My dear friend Maya has just published her first novel. "As thrones tremble and gods stir, three lives converge in a world where liberation comes at the highest cost—and the most dangerous truth is the one you’re born to uphold. What if The Devil was your only way out?" tinyurl.com/bdfbpemt

My new book is now available in beautiful paperback: Black Ronin is Kill Bill meets Inside Out. A wandering, masterless samurai trades his anger for immortality and is then left in a bewildering struggle with his Fear, Disgust, Sadness and Joy. You can pick it up on Amazon here: tinyurl.com/yswefwds

On the School of Movies podcast tonight we have a commissioned episode for a ghost comedy you've probably never heard of. It's one of our very favourite new films we've seen this year. It's What We Do in the Shadows meets Beetlejuice: Dead Talents Society schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/dead-talen...

On the Patreon bonus podcast feed right now for everyone that backs us for $5 a month or more; the teenager talks about all the scary movies we watched over the month of October (including The Fog, Se7en and Silence of the Lambs) in Willow's Creepy Horror-Fest III. www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

Good listen for a spooky day

Now available on the School of Movies podcast feed; We go back to the original The Crow (1994) by way of its horrendous 2024 remake AND a clever re-edit that maximised on the poignancy and loss of this tragic movie that claimed the life of Brandon Lee. schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/the-crow/

Willow carved a skull-o-lantern and it is presented to you all here, flanked by the Skeletor League!!!

Now on our Patreon bonus podcast feed we have an hour-long show to accompany this week's main event, all about the Further Adaptations of Frankenstein www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

I've been looking forward to this show since Alex mentioned it in the community Discord server. I've been a passionate Frankenstein fan since seeing the old Boris Karloff version when I was younger. Alex also told me that my passion for it inspired some of the analysis, so I'm positively giddy. :)

"Adapting is like marrying a widow; You respect the memory of the husband, but at some point you gotta get it on." - Guillermo del Toro. In preparation for GDT's upcoming film we look at the history of how Frankenstein has been brought to the big screen. schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/adapting-f...

Okay, THAT is not Pippi Longstocking. That is fucking PENNYWISE!!!

I wanted a funny man eating chocolate, not The Kubrick Stare!

Now on the Patreon bonus podcast feed for everyone supporting us for five bucks or more, we're talking about the 2001 revelatory childhood tale of Wolverine, it's Origin, it influenced my own work, and I've done something special with it... www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight: One of the most astonishing films of the year. Everyone is firing on all cylinders with Ryan Coogler's intoxicating, dark, churning tale of blood, lust and music. It's #Sinners schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/sinners/

This man captured cinematic magic in his paintings. This man gave the world gift after gift until Photoshopped actor faces put him out of a career. This man inspired the covers of my books. This man's art will live inside me head forever. Rest in Paint: Drew Struzan

Another excellent episode. I look forward to rest of the QT season. Off to dig out my 'Sinners' bluray in preparation for next week's lesson.

This week's Patreon-exclusive bonus episode is on Wes Craven's most socially-conscious horror; The People Under the Stairs. We got some real Del Toro vibes off this one, as the monsters are humanised and the humans are monstrous! www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

On School of Movies tonight: We kick of our Quentin Tarantino Director Season with an almighty bang. Django Unchained is an absolutely blistering black revenge fantasy by a white guy at the top of his game. Teeth-grinding tension and explosive comeuppance! schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/django-unc...

Finally got around to printing the custom Silent Hill Downpour cover @schoolofmovies.bsky.social whipped up for me. Its a mix of the japanese front and the english back, the american front cover is too "generic dude pose". This is way more evocative

And on our Patreon bonus feed; one of the most influential comic books for me personally, with some of the most gorgeous art and truly lovable characters. I spent my birthday reading and talking about Joe Madureira's Battle Chasers with Willow and Sharon www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

On the podcast feed tonight, we're talking about Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and 3: Snake Eater. One has an astonishing antagonist and one of the most memorable, endings in gaming history, the other was the most brazen bait-and-switch of all time! schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/metal-gear...

On the Patreon bonus podcast feed tonight: We dive into the sparkling, sweet waters of cheesecake comic books; the kind created to gratify horny male readers with artfully drawn, curvy ladies, presented in the manner of a delicious dessert. It's DANGER GIRL! www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

Tonight's show is Transformers One. Awkwardly marketed as an Illumination-style goofy kids animated movie, this thing is actually about the dissolution of a friendship and the underclasses rising up against their cruel, exploitative overlords! schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/transforme...

On a quest to edit as much Mark Wahlberg out of that passable Uncharted (2022) movie. Antonio Banderas was RIGHT THERE and could have played Sully as a lovable old rogue (hiding shameful regret) instead of a whining, peevish, greedy, shallow idiot. I shall call this edition "Uncharted: Unmarked"

Listening to this at the dayjob. Tons of great observations.

I enjoyed the Thunderbolts* and K Pop Demon Hunters shows, and it looks like there is a lot to look forward to. Thank you.

And HERE is our movie podcast line-up over the next few months. We have a mix of the new and the classical, the long-awaited and the unexpected, with a smattering of video games TV and comics to mix things up. So, pretty much the same as we always do. Which are you looking forward to most?

What would you rate Sinners out of 10? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and we will read them out on the show.

We have two potential commission slots for November. Get in touch if you have a request. Alternately we are always happy to look at After School Club commissions. Half the cost for a shorter show.

I re-edited Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones into one single movie, did my best with Revenge of the Sith and condensed the six episodes of Obi Wan into a third movie. So now I finally have something resembling what I *thought* the Prequels would be, sometime in the mid-90s.

"Brando... in the jungle... nightmare of a film shoot!"

Our KPop Demon Hunters show, featuring special guest Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com to give us the inside skinny on Korean culture. You can listen here and now! schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/kpop-demon...

This is honestly one of the best episodes of the year with a great guest! Also loved everything Alex was doing with the edit in this one! Give it a listen!

Our KPop Demon Hunters show is now up and available on the main podcast feed for everyone! schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/kpop-demon...

I'd love to see this. Your move, Marvel

I love Airheads SO MUCH!!!!

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. Ninja Assassin: A bloody, sexy rampage produced by the Wachowski Sisters and directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta). I feel like in 2009 this was a little early for the operatically violent murder-ballets re-popularised by John Wick.

Our show on KPop Demon Hunters is now on the Patreon preview feed for all those at the $3 level or higher www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

And on our Patreon bonus podcast feed, we're talking about IronHeart. Somehow, after all those years of fan theories for Marvel TV with magical mysteries to unravel, I still don't think many people expected THAT villain to show up at the end! www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

Tonight on School of Movies we have an unexpectedly powerful Marvel movie where the real villain isn't a robot, an alien or a wizard, it's our sense of self-destructive isolation. In consequence, Thunderbolts* hit some audience members HARD... including us schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/thunderbol...

Just recorded a banger of a show on K-Pop Demon Hunters! Releasing in a fortnight after next week's Thunderbolts*

Tonight on School of Movies: We're talking about two of the MCU movies that made a lot of people wonder if they were losing their edge. Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts suggest otherwise, but in the meantime here's some distinct underachievers schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/quantumani...

Join us as we Dip our toes into the murky waters of very possibly the WORST MCU show. Secret Invasion is our Patreon-exclusive podcast this week. www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...

This month we've been all about covering the Marvel movies and TV we hadn't yet spoken about in depth. We looked forward to all of them; some underachieved and some of them surprised the hell out of us! schoolofmovies.podbean.com

Tonight's episode is on one of the biggest surprises of the post-Endgame MCU: Agatha All Along schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/agatha-all...

Some thoughts on the eventual DC Trinity of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman...

Today's After School Club episode is a Sound of Gonzo devoted to the hypothetical Guardians of the Galaxy TV series (which would have been the best and most expensive show in the Disney+ era). It's an all-new Awesome Mix! www.patreon.com/c/alexanders...