ReviewSuperheroes
Stargirl: Frenemies: The Complete Third Season (DVD TV series review).
Eclipso is toast… literally, in the third and final season of ‘Stargirl’. Normalcy is returning as Stargirl (played by Brec Basinger) grudgingly tolerates…
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ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Season 14: episode 1: The Star Beast (TV review)
While waiting for David Tennant’s return as the Doctor, one can’t help but ponder the array of changes and expectations surrounding the iconic…
ReviewFantasy
Stroke Of The Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett (book review).
The fact Terry Pratchett died back in 2015 hasn’t stopped him from releasing new books. ‘A Stroke Of The Pen’ is a collection…
ReviewBooks
Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton (book review).
I’ve been holding onto ‘Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab’ by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton for several years. Melton,…
ReviewHorror
The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960) (film DVD review).
One would think that by now, I would have seen Roger Corman’s 1960 film, ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’. Known for being made…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Evil Of The Daleks by Frazer Hines, adapted from the original scripts by David Whitaker (book review).
This new novelisation, ‘Doctor Who: The Evil Of The Daleks’, for the approaching 60th anniversary, has been issued with a flourish and a little…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Once And Future A Genius For War by Jonathan Morris (CD review).
Moving on from the whimsy of the previous outing, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) has temporarily stabilised as the Seventh and, unluckily for him,…
ReviewScifi
Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders Book 2) by Mur Lafferty (book review).
Mallory Veridian has opened a detective agency on Station Eternity. She did move as far away from humans as she could by leaving…
ReviewComics
Jimmy Olsen: Adventures Vol. 01 by Jack Kirby (graphic novel review).
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Tidying up my old comic collected editions, I came across this volume of Jimmy Olsen stories…
ReviewScifi
Elephantmen 2261 Volume 1 by Richard Starkings and Axel Medellin (graphic novel review).
The Elephantmen are transgenics, human/animal hybrids genetically engineered by the MAPPO Corporation to fight in the Afro-Sino war of 2239-2243. After that, they…
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2023, Volume 145 #769 (magazine review).
Maybe it’s the time of year that makes editors turn towards horror, the creepy and the macabre. Certainly, this issue of MF&SF has…
ReviewSuperheroes
Stargirl: Summer School: The Complete Second Season (DVD series review).
Life is never easy for teenage superheroes. Courtney Whitmore, portrayed by actress Brec Bassinger, finds that by paying too much attention to her…