UncleGeoff, Author at SFcrowsnest

BBC VFX: The Story Of The BBC Visual Effects Department: 1954-2003 by Matt Irvine and Mike Tucker (book review).

The art of special effect is not to be seen as such. It’s part of the story and not supposed

With all build-up for the past month, it would have been disappointing had ‘The Day Of The Doctor’ been a

I should point out to those in other parts of the world that this special edition of ‘The Wolverine’ DVD

Reading Douglas Van Praet’s book ‘Unconscious Branding’, it didn’t take long to dawn on me that I’m mostly immune to

If ever there was some expectation with ‘An Adventure In Space And Time’ showing the origins of ‘Doctor Who’, then

From the start, my feelings from Brenda Cooper’s first book in this series, ‘The Creative Fire’, continue with this one,

I don’t often come across very tiny paperbacks, but ‘Writers Rehab’ by D.B. Gilles is certainly one of them. The

One thing I was never sure about is whether the Winchester brothers would philosophise about their activities as hunters, eliminating

Although Penny Penniston’s book, ‘Talk The Talk: A Dialogue Workshop For Scriptwriters’, is primarily designed for writers of stage and

It’s often thought that science has the solution for everything. As we play with science in the genre, we know