The Old Guard 2 (2025) (film review).
Uma Thurman’s Discord digs up a 500-year grudge and the rules of immortality get murkier than ‘Highlander’. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard 2’ (2025).
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The Old Guard (2020) (film review).
Charlize Theron leads a team of immortal mercenaries who keep getting shot and keep getting back up. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard’ (2020).
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News Roundup: Bardugo, Miéville And A Bumper Week On The Genre Shelves (14–18 September 2026).
It’s not often five genre heavyweights clear their throats in the same week. Bardugo, Miéville, Mandel, Roanhorse and Marske all published, Sunrise on the Reaping dropped a new trailer, and we ran the ratings on Lanterns, Silo and Dark Matter to see what’s actually worth your Tuesday night.
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – twice the tributes, half the hope (trailer 2).
The second trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back to the Second Quarter Quell, where 48 tributes enter the arena, a young Haymitch Abernathy draws the short straw, and Ralph Fiennes becomes the third actor to sniff President Snow’s roses. In cinemas November 20, 2026.
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Cryptology #8 April 2026 (magazine review).
You can always tell when a magazine is taking off when some issues seem to be selling out. Cryptology #8
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HBO Casts A Spall, A Ghost And A Boy With A Camera, And Appears To Have Cast Ginny Weasley Twice
HBO’s Harry Potter series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey for season two. It has also, by our reading, cast Ginny Weasley twice.
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Vince Gilligan Finally Gets A Statue, Marvel Finally Gets An Angel (news roundup).
Pluribus takes four Creative Arts Emmys and finally ends Vince Gilligan’s winless streak, Marvel’s X-Men casts Asa Germann as Angel, and Leigh Bardugo prepares to shut the crypt door on the Alex Stern trilogy. Genre news, 10-11 September 2026.
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Practical Magic 2: Mark Kermode stirs the cauldron, the critics stir the drink (film news).
If the embed above has been hexed, cursed or quietly set to private, you can watch Mark Kermode’s review here:
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Last Of The First: 26 (Saga Of Recluce book 26) by L.E. Modesitt (book review).
Don’t start here, but don’t read the other twenty-five books first. While Last Of The First is Book 26 of
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Mimeograph by Eira A. Ekre (book review).
‘Mimeograph’ by Eira A Ekre is a standalone Science Fiction novella. It does not fit neatly into any single sub-genre,
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