NewsScifi
Status: short film written and directed by Richard Williamson.
STATUS from Richard Williamson on Vimeo. ‘Status’ is a vision of a digital dystopia. Statlink is a social network based on technological implants…
The SFcrowsnest archive
May 2014
May 2014
ReviewFantasy
Talus And The Frozen King by Graham Edwards (book review).
When the King of Creyak, a remote island in ‘the North’ is found dead, the villagers are thrown into confusion. Regicide is something…
ReviewBooks
The Virgin’s Promise by Kim Hudson (book review).
Before you think ‘The Virgin’s Promise’ is some sort of honour fulfilment for things to come, author Kim Hudson’s book’s sub-title is ‘Writing…
ReviewBooks
The Batman Filmography by Mark S. Reinhart (book review).
I should point out that this is a revised edition as when Mark Reinhart wrote the first version, there weren’t as many ‘Batman’…
NewsComics
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Summertime cinema is in the air and the extravagant strides of escapism are in full force. Time travel. Mutants. Killer robots. Superheroes. Days…
ReviewGames
Strider HD: Original Game Soundtrack composed by Michael John Mollo (album review).
The 80s was a crucial decade for many elements of popular culture. It was the first decade that someone could actually be accused…
ReviewComics
Tarzan: In The City Of Gold by Burne Hogarth and Don Garden (graphic novel review).
These days, the late artist Burne Hogarth is seen as being somewhat legendary. Back in the 70s, there was little of his work…
ReviewAnime/manga
Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements (book review).
Japanese animation or anime is a huge successful and very diverse multimedia industry. As Jonathan Clements says himself in ‘Anime: A History’, it…
ReviewComics
Elephantmen Vol. 3: Dangerous Liaisons by Richard Starkings and Monitat (graphic novel review).
The ‘Elephantmen’ series of comics is set about 250 years in the future, where genetically engineered human-animal hybrids, the ‘elephantmen’ of the title,…
NewsStar Wars
Want to appear in the next Star Wars movie as an extra?
J.J. Abrams has teamed up with the charity Unicef to offer fans the chance to appear in shot in the next Star Wars…
NewsScifi
Godzilla (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Kaiju Noir. With the Japanese franchise on the King of the Monsters in hiatus, the Godzilla character is being loaned to Warner Brothers so that…
NewsCulture
Paul Spragg Memorial.
One of the things you folk who read SFCrowsnest don’t really see is the behind-the-scenes banter I have with the various publicists when…