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LifePods: Escape From New York, but make it French and invoiceable (news).
LifePods appears to be one of those rare gadgets where the design meeting may have begun with someone slapping a VHS copy of…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (film review by Mark R. Leeper).
In ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time’, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, most of his early life is told through home movies. Later, the…
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Disclosure Day: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review (video).
Mark Kermode is here for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which arrives in cinemas with the subtlety of a flying saucer landing on the…
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Carl Crawls into contention as Clarke Award turns 40 (award news).
For a literary prize named after the man who gave us geostationary satellites and a rather alarming number of giant space monoliths, the…
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Masters of the Universe: Mark Kermode’s film review (video).
There are some phrases cinema was always destined to deliver. “You had me at hello.” “I am your father.” “By the power of…
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Stargate TV series vanishes into the Event Horizon (news).
Just when Stargate fans thought they heard the familiar kawoosh of a wormhole opening, Amazon appears to have dialled the wrong address and…
May 2026
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The Mandalorian And Grogu: Mark Kermode scifi film review (video).
There was a time when a new Star Wars film arriving on the big screen felt like the second coming of sliced…
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Lexx: Star Trek’s Evil Twin With Better Boots And Worse Impulse Control (TV retrospective).
There are science fiction shows that boldly go where no one has gone before, and then there is Lexx, which staggered into the…
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Hack-Job: a story by GF Willmetts.
There are many turning points in our history. The one thing that probably beat them all was the discovery of an alien textbook…
March 2026
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun: classic scifi film (retrospective).
There are films that stride confidently into cinema history in polished boots, puffed up with their own importance, and then there are films…
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Project Hail Mary: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review.
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to watch Project Hail Mary – you can watch his review above. There’s a…
February 2026
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Aces High: A Wild Cards Collection (book 31) edited by George RR Martin.
Another ‘Wild Cards’ book from TOR, when the Wild Cards Trust has moved to Random House Worlds? Under their Reactor Internet imprint, eleven…