NewsHorror
EC Comics to haunt the shelves again as classic comic-book line rises from the grave (news).
Just like a mythical phoenix bursting into life from the remnants of its own demise, or maybe it’s more like one of those…
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February 2024
ReviewFantasy
Why We Love Middle-Earth by Shawn E Marchese & Alan Sisto (book review).
Podcasts have done some amazing things with science fiction and fantasy fiction, prompting serious discussion and promoting deeper reading far better than any…
ReviewBooks
The Recognition Of HP Lovecraft: His Rise From Obscurity To World Renown by S.T. Joshi (book review).
For all his fame today, HP Lovecraft’s recognition as a great writer was a long time coming. In ‘The Recognition of HP Lovecraft’,…
NewsScifi
Alan the Infinite (short scifi comedy film: in full).
In the vast expanse of the YouTube cosmos, where digital detritus and cinematic gems float side by side, a peculiar stop-motion short has…
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #31 March 2024 (magazine review).
I read Herbie J. Pilato’s book about the TV series ‘Bewitched’ years ago. Here, in the latest ‘Retro Fan’, he goes over how…
ReviewScifi
The Empire (scifi French language film review).
In a universe where the line between the profound and the preposterous is thinner than the plot of a daytime soap opera, Bruno…
TrailerHorror
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (another flipping trailer).
As the dust settles on the vast and zombie-riddled landscape of The Walking Dead universe, fans might find themselves wondering, “What’s left to…
ReviewComics
Suicide Squad (The New 52) Volume 1: Kicked In The Teeth by Adam Glass, Federico Dallocchio and Clayton Henry (graphic novel review).
I blame The New 52 Justice League. With the hint of the Suicide Squad there and the bickering the Justice League has amongst…
ReviewFantasy
This Charming Man (volume 2) by C.K.McDonnell (book review).
This is the second volume in a series that began with ‘The Stranger Times’. Based in Manchester, the newspaper of that name is…
NewsFilms
First Men in the Moon: steampunk astronauts (full movie).
Gather round, dear readers of SFcrowsnest, for a tale of lunar conquest that predates the actual moon landing by a mere five years.…
NewsScifi
War of the Worlds by Ray Harryhausen (classic unmade movie: documentary).
In the labyrinth of Hollywood’s “what ifs,” the tale of Ray Harryhausen’s The War of the Worlds gleams like a cinematic gem that…
NewsScifi
Alien: what inspired the derelict scenes? (scifi movie: retrospective)
When the crew of the Nostromo—Dallas, Kane, and Lambert—boldly stepped out of their airlock in Ridley Scott’s Alien, little did they know they…