Made in Yorkshire book cover

Find out more about Tony’s new book, Made in Yorkshire. You can get hold of your own copy via Guerilla Books.

Archive for May, 2009

Tony’s demon burns on

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Tony’s 2005 book Beating the Devil, his acclaimed examination of Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, continues to provoke debate.
In a lengthy piece written for the latest edition of Little Shoppe of Horrors, film historian Denis Meikle offers a reconsideration of the two versions of the movie using Tony’s book as a jumping-off point.
Meanwhile legendary […]

Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Tony is seeking information on, and pictures from, Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre, the pilot for a TV series that never was.
Made in the UK in 1977, this atmospheric TV movie never made the grade for a series. It starred Robert Culp, Gig Young and John Hurt in a tale of an occult detective investigating an aristocratic […]

Flash - aah aaaah!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Excerpts from Tony’s 2004 Screentalk interview with British filmmaker Mike Hodges, conducted during the 10th Bradford Film Festival, appear in the new edition of Archive, published this month by the National Media Museum.
The Q&A has been published to coincide with Hodges’ return to Bradford on Sunday, June 14, as the Guest of Honour at the […]