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Spy Smasher: a Republic serial (film serial review).
The 1942 Republic 12-part film serial, “Spy Smasher,” begins with immediate action. The agent, in disguise, is in France gathering information when he…
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ReviewFantasy
The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe (book review).
Quintis is the only navigating fox. The only known ‘knowledgeable’ fox in existence. Alchemists have raised many animals to sentience from baboons to…
NewsFilms
The Avengers 1998: Brolly hell, a weather forecast of cinematic doom? (video article)
The Avengers, the 1998 film that makes you wonder what James Bond, Austin Powers, and a dash of Monty Python would look like…
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Doctor Who 2023: 60th anniversary special (trailer).
Whovians, brace yourselves! The 60th anniversary of Doctor Who is revving its engines faster than the TARDIS dematerialising from a Cyberman-infested planet. Just…
ReviewScifi
Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery by Tim Major (book review).
‘Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery’ is a Science Fiction novella by Tim Major who has published six plus novels as well as…
ReviewScifi
The Red Scholar’s Wake/Some Love Transcends All Barriers by Aliette de Bodard (book review).
‘The Red Scholar’s Wake’ is a standalone novel by Aliette de Bodard, and is notable as a space opera written by an award-winning…
ReviewScifi
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview And Other Conversations (book review).
Of the 28 books in this ‘Last Interview’ series, only 4 other people belong to our genre and Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) is…
TrailerHorror
Dream Scenario: Nicolas Cage becomes your unlikely Sandman? (fantasy film: trailer)
Dream Scenario, the surreal fantasy/horror film where Nicolas Cage manages to achieve peak Nicolas Cage-ness without even being awake. The film plunges us…
TrailerFantasy
Percy Jackson reloaded: will the new series steal Zeus’s thunder? (trailer)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a series that’s been through the Minotaur’s labyrinth and back just to find its rightful place on our…
TrailerScifi
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (trailer: video).
You may want to sit down for this one—preferably on a seat cushioned by all those fan theories you’ve been knitting about the…
TrailerFilms
Awareness – Amazon Prime superhero/spy-fy film (trailer).
The silver screen beckons again, and this time it’s cooking up a transatlantic dish of thrills, illusions, and secret agencies in a flick…
TrailerHorror
Chucky returns: unwrapping the nightmares of season 3 (trailer: video).
Oh my Lord, October 2023—a month when pumpkins are carved, horrors are watched, and what’s that? Oh yes, another slice of our favourite…