Mayday: new Netflix spy-fy comedy movie (trailer).
Apple TV has released the first trailer for Mayday, a Cold War action comedy in which Ryan Reynolds crash-lands inside
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The Odyssey: Mark Kermode’s fantasy film review (video).
The video review above belongs to Mark Kermode and Ben Bailey Smith, who stepped into Simon Mayo’s chair and discovered
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The Dog Stars: new trailer offers hope, horror and limited aviation fuel (movie).
Civilisation has ended again. This time there are no zombies, radioactive mutants or leather-clad gangs arguing over who owns the
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The Batman Part II (movie trailer).
The first teaser for The Batman: Part II has crept out of the Warner Bros cave, blinking suspiciously at the
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Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (book review).
At the end of each monthly meeting of the rangers overseeing the reserves around the Blackwater Estuary, there is a
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Frank Miller: Turning weird men in tights into Modern Mythology (interview).
When Frank Miller talks about comics, he does not sound like a man discussing disposable entertainment involving brightly dressed people
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Godzilla Minus Zero: Humanity tries the nuclear option (trailer).
The new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero has arrived, bringing with it devastated cities, traumatised survivors and the alarming suggestion
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The Hour Of The Phoenix by Richard Saxon (book review).
Firstly, there are a lot of Richard Saxons out there now. The author of The Hour Of The Phoenix appears
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Gods, Cider and the Fine Art of Doing Less: A Friday at the Idler Festival 2026 (convention report).
There are literary festivals that feel suspiciously like science fiction cons with better scarves and bush hats. Then there is
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Best of British science fiction gets bundled (news).
What is this, we hear at the Nest, somebody has now bundled fifteen rather fine examples of British science fiction,
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