NewsScifi
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (film review by Mark R. Leeper).
In ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time’, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, most of his early life is told through home movies. Later, the…
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June 2026
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Disclosure Day: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review (video).
Mark Kermode is here for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which arrives in cinemas with the subtlety of a flying saucer landing on the…
NewsDoctor Who
Doctor Who Vanishes Into The Time Vortex (news).
If you listen carefully, you could almost hear the wheezing-groaning sound of a TARDIS materialising in the offices of the BBC procurement department.…
NewsScifi
Carl Crawls into contention as Clarke Award turns 40 (award news).
For a literary prize named after the man who gave us geostationary satellites and a rather alarming number of giant space monoliths, the…
NewsScifi
Masters of the Universe: Mark Kermode’s film review (video).
There are some phrases cinema was always destined to deliver. “You had me at hello.” “I am your father.” “By the power of…
NewsSpy-Fy
The Champions return: secret agents, superpowers and a Himalayan detour (documentary: video in full).
If your idea of a civilised evening involves superhuman secret agents, Himalayan weirdness, 1960s ITC glamour and villains who probably keep their world…
NewsScifi
Stargate TV series vanishes into the Event Horizon (news).
Just when Stargate fans thought they heard the familiar kawoosh of a wormhole opening, Amazon appears to have dialled the wrong address and…
May 2026
NewsShort fiction
A Stab In The Murder: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts (short fiction).
The pathologist pulled the sheet back from the dead woman on the slab and consulted her pad. Identity unknown. Stabbed through the chest.…
NewsHorror
Backrooms: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (video).
There are certain places in life that feel faintly wrong. An empty shopping centre five minutes before opening. A motorway service station at…
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood signs two-book Historical Fantasy deal with Transworld (Heaven immediately looks nervous) (news)
Transworld UK has pre-emptively acquired two new historical fantasy novels from bestselling author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a sentence that already sounds…
NewsScifi
The Mandalorian And Grogu: Mark Kermode scifi film review (video).
There was a time when a new Star Wars film arriving on the big screen felt like the second coming of sliced…
NewsCons
Christopher Mellon UAP keynote UAP science conference, as Toronto prepares for three days of saucer-adjacent seriousness (news).
Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former Minority Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on…