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What's old (2005)

29th December 2005
Added a bibliography of all the new King Kong books published this year, as a supplement to the 1932-2003 Kong bibliography.

27th December 2005
Added a review of Creature from Black Lake

23rd December 2005
Added a seasonally appropriate review of Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol

22nd December 2005
Added a review of Otherworld

20th December 2005
Added reviews of Octopus and Octopus 2

18th December 2005
Added a review of War of the Colossal Beast and interviews with two Lois and Clark alumni, VFX Supervisor Mark Zarate and Supervising Producer Chris Ruppenthal

17th December 2005
Added a review of Kingdom

13th December 2005
Added a review of 62 pages, added some interesting new information to King Kong in Print and corrected the recent recurring problem with the main heading.

12th December 2005
Added a review of the wonderful Emily and the Baba Yaga

11th December 2005
Added a review of Last Lives

10th December 2005
Added a review of the disappointing Solid Geometry

9th December 2005
Added a review of The Devil's Daughter

5th December 2005
Added a review of the staggeringly obscure and completely bonkers 1930s Bollywood epic Toofani Tarzan

4th December 2005
Added a world exclusive review of Bad Brains, the superb new film from Ivan Zuccon

3rd December 2005
Added interviews with Anthony Head and Lena Headey

1st December 2005
Added a review of Project Vampire

28th November 2005
Added a review of A Home for the Bullets

26th November 2005
Added a review of one of Betty Boop's more bizarre films, Is My Palm Read

24th November 2005
Added reviews of two Thai snake-woman movies: The Poison and Ngoo Keng Kong

23rd November 2005
Added reviews of Lake of Dracula and Legacy of Dracula plus Rob Green's 1994 short The Black Cat

22nd November 2005
Added a review of The Gingerdead Man

20th November 2005
Added reviews of The Killin' and The Deathless Devil

13th November 2005
Added reviews of The Vampire Bat and the abysmal Lorca and the Outlaws

11th November 2005
Added a review of Despiser and an interview with Kristyn Green, one of the stars of Doll Graveyard

6th November 2005
Added a lengthy article that I wrote for Book and Magazine Collector in 2003 on King Kong-related books.

31st October 2005
Added a review of the amazing silent sci-fi movie The Mechanical Man

30th October 2005
Added a review of fantasy docudrama The Last Dragon

26th October 2005
Added a review of obscure vampire film The Dreaded

25th October 2005
Added a review of the worst animated feature film I have ever seen, Moontrek

22nd October 2005
Added a review of Who Killed Doc Robbin? to commemorate its director, Bernard Carr, who died this week.

18th October 2005
Added two interviews with Samantha Janus, one from the set of Breeders (aka Rampage) in 1997, one from the set of Strange in 2002.

11th October 2005
Added a review of a very funny sci-fi short, Artie Saves the Hood

10th October 2005
Having temporarily run out of versions of Journey to the Centre of the Earth to review, I have added a review of an animated version of Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon

8th October 2005
Added a review of Penetration Angst and updated the triple bills page

2nd October 2005
Added a review of Doll Graveyard

1st October 2005
Added reviews of the Danish indie feature Last Exit and yet another animated version of Journey to the Centre of the Earth

21st September 2005
Added a review of The Ugliest Woman in the World

18th September 2005
Added a review of Dr Horror's Erotic House of Idiots

14th September 2005
Added a review of Voodoo Academy

13th September 2005
Added a review of Camp Blood

7th September 2005
Added a review of The Kingdom of Shadows, winner of the amateur film competition at the Festival of Fantastic Films. Also added a real discovery from the MJS archives: Emily Booth's first ever, unpublished interview.

1st September 2005
Added a review of HP Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep

31st August 2005
Added a review of the crappy anime Ultraman II

27th August 2005
Added a review of Evil Aliens

19th August 2005
Added a review of The Three Knights

17th August 2005
Added a review of Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night and the first new news for some time

13th August 2005
Added a review of Totem

9th August 2005
Added a review of the excellent London Voodoo and an interview with the director, Robert Pratten

8th August 2005
Added reviews of not one but two animated versions of Journey to the Center of the Earth: a Canadian one from 1996 and a French one from 2001.

3rd August 2005
Added a review of Broken; removed the 'most/least viewed' stats from the front page because they were just the same every month (what is it about Embrace the Darkness 2 that everyone finds so fascinating?)

30th July 2005
Added an interview with William Winckler

26th July 2005
Added a review of Puppet Master and redefined the Specials page as a Nodes page

25th July 2005
Added an interview with Rich Knight, make-up effects guy on Frankenstein vs the Creature from Blood Cove, including some great behind-the-scenes photos

22nd July 2005
Added reviews of Decadent Evil and Terror by Night and completed the triple bills page

15th July 2005
Added a review of Frankenstein vs the Creature from Blood Cove

10th July 2005
Added some more informaion to the Classic Entertainment Triple Bills listing including an alphabetical titles guide.

8th July 2005
Added reviews of crappy kung fu flick Twister Kicker and the sublime Queen Kong.

2nd July 2005
Added reviews of the Russian cartoon Bremenskie Muzikanty and its sequel Po Sledam Bremenskih Muzikantov

30th June 2005
Added a review of the notoriously incomprehensible Nightflyers and a short interview with one of the stars, Michael Praed.

28th June 2005
With everyone excited about the new version of War of the Worlds, time to dig out an archive interview with Ann Robinson, star of the 1950s version

22nd June 2005
Added a review of Alien Species

20th June 2005
Added a mini-interview with Tony Earnshaw; also updated the review of The Cathedral

18th June 2005
Added a review of The Pool

17th June 2005
Added reviews of the short documentary Leatherface Speaks and the ultra-obscure British animated feature Beauty and the Beast, a largely undocumented credit for Christopher Lee

16th June 2005
Added reviews of Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon and The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (no, really)

14th June 2005
Corrected some details on the Ultraman: The Next review

9th June 2005
Added an interview with Ed Bishop as a tribute to the actor who died yesterday

8th June 2005
Added reviews of Vengeance of the Dead and Jigsaw

4th June 2005
Added interviews with Mark Redfield, director of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and James Eaves, director of the forthcoming The Witches Hammer, plus a review of the early British colour film Sons of the Sea

1st June 2005
Added a review of Insiders

30th May 2005
Added reviews of two 'Al Bradley' movies: Reactor and Iron Warrior

29th May 2005
Added a new section - the news page

28th May 2005
Added an interview with Justin Whalin about his work on Lois and Clark

26th May 2005
Added a review of Castle Freak

24th May 2005
Added an interview with Matthew Jason Walsh, writer/director of Bloodletting. Rather sheepishly replaced the original guestbook as it seems to have been a problem with freegb.net rather than a hacker on my site.

22nd May 2005
Added reviews of Spiders, Spiders 2 and The Pink Chiquitas and replaced the old guestbook, which some Johnny no-friends had hacked, with a new one.

20th May 2005
Added reviews of Witchouse 3: Demon Fire and the rubbish Thai ghost film Hunch and a book review of the excellent Beating the Devil: The Making of Night of the Demon

14th May 2005
Added a review of Pyrokinesis and a lengthy review of Ultraman: The Next

11th May 2005
Added a review of Hypnosis and tidied up the Links page

8th May 2005
Added reviews of How to Make a Monster and Hiruko: the Goblin

1st May 2005
Added a world exclusive first review of the new documentary feature Ryan for Congress

27th April 2005
Added a review of Missile to the Moon

25th April 2005
Added the first English language review of Thai ghost story Haunted Night

21st April 2005
Added a feature on Star Wars to the Extras section; also tweaked the guestbook so that the text is visible when viewed on PCs

25th March 2005
In honour of tomorrow's new Doctor Who series, I've added an archive interview with Christopher Eccleston

24th March 2005
Added reviews of Ugetsu Monogatari and Attack of the Giant Leeches

23rd March 2005
Added interview with Roger Corman

20th March 2005
Added reviews of The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, Mystics in Bali and Ninja Wars

13th March 2005
Added reviews of two 'reality TV' horror films, My Little Eye and Hell Asylum

9th March 2005
Added an enormous interview with Timothy Bond

3rd March 2005
Added interview with Karey Kirkpatrick and review of Sanctimony

2nd March 2005
Added reviews of LIfe's a Blast and Numb

1st March 2005
Added review of Sister Street Fighter

11th February 2005
Added reviews of They Crawl and They Nest

4th February 2005
Added interview with Ron Ford and reviews of two very different Japanese films - Juvenile and Blue Spring

3rd February 2005
Slight redesign of the indeces; added site stats to front page; added reviews of Troll and Troll 2

25th January 2005
Added review of Dead Season

22nd January 2005
Slight reorganisation of the front page, adding a counter and moving 'What's New' up to the main menu bar; added interviews with Steve Gough, director of Oilman and Robert Scott Field, star of Godzilla vs King Ghidorah; added review of Virgin Witch

19th January 2005
Added reviews of Home and Invincible Obsessed Fighter

16th January 2005
Added some information and comments to the triple bills page and reviews of Scarab, The Loreley's Grasp and The Uninvited

13th January 2005
Added interview with Frazer Lee and reviews of his excellent short films On Edge and Red Lines, plus a related book review

12th January 2005
Added review of Thundercrack!

11th January 2005
Added interviews with screenwriter Marc Hershon, Troma supremo Lloyd Kaufman and Toxic Avenger IV writer Trent Haaga

9th January 2005
Added reviews of The Night Caller, Night Wars, Nightmares and Nightmare Street

7th January 2005
Added a review of Quest for the Seven Cities; also added another triple bill and added a photo to the Ewan McGregor page

6th January 2005
Added reviews of three truly bizarre giant monster movies from Thailand: Mars Men, Tah Tien and Yak Wat Jang wu Jumbo A

5th January 2005
Added an interview with Ewan McGregor

4th January 2005
Added six more discs to the Classic Entertainment triple bills listing and reviews of two Julian Richards films, Silent Cry and The Last Horror Movie

3rd January 2005
Added review of the excellent Garuda

2nd January 2005
Added more information to the Classic Entertainment triple bills page and reviews of British Intelligence, Midnight at Madame Tussaud's and Hawa

30th December 2004
Added another Extra - an in-progress listing of the three-films-for-a-pound DVDs released by Classic Entertainment

21st December 2004
Slightly revised the Hanuman vs 7 Ultraman page to acknowledge that the rumoured re-edit with eleven Ultramen does exist

19th December 2004
Added reviews of Satan Claus, Goke - Bodysnatcher from Hell, Kaew Kon Lek and Mind Breakers

14th December 2004
Added review of Psycho Santa

12th December 2004
Added interviews with Tom Mes and Ed Naha

7th December 2004
Added review of Rock'n'Roll Frankenstein and interview with one of the stars, Hiram J Seggara

5th December 2004
Added interview with Ivan Zuccon and reviews of his films Unknown Beyond and The Shunned House

3rd December 2004
Added reviews of Mutant Hunt and Happiness of the Katakuris and interview with Lane Smith

2nd December 2004
Added Specials and Extras sections and the first Extra - an episode guide to Christopher Lee's lost TV series

30th November 2004
Guestbook added

29th November 2004
Added interview with Sherilyn Fenn and reviews of Kingdom in the Clouds, Horror Net and The Jekyll and Hyde Rock'n'Roll Musical

28th November 2004
Added two interviews with Tim Bradstreet (from 2000 and 2002) and one with Jeffrey Sneller

25th November 2004
Added Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk links to the reviews

24th November 2004
www.mjsimpson.co.uk is relaunched with 18 interviews and 54 reviews