Today’s Reviews: Heroic effort and Fear
The penultimate episode of this first part of Fear the Walking Dead’s final season centres of the importance of trying: In previous episodes, the moral shift has often felt slightly […]
Doctor Who Redacted returns
Podcast Doctor Who series Doctor Who Redacted is returning for a second run of six episodes, starting on 18 September. Juno Dawson returns as the lead writer, alongside stars Charlie […]
Today’s Reviews: Fear the Antichrist
The Italian answer to The Exorcist comes to StudioCanal today… Of the many demonic possession movies that followed in the wake of William Friedkin’s classic, The Antichrist has the added […]
Today’s Reviews: Epic Foundation
The penultimate episode of Apple TV’s adaptation of Foundation sets the stage for an epic finale: It’s an action-packed hour, directed by Star Trek stalwart Roxann Dawson and featuring this […]
Today’s Reviews: Reassessing the Crimes
Nick Joy has gone back to David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future in light of the 4K release: Written in the late 90s, Cronenberg’s tale of body rebellion and evolution […]
Today’s Reviews: Contact Has Been Made
The 70th anniversary of The Quatermass Experiment couldn’t pass without some sort of celebration – and guest reviewer Peter Deller hails the triumph: This was not so much a performance […]
Today’s Reviews: A lost soul meets The Walking Dead
The first episode of the new Walking Dead series is brave – in the sense that Sir Humphrey Appleby used the word… There are a thousand ways this could go […]
Today’s Reviews: The Man From G.A.L.L.I.F.R.E.Y.
OK, it’s not spelled out as an acronym like U.N.C.L.E. but maybe it should be, as a Gallifreyan operative comes to UNIT’s aid… The script puts a lot of pieces […]
Today’s Reviews: Too much Fear
The fourth episode of Fear the Walking Dead’s final season tries to cram a lot in… An episode that’s smart, bleak and moving but also feels over-stuffed and serves no […]
New Goosebumps come to Disney+ (video)
A fresh series of Goosebumps, from the RL Stine books, is on the way from Disney+. The 10-part series will launch with a five-episode drop as part of Disney+’s “Hallowstream” […]
Today’s Reviews: Cannon fire for Rose
The third box set of Rose Tyler’s multidimensional adventures is out soon so a good time to catch up with last year’s stories: The story starts with a shock for […]
Today’s Reviews: Talent on the Strange Planet
There’s more good advice in the sixth episode of Strange Planet: There’s an intrepid journey to… well, to either self-awareness and acceptance or a blown fuse-box… Click here to read […]
Apple’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters arrives November 17 (video)
Apple TV+ has unveiled a teaser for “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” and confirmed that the 10-episode series will premiere globally on Friday, November 17. Based on Legendary’s Monsterverse, and starring […]
Today’s Reviews: Doctor Drummer!
Hidden talents are revealed in the second of the two new Fifth Doctor adventures out this week: This has the feel of a living place, rather than just the setting […]
Today’s Reviews: Rescuing the Menagerie
The second episode of Lower Decks’ new season sees Mariner trying on her old tricks: Mariner starts playing up with Commander Ransom, but he’s having none of it – she […]
Today’s Reviews: Flashback to Fear
The third episode of the last season of Fear the Walking Dead uses the flashback format well: All this comes together into an episode that gives PADRE context no villain […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 