Today’s Reviews: Clinging onto the Mission
Ethan Hunt starts the fifth Mission Impossible clinging to the side of a plane… The opening plane heist is my favourite scene in the franchise, as the team (and their […]
Digging down into Derry (video)
The first trailer for It: Welcome to Derry, the TV prequel to the two part movie adaptation of Stephen King’s novel (still with us? Good) just released. Alasdair Stuart loved […]
Master vs Monsters!
Sacha Dhawan will cause chaos across time and space in Call Me Master: Monsters, the second box set of adventures due for release in September 2025 by Big Finish. The […]
Today’s Reviews: Scaling the Heights
The fourth Mission: Impossible dropped the numbers and upped the ante: This is the movie people remember for the Burj Khalifa sequence and for good reason. The image of Tom […]
Meet Predator: Killer of Killers (video)
Hulu has dropped a first trailer for the new animated Predator movie, Killer of Killers, which arrives on June 6. Directed by Prey’s Dan Trachtenberg it follows three of the […]
Today’s Reviews: Resistance is…
There are lots of ways of finishing that phrase with SF cliches, but Andor gives pause for thought: Andor pushes back against the idea of there being only evil choices. It […]
Today’s Reviews: Mr and Mrs Ethan Hunt
The third Mission: Impossible really is where the big screen franchise takes off: From the bravura opening of a panicking Ethan frantically begging for, and failing to save, Julia’s life […]
Today’s Reviews: Lazarus breaking stride
The fifth episode of Lazarus sees the show working well: People are getting desperate, and creative, and the show is getting all the better for it even as the situation […]
Today’s Reviews: Smart Tracker
A lot of twists and turns in this episode of Tracker: You know you have a successful formula when you can break it successfully and this episode proves that Tracker […]
See Harry Potter at Warwick Castle
There’s a chance to see the original Harry Potter movie live with orchestra in the grounds of Warwick Castle this summer. This concert will take place on Sunday 31st August, […]
Today’s Reviews: Ethan Down Under
A very different setting and style for the second Mission: Impossible movie… This is one of the most misogynistic scripts I’ve ever encountered. Newton is rendered down to an object […]
Today’s Reviews: The Doctor’s camp
The Eurovision… sorry, Interstellar Song Contest episode of Doctor Who hits some high notes… Bright and colourful with a genuine affection for its subject matter and more than a few […]
Today’s Reviews: Eyes on the Road
A movie set in a moving car needs certain parts to work – and Hallow Road doesn’t have them… While the car-bound location is the movie’s strongest conceptual card, it […]
Prime Video cancel The Bondsman
There’ll be no more faxes giving details of the escapees from Hell, as Prime Video has decided not to renew The Bondsman for a second season. The eight episodes of […]
Today’s Reviews: Reviewing the Missions part 1
With less than a week till the Final Reckoning, it’s time to revisit the 7 Mission: Impossibles to date: Cruise is flat out great in this one. Frantic, nervous, showy […]
Nebula-75 acclaimed by the BFI
Supermarionation series Nebula-75, which began during lockdown, has been added to the National Film Archives by the British Film Institute as part of their Our Screen Heritage programme. The puppet […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 