Today’s Reviews: Revisiting Evie and Joe
Tales of the Walking Dead has finally made it onto UK screens, so we’ve revisited our original reviews: Tales plays something new straight from the jump and that, along with the […]
Assessing Luther’s return
You might be mildly surprised to see us talking about Luther here at SFB, Alasdair Stuart notes. The long running detective series, created by Neil Cross and starring Idris Elba […]
Today’s Reviews: The Cricket chirps
Jonathan Morris’ Average Romp Productions has returned with a second Dickensian adaptation: There’s a certain level of comfort that comes with the best Dickensian versions, and this is like warming […]
Open Channel D: the Return of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The United Network Command for Law and Enforcement is reopening its doors in the UK. While the 1983 reunion movie has been playing on Legend for some time, the original […]
Today’s Reviews: Chaos returns
The final series of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory has just dropped and we’re taking a closer look at each episode: Rounded out with some nicely handled action this is an […]
Wallace for Assassin’s Creed
Toby Wallace has been cast as one of the two leads in Assassin’s Creed, the Netflix adaptation of possibly the oddest AAA video game franchise in the western world, reports […]
Today’s Reviews: Solving the Code
A gem you may have missed first time around is currently on iPlayer: Code 46 is mannered for sure and arguably a little pretentious, but it’s also got a resonant […]
Centineo for Gundam?
The Man who was (briefly) He-Man is about to have a very good year, notes Alasdair Stuart. Noah Centineo, beloved in these parts for his work on the To All […]
Today’s Reviews: A Milk run
The fifth episode of Plur1bus seems to be trying our reviewer’s patience: The problem with a show as bone-achingly repetitive as Plur1bus as that it’s hard to find anything new to say […]
Absent Friends celebrated this Christmas
Writer, actor and broadcaster Toby Hadoke will be presenting his annual round up of those we have lost during 2025. “I’m so grateful that Radio 4 Extra have allowed me […]
The War begins (video)
The BBC has released a full trailer for The War Between the Land the Sea, the Doctor Who spin-off arriving Sunday 7 December. It features leads Russell Tovey (Barclay Pierre-Dupont) […]
Today’s Reviews: Pennywise pops up
The fifth episode of Welcome to Derry brings the moment we’ve been waiting for: So much of this episode is wrapped up in the long-awaited return to the sewers and […]
The Master headlines new Short Trips
Big Finish’s Short Trips is returning in February with new tales from across the Whoniverse. Short Trips: Impeccable and Other Stories begins with the title tale, which follows the TV […]
The Truth about The Truth About Christmas
No matter what you may have read, the first BBC audio drama was actually broadcast on Christmas Eve 1922 – and it was genre-adjacent. The Truth About Christmas was written […]
A Scarlet Exorcist
Head-turning time? Alasdair Stuart considers the latest news from the Exorcist franchise… There are certain names that have instant cachet. ‘The Exorcist’ is one. From the original novel to the […]
Today’s Reviews: An early test
The early life of Jesus isn’t necessarily the most obvious subject for a horror movie… A kid with (literally) God-given superpowers enters adolescence and has to learn how to harness […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 