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The Eternaut: it’s snow joke (Netflix scifi TV series).
Aliens. Snow. Existential despair. Truco. Welcome, dear reader, to The Eternaut, Netflix’s latest attempt to introduce the world to a terrifying apocalypse that…
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No Step Climb: a short story by GF Willmetts.
The plan seemed straight forward enough. This was the third extra-solar long rock, Big M, passing near enough Earth to grab a lift…
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The End: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review (video).
Just when you thought the apocalypse had exhausted every possible genre mash-up, along comes ‘The End’, Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2024 offering—a musical spectacle set…
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A Canticle For Leibowitz: still radiating genius? (video).
If there’s one thing humanity loves almost as much as blowing itself up, it’s forgetting we ever did it and gleefully preparing for…
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The Terminator: Hasta la lawsuit, baby… movie inspired by the Outer Limits? (video)
Here’s a plot twist worthy of Skynet itself. Does James Cameron’s iconic 1984 sci-fi thriller The Terminator owe its legendary cyborg assassin shtick…
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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…
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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…
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Mickey 17: Mark Kermode’s science fiction film review (video).
Science fiction fans are in for an interesting ride with the upcoming film Mickey 17, muses our man-of-many movies, Mark Kermode, as he…
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A.I. Handles Evolution: a short story by GF Willmetts (short fiction).
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For All Mankind (TV series review – opening 2 seasons).
For All Mankind Season One (pub: Dazzler/Sony, 2019. 4 DVDs 609 minutes 10 episodes 2*70 minutes 8* 50 minutes. Price: varies. ASIN: DAZ0169)…
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Things to Come (1936): H.G. Wells predicts the future, and it’s… complicated (video).
Time to sit down with Things to Come—the 1936 cinematic crystal ball brought to us by none other than H.G. Wells himself, based…
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The Outer Limits: classic TV retrospective (video).
There is nothing quite like sitting down with a cup of tea, turning on the telly, and hearing those immortal words: “There is…