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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 8, The Reality War by Russell T Davies.
What to say about the end of the season before the episode is shown? Bad Wolf has been quiet. Not about the ending…
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The Prisoner: I Am Not a Number, I’m Just Very, Very Confused (spy-fy TV retrospective).
Here’s the first episode of The Prisoner for you. Imagine James Bond quits MI6, goes on holiday to clear his head, and wakes…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 7, Wish World by Russell T Davies.
We finally uncover the reason for the TARDIS’s inability to penetrate 2025 in the season’s double-parter. Commenting before watching, which means I’m going…
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Mark Kermode reviews Mission: Impossible, The Final Reckoning (video).
Mark Kermode drops by to review Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Or as we’ve come to call it here at SFcrowsnest: Tom…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 6, The Interstellar Song Contest, by Juno Dawson.
I have mixed feelings about combining TV programmes with real-life events. It was done with ‘Doctor Who’ in one of the Olympics years…
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The Last of Us season 2: Mark Kermode’s TV review. Fungi, feelings, and a golf club to the soul.
In the warm spring of 2025, just when you thought your PTSD from The Last of Us Season 1 had mellowed to a…
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Hawkgirl: Once Upon A Galaxy by Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan and Driano Lucas (graphic novel).
I’ve always liked Hawkgirl. At least she had a better helmet to draw from different angles than her husband, Carter Hol. However, opening…
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Killer Bots, Time Travel, and Tentacled Tchaikovsky: The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2025 Shortlist Lands.
Well, polish your grav-boots and charge up your AI life-partner because the 2025 shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award has just materialised—and…
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 5: The Story & The Engine by Inua Elams.
Y’know, the number of god-like beings the Doctor is encountering is making me wonder if Russell T is going to reveal that our…
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Invasion! Eight-Hour War and a pint (classic comic-book retrospective).
Back in 1977, when British comics weren’t afraid of being shouty, satirical, and stuffed full of morally dubious antiheroes, Invasion! exploded onto the…
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The Long Walk marches Stephen King’s dystopia onto the big screen (video).
At long last, one of Stephen King’s most brutal and bleak early works is lacing up its boots and heading grimly to the…
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How to Draw Comics the SFcrowsnest Way (or at least not get laughed out of art school).
So, you want to draw comics? Good for you, brave soul. You’ve decided to embark on a noble journey that involves imagination, persistence,…