Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Revisited): a second encounter by: GF Willmetts.
Back in 2017, I wrote an article on the 1977 film ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’, postulating from a
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Jane: A Pin-Up At War by Andy Saunders (book review).
Back in my early teens, I read a library edition of ‘The Penguin Book Of Comics’ and was the first
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Welcome To Arkham Asylum edited by Sharon Packer, M.D. and Daniel R. Fredrick (book review).
For modern Batman fans, Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum would appear to have been there forever but was actually created in
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How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene (book review).
When I started Stanislas Dehaene’s book, ‘How We Learn’, with its sub-title adding the detail, ‘The New Science Of Education
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Reality Simulation In Science Fiction, Literature, Film and Television by Heather Duerre Humann (book review).
Looking at the examples cited by author Heather Duerre Humann in her introduction to her book ‘Reality Simulation In Science
Read MoreWhat will your future look like? (video interview: Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler).
Here’s a fascinating one-hour-long video documentary with writers and thinkers Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler, concerning what our future will
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Parasite (weird but brilliant Korean movie: a Mark Kermode review).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to review and reflect on the beautiful and rather brilliant Korean
Read MoreEditorial–February 2020: A devil’s pact.
Hello everyone No, the opening title has nothing to do with Hell’s ruler, but all to do with unsigned contracts
Read MoreSpaced (at 21): geekiest sitcom ever? (video: cast panel).
Spaced was perhaps the geekiest comedy sitcom, like, ever! It could take on the Big Bang Theory and leave our
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Birding Without Borders by Noah Strycker (book review).
Here’s a book about a hobby taken to an extreme. Casual birdwatching is common enough, and some people take it
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