ColonelFrog, Author at SFcrowsnest

Lexx: Star Trek’s Evil Twin With Better Boots And Worse Impulse Control (TV retrospective).

There are science fiction shows that boldly go where no one has gone before, and then there is Lexx, which

Here at SFcrowsnest, we’ve learned two things about Westeros over the years. First, never trust a smiling noble with a

There are many versions of Spider-Man. There is the quippy teen. The tortured graduate. The multiversal meme-generator. And now, courtesy

If there’s one thing horror cinema has taught us, it’s that demons have a strong preference for enclosed spaces. Houses,

After years of Disney+ gently spoon-feeding us space westerns in weekly instalments, Star Wars has decided to stride back into

There’s a particular flavour of apocalypse that Ridley Scott seems to favour. Not the loud, explodey sort where cities are

There are sequels, and then there are sequels that look at the smouldering wreckage of the previous film and say,

There are prequels, there are sequels, and then there are those slightly unnerving narrative time-loops where Hollywood digs up a

There comes a point in every civilisation where it must ask itself a serious question: what if the people best

The science fiction world has dimmed a little this week with the passing of Ian Watson, a writer whose work