New Year's Day 2023

Happy New Year

New Year's Day 2023

It’s that time of year again, coming around increasingly quicker the older I get, where I once again wish all my readers a very Happy New Year and thank you all for taking the time to dip in occasionally and read the odd review or three (the odder the better, right?). I don’t hold out much hope for this coming year, as it happens... I think it’s going to be a horrendous one for me personally due to a lot of ‘challenges’ coming up but, I’ll be optimistic and say I’ll try my best to keep the blog going and updated three times a week if I possibly can.

I’ve certainly, with over 200 reviews already written and waiting in the wings to be tweaked and published, got more than enough content and am planning on creating a lot more. Here’s some of what I’d hope to have going up this year, if things go the way I want them to.

Well, I need to finish up the reviews of the Perry Mason films and the movies which comprise the Bill Rebane box set. I also need to put up reviews of all of Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes movies once those are done. And, since it’s the 60th anniversary of everyone’s favourite timelord this November (with nothing new being broadcast before then, it would seem), I’ll need to revisit and review a fair number of the new Blu Ray sets for the blog. I also need to finish watching the two Severin boxed editions devoted to The Eurocrypt Of Christopher Lee... not to mention their All The Haunts Be Ours box of folk horror films. And I have a load of Hammer Dracula reviews to publish, plus a raft of Ray Harryhausen reviews ready to go up. And I’d really like to get back to revisiting the Zatoichi movies on Blu Ray, not to mention a third DVD volume of Sleepy Eyes Of Death. More spaghetti Westerns too, I think will be in the mix, along the usual horror and exploitation fair. Plus...there will be Kolchack!

There may be a few more themed weeks such as a Sabata week and, probably a Face Graft Surgery in Cinema week (but, no, I certainly won’t be revisiting Face Off anytime soon... or ever... thanks very much). I have a load of other box sets to delve into too... including but not exclusive too (and these may take a year or two to get up on the blog) the Sartana movies, The Incredibly Strange Films Of Ray Dennis Steckler, the House Of Psychotic Women Rarities Collection, Bruce Lee, Mae West and even a set of the Lupe Velez Mexican Spitfire movies (that last courtesy of Warner Archives). There may even be a couple of bona fide 1970s porn films thrown into the mix, with the help of the wonderful Vinegar Syndrome label. Oh... and absolutely loads of Blu Ray giallo upgrades to get my teeth into, including a few by Argento.

So yeah, I may be anticipating a bad year for myself but, fingers crossed I’m able to keep my head above water (should I still want to), then the blog should certainly be firing on all cylinders for the forseeable future... fingers crossed.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to read and a Happy New Year to you all.

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