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The Fantastic Journey – The Bermuda Triangle’s best package holiday? (video)
Before Lost took us to a mysterious island and then lost the plot entirely, and long before Sliders decided that every alternate universe…
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count) Episode 3: The Well by Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall.
You could hardly miss the information in the news that this current series of ‘Doctor Who’ has dropped to two million television viewers.…
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 2: Lux by Russell T Davies.
I did watch the last episode a second time but changed none of my comments. I do wonder if any of you people…
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Death of a Unicorn: Mark Kermode’s fantasy movie review (video).
Mark Kermode goes for a gallop with a unicorn in the odd new fantasy film, Death of a Unicorn. Watch his review, above.…
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First Men in the Moon (1964): Gin, Ray Guns, and Lunar bureaucracy in the Queen’s name.
Long before Neil Armstrong tiptoed across the Sea of Tranquility in monochrome, before Kubrick gave us pristine orbital ballet with a side of…
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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…
March 2025
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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…