Kennel MICHAEL BARRETT has recently begun blogging at Film Score Monthly.
STEPHEN R. BISSETTE’s collected home video criticism is now collected in four compulsively read- able volumes of BLUR, published by Black Coat Press. He sells original sketches daily on his MYRANT blog at
srbissette.com.
RAMSEY CAMPBELL’s new story collection IN- CONSEQUENTIAL TALES is now available from Hippocampus Press.
JOHN CHARLES’ THE HONG KONG FILMOGRA- PHY 1977-1997 has been reprinted in softcover by McFarland and Company with a new and improved cover design.
SHANE M. DALLMANN and his alter ego Remo D. appear briefly in the long-awaited “horror host” documentary AMERICAN SCARY, now available on DVD from Cinema Libre.
TIM LUCAS is the author of VIDEODROME (Milli- pede Press). He writes about Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH in NEBULA AWARDS SHOWCASE 2009 (ROC), edited by Ellen Datlow.
KIM NEWMAN writes about author Michael Moorcock in NEBULA AWARDS SHOWCASE 2009 and his WATCHDOG-friendly short story “Illimitable Do- minion” leads off POE: 19 NEW TALES INSPIRED BY EDGAR ALLAN POE (Solaris), also edited by Ellen Datlow.
ERIC SOMER is currently writing a book about prizefighting in cinema.
RICHARD HARLAND SMITH still drives the streets of Los Angeles with the OMEGA MAN soundtrack blasting through his car speakers. He blogs at
MovieMorlocks.com.
BRAD STEVENS is the London-based author of MONTE HELLMAN: HIS LIFE AND FILMS (McFarland) and a frequent contributor to SIGHT AND SOUND.
BRETT TAYLOR wrote about Yukio Mishima in ASIAN CULT CINEMA #61.
SAM & REBECCA UMLAND were eatin’ eggs at Sammy’s when the black man there drew his knife.
DOUGLAS E. WINTER teaches law to writers, and writing to lawyers.
VW THANKS & PHOTO CREDITS
Alternative Cinema/Tony Marsiglia (10), Bear Manor Media (74), Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Eureka/Masters of Cinema (13, 14), First Run Features/Kelly Hargraves (6), Ellie Goldschmidt, Koch Lorber (57), Lionsgate (9, 59, 62, 64), Magnolia Entertainment (16-17, 18, 20, 21), MGM/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (50-52), Netwerk (73), Paramount DVD/Deborah Peters (28, 30-32), Severin Films/David Gregory (68), Sinister Cinema (8), Sony Home Entertainment (4, 55, 56), Summit Entertainment (16-17, 19, 23, 24, 26), Synapse Films/Don May, Jr., Jerry Chandler (7), Tokyo Shock (65), Universal Studios Home Entertainment (11, 28, 33-35), VCI Entertainment/ Robert Blair (40-49), Warner Home Video (28, 36-39, 77) and the ever-lovin’ Samuel Z. Archive (70).
In fond memory of J.G. Ballard, Richard Bojarski, Jack Cardiff, David Carradine, Marilyn Chambers, Michael Jackson, Maurice Jarre, Karl Malden, Jody McCrea and Lou Perryman.
EDITOR: Tim Lucas. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: John Charles. ART DIRECTOR: Donna Lucas. ARTWORK: Liz Bradford (4, 78), Charlie Largent (front, 30, 72), Pete Fitzgerald (20). COVER FORMAT: Charlie Largent.
VIDEO WATCHDOG® is published monthly by Tim & Donna Lucas (PO Box 5283, Cincinnati OH 45205-0283). VIDEO WATCHDOG® Number 150 (ISSN 1070 9991) is copyright 2009 by Tim & Donna Lucas. All rights reserved. All featured articles and illustrations are copyright 2009 by their respective writers and artists. Reproduction of any material in part or in whole without its creator’s permission is strictly forbidden. VIDEO WATCHDOG® accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, screeners, stills, art or other materials. Feature proposals welcomed at
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