Mark Searby Exclaims: ‘The (Con) Job At The Con’
Last year, I attended the other-wise excellent and engaging MCM Comic Con, held at the enormous ExCel Centre in London, and I experienced something that caused me to stop and...
MCM LONDON COMIC CON: ‘CLERKS 25th Anniversary Panel’ Highlights (Friday 24th May 2019)
Nobody can dispute the impact the film CLERKS had on indie filmmaking, and filmmaking in general, when it was released in 1994 (the UK...
The Mark Searby Review: Walker Stalker Con London, March 2018
For the third year running, Walker Stalker Con returned to London’s Olympia, bringing with it a whole host of THE WALKING DEAD actors (dead and alive – the...
MCM LONDON COMIC CON REVIEW (EXCEL CENTRE, 22nd-24TH OCTOBER 2021)
A big Comic-Con. A large-scale pop culture event.
What is this you speak of?
After eighteen months (and still counting) of no large scale, slowly we...
The Mark Searby Review: Showmasters’ Collectormania Birmingham, June 2018
The NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham played host to Showmasters‘ Collectormania 25 over the course of the Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June, featuring a bewildering array of...
Review: MCM LONDON COMIC CON (ExCel Centre, London Docklands 27th – 29th May 2022)
I guess we can safely say that comic and pop culture conventions are well and truly back: 2022 is the year all of them...
The Mark Searby Interview: Michael Mota, Sopranos Con / Mob Movie Con co-founder
THE SOPRANOS is constantly voted one of the greatest TV shows of all time - its six-season run on HBO between 1999-2007 arguably changed...
The Mark Searby Review: MCM LONDON COMIC CON (ExCel Centre, 25th-27th October 2019)
'Energy' – a word that can't really be levelled at the past twelve months of MCM London events, with recent shows demonstrating a lack...
The Mark Searby Review: MCM COMIC CON LONDON (May 2019)
Last month, I was lucky enough to be able to attend one of ReedPOP/MCM's flagship events, MCM LONDON COMIC CON, held at the...
Watching Films On Your Phone? Mark Searby begs, JUST SAY NO!
Originally posted on the An Englishman In San Diego blog, 22nd November 2016
"Here at AN ENGLISHMAN IN SAN DIEGO, we like to give opinionated...
