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RIP Sam Neill
Jurassic Park and The Omen star Sam Neill has died aged 78. “It is with immense sadness that the whānau [extended family] of Sam Neill share the news of his […]
How long for Doomsday?
Marvel continues to be in an incredibly strange place with Doomsday, notes Alasdair Stuart. We’ve known the movie is coming for months, we’ve known the work it must do, the […]
Enter the Haunted Windmill – if you dare
The post-War Games Second Doctor has a whole new world of trouble to explore in this year’s release. The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill, a full-cast audio drama box […]
The Mayfair Witches return (video)
AMC+ has released a trailer for the third season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa and Alyssa Jirrels, as well as Betsy Brandt, Michiel […]
Today’s Reviews: Wolves and Sharks
The Soviet alternate space saga Star City concludes with some further implausible twists: To be fair, the term ‘science fiction’ has never felt more apposite – with the word ‘fiction’ […]
Today’s Reviews: Back to the Backrooms
Our voyage through the Backrooms comes to a conclusion: This is the first real example of the sort of slow burn menace that Parsons really has fun with in the […]
Godzilla minus Zero approaches (video)
One of the best movies of the century to date is about to get a sequel, and one of the most iconic monsters in movies is making their way back […]
Alien: Earth expands
Alien: Earth’s first season was, for me, a maddening combination of great ideas, excellent cast and some truly mystifying choices, says Alasdair Stuart. The second season is gearing up now […]
Presenting the Clarke Award nominees
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is always a fascinating snapshot of genre, and this year is no exception. Two of the books, Dungeon Crawler Carl and There Is No Anti-Memetics […]
Prepare for a return to Dune (video)
A full trailer has now been released for Dune Part Three, coming this December. Denis Villeneuve’s epic trilogy comes to a breathtaking conclusion. Dune: Part Three is set nearly two decades after Paul […]
Analysing the Emmy nominations
It’s traditional to bemoan the state of genre fiction and, like all traditions, the binary of good/bad, right/wrong is pretty much always false. This year’s Emmys prove that point. Alasdair […]
Today’s Reviews: This is London?
The second episode of the Anne Rice based Talamasca series sort of sends its protagonist across the Atlantic: The London we see here is both convincingly London and weirdly empty […]
A venomous misstep
The third Spidey movie didn’t really hit the spots that Raimi’s first two did: Stuffed to the gills with characters, none of whom have any room, it’s an operatic, overblown […]
Today’s Reviews: Calm before the storm
The penultimate visit to Star City is somewhat calmer than recent times: The action is decidedly low key and even sensible – a bit like Anna Maxwell Martin’s KGB footwear. […]
Today’s Reviews: Silent Minions
The fifth Minions movie has some surprises in store: If you already liked the series, this is a really good time. If you’ve never seen them before, honestly this is […]
G.I. Joe returns to Springfield (video)
Say Danny McBride to most people, notes Alasdair Stuart, and they’ll think of Eastbound & Down or any of the other comedies he’s done, all defined by his gruff, no […]
Debriefing The Ninth Jedi (video)
We have our first official Star Wars Anime series! The trailer for The Ninth Jedi, which arrives on Disney + and Hulu on 5 August, is live and there are […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 