Martin Anderson published work
Since Autumn 2007 I've co-edited the Dennis Publishing website www.denofgeek.com. This has involved finding and commissioning new writers; editing and proof-reading an avalanche of copy; forging and maintaining new relationships with PR agencies; streamlining the workflow by creating systems and databases; hunting out and conducting hard-to-get interviews (current record: 13 months from first request to publication - but I think I will be beating that soon!); writing a weekly column for nine months until I had no time left to do it anymore; spinning news from rss feeds and contacts; racking my brains for a good list that no-one has done before; reviewing material (including DVDs, audio, books) from PRs or farming it out to writers; chasing recalcitrant writers for copy; publicising the site (through links at sites such as IMDB, Fark, Slashdot,.Reddit and others); attending press screenings; doing most of the artwork for the site; and inputting all the aforementioned fruits into a CMS system that's quirky at best.
Den Of Geek has now been shortlisted for 'Launch Of The Year' at the British Society of Magazine Editors. The competition's stiff and we're likely to be shot in the paddocks (ouch), but it's still a hell of an achievement for a site with such minimal resources. It's also a testament to the founder, Simon Brew, and co-founder Sarah Dobbs (who has now left the site for Wired magazine). In terms of writing for Den Of Geek, one contribution of mine as an author has been to kick-start the interviews section by repurposing an old and unpublished Stephen King interview of mine, which has led to DoG producing nearly 100 interviews in a year (see 'Interviews' below for my own chats and click here for the complete list).
Den Of Geek has monopolised my energies since I began with it, but I have also found time to write a chapter of The Independent Guide To eBay, the forthcoming 101 Computer Projects, a feature on Neapolitan mysticism for the Fortean Times and various computer-related writings in the weekly PC magazines Micro Mart and Computer Shopper. I also have an interview with IT Crowd/Father Ted writer Graham Linehan coming out in November's 4Talent magazine (see 'interviews' below for two further chats I had with him for Den Of Geek). Previously I've also written for The Stage, The British Journal Of Photography, The Times and the Evening Standard (see 'other journalism' below for further details).
INTERVIEWS · LISTS · ARTICLES/COLUMNS · DISC REVIEWS · PRESS SCREENINGS
TV REVIEWS · BOOK REVIEWS · SELECTED NEWS & COMMENTARY · OTHER JOURNALISM/PRINT
INTERVIEWS - back to top
MOVIES
Dan O'Bannon (non-promotional)
John Carpenter (non-promotional)
Dario Argento (Mother Of Tears)
John Badham (War Games DVD re-issue + unrelated book)
Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
Darren Lynn Bousman (Repo - The Genetic Opera)
Stellan Skarsgard (Waz)
Brad Dourif (The Wizard Of Gore)
Michael York (Logan's Run re-issue)
Robert Patrick (non-promotional)
Adrienne Barbeau (Vampyres Of Hollywood)
Andy Serkis (Brightonomicon)
Rachel Talalay (non-promotional/Tank Girl retrospective)
Tom Shankland (Waz)
Franck Khalfoun (P2)
Kit Ryan (Botched)
Paddy Breathnach (Shrooms)
Margaret Nolan (non-promotional - Carry On retrospective)
Valerie Leon (non-promotional)
Vangelis (Blade Runner soundtrack re-issue)
Tom Woodruff Jr. (Alien prosthetics retrospective - non-promotional)
Robert Rankin and David Warner (Brightonomicon)
William Morgan Sheppard (non-promotional - Max Headroom/Star Trek retrospective)
Ornella Muti (non-promotional - Flash Gordon retrospective)
Dee Wallace (non-promotional - Howling retrospective)
TELEVISION
Adam West (Batman on Blu-ray)
Gerry Anderson (Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun)
Graham Linehan (career retrospective)
+ Graham Linehan on IT Crowd 3
Joe Morton (Eureka)
Elisabeth Sladen (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Nicholas Courtney (The Scarifiers)
Peter Davison (Big Finish launch)
Louise Jameson (Big Finish launch)
Kenneth Johnson (retrospective on 'V')
Jane Badler (retrospective on 'V')
Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica S3/roundtable)
Erin Gray (career retrospective/Buck Rogers)
Annabel Jankel (career retrospective/Max Headroom)
Gordon Kennedy (Absolutely)
Stephen Greif (Blake's 7 retrospective)
COMICS & BOOKS
Stephen King (archive interview, previously unpublished)
Dave Gibbons (Studio Space)
Mark Millar (War Heroes)
- press conferences &miscellaneous
Nick Landau of Forbidden Planet (30 year FP retrospective)
Dark Knight - Nolan, Bale, Caine et al talk Ledger (conference)
Jay Aston (Bucks Fizz retrospective)
Jason Haigh Ellery (Big Finish/Doctor Who audio)
Sigourney Weaver & Co. talk Wall-E (conference)
LISTS - back to top
8 reasons for a 1930s Superman movie
Top 10 exploding people
Top 10 Mindf**k Movies
Top Ten Screen Screams
10 inappropriately bad acting performances
10 inappropriately good acting performances
Top 10 actors playing themselves
5 desperate new characters for ailing TV shows
The Joy Of Sci-Fi Sex - 5 impossible positions
15 Contenders to play Catwoman after the Dark Knight
25 villainous casting suggestions for new Dark Knight films
Top 10 Most Depressing Movie Endings
Top 10 movie werewolves
Top 10 most outrageous sequel patch-ups
7 almost sacrilegious Hollywood remakes
7 cut moments in cult film
Top 10 Sci-Fi Prisons
Top Ten Sci-Fi Tyrants
20 ways to improve Doctor Who
Eight Cheap Tricks For Doctor Who Season 4.5 (and beyond)
6 more ways for the BBC to sell out
10 ways DVD content creators pwn you
Top 10 TV Title Sequences Of All Time
Top 10 mad scientists
Top 10 killer plants
Top 10 tough guys who went soft
Top 10 Screen Traitors
25 cult DVD marathons
10 things it takes to be Batman
10 hopes for Colonial Marines
The History of The Near Future
The history of Screen Robots
The prehistoric cinema guide
The cinema of John Carpenter
The cinema of Kurt Russell
The cinema of the Coen Brothers
The history of the horror anthology movie
10 geek books that have yet to be a decent film
Things to come: the sci-fi timeline from now
50 years of movie heroes
The Five Best And Worst James Bond Themes
Weasels Rip My Flesh - and other deathless horror movie titles
ARTICLES & COLUMNS - back to top
Can Hollywood quit smoking? -even to the point of shredding Casablanca?
Don't play it again - why movies shouldn't be tampered with years later.
The second coming of Bill Hicks - is 'Goat Boy' a revenant avatar for the noughties?
To Hell With Spandex - a look at the sexy occult superheroines of the 70s.
When good guys torture - why I stopped watching Battlestar Galactica.
Roll Your Own! - how to amuse yourself during another writers' strike.
Be seeing you...again - fears as The Prisoner is remade...
A New Future For Blake's 7? - fears as Blake's 7 is remade...
Women in Star Trek - asking why Star Trek has never known what to do with women.
Hollywood talks CGI with Den Of Geek - directors and actors discuss CGI with DoG.
CG-why? - why use bad CGI if good prosthetics would be more convincing?
Drunkorexia - is the British government ignoring the basic rules of dystopia?
Monster Of The Week - the problems facing TV horror-anthology shows
Blade Runner's 25-Year Shoot Is
Over - discussion on The Final Cut.
Oh no! I love Renny Harlin! - I come to realise the awful truth.
Supertramp - double 'D--cup superheroines roasted.
Dark They Were And Golden Eyed - nostalgia for the Soho geek emporium of yore.
Hollywood: women over 35 must be accompanied by someone hot - time's up, sweetie.
It's Only A Movie - how did kid-killing become all the rage in Hollywood?
The price of revisionism - what do we lose by cutting old films to suit modern culture?
Will Marilyn do porno yet? - the road to sold-out synthespians.
Hi-Def Sci-Fi - many sci-fi classics will benefit very little from the 1080p treatment...
The genealogy of the Body Snatchers - from book to all the films.
Hazel Court's devilish dream - commemorating the passing of the scream queen.
The Economics of Cowardice - how comics can help Hollywood actually take a few risks.
Get Out And Push - will the high budgets of sci-fi shows stifle innovation?
Underappreciated TV: UFO - retrospective of the dark Gerry Anderson sci-fi show.
Underappreciated movies: Screamers - under-rated 90s horror/sci-fi.
Amazon coasters: Bloodsuckers (1970) - films to set your coffee upon...
Halloween recommendations: The Exorcist 3 - The only sequel/prequel worth a damn.
In defence of.. Dune (1984) - a hard sell in the face of the evidence!
The Life And Times Of Max Headroom - retrospective of the plastic 1980s presenter.
Futures Past - sexism and cigarettes in space; it was all so obvious back then...
Mary Steenburgen's time-travelling boyfriends - it's no coincidence, as the videos show.
Upcoming Geek Movies - what was on the geek slate at year's beginning.
- Doctor Who-related
Gallifrey is in Britain - why new Doctor Who should watch out for American influence.
The Doctor Who board game! - outlining some problems with Who under Russell T. Davies
Doctor Who under Steven Moffat - celebrating Who's new executive producer.
Reboot, remake or restart? - Are producers abusing the 'nostalgia card'?
PRESS SCREENINGS - back to top
I Am Legend
Jumper
Iron Man
Street Kings
The Dark Knight
Waz
DISC REVIEWS - back to top
Red Sonja
The Happening
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Living In Oblivion
Flavia the Heretic
The Elephant Man
The John Carpenter collection
Breach
Sex And The Silver Screen
Chocky
She Wolf Of London
The Saragossa Manuscript
Adventures Of A Plumber's Mate
Solaris
review (audio)
Father Ted: The Definitive Collection
Doctor Who - The Brain Of Morbius
Doctor Who - Trial Of A Time Lord
Doctor Who: Beneath the Surface
Doctor Who - Invasion Of Time
Doctor Who: Four To Doomsday
Cannibals: Welcome To The Jungle
Psycho
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
Absolutely - Absolutely Everything
Wings Of Desire
The Two Ronnies series three
Diary of the Dead
Chrysalis
Masada
SELECTED NEWS & COMMENTARY - back to top
Microsoft, the XBox and Blu-ray - will Microsoft's snub of the 'victorious' hi-def format cost it dear?
The man who was The Joker
Cloaking device coming...?
A campaign for real werewolves?
The Prisoner: Here's the new 'Village'
The Looming Piracy Apocalypse
Too Dark a Knight...?
The Dark Man Of Steel
The Dude Abides 10 Years
Horrified 'B'-movie victims for sale
Did the source pics for Barbarella and Red Sonja get mixed up?
The Kinkiest Lost Doctor Who Story?
New Dark Knight poster distinctly post-9/11
Jeffrey Lebowski breaks 10 year absence for Iron Man
Alien: A Call For Aliens Without The Predator
What amnesia drug...?
Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks
Barbarella on launch pad
Cher for Catwoman? Depp for Riddler?
Real-time 3D faces...and 3D printers too
Batman puts the boot in in Dark Knight trailer
Rachel Talalay for Tank Girl reboot
'V' - the lizards are returning (finally)
David Fincher finding Heavy Metal a hard sell
Marble Mania saving lives?
Lots of summer Blu-ray & DVD announcements
Release the Godfather!
Scream queen Hazel Court dies, aged 82
Dark Knight sequel details revealed - bat-nipples ahoy?
Devastating fire at Universal studios destroys Back To The
Future ...
The old bamboozle
TV REVIEWS (Doctor Who, S4)- back to top
DEAD SET (October 2008)
episode 1
episode 2
episode 3
episode 4
episode 5 (embargoed)
Partners In Crime
The Fires Of Pompeii
The Doctor's Daughter
Poison Sky
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Silence In The Library
Forest Of The Dead
BOOK REVIEWS - back to top
The Making Of Star Wars
Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
Alien vs Predator - Requiem: Inside The Monster Shop
OTHER JOURNALISM (select) - back to top
Interview with Graham Linehan [4Talent magazine - to be published in November "08]
The history of the Neapolitan Smorfia [Fortean Times]
scan pending
Putting Drama On The Write Lines [The Stage - my experience of participating in the London Weekend Television New Writers Award]
JPG (400k, opens in new window)
Chapter 6 of The Independent Guide To eBay [Dennis Publishing, 2008- concerned with searching, buying and combining multiple purchase]
scan pending
What Could Go Wrong? [Micro Mart feature on Virgin Media customer service]
PDF (2.15mb, opens in new window or right-click to download)
What's in a file-name? [Micro Mart]
PDF (3.5mb, opens in new window or right-click to download)
Default lies in us [Micro Mart]
PDF (1.8mb, opens in new window or right-click to download)
Other features will be added as they are scanned.
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