If you want to read it first, you can find it online here.
And if you want to know why I have written this, go here.
I read a lot of so-called genre fiction, but I have never read many ghost stories. Even my brief dalliance with horror fiction tended[…]

BLIMEY. I will be on Radio 2 at ten past six, talking to Chris Evans about Popular.
(I’ll delete this post after the event, so as not to clog up the front page. And I will get on which writing the next Popular entry, which is after all a great […]

I just read on the BBC’s site that there really are intelligent aliens. This article may represent the research accurately, but that just tells us that the ‘research’ is a bunch of people making up shit and feeding it into a compute[…]

So Bolt is a cute animal (Finding Nemo) with realistic fur (Monsters Inc) who is the star of a TV and believes the TV show is real (er – The Truman Show). His cute girl owner Penny (Inspector Gadget?) is also in the show, in which Bolt (Bolt) p[…]

Yes, yes – we’ve been mentioned in the Guardian, the Independent and FHM(!), but you know you’ve actually made it when you are mentioned in the real actual PAPER OF RECORD. No not the Times, (actually I think we have already been me[…]

I haven’t read all that many new writers within this genre in recent years, and I’ve been impressed by even fewer, but China Mieville is exceptional. His first book is not great, but the next two, Perdido Street Station and The Scar, are […]

Three more links from the past…. (the just-the-content version is here)
June 1999: Let’s Just Say That Sometimes ? > ! – naturally, having decided to establish Freaky Trigger as a trailblazing website about modern pop, one of the fi[…]

io9 recently had a clip from US comedy show Robot Chicken (kind of a US Adam & Joe show) where they do a operatic précis of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. And an entertaining little piece of stop motion animation vs operatic tropes it is too.[…]

This is where I compare and contrast, because next out of the packet are two flavours which sit in natural opposition, occupying different ends of the taste spectrum. Does either of them succeed, then?
To some observers, Chilli & Chocolate was th[…]

Sometime it is difficult to dam the flood of Belgian films filling up our multiplexes. Why in the last month I have seen two which, merely due to accident of country of origin, I shall compare despite them really having very little to do with each ot[…]