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2 February
This month's VideoVista has
reviews of: American Gangster, Coffee Date, Death Sentence, Ghosts Of Cité Soleil,
Mr Woodcock, Phantom Carriage, Shoot 'Em Up, Third Man Out, Witchblade, and lots more.
22 January
Rotary Action has been updated
with new web-pages about High Treason and Shooter, plus review entries for:
Bacterium, Golpe de estadio, Hitcher (remake), I Am Legend, Manticore, Next, Sand Trap,
28 Weeks Later, Typhoon and lots more.
8 January
New stuff on The ZONE includes:
Lovecraftian artwork by Octavio Ramos Jr, reviews of novels (Rudy Rucker, Richard Morgan), plus
a batch of film reviews (Gandahar, Lycanthropy, Planet Terror, Reaping, 30 Days Of Night).
2 January 2008
VideoVista's new year
edition reviews: Bone Dry, Breaking News, Chinese Roulette, Loving Annabelle, Satan's
Brew, Simpsons Movie, 3.10 To Yuma, and other DVD releases.
3 December
VideoVista's end of year
round-up has reviews of: Apartment 1303, Beowulf & Grendel, City Of Violence, Days
Of Glory, Desperation, Flying Scotsman, Last Sect, Sunshine, and lots more besides.
2 November
This month, VideoVista
includes review coverage of: Edvard Munch, Grow Your Own, Invincible Iron Man, Lonely
Hearts, One Last Dance, Perfect Creature, Puccini For Beginners, Rumbling Hearts, Sexploiters,
Sleeping Dogs, Tree Of Wooden Clogs, Typhoon, Wages Of Sin, and many more.
19 October
The ZONE website update includes:
new artwork (for Halloween) by Octavio Ramos Jr, reviews of books (Clive Barker, Simon Clark,
Paul McAuley, Justina Robson, Charles Stross), and some genre film reviews (Ferryman, Serpent,
28 Weeks Later and others).
2 October
The latest issue of VideoVista
has reviews of: Away From Her, Dragon Heat, Flower Of Evil, Flyboys, Jindabyne, Last Mimzy,
My Date With Drew, Puritan, 28 Weeks Later, and many others.
2 September
This month's VideoVista
web-zine includes: Ballad Of Narayama, Caffeine, Fracture, Goya's Ghosts, Karla,
Last Winter, Taxidermia, and lots more DVD reviews.
1 August
The mid-summer VideoVista
has reviews of: Breach, Dream Life Of Angels, Kaw, Pin, 10th & Wolf, and other
DVD titles.
1 July
Our new issue of VideoVista
looks at: Because I Said So, Deep Water, A Good Year, Legend Of Lucy Keyes, 9th Company,
Perth, Sex & Fury, Them (2006), The Unit, and lots more.
24 June
New stuff on the Rotary Action
website includes: Crank, Fantastic Four 2, M:I 3, Smokin' Aces, Militia, 9th Company, The
Unit.
22 June
Recent updates on The ZONE website
include: Sydney J. Bounds interview, a batch of film & TV reveiws (Hogather, Torchwood,
Spider-Man 3, Children of Men, Sunshine, Idiocracy, Surface), plus 9 book reviews.
1 June
Latest VideoVista webzine
covers: Alpha Dog, Blood & Chocolate, Ghosts, Headspace, Last King Of Scotland,
Mansfield Park, Notes On A Scandal, Pervert!, Shanghai Express, Ultimate Avengers...
and many other new and recent DVD releases.
1 May
New VideoVista reviews of:
Black Book, Good Shepherd, House Of Rock, Night Listener, Smokin' Aces, Woman In Winter,
and many more.
1 April
This month's VideoVista
looks at DVD releases of Bones, Chronos, Farce Of The Penguins, Harsh Times, Johanna,
Kissed, Purgatory House, 638 Ways To Kill Castro, Valmont and many more.
25 March
Latest update for The ZONE
includes reviews of books (Nicholas Royle, Steve Aylett, Frederik Pohl, and others),
plus coverage of movies 300, Ghost Rider, Ultimate Avengers and TV series
Revelations.
1 March
New issue of VideoVista
includes: The Conformist, D.E.B.S, The History Boys, Hollywoodland, Man Push Cart,
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Next Door, Prison Break, Snakes On A Plane, Special, Tideland,
Until The End Of The World, and many other DVDs.
8 February
The ZONE website now has
review pages updated to include Heresy by Charlee Jacob, Mad Professor by
Rudy Rucker, and many others.
2 February
Latest VideoVista has
DVD reviews of Antibodies, Black Dahlia, Cannibal Campout, Dishonoured, New Police
Story, Ridicule, The Sentinel, Warrior King, plus Hammer film noir, anime releases,
and lost more.
17 January
New stuff on The ZONE website:
splash page artwork by Octavio Ramos Jr, Superman article, 10 books reviewed (including:
novels by Peter Watts, Terry Pratchett, collections by Jeff Vandermeer, Andrew Hook, plus
nonfiction by Richard Dawkins), and movies and DVD coverage of Pan's Labyrinth, District 13,
ReGenesis.
1 January 2007
New Year's edition of VideoVista
webzine reviews Benny's Video, Fearless, Ghost Of Mae Nak, Planet Earth, Swindled, and
Woodchipper Massacre.
1 December
This month's VideoVista has
review coverage of 16 DVDs, including Downfall, Ghost Towns, She Spies, The Tick,
and Peeping Tom.
30 November
New additions to The ZONE include:
prodile of Philip José Farmer, report on films premiered at Horror Fest '06, plus 8 books
and 2 films reviewed.
26 November
Latest update for Soundchecks
includes an interview with Dave Stewart, concert reviews of Young Knives + The Grates, a top
10 listing of genre movie soundtracks, and a batch of 13 new CD reviews.
17 November
11 book reviews (including titles by Neal Asher, Gary Fry, Dominic McDonagh, Kim Harrison,
and Geoff Johns' comic-books) and 8 film/ DVD/ TV reviews (including Mortuary, Cello, The
Nameless) just added to The ZONE
website.
1 November
New issue of VideoVista has
a Top 10 British TV Horrors listing, plus DVD reviews of: Aquamarine, C.S.A, Dust Devil,
Firewall, Ghouligans!, Holiday Inn, I Am Curious Yellow, Samaritan Girl, Suburban Secrets,
Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, Unborn But Forgotten and others, including retro
coverage of End Of The Road and Freaks.
26 October
New and recent additions to The ZONE
website include reviews of: Mortuary, Cello, Brothers Of The Head, 2001 Maniacs, Sir Henry
At Rawlinson End, The Nameless, Hostel, plus coverage of books from authors Gilbert
Hernandez, William R. Trotter, John Brockman, and Greg Rucka.
22 October
New stuff on Soundchecks
includes reviews of CDs by DK Ibomeka, The Dunes, Ian North, Joe Bonamassa, Alice Donut,
Tyr, and Moody Blues.
3 October
Latest additions to Soundchecks
website: Tall Poppies, Lou Reed, Cream, and reviews of other CD and DVD releases.
1 October
The new edition of VideoVista
webzine looks at the comedy of Armando Iannucci and Denis Leary, and includes DVD reviews of:
Boston Legal, Eye Infinity, Hornblower, Little Fish, New Street Law, Slither, Viridiana
and many more.
23 September
The ZONE celebrates its 5th
anniversary with splash-page artwork by Kevin Radthorne, a new editorial, and updates for
books and movies review sections.
17 September
New material on the Soundchecks
website includes a top 10 listing for alt country artists, and a batch of varied CD and DVD
reviews.
8 September
Latest additions to Rotary Action
are Cars, Firefox, Smallville, Superman Returns, VIP and a dozen more films/ TV shows.
1 September
This month's VideoVista has a
profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, plus review coverage of The Bee Season, The Coast Guard,
Flightplan, Les Valseuses, Marebito, The Ringer, Silent Hill, U-Carmen eKhayelistsha, V.I.P.,
Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price and many more.
8 August
New profile of Bruce Sterling on The ZONE,
plus some book reviews (including Dread In The Beast by Charlee Jacob).
1 August
Our new edition of VideoVista
reviews Address Unknown, Casualty, Ellie Parker, Kika, Left Luggage, Mephisto, Quest For Fire,
Seducing Dr Lewis, Tsotsi (plus loads more titles!), and looks at Fiona Richmond's movies.
Our retro selections are The Duellists and Eskimo Nell.
1 July
The latest VideoVista features
reviews of Bone, Chicken Little, The Dark Hours, Freak Out, Man-Thing, Nanny McPhee, Pulse,
Running Scared, Seven Swords, The Weather Man, Zathura and many more.
25 June
Latest stuff on the Soundchecks
website: interviews with Mark Fox of Shakra, and Andrea Tilenni (Fear Of Eternity). There's also
a batch of CD and DVD reviews topped by Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy For The Devil film of
The Rolling Stones.
19 June
Just updated the Rotary Action
website, including fresh pages (about Wings Of The Apache and Ghost In The Shell),
several new entries for the A-Z section, another batch of photos, and dozens of updates
and corrections.
1 June
Our new issue of VideoVista
webzine features reviews of The Adventures Of Blake And Mortimer, A Bittersweet Life,
Hidden Blade, Infection, King Of Beggars, Lady Vengeance, Once Upon A Time In High School,
Premonition, Saw II, Top Spot and other new and recent DVD releases.
29 May
A profile of author Stephen Baxter has been added to The
ZONE website, along with a batch of movie (The Hills Have Eyes remake,
The Triangle, Ab-Normal Beauty, The Call Of Cthulhu) and book (Liz Williams, Bruce
Sterling, Neal Asher, Mike Carey) reviews.
1 May
The latest VideoVista has
reviews of Breakfast On Pluto, Feed, Grizzly Man, Howl's Moving Castle, King Kong (2005),
Machine Head, Shock-O-Rama plus many more, with Inherit The Wind in our movie vault.
23 April
Tony Lee's new blog
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is active from today, powered by
Blogger.com.
15 April
Historically Accurate Or Not - fantasy novelist Sarah Zettel's top 10 listing
of Arthurian films is now online at:
VideoVista.
2 April
This month's VideoVista
webzine reviews DVD releases of: Divergence, Exhumed, Guy X, A History Of Violence,
Masters Of Horror - volume 1, One Night In Mongkok, Parts: The Clonus Horror,
Primer, Seoul Raiders, Tell Me Something, Union City, and in our Retro spotlight,
The Other.
19 March
Soundchecks features
a Long John Baldry tribute plus a batch of new CD and DVD reviews. The latest articles
on The ZONE website include
a profile of author Cory Doctorow, and a critical essay on sci-fi TV in UK and USA.
2 March
The latest VideoVista
includes coverage of The Assassination Of Richard Nixon, Bewitched (2005),
Domino, The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skidrow Slasher, Last Days, Red Eye, Time
Of Favour, You I Love, and many other DVD releases.
24 February
Another batch of print and screen reviews just added to
The ZONE website. Also,
Rotary Action fansite
about helicopters in movies and TV has been updated.
2 February
This month's VideoVista
webzine includes reviews of Beautiful Boxer, Eyes Of Crystal, Green Butchers, The
Mighty Celt, R-Point, Serenity, Wishing Stairs, and many more. We also have an interview
with filmmakers George 'Buck' Flower and John Goff, plus a top 10 list of 'disturbing
movies'.
2 January 2006
Happy New Year! ... This month's edition of
VideoVista webzine
features coverage of Augustus, The Cooler, Dead Babies, Meantime, Shelter From The
Storm, Taxi (1998), Would I Lie To You? plus a bundle of anime reviews.
27 December
New 'splash page' artwork by Chris Cartwright added to
The ZONE website, along
with a batch of book reviews, covering recent novels by Simon Clark, David Gemmell,
Kate Elliott, and others.
15 December
A critical article on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology is now online at
The ZONE. Also reviews
of several genre films, including: A History Of Violence, King Kong (2005),
The Cave, The Devil's Rejects, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Charlie And The
Chocolate Factory.
3 December
Our end-of-year VideoVista
issue includes reviews of Born To Fight, Dead Meat, Morgan's Ferry, Palindromes,
Silver Hawk, Torremolinos 73, Valiant, and lots more.
2 November
VideoVista webzine
has reviews of Between Your Legs, Campfire Stories, Caroline In The City, Deep Throat,
Fellini's Casanova, Infernal Affairs III, Malefique, Mr & Mrs Smith, Prey For Rock
& Roll, The Sting, 13 Conversations About One Thing, To The Ends Of The Earth,
and lots more.
3 October
This month's VideoVista
includes coverage of Arakimentari, Brotherhood, Cursed, Europe trilogy, Los Debutantes,
Ong-Bak, Salaryman Kintaro, 29 Palms, The Ugliest Woman In The World, Who Killed Bambi?,
The Zookeeper, and many others.
August / September
VideoVista webzine
features reviews of The Aviator, Creep, E.M.R., Koma, Monster Man, Sledge Hammer,
Very Bad Things, plus many more.
4 July
The latest VideoVista
webzine includes reviews of Assault On Precinct 13, Charmed, Earthsea, Heroic Duo,
I Spit On Your Grave, Ladder 49, Merchant Of Venice, 9 Songs, Panic, Somersault, The
Wire, The Woodsman, and many more!
2 June
This month's issue of VideoVista
features reviews of Casshern, Colditz, A Hole In My Heart, Hotel Rwanda, 2046, Wonderwall
and lots more. The new batch of DVD compos include the remake of Assault On Precinct 13.
The latest reviews on The ZONE
include Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and half
a dozen book reviews.
3 May
The latest VideoVista webzine
has great reviews of Beyond The Sea, Birth, Churchill: The Hollywood Years,
Land And Freedom, Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, Making A Killing, Mayor Of The Sunset
Strip, Pitfall, Salon Kitty, Soldier Blue, Understanding Jane, and many
other new & recent DVD releases. New stuff on
The ZONE website includes:
Steve Sneyd's article about poetry in Brian Aldiss' novel Barefoot In The Head,
coverage of the stageplay adaptation of Day Of The Triffids, reviews of the new
Doctor Who and the live-TV version of Quatermess Experiment, plus several book
reviews.
2 April
This month's issue of VideoVista
eclectic webzine includes reviews of Bullet Ballet, Ella Enchanted, The Hillside Strangler,
Infernal Affairs II, Saved!, Vera Drake, The Yes Men and many more! We also have new compos
for Hustle and The Grid, and Harvie Krumpet. New stuff on the
Soundchecks music site,
includes an interview with Noddy Holder and a tribute to Ray Charles.
1 March
The new issue of VideoVista
webzine includes reviews of Chinese Odyssey 2002, Falcons, Miracle, Octane, Without
A Trace and many more. This month's compos are Cause (making of Hero)
and Saved!
27 February
New material added to The ZONE
website recently includes features on John Benyon Harris (alias: John Wyndham), and F.G. Rayer,
plus five book reviews, and seven film/TV reviews including Tru Calling, and Casshern.
5/6 February
This weekend sees the official launch of our music website
Soundchecks.co.uk -
covering the best in all types of music.
1 February
This month's edition of VideoVista
webzine includes reviews of Anchorman, 9 Souls, Notorious, Timecop,
Vodka Lemon + 14 other titles. New compo: Cube Zero on DVD.
24 January
3 books reviews, and 11 film reviews (including Exorcist prequel, Stepford
Wives remake, Shikoku, and Phone), plus a critical essay about Shyamalan's
The Village, added to The
ZONE today.
1 January 2005
New Year's edition of VideoVista
has reviews of The Chronicles Of Riddick, Garfield The Movie, Kichiku dei Enkai,
Last Life In The Universe, One For The Road, Top Of The Pops: 40th Anniversary, and
lots more, including retro coverage and DVD competitions!
29 December
Three more book reviews and five movie reviews added to
The ZONE website.
19 December
Two comic-book reviews and three film reviews uploaded to genre site
The ZONE.
1 December
This month's VideoVista
webzine includes an article on Steve McQueen's car chase in Bullitt, plus reviews
of Come And See, Ginger Snaps Unleashed, The Missing, The Stendhal Syndrome, and many
more! There's also six new genre book, film and TV reviews just added to
The ZONE site.
15 November
New interviews with writer Kim Newman, filmmaker Ari Roussimoff, and author Alma Alexander
on The ZONE website, plus three
book reviews.
Major update to Rotary
Action fansite about helicopters in movies and TV, includes two dozen new pictures
and many additional listings and capsule reviews.
1 November
The latest edition of VideoVista
monthly webzine features a new top 10 listing about TV heroes, and has 38 reviews - including
CSI: Miami, Foolproof, Laws Of Attraction, Monster,
One From The Heart, The Ring trilogy, Troy, spaghetti westerns, lots
of anime, and 5 films by Takashi Miike. We have prize draws for remakes of Dawn Of The
Dead and Around The World In 80 Days, plus a batch of Buffy DVD titles.
29 October
Recent updates to The ZONE
website include an interview with Alma Alexander, 8 book reviews (by Adam Roberts, Gary
Gibson, Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks + others), and 3 dozen reviews of films and TV
shows.
1 October
This month's issue of VideoVista
webzine includes reviews of Battle Royale II: Requiem, Home On The Range,
Something's Gotta Give, Suicide Circle, 21 Grams plus many more DVD
and VHS titles. Win copies of Roswell: Season 3 DVD boxset, and the director's
cut of Romero's Dawn Of The Dead.
19 September
Online this week - The ZONE
has interviews with writers Ken Wisman and Glenda Larke, and a profile of best-selling
author Michael Crichton. There's also an update of helicopters site
Rotary Action.
1 September
The latest VideoVista has
reviews of Barbarian Invasions, C.S.I: Season 3, The Girl Next Door,
The Reckoning, remakes of The Singing Detective and Willard, and many
more DVD and VHS titles. New boxset competitions: The Prisoner, Angel: Season 5,
and lots more!
24 August
This month's additions to The ZONE
website are an interview with Eric Van Lustbader, plus 15 book reviews and 15 film/TV reviews -
including I, Robot, The Chonicles Of Riddick, and The Bourne Supremacy.
2 August
This month's edition of VideoVista
features reviews of Angel: Season 4, Blue Spring, Cold Mountain, Infernal
Affairs, The Last Samurai, The Statement, and many more titles. New competitions
- VideoVista has copies of Roswell: Season 2, and The Girl Next Door to
give away, and you could win the remake of On The Beach at
The ZONE site.
30 July
Re-launch issue of Premonitions magazine of SF and
horror stories is now available. 13 storytellers, 13 poets, 7 artists. Nearly 42,000 words
of writing in traditional and cutting-edge styles. 60 x A4 pages with colour cover.
27 July
Completed update of Rotary Action
site about helicopters in movies and TV, adding a new 'history' of choppers page, and many new
entries to the A - Z guide.
19 July
New material on The ZONE site
includes interviews with author Stephen Gallagher, and filmmaker Robert Pratten, a survey
of voodoo themes in British cinema and TV, plus eight book reviews, and six film reviews -
including Robot Stories, Hellboy, and Bubba Ho-Tep.
1 July
The latest VideoVista webzine
includes reviews of Agitator, Freaky Friday, Lost In Translation, Moon Warriors, School
Of Rock, SWAT, Tattoo and many more, plus DVD competitions for Millennium, Timeslip,
Streets Of Fire and others!
6 June
New additions to VideoVista -
TV producer William Smethurst on the making of Jupiter Moon + DVD competition. Plus:
review coverage of epic film Troy, and Stephen Gallagher's TV drama Oktober on
The ZONE, which also has
reviews of 2 books by Steve Aylett.
3 June
A new issue of dragon's breath
(Summer 2004) is now online with more than three dozen books,
magazines and small press items reviewed. Over 6,000 words of incisive comment!
1 June
The latest VideoVista
webzine has reviews of Belleville Rendez-Vous, Dark Star, Girl With A Pearl Earring,
Masked And Anonymous, Open Range, People I Know, Reservoir Dogs, Roswell: Season One,
Sign Of The Killer, Unconditional Love, When Eight Bells Toll, The Wild Geese, and
many more.
30 May
New reviews on The ZONE site
include: The Encyclopedia Of Superheroes On Film And Television, Ian Watson's first
poetry collection, and novels by China Miéville, William Gibson, and Robert Silverberg.
Coverage of films includes: The Day After Tomorrow, the new live-action Peter Pan,
and Joe Dante's Looney Tunes adventure.
23 May
PigasusPress.co.uk site gets redesigned, with all content
revised, and new pages added. Now we have a gallery of 'winged pigs', a fully updated links
page, and improved navigation.
1 May
This month's issue of VideoVista
includes reviews of Bad Boys II, Daemos Rising, Master And Commander, Secretary, Werckmeister
Harmonies, and many more. The ZONE
site has an interview with British filmmaker Michael J. Murphy.
13 April
There's new splash page artwork by Ted Simonin on
The ZONE, plus reviews of
new books by Ian R. MacLeod, and Ken MacLeod, also reviews of genre films Alien Hunter,
Matrix Revolutions, and The Twins Effect.
1 April
This month's VideoVista
has reviews of: Best Of Buffy, House Of 1000 Corpses, The Italian Job (2003),
Once Upon A Time In Mexico, The Sleeping Dictionary, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(2003), Volcano High and many more.
15 March
The ZONE website now has reviews
of new books by Martin Sketchley, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and Orson Scott Card. The movies
section features coverage of: The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher, and Beyond Re-Animator.
This week also sees launch of The ZONE's own genre
forum.
1 March
VideoVista #60 includes
reviews of: Alias: Season 2, Happy Together, Max, NightStalker (2002), Ripley's Game,
Sex Is Comedy, and many more. This month sees launch of the new
VideoVista forum.
14 February
The ZONE site has an interview
with British author Jeff Noon, and reviews of 2 of his books, plus reviews of recent novels
by David Eddings, and Stephen Baxter. There's also 6 new film reviews added to our Screen
Scene pages.
1 February
This month's issue of VideoVista
webzine has 32 reviews, with over 20,000 words. Titles include Basic, Confidence, Dolls (2002),
Freddy vs Jason, Hope Springs, Intacto, The Right Stuff, Whale Rider and many more.
17 January
The Rotary Action domain
has just been updated, with new capsule reviews and lots more pictures. New reviews on
The ZONE site: Lord Of The
Rings: The Return Of The King, Timeline, and Children Of Dune.
4 January
The ZONE website now has an
interview with author Robert Reed, plus film and TV reviews of Jack And The Beanstalk:
The Real Story, Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy, Indian epic The Mahabharat,
and Final Destination 2.
1 January 2004
This year's first edition of
VideoVista has reviews
of Buffalo Soldiers, Femme Fatale, Hulk, Owning Mahowny, St John's Wort, Vertical Limit
and many more.
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