ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/Jun 2021, Volume 140 #755 (magazine review).
The first thing you notice about this issue of MF&SF is the distinctive cover by David A Hardy. Atypically, it doesn’t quite illustrate…
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ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Ghost Light by Marc Platt (DVD review).
With only three stories to go in the McCoy era, I suppose it was inevitable that we would finally have a ghost story…
NewsHorror
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (a horror film review by Mark Kermode).
Time for some nasty horror? Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is the poor sod we stick in front of this flick…
NewsComics
Sláine and ABC Warriors artist Clint Langley interviewed: I’ll stop that mouth with steel! (video).
2000AD’s Sláine and ABC Warriors artist Clint Langley is interviewed about his work on these two seminial strips for the Mighty Tharg.
NewsFantasy
Guy Gavriel Kay gives the 2021 Tolkien Lecture (video).
Our old chum fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay gives the eighth annual J.R.R Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature. When Christopher Tolkien needed an…
NewsWorld getting weirder
The Farmington UFO Armada incident (Weird news).
Here’s an interesting 30-minute-long video interview with David Marler about the very odd Farmington UFO Armada incident which went down in the 1950s…
TrailerFantasy
The Green Knight: fantasy movie trailer (Arthurian legend goes back to Vance’s Lyonesse).
At last, an Arthurian fantasy movie that ejects the faux-Middle Earth feels for the strange spirit of Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy of books,…
ReviewScifi
Three Moments Of An Explosion by China Miéville (book review).
‘Three Moments Of An Explosion’ by China Miéville is an anthology of his 28 short Science Fiction, fantasy and horror stories. China Miéville…
TrailerScifi
Love, Death + Robots Volume 2 (Netflix animated scifi film: trailer).
Here’s a trailer for the second animated anthology film for the Netflix science fictioner that is Love, Death + Robots Volume 2. This…
TrailerFilms
Venom: Let there be Carnage (trailer: 2nd Marvel Venom movie).
Here’s the second Marvel film and sequel to 2018’s Venom movie, the rather longer-named Venom: Let there be Carnage. The film is directed…
NewsStar Trek
Star Trek The Next Generation: the failure that never happened (video documentary).
Many expected a new TV series franchise called Star Trek The Next Generation to bomb and sink without a trace. How dare they…
NewsShort movie
Interlude (a Star Trek fan film).
Now that a few of the legal issues concerning the Trek franchise and Trek’s appetite to go after fans making fan films have…