ReviewScifi
Birdwatching At The End Of The World by G.W. Dexter (book review).
Stephen Ballantyne, our first-person narrator for Birdwatching At The End Of The World, is the only boy at Near School for Girls, Near…
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TrailerFilms
Joker: Folie à Deux—Because One Joker Wasn’t Chaotic Enough (trailer)
Prepare yourselves, folks, because the clown prince of not-quite-crime is back, and this time, he’s bringing a date! Joker: Folie à Deux is…
ReviewBooks
The Dinosaurs by William Stout and William Service (book review).
Every time I come across William Stout’s name, it’s associated with illustrating dinosaurs, so I tracked down his book The Dinosaurs from 1981,…
ReviewComics
Batman: Volume 9: Bloom [The New 52] by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, Yamick Paquette and Fco Plascencia (graphic novel review).
You would think that after volume 8, this post-Batman era would be drawing to an end. Volume 9: Bloom reprints Batman #46-50 and…
NewsScifi
A.I: Artificial Intelligence (classic scifi movie retrospective).
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg’s grand foray into the world of existential dread, moral ambiguity, and—let’s not forget—robotic teddy bears. What better way…
ReviewScifi
Rebel Moon part two, The Scargiver (Mark Kermode scifi movie review).
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, the latest addition to Zack Snyder’s sprawling space opera saga, where subtlety is thrown out the…
NewsComputers
Editorial – August 2024: Too Much Reliance On Computers.
Hello everyone, On 19 July, we saw how a computer program glitch caused problems across the world with airlines and anything connected to…
NewsCulture
Iconic Memorable Hooks: an article by: GF Willmetts.
Have you noticed how easy it is to remember iconic places and where they are? I mean, you only have to look at…
NewsShort fiction
The Quotas Man: a story of data by: GF Willmetts.
People think my hobby is crazy. Filling quotas of how many things we are supposed to do. Mostly because they say it can’t…
ReviewHorror
Innocent Blood (1992) (blu-ray film review).
I bought the 1992 film Innocent Blood a couple of months ago and finally got around to watching it last night. Warner Bros…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #66 March 2007 (magazine review).
I have to confess I’m not exactly impressed by the cover of the 66th issue of Alter Ego. There’s nothing wrong with the…
ReviewScifi
Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
There is a lot of pleasure in reconnecting with old friends and places. Alastair Reynolds has set a number of novels in and…