Paul McCartney, Kisses on the Bottom. When you get older the Bucket List gets to be much more luminous. Whatever it is you’ve been putting off in life, it’s best time to get to it. No doubt Paul McCartney has had these songs running around his expansive mind since his parents used to do them at family “sing songs” well...
Q & A with William B. Davis, The X-Files Cigarette Smoking Man
As the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files, actor William Davis was a master at instilling fear into the hearts of viewers while giving them much to ponder about this complex, enigmatic character. Like the character, there are layers to the actor and much about Davis’ life we never knew. It is ironic that a good part of his 60...
Royal Status For Ghostly Greenwich
It’s amazing how you can absorb history through reading ghost stories. Admittedly, some of the finer details can sometimes be wrong (readers beware!) but the historical gist of such tales is generally accurate. Readers soon acquire a profound sense of existing within a continuum of time that wells up from the depths of the long-gone and stretches ahead into the unknown....
Director Ti West on The Innkeepers and the Current State of the Horror Genre
For fans of traditional horror movies that value suspense, atmosphere, and dread over empty gore and endless jump scares, Ti West is somewhat of a genre saviour. He first came onto the scene in 2005 with the zero budget bat/zombie romp The Roost and followed that up with the experimental and minimalist hunted humans thriller Trigger Man. Both were strong...
I Spy: Interview with Nikita’s Dillon Casey
Handsome, smart, loyal, a protector and a crack shot — that in a nutshell describes Nikita’s Sean Pierce. An ex-Special Forces soldier, he is part of a team of operatives hunting for Nikita, a rogue spy and assassin whose self-appointed mission is to bring down a top secret government agency called the Division. Having joined Nikita in its second season,...
Meet The Man(n) Behind The Paranormal Database
There are certain websites you find yourself stumbling across again and again, and for me one of these is the Paranormal Database. If I’m due to take a trip somewhere, and think I might have time to visit a supposedly haunted site while I’m there, I’ll have a quick search online for local ghost stories and before long I find...
Comics: C.W. Moss on Unicorn Being a Jerk
Every now and then I run across a book that makes me stop in the middle of reading to consider why, exactly, I am so entertained by things that could easily be seen at best as done in questionable taste. If pressed, I’d probably admit that’s the primary reason I avoid so-called reality television like the plague it is—too often...
Discovering Guildford’s Ghosts with Philip Hutchinson
Ghosts have an affinity for old buildings, it seems. Whether this is because the aging structures have had longer than their younger counterparts to gather spirits to them, or because books, films, and television shows have simply taught us to expect historic buildings to be haunted is almost beside the point. The fact is that where you find old buildings...
A Chat with Author Lisa Chaney, Chanel Biographer
Lisa Chaney has written biographies of J. M. Barrie, of Peter Pan fame, and of food writer Elizabeth David. Now she’s turned her attention to someone very different in Coco Chanel: An Intimate Biography. Although there are several biographies of Chanel, who was arguably the most influential designer of the 20th century, Chaney’s is the most thorough to date. Lisa,...
The Beast Within: Interview with Sanctuary’s Christopher Heyerdahl
From Shakespeare to other period pieces and also contemporary dramas, Christopher Heyerdahl has spent over 20 years performing in a variety of genres onstage as well as in feature films and on TV. Sci-Fi fans know him best as Todd the Wraith from Stargate Atlantis, and from his dual roles as John Druitt and Bigfoot (a.k.a. Biggie) in Sanctuary. In...