By Tim Pelan This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect of one story out of Vegas for the past ...

…he is also, in his way, a connoisseur of the curious, of those glimpses of another domain which are vouchsafed to certain individuals… -Mark Valentine The above quote is our first description of the man known only as the Connoisseur by amanuensis – and co-creator – Mark Valentine. Along with author John Howard, Valentine recorded twenty-four eerie exploits of the aesthetical detective extraordinaire, beginning with “The Effigies” in 1990. According to Valentine, while he wrote the first few stories himself, he and Howard shared co-writing duties for the rest. The Connoisseur is an odd figure; an iconoclast who disdains modernity, and embraces the archaic and unusual.

A collection of four holiday Sherlock Holmes books! Everything from classic mysteries to you solve it advent calendar adventures! Plus, Traditional Sherlock Holmes collections and even Holmes science-fiction adventures!

Screamers (1995) has an absolutely killer set-up: an ongoing war, uncertain lines of communication, and an unseen army of self-repairing, self-evolving killer robots taking advantage of the situation. It even has Peter Weller (Robocop, Buckaroo Banzai, etc.) as the world-weary officer attempting to bring an end to the fighting. What it doesn't have is much of a plot beyond that, sadly. Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, the film has all the makings of a classic like Blade Runner or Terminator, but doesn't quite clear the opening hurdle.

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