Over in California, Ned Raggett is still as interested in Star Wars as he was forty years back. But forty years back meant grappling with the fact that cooking shows for Wookies and brutal lightsaber attacks on young princesses coexisted fully. Here is his exploration into the original Star Wars expanded universe
Peter Jackon's latest film _The Lovely Bones_ may seem a far cry from the blood-soaked days of _Braindead_ and _Bad Taste_ but, as Josh Saco argues, there's more to the Kiwi director than lo-fi horror and Hollywood pandering