The Dillon Empire: Simon Dillon on Substack
Simon DillonFilm Reviews, Short Stories, Essays on Cinema History, and more.
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'A Thorn in Winter' Has a Publisher and I'm Determined to Celebrate
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(NOTE: The following was originally submitted to the “Bragging Writes” publication on Medium. According to their publication guidelines, they celebrate “achievements we so...
Novel: The George Hughes Trilogy: The Titan War Chapter 1
One year on after his adventure on Mars, fourteen-year-old orphan George Hughes is forced into an urgent rescue mission on Titan
Paying Substack readers are presently getting a serialisation of my entire George Hughes trilogy. Three cracki...
Film Review: Verity
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Colleen Hoover’s novels continue to be adapted at a rate of knots. So far, they’ve ranged from the barely tolerable It Ends With Us (2024) to the excruciatingly dreadful Regretting You (2025) and this year’s deeply bland...
My Twelve Favourite Horror Film Directors
A personal selection of skilled cinematic scarers
What exactly constitutes a horror director? After all, some of the greatest horror films were helmed by directors who demonstrated tremendous versatility in other genres. For example, it wo...
Film Review: Digger
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In years to come, certain chin-stroking cineastes will look back at Digger and claim it was a misunderstood masterpiece that audiences weren’t intelligent enough to recognise as genius-level filmmaking. As a chin-stroki...
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Annoying film know-it-all who has spent far too much of his life in cinemas. He also writes novels and short stories, and those are bloody good too. So there.
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