ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #141 February 2023 (magazine review).
This ‘Back Issue’s sub-title is ‘SPIES AND P.I.S ISSUE!’. I’m keeping it capped from the cover because that ‘S’ should have been lower…
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January 2023
ReviewScifi
M3GAN: a funny and spooky scifi parody (film review).
What the heck, a well-made, entertaining horror film released in January 2023? Please count the Critical Drinker in. He had no preconceived notions…
ReviewScifi
Karma Of The Sun by Brandon Ying Kit Boey (book review).
When nuclear war destroys most of the planet, the Tibetan plateau is spared, sheltered by surrounding mountain ranges. A century later, it has…
ReviewHorror
A Solemn Curfew And Other Dark Tales by Bev Allen and illustrated by Autumn Barlow and Mutartis Boswell (book review).
‘A Solemn Curfew And Other Dark Tales’ is a collection of weird short fiction by author Bev Allen with a bizarre, unsettling cover…
ReviewMovie books
Psychology For Screenwriters by William Indick, PhD (book review).
Contrary to your thoughts, ‘Psychology For Screenwriters’ is not to put scriptwriters on the psychiatrist’s couch and work out their job problems but…
ReviewComics
Tails Of The Super-Pets (graphic novel review).
Back in the 1950s-60s, the super-family had pets. Even Batman had a Bathound. The others didn’t. Would a dog keep up with the…
ReviewScifi
Still Startled After All These Years (magazine review).
Having acquired a copy of the current revival of ‘Startling Stories’ some time back, I thought for a while on the best way…
ReviewMagazines
Jack Kirby Collector Eighty-Five Winter 2023 (magazine review).
Of all the Jack Kirby magazines I have had the privilege to see, number 85 (Winter 2023) has to be the most…
ReviewFantasy
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle (book review).
There are some books that defy categorisation or which instantly become classics. ‘The Last Unicorn’ was originally published in 1968 and, more than…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who And The Daleks by David Whitaker and illustrated by Robert Hack (book review).
This is a new edition of a novel that was the first to be issued and reissued in hardback and Armada paperback. It…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Fires Of Pompeii by James Moran (book review).
A day out for the Doctor and Donna sees them arriving just as everything is kicking off in Pompeii. It’s 79AD and the…
ReviewDoctor Who
The Diary Of River Song series 3 by Nev Fountain, Jacqueline Rayner, John Dorney and Matt Fitton (audio review).
I’m working my way through River Song seasons mostly backwards. That’s a time travel twist if ever I saw one. What’s notable about…