Today’s Reviews: End of an Era
It was the end of yet another era for Doctor Who with last night’s grand finale: I’m not one of those fans who has to have everything neatly fitting together, […]
Today’s Reviews: Sifting through the Ash
Prime Video’s Ash has a fatal flaw at its heart… It reads like a betrayal of the sort of low-cost, high energy pulp cinema Ash very nearly is. You can’t […]
Meet the First Doctor Unbound!
Details have been released for the first adventure of the First Doctor Unbound and his companions Ian, Barbara and Susan. David Bradley heads to medieval England in The First Doctor […]
Today’s Reviews: Compare and Contrast
The first episode of Mission: Impossible aired nearly 60 years ago – how does it stand up today? Briggs performs a gutsy move, and one that reveals a ruthless streak […]
Crawling beneath Crowley’s skin
There’s a chance to learn a whole lot about Aleister Crowley in a new podcast coming soon – funded by a Kickstarter that ends tomorrow. Julian Simpson, creator of The […]
There’s No I in Team…
…but there is in IMF. The role – and indeed existence – of the organisation comes under Alasdair Stuart’s spotlight: The IMF are victims of their own success. The ideological […]
Sky returns to Earth at Big Finish
Bob Baker and Dave Martin’s SF series Sky is getting a sequel at Big Finish, beginning in August 2025. First broadcast in 1975, the ITV children’s series followed a time-travelling […]
Today’s Reviews: Reckoning with the Final Reckoning
As with its predecessor, there’s lots to admire – but lots that doesn’t work – in the most recent Mission: Impossible movie: There’s a colossal amount in this movie and […]
Today’s Reviews: Esther Williams, eat your heart out
The Gremlins are back – and they have a balletic move in mind… At its strongest, this second season is lovingly realised, and the characters are good company and carry […]
The Briggs / Phelps Factor
There’s an interesting (if very slightly spoilery) element to the eighth Mission: Impossible film – the identiy of the agent chasing Ethan Hunt… Played by Shea Wigham, we first meet […]
RIP Peter David
American writer Peter David has died, at the age of 68. David was an accomplished figure in the genre, with celebrated runs on many comicbooks, including 12 years on The […]
Celebrating 14 years of Sci-Fi Bulletin
Fourteen years ago this weekend, the first new review was published on Sci-Fi Bulletin – a couple of archive placeholders had been used while we worked out how the site […]
Today’s Reviews: Gear change for Jentry
The final three episodes of Jentry Chau’s first season represent something of a gear change for the show: Jentry takes what she’s learned and tries to do something revolutionary with […]
Today’s Reviews: Make a Wanda-Wish
There’s some very familiar vibes about tonight’s Doctor Who episode, and a lot of set-up… On its own it’s very odd and I found it very silly at times. The […]
The Wheel of Time stops revolving at Prime Video
Prime Video has elected not to order a fourth season of The Wheel of Time, based on the books by Robert Jordan. Deadline Hollywood reports that the viewership for the […]
The 7th Doctor and Ace find Alixion
The proposed Sylvester McCoy story Alixion is coming to Big Finish as part of the Lost Stories range. Alixion is based on a serial that was commissioned in 1989, prior […]
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