ReviewHorror
Cryptology #9 June 2026 (magazine review).
The Cryptologist doesn’t like the summer months, but I suspect vampires aren’t keen on them either. No leisurely meals, just a quick bite…
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TrailerFilms
Clayface trailer: DC Studios sculpts a body-horror villain for Halloween
DC Studios has dropped a new trailer for Clayface, James Watkins' horror thriller about a Gotham actor who gets his face back and…
ReviewBooks
Trinity: The Best Kept Secret by Jacques F. Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris (book review)
Trinity is a location in Nevada, close to the Manhattan Project and 30 miles from the first nuclear detonation with no real warning…
NewsScifi
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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Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name
Netflix's adult animated steampunk Western Bass X Machina, inspired by lawman Bass Reeves, arrives on 3 November 2026 with mechanical minotaurs, cybernetic arms…
ReviewMagazines
Comic Book Creator #45 September 2026 (magazine review).
You can always expect a few surprises with Comic Book Creator, usually involving creators I’ve never heard of, such as Carol Lay, who…
ReviewHorror
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings you Frankenstein’s flock (Mark Kermode film review).
Aardman go full Universal monster movie, Shaun turns mad scientist, and the scariest thing in the woods is a mob of villagers with…
ReviewHorror
Resident Evil (2026) (Mark Kermode’s film review).
Twenty-four years and eight films in, somebody has finally worked out what a ‘Resident Evil’ movie should be: a terrified man with no…
ReviewScifi
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…
ReviewScifi
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…
ReviewMovie books
2001: Beyond The Infinite by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. (book review)
John L. Flynn's light, heavily illustrated guide to Kubrick's '2001' has interviews with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood going for it, but it…
TrailerScifi
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…