HBO cancel The Franchise
Superhero satire series The Franchise won’t be returning to HBO. “We’re so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the tremendously talented team behind The Franchise, especially Sam […]
Today’s Reviews: Cracking the Code
Alasdair Stuart continues his irregular trawl through the hidden gems on streaming: A fun, ambitious movie with great performances. It doesn’t hit every mark it aims for, but it hits […]
Today’s Reviews: Evil estate agents…
Not perhaps the headline you might expect, but this Nosferatu has some differences: Nosferatu has its moments, but the problem is that too many of them are laughable when it feels […]
Today’s Reviews: Secret Lair or…
Episode 5 of Skeleton Crew is the best yet… What’s great about this show is that they haven’t lost sight of the fact that the four main characters are children […]
Today’s Reviews: Ending the animated multiverse
The final season of What If? aired at the end of 2024 bringing the animated multiverse to a close: Fun in its own right, and really, that’s more than enough […]
Today’s Reviews: Concluding the Club
What I expect to be our last review of 2024 features the conclusion of Bernice Summerfield’s latest adventure: The big stuff all lands and lands well but this series has […]
Today’s Reviews: Skeleton War
The fourth episode of Skeleton Crew raises some moral issues: The show doesn’t pretend there are easy answers to the problems faced by the heroes but it does suggest that […]
Reassessing the genre in 2024
Martin Jameson presents his annual lookback at the genre, but in a slightly different format from before: J T Mollner’s twisty, dislocated horror-thriller asks deeply unfashionable and uncomfortable questions about […]
Today’s Reviews: Preternatual Tracker
There’s more of an edge to the fifth episode of Tracker… An episode that doesn’t quite break the mould but does crack it in some interesting and successful ways. Click […]
Today’s Reviews: The truth about the Club
Pieces start to fall into place in the penultimate tale from The Eternity Club: This is accretion storytelling, or perhaps, archaeological storytelling and it’s the sort of story you can […]
Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip releases today
War Stories, the winning Doctor Who adventure from this year’s Paul Spragg Memorial Writers’ Opportunity, is now available to download from the Big Finish website. This year the theme was […]
Today’s Reviews: Missing Lower Decks?
The adventures of the Cerritos are continuing – in comicbook form: This sort of story is what Star Trek has always excelled at and Lower Decks too. So seeing it […]
Today’s Reviews: Adventure Time!
The sixth Eternity Club tale sees Benny and Mr Pym off on an adventure! Bernice gets to be the grown up and finds she doesn’t hate it even if the […]
Today’s Reviews: Torchwood Reflects
The traditional Torchwood Christmas ghostly tale is in a different format this year: Four presents for the price of one in a neatly handled anthology linked by two of the […]
UFO Shadow Play touches down at Big Finish
James Swallow’s UFO novel Shadow Play has been released as an audiobook by Big Finish in which Colonel Ed Straker deals with amnesia and hallucinations that derail his ability to hold […]
Today’s Reviews: Tree Shame
We return to the Eternity Club for the second half of the adventures… It gives Bernice someone to fight, which she always enjoys and Lisa Bowerman, Elroy and Jacobs bounce […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 