie-ki-yay: Looking back at the Die Hard franchise
Other specials
- 31 Countries of Horror
- 31 Days of Classic Horror
- 31 Days of Horror
- An alternative Top 20 Most Rewatched Action Scenes Ever
- Anthony Wong mini-festival
- Bari Kang: “Close to the world, but not of the world”
- Battle of the Bruces
- Bill Zebub and his films
- Censor vs. Censor
- Charles Band triple-bill
- The Color Purple vs. Tess
- Conspiracy Theories
- Cult Classics, Collection 2
- Donnie Yen double-bill
- Drive-In Cult Classics
- Drive-In Cult Classics, Volume 2
- Drive-In Cult Classics, Volume 3
- Drive-In Dinner Double-Bill: I Drink Your Blood + I Eat Your Skin
- Firestarter (1984) vs. Firestarter (2022)
- Ghostbusters (1984) vs. Ghostbusters (2016)
- Grindhouse: On its 10th anniversary
- Halloween (1978) vs. Halloween (2007)
- Hammer Time
- Horror Classics, Vol. 5
- Horror Classics, Vol. 7
- Hostile Hauntings box-set
- Lucy Lawless vs. Lawless animals
- Mark Stirton: More Highland than Hollywood
- Mental Maniacs box-set
- Midnight Horror Collection: Bloody Slashers
- The Mothra Chronicles
- No, Jennifer’s Body STILL sucks…
- The One Pound Fiftieth Element
- Pacific Rim vs. Atlantic Rim
- Phoenix Fear Film Festival 2006
- Phoenix FearCon 2008
- Phoenix FearCon 2012: The nearly picked
- Phoenix FearCon 2016
- Phoenix FearCon 2020
- Phoenix FearCon 2021
- Phoenix FearCon 2022
- Phoenix Philm Phight!
- Project Adkins
- Religious movie double-bill: Left Behind and The Omega Code
- Return of War of the War of the Worlds
- Serial Psychos box-set
- Shark Week 2016: Tales of the SyFy seas
- Shark and Awe: Shark Week 2017 on the SyFy Channel
- Shark Absorbers: Shark Week 2018 on the SyFy Channel
- Shark Week 2022: Chum Assembly Required
- The Shining vs. Doctor Sleep
- Starship Troopers and 300: Fascism in action?
- Three by Besson
- Three ‘Disturbing Outsider’ films
- Top 10 Films: 1999-2021 lists
- Top 10 Films: 2016
- Top 10 Films: 2017
- Top 10 Films: 2018
- Top 10 Films: 2019
- Top 10 Films: 2020
- Top 10 Films: 2021
- A tribute to Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
- The Universe of Lars Henriks, Part 1: The Cthulhu Trilogy
- The Universe of Lars Henriks, Part 2: From Bearkittens to COVID, and beyond
- Uwe for Boll-ywood: The Competent (and other) Films of Uwe Boll
- War of the War of the Worlds
- The Weird Hype Cult of Everything Everywhere All at Once
- When Chinese Animals Attack
- “You c—!” The Ten Best Cinematic Uses Of The Ultimate Taboo Word