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North Is The Night by Emily Rath (book review)
There has always been a tendency for storytellers to take traditional myths and folk tales and embroider, update or provide a new perspective…
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June 2025
NewsFantasy
How to Train Your Dragon – again: Mark Kermode’s fantasy film review (video).
There are few things more inevitable these days than death, taxes, and Hollywood remaking perfectly good animated films in live action. And lo,…
May 2025
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Winter 2024, Volume 146 #771 (magazine review).
‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ is still experiencing production problems. As a result of ongoing issues, the magazine has shifted to…
TrailerFantasy
Good Fortune, Keanu’s Angelic faceplant (fantasy movie trailer).
What do you get when you cross Trading Places, It’s a Wonderful Life, and the spiritual aura of Keanu Reeves wrapped in a…
ReviewFantasy
The Hamlet by Joanna Corrance (book review).
‘The Hamlet’ is another book in ‘NP Novella set 2’, distinguished from ‘NP Novella set 1’ by their smaller size, so Newcon Press…
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The Creator by Aliya Whiteley (book review).
NewCon Press has a new line of novellas in a little book A5 format. Note the dimensions above which translate to 7 x…
TrailerFantasy
The Old Guard 2: still not dead (trailer).
Immortality, it turns out, is still a full-time job. Just when Andy and her undead A-team thought they’d earned a long nap, The…
TrailerFantasy
How to Train Your Dragon… again? (trailer).
Sharpen your axes, adjust your helmet horns, and practise your best dragon-whispering growl, because DreamWorks is dusting off its most beloved animated franchise…
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The Librarians: The Next Chapter (fantasy TV series trailer).
Librarians. Keepers of ancient tomes, shushers of the unruly, warriors against chaos… Wait, what? Yes, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is dusting off…
ReviewFantasy
The Devils (book 1) by Joe Abercrombie (book review).
Joe Abercrombie is back with a new potential, probable series of books about unlikely heroes. The Pope is a ten year-old girl who…
April 2025
TrailerFantasy
Fountain of Youth: sibling rivalry, sacred relics, and Stanley Tucci in mysterious robes (fantasy film trailer).
It’s 2025, and Guy Ritchie is back—this time with fewer gangsters, marginally less swearing, and a mystical adventure that promises ancient treasure, estranged…
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How to Train Your Dragon: or, How to reboot your franchise (new trailer).
How to Train Your Dragon. The animated series that soared into our hearts on the back of a slightly charred saddle and made…