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DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer).
Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband…
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September 2026
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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe: season one escapes the sitcom asylum
Stuart Bloom’s first season turns a sitcom’s supporting players into reluctant multiverse tourists, then gives television itself a well-deserved kick. Spoilers ahead.
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Time To Burn by Ellery Lloyd (book review).
Inigo Frank is the genius behind ‘Tempus Tours’. He provides a service for the very rich to go back in time and experience…
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Forbidden Planet (1956) (film UHD Blu-ray review)
Do I have to tell you the plot of the 1956 film ‘Forbidden Planet’? OK, for those Science Fiction fans who might have…
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All That Litters: a short story by GF Willmetts.
We had most of the theory of teleportation sorted out before we sent something through. Obviously, something inorganic first and then worked our…
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Shards Of Space by Robert Sheckley (book review).
Eleven 1950s Robert Sheckley stories, from a Venusian gold rush to group minds, a chess-fought space war and immortality drugs, that still read…
RoundupScifi
News Roundup: Alderman’s Mimmoths, An R-Rated Godzilla And Gremlins Sent To Bed Until 2028 (21–25 September 2026).
Naomi Alderman turns grief into a science fiction novel full of creatures nobody can catch, Godzilla picks up its first ever R rating,…
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Ray Gunn: Brad Bird gives film noir a jetpack, aliens and a thoroughly suspicious Scarlett Johansson
Brad Bird's long-gestating Ray Gunn finally has a trailer: a retro-futuristic film noir starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits, in cinemas…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…