Prime Video has cancelled Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir after one season, roughly twenty minutes before the show turns up at the Emmys with eleven nominations. Streaming maths remains an eldritch discipline.
Read MoreWe have not run a proper anime and manga news roundup since last October, which turns out to have been a scheduling error of some magnitude, because the industry has spent 2026 quietly digging up every single thing you watched as a teenager and putting it back on a cinema screen.
Read MoreIt has been a while since we last ran a proper genre gaming news roundup, largely because every time we sat down to write one, another publisher announced another thing with the word “Warhammer” in it and we had to start again.
Read MorePhil Tippett’s Berkeley workshop closes for good, Netflix goes looking for Strahd, Worldcon’s business meeting reaches for the red pen, and the Horror Writers Association discovers what happens when you print a column about generative AI.
Read MoreThe Lakes International Comic Art Festival has released its full 2026 programme for Kendal, 2nd to 4th October: Asterix vs TinTin, an audience with Bill Sienkiewicz, Frank Quitely, four exhibitions, a vast Comics Marketplace and a great deal of ink.
Read MoreLenny Rush, Bonnie Hill and Billy Barratt join HBO’s Harry Potter for the ‘Chamber of Secrets’ season, as Ginny Weasley is recast and season two shoots before season one has even aired.
Read MoreMichael Sarnoski drags Robin Hood through the mud, the blood and a great deal of Irish drizzle, with Hugh Jackman as an ageing killer being crushed by his own legend. Plus Mark Kermode’s verdict.
Read MoreThe Rogue Trooper trailer has arrived, and Duncan Jones has finally dragged 2000 AD’s blue-skinned killing machine onto a screen, with three BFI London Film Festival screenings in October.
Read MoreThree weeks of genre news in one go: a Hugo Awards upset in Anaheim, John Crowley’s death, T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously perfect publicity timing, and television quietly running out of books to adapt.
Read MoreEvery so often a film turns up that is neither science fiction nor fantasy, and yet lands squarely in the SFcrowsnest in-tray on the grounds that without it we would have no volcano lairs and no laser wristwatches.
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