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FTL Waiting Blues : a story by: GF Willmetts
According to the history books, every period of history has had a set of pyramids that has amazed archaeologists. Often as being seen…
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June 2025
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28 Years Later: Mark Kermode’s horror movie review (video).
The Rage Virus is back, muses our man-of-many-movies, Mark Kermode. Not a gentle comeback, mind you—not like an old ex suddenly texting you…
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How to Train Your Dragon – again: Mark Kermode’s fantasy film review (video).
There are few things more inevitable these days than death, taxes, and Hollywood remaking perfectly good animated films in live action. And lo,…
NewsMEDIA
Editorial – June 2025: Traditional SF.
Hello everyone, Reflecting on last month’s editorial, I had to have a think about my term ‘traditional science fiction’. Was it ‘traditional’, and…
NewsScifi
First Rule: a short proclamation by GF Willmetts on behalf of your new world (flash fiction).
Greetings. I have been selected to be your world leader. You may think you have voted for other nominees, but the result won’t…
May 2025
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 8, The Reality War by Russell T Davies.
What to say about the end of the season before the episode is shown? Bad Wolf has been quiet. Not about the ending…
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The Prisoner: I Am Not a Number, I’m Just Very, Very Confused (spy-fy TV retrospective).
Here’s the first episode of The Prisoner for you. Imagine James Bond quits MI6, goes on holiday to clear his head, and wakes…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 7, Wish World by Russell T Davies.
We finally uncover the reason for the TARDIS’s inability to penetrate 2025 in the season’s double-parter. Commenting before watching, which means I’m going…
NewsMEDIA
Mark Kermode reviews Mission: Impossible, The Final Reckoning (video).
Mark Kermode drops by to review Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Or as we’ve come to call it here at SFcrowsnest: Tom…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 6, The Interstellar Song Contest, by Juno Dawson.
I have mixed feelings about combining TV programmes with real-life events. It was done with ‘Doctor Who’ in one of the Olympics years…
NewsHorror
The Last of Us season 2: Mark Kermode’s TV review. Fungi, feelings, and a golf club to the soul.
In the warm spring of 2025, just when you thought your PTSD from The Last of Us Season 1 had mellowed to a…
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Hawkgirl: Once Upon A Galaxy by Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan and Driano Lucas (graphic novel).
I’ve always liked Hawkgirl. At least she had a better helmet to draw from different angles than her husband, Carter Hol. However, opening…