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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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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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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Star Trek Turns 60, Promptly Sells You A Casserole Dish
The Star Trek 60th anniversary brings a new Paramount film and a Le Creuset cookware range, the 2026 Dragon Awards hand out rockets to a near-empty room, the HWA dissolves its Executive Director post, and HBO’s Harry Potter finds its Tom Riddle. Genre news, 7-9 September 2026.
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The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (book review).
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G.
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Saturday SciFi Splash: a workshop full of dinosaurs, a vampire at Netflix, and fandom having words (news roundup).
Phil Tippett’s Berkeley workshop closes for good, Netflix goes looking for Strahd, Worldcon’s business meeting reaches for the red pen, and the Horror Writers Association discovers what happens when you print a column about generative AI.
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God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin (book review).
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to
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