Founder, writer, and full-time time-traveller of taste, Phil Shaw is the not-so-secret sauce behind most of what you read on Planet of the Capes. While this corner of the internet began as a team effort among a like-minded crew of film-and-telly obsessives, Phil’s name has steadily become the echo behind nearly every review, genre deep-dive, and rant about underloved sharksploaitation gems. If you've chuckled at a lovingly barbed Cageism or found yourself nodding along to a breakdown of a ‘forgotten but brilliant’ telly treasure, odds are Phil wrote it — usually late at night, usually with something Lovecraftian murmuring in the background.

With a palette that leans into the cult, the curious, and the criminally overlooked, Phil’s style is unapologetically his own: irreverent but informed, sarcastic with sincerity, and driven by a lifelong love of everything from VHS-era schlock to prestige noir and uncut sci-fi weirdness. He’s the bloke who’ll happily put Benidorm and Band of Brothers in the same breath — and mean it.

Phil also moonlights as a developer, designer, occasional ghost hunter (well… one can dream), and champion of turning pop-culture into an artform. Every word on the site has passed through his particular blend of media reverence and East Anglian realism(!). Welcome to this vault — just don’t expect objectivity when Seagal is involved.