The Running Man: Edgar Wright gives Stephen King’s dystopian death-race another sprint round the block (trailer).
The Running Man: few titles in sci-fi are quite so elastic. First, we had Stephen King (under his sneaky Bachman
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The Dark Between The Stars (The Saga Of Shadows book one) by Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
Kevin J. Anderson is probably best known these days for his collaboration with Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert,
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KPop Demon Hunter: Dancing with Demons? (article)
Some films sound like they were dreamed up during a late-night pub crawl after one too many pints. KPOP DEMON
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Back Issue #158 April 2025 (magazine review).
With this issue of ‘Back Issue’, we have the start of editor Roger Ash’s tenure on this title. In his
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Demon slayers, vending machines and lurking librarians (September 2025 anime & manga news round-up).
Infinity castles, kaiju, and vending machines with more personality than half the Hollywood slate — it’s been a busy old
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Dice, Dwarfs & Doom: September 2025’s Plastic Fantastic (tabletop/figures news roundup).
Crikey. September 2025 has barely given us time to finish painting last year’s backlog, and the games industry has already
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Four-Colour Pandemonium: September 2025’s Comic Multiverse Meltdown (comic-book news round-up).
September 2025, that noble month of sharpened pencils, pumpkin-spice lattes and publishers treating us like lab rats in a four-colour
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Earl Grey on max warp: September 2025’s genre-gaming shenanigans (games news roundup).
Put the kettle on and set phasers to “mischievous”—September 2025’s brought a pleasingly bonkers spread of science-fiction, fantasy and horror
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Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unusual for a ‘Slough House’ thriller, Jackson Lamb is missing from the first third of this book, ‘Spook Street’. Instead,
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The Invisibles Book 1 by Grant Morrison, Steve Yeowell and Jill Thompson (graphic novel review).
Reading Les Dennis’ book, ‘DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes’, last month, I came across
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