NewsScifi
The Wild Robot: A scifi film with feathers, feelings, and a lot less Terminator (movie).
Get ready to reboot your emotions, folks, because The Wild Robot is landing in 2024, and it’s not your typical “metal-clad doom machine…
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September 2024
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Leviathan: Giant airships, bio-engineered beasties, and an alt-history that’ll blow your gears off (TV).
Hold on to your top hats and goggles, folks! Leviathan is storming onto Netflix in 2025, and it’s bringing an entire airship full…
NewsScifi
Enemy Mine – the alien Bromance classic (movie retrospective).
Back in the heady days of the mid-80s, when neon and shoulder pads reigned supreme, along came Enemy Mine, a film that asked…
NewsScifi
Robot Dreams (2023): Mark Kermode’s animated scifi move review (video).
Picture it: New York City, 1984. No internet, no smartphones, and most definitely no dating apps. So, what does a lonely Dog do?…
NewsDoctor Who
Dr Who and the Daleks (1965): How Not to Conquer a Planet (classic film retrospective).
Larks, Dr Who and the Daleks (1965), the cinematic adventure that boldly took the hit BBC TV series and splashed it onto the…
NewsFantasy
Kaos: Mark Kermode’s fantasy TV series review (video).
Mark Kermode arrives to stride through a television landscape filled with gritty reboots, dark dramas, and superhero sagas, where Netflix’s “Kaos” comes crashing…
NewsShort fiction
A Shaggy Werewolf Story: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
You would think being a werewolf was a good deal. Four nights of the month with a full moon you go all hairy,…
August 2024
NewsScifi
War of the Worlds (2005), a classic science fiction film retrospective (video).
In 2005, a cinematic thunderstorm rolled into theatres, leaving audiences drenched in their own sweat and confusion. Steven Spielberg, the man who made…
NewsCons
So That Was WorldCon 2024? A convention review by Rosie Oliver.
Another WorldCon has come and gone, but Glasgow 2024 will be remembered for many good things. Membership was high, exceeding 8,000, with over…
NewsScifi
Alien Romulus, Mark Kermode’s scifi movie review.
Just when you thought the Xenomorphs had retired to a peaceful life of terrorising your nightmares, Alien: Romulus crashes into cinemas to remind…
NewsScifi
A.I: Artificial Intelligence (classic scifi movie retrospective).
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg’s grand foray into the world of existential dread, moral ambiguity, and—let’s not forget—robotic teddy bears. What better way…
NewsShort fiction
The Quotas Man: a story of data by: GF Willmetts.
People think my hobby is crazy. Filling quotas of how many things we are supposed to do. Mostly because they say it can’t…