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Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse (film review by Frank Ochieng).
We certainly get the inside joke about wanting to skewer something as raucous and ridiculous as lambasting nonsensical and numbing grade B horror…
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Doctor Who: Season 9: Episode 8: The Zygon Inversion by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat
As usual with these examination of ‘Doctor Who’ stories shortly after transmission, if you haven’t seen them, I’ll try not to give away…
ReviewFantasy
Cyador’s Heirs (The Recluse Saga book 17) by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (book review).
The setting is Cigoerne, a small country of decent people in the continent of Hamor. When their homeland of Cyador was destroyed, they…
TrailerStar Wars
Star Wars Force Awakens, new trailer.
There’s a revised trailer out for the Japanese market and the coming Star Wars Force Awakens movie. Try getting a ticket in the cinema…
ReviewDoctor Who
Torchwood: The Conspiracy by David Llewellyn (CD review).
There are changes afoot at Big Finish because…drum roll it looks like it might be canon! Since the sad demise of AudioGo a…
ReviewFantasy
The Secrets Of The Wild Woods (book 2) by Tonke Dragt (author/illustrator) and Laura Watkinson (translator) (book review).
‘The Secrets Of The Wild Woods’ is the second in a saga about the young boy called Tiuri. In ‘The Letter For The…
NewsScience
Mars’ Red Death: NASA discovers secret of what killed Mars!
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – MAVEN – mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in…
NewsScifi
Fallout 4: the game that thinks it’s a Terminator movie?
A new trailer for post-World-War-3 survival game Fallout 4 reveals a story arc that has a distinctly Terminator-ish feel to it. Did those…
NewsHorror
Bone Tomahawk (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Cowboys and troglodytes make for an unusual combination. ‘Bone Tomahawk’ is a Western that is also a comedy until the good humour runs…
NewsScience
NASA’s Eagleworks still finding strange thrust in EM drive.
The odd saga of Roger Shawyer’s strange EM Drive space thruster continues, with more evidence from NASA that there might be something to…
NewsScifi
Anno 2205: got strategy game?
There’s not many decent PC-based strategy games on the market these days – certainly not compared to all the 3D first person wander…
NewsFantasy
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy gets the full BBC treatment.
BBC One is going ahead with a new TV drama series based on Philip Pullman’s steampunk fantasy trilogy of novels, His Dark Materials.…