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Alien: Earth—Can bringing Xenomorphs home end well? (TV series: trailer)
When you’ve had your fill of being trapped on gloomy spaceships and planets so remote they make Milton Keynes look cheerful, what’s left…
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March 2025
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Ash: scifi film review (video).
When your spaceship is mysteriously slaughtered, your crew reduced to chunky salsa, and you’ve woken up with a headache and the memory of…
NewsScifi
The Last Starfighter: Why arcade skills beat an Oxbridge degree any day (movie retrospective).
Back in the glorious days when an alien invasion could be thwarted by a spotty teenager armed only with a pocketful of 10p…
NewsWorld getting weirder
Giza whizz! Megastructure discovered under Egyptian pyramids—time to rewrite the history books (again) (news).
Just when you thought it was safe to trust your old history teacher again, along came a startling revelation from beneath the sands…
ReviewScifi
Caution! Inflammable by Thomas N. Scortia (book review).
The opening introduction to this anthology, ‘Caution! Inflammable’ by Thomas N. Scortia and by Ted Sturgeon, could apply to any SF author. More…
ReviewScifi
Century 21: Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson Volume 1 compiled by Chris Bentley (graphic novel review).
These ‘Century 21: Classic Comic Strips’ volumes collect reprints from the famous ‘TV Century 21’ British comic (later just ‘TV21’) that first came…
ReviewScifi
Killers From Space (1954) (film review).
After the detonation of a nuclear device in the desert, the follow-plane, carrying Dr. Paul Martin (actor Peter Graves) sees a light on…
NewsFantasy
Snow White: Mark Kermode’s fantasy movie review (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, drops by to review the recent live action remake of the Snow White animated classic. Watch…
ReviewFantasy
The Green Man’s Heir by Juliet E. McKenna (book review).
Thriftily, I picked up many of Juliet E. McKenna’s Green Man books while they were on special offer over the last few years and…
TrailerCri-Fi
Psycho Therapy (Steve Buscemi cri-fi movie: trailer).
If you thought marriage counselling was intense, imagine discovering your therapist moonlights as a retired serial killer. Welcome to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow…
TrailerScifi
Black Mirror’s season 7: beam me up, Brooker (trailer).
Black Mirror, the TV series that gleefully reminds us our smartphones are secretly plotting our demise and social media algorithms know us better…
ReviewHorror
Steve Nallon’s Ghost Stories by Steve Nallon (book review).
I have been a fan of ghost stories for many years. Something else that I was a fan of in my youth was…