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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (a Mark Kermode movie review).
Pinocchio, also known as Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, is a new stop-motion animated musical fantasy film that del Toro directed. Fascist Italy in…
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Rayguns & Rocketships by Rian Hughes (book review).
If you do the page flick test with ‘Rayguns & Rocketships’, you could be mistaken to think its all about paperback covers. However,…
ReviewHorror
Blood Relatives: a film review by Mark R. Leeper (movie review).
‘Blood Relatives’ is described as having a ‘Yiddish vampire’, but this is a bit of an inaccuracy. Yiddish is a language, not an…
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Illustrators: The Art Of Sydney Jordan/The Art Of Jim Holdaway (magazine review).
I should point out that ‘Illustrators: The Art Of Sydney Jordan/The Art Of Jim Holdaway’ is a limited 1000 copy print run and…
ReviewBooks
Brit Mania by Mark Voger (book review).
I did wonder at Mark Voger’s book, ‘Brit Mania’, as to whether it would fit our remit since the focus is on British…
ReviewScifi
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (book review).
I should point out that the ‘Plenty’ in Colin Greenland’s 1990 novel, ‘Take Back Plenty’, is actually a planetary destination in the solar…
ReviewHorror
Terror Tales Of The West Country edited by Paul Finch (book review).
‘Terror Tales Of The West Country’ is the latest in the ‘Terror Tales’ series from Telos Publishing. Each book is devoted to a…
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Galaxias by Stephen Baxter (book review).
To my mind, Stephen Baxter is one of Britain’s finest living authors of hard Science Fiction. Like Sir Arthur C. Clarke, with whom…
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Dune: The Graphic Novel book 2: Muad’Dib, by writers Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and artists Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (graphic novel review).
This is the second of three parts in the graphic novel adaptation of Frank Herbert’s original ‘Dune’ novel. The script is by Kevin…
ReviewHorror
Lute by Jennifer Thorne (book review).
‘Lute’ by Jennifer Thorne is a folk horror tale set in the near future on the fictional island of Lute in the Bristol…
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Dead Man’s Hand (The Unorthodox Chronicles book 1) by James J. Butcher (book review).
Every day is allegedly magical at Mighty Magic Donald’s Food Kingdom. Taco Tuesday has just become more magical with management’s unexpected creation of…
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Neom (a novel from the world of Central Station) by Lavie Tidhar (book review).
Set in the world of Lavie Tidhar’s ‘Central Station’ novel, ‘Neom’ shares the same rich and varied history, multiple cultures, traditions and strange…