Danny Graydon

As a film journalist, one of my particular areas of coverage has been Film Music. I’ve reviewed soundtracks and interviewed composers for EMPIRE for the last decade and written on the subject for the likes of Variety, the BBC and Amazon. It’s an area which I possess a huge degree of passion for – and [...]

So, the long-standing rumours have proven to be true. As has been reported everywhere, and to most people’s utter lack of surprise, Lucasfilm have announced that the filmic Star Wars saga – that’s all six films, covering the “Holy” and “Other” trilogies - will be re-released to cinemas converted into the de rigeur 3D format beginning in 2012 [...]

Two outrageously-talented friends of mine, writer-producer Jorg Tittel and his lovely actress-director wife Alex Helfrecht-Tittel, have recently unveiled a splendid and intriguing new short-film project: Battle For Britain, a poignant paean to the role of Polish fighter pilots who fought in Blighty’s Finest Hour, defending the skies of Britain from the Nazis, seventy years ago. [...]

In the realm of Superhero comic fandom, it used to be that you were in one of two camps: you were either a “Marvel kid” or a “DC boy”. Speaking for myself, I am resolutely and passionately in the latter camp and have been so since the late 1970′s when my discovery of Superman comics [...]

A little over ten years ago, I conducted my first interview with Alan Moore. It was a particularly big deal for me, not only because he was – and remains – far and away my favourite Comics writer, but, back then, his granting of interviews was particularly rare, so I was exceedingly aware just how [...]