There was a time last summer and I don’t even remember how this came about but OWF’s Chief Film Critic Mike Edwards decided to take it upon himself to mention the 1984 comedy/horror movie Gremlins in every interview, with every star, we were invited to spend five minutes with.

It kind of… became our… thing

New Gremlins poster, as part of the new addition to the Mondo Tees
catalogue. You can see his art prints and cool t-shirts at a new
exhibition in L.A.

Funnily enough, I never did actually ask Mike why he was doing it but it always made me chuckle because he would plug it in there at the most unusual places. I just imagine him sweating at every question, nervous because he just had to get Gremlins in there somewhere.

The idea that he ended up ignoring the interviewee’s responses because he was too busy worrying about getting a Gremlins reference in there, amuses me greatly.

So for a while, Gremlins was the official OWF movie. You knew you were being interviewed by us when Gremlins was mentioned completely out of the blue.

I actually miss those days a little. The past 12 months have been particularly hard on me with trying to juggle life and this site, which only ever started off as a hobby to fill my restless nights but has since become something entirely larger in scope. I’ve neglected interviews somewhat, I haven’t chased down the people who make these things happen as much as I could but I think I’m getting ready to get back into it.

Gremlins may yet return soon. And I’m not moaning about this being hard work… the best things in life are difficult to achieve, and half the fun is those days when you have little successes.