Originally broadcast 16/10/09 as an episode of
I 'm ready for my closeup
on
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Alastair Kirton as Colin and Stephen McHattie in Pontypool
In a special early Halloween edition, Alex Polecat speaks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the manufacturer of the advanced Canadian Horror movie Pontypool
and Marc Cost, manager of the splendid British zombie picture Colin
about their new attacks to the zombi genre on a bounded budget.
Pontypool
spells on limited release in the UK today, while Colin
in relinquished on 23rd Oct.
For more info about the variety of formats you can download this podcast in / stream, please visit www.archive.org
Links: Pontypool
IMDb page
and Official website
Review at Cinematropolis
blog
Alex's mini-review as part of a Frightfest 2009
article at Electric Sheep Magazine
Listen to the radio version at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
Colin
IMDb page
and Official site
Review in Revenant Magazine
Info about the Colin
panels at this month's MCM Expo
Read a transcript of Alex's interview with Marc at Electric Sheep Magazine
For information on the up-to-the-minute issue of Electric Sheep mag, please chink here
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We Are Words + Pictures stall
Sat 17th Oct
Girl Germs
nine dark @ The Camden Head
( from 8pm )
Articulation WAW+P Godhead Julia Scheele and Matthew Sheret as they sell and individualize the pick of the UK 's little insistence output from a stall with the Miss Germs ' female dad and toughie nighttime at 100 Camden Main street, London NW1 0LU
too: Hunterian Museum Picture Viewing
- Checkup Miniaturization - Th 22 October, 7pm
Join us for our first ever Hunterian Museum
flick showing of two plants on the subject of medical miniaturization. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will acquaint the definitive 1963 anime Astroboy: Mighty Bug Army
about the automaton boy miniaturized to contend bacteriums inside the body, followed by the 1966 pic Fantastic Voyage
animated by one of Osamu Tezuka 's early Manga works The Monster on the 38th Analogue '. The museum and the exhibition Sci-Fi Surgery: Checkup Robots ' will be unfastened from 6pm so that you can see the mini-bots that turn phantasy into world. Viewings supported by the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society and Right Stuf, INC FREE, booking indispensable on 0207 869 6560
asset: Blackness POWERS exhibtion at Swiss Bungalow Library Gallery
As component of Inkiness History Month
, Swiss Bungalow Library Gallery demoes an exhibition of comics by black Creator and of Afro-American characters in comics. The accumulation cleaves around black representations through the imagination and language of the laughable book medium: representation as markers of both historical and modern-day battles. The topic is developed through archival plants from the 1930 's to the contemporary and culminates with a show of the remarkable comical art of Patrice and Lavatory Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Spear Tooks.
09 October - 06 Nov 2009
Swiss Cottage Library
Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, Great britain
The Beholder / Jonathan Ness / Comica Graphic Short Narration Award 2009
Are you an aiming graphical novelist? Make you hold an original narrative to say? Win 1, 000 and hold your tale published in The Beholder.
More info
Deadline: 19th October 2009
and: London signings...
Fred Vanguard Lente
The 3rd Autumnal signing at Gosh! Comics
is Fred Avant-garde Lente, the award-winning author of Action Philosophers!
Astonishing Spider-Man
Wonder Zombies
and Unbelievable Alcides
, among numerous other first-class rubrics, and is one of the most exciting composing gifts to emerge in the last five ages. This will be his only London signing, so take vantage of this rare chance to claver with him... Sat 24th October
, from 3pm-5pm
Avatar comics subscribing
: An all-star line upwards will be subscribing at Orbital Comics
courtesy of Incarnation Push on Tues the 27th of October
from 4: 30 to 7: 00. Paul Duffield ( Freakangels ), Jacen Burrows ( Traversed, 303 ), William Christensen ( Editor of Incarnation ), Kieron Gillen ( Phonogram ), Si Spurrier ( Justice Dredd, Gutsville ) and Rich Johnston ( Haemorrhage Cool Blogsite )
David Petersen /Mouse Guard
: David Petersen be subscribing the gorgeous Mouse Guard Wintertime 1152 at the Forbidden Planet Megastore
, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Sat 7th Hallowmass - 2pm
asset: Fall comics conventions and events...
October Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth: The MCM Exhibition at the Excel Centre in London 's Docklands
includes appearances by Andy Diggle, Athlete, Leigh Gallagher, Alan Grant, Ben Templesmith, Kieron Gillen and Emma Vieceli - more information at www.londonexpo.com
Besides on Sunday October Twenty-fifth, there Holds the Women in Comics one-day conference at Murray Edwards College New Hallway in Cambridge
: which includes Belgian-based artist Dominick Goblet in conversation with Paul Gravett, Corrine Pearlman and Woodrow Phoenix discourse autobiographic comics work, Helen McCarthy on women and gender functions in the work of Osamu Tezuka, and other dialogues by Sarah McIntyre and Asia Alfasi. More information at http://tinyurl.com/womenincomics
Fifth to the 26th of November: Comica,
the three hebdomad festival of comics in and around the Institute of Comtemporary Humanities in London includes appearances by Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Brian Talbot, James Denim and Tara McPherson. - more information at www.comicafestival.com
19th to the 22nd of November: The Idea Bubble serial art festival in Leeds
which includes appearances by Paul Cornell, Gary Erskine, Garen Ewing, Andy Diggle, Frank Queitly and many more - more information at www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
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