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Wicked: a Witch’s guide to unlikely friendships – when good girls and bad witches mix (trailer).
In a world where musicals occasionally leap from the stage to the silver screen, one such jump has been brewing longer than a…
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Deadpool & Wolverine: the Odd Couple assaults the MCU (trailer).
Prepare your popcorn and set your expectations: Deadpool & Wolverine is making its entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, promising a mix of…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: adventures through an apocalyptic Earth (trailer #2).
In the latest cinematic twist that’s bound to have both humans and apes swinging from the rafters, Kingdom of the Planet of the…
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Alter Ego #186 March 2024 (magazine review).
The focus of this issue’s “Alter Ego” is comic book artist Angelo Torres. Although I hadn’t amassed a significant collection of “Mad” magazines,…
ReviewFantasy
The Stranger Times (book 1) by C.K. McDonnell (book review).
Ever since mankind began to be curious about his environment, he has tried to explain things. What you understand doesn’t seem quite so…
NewsScifi
For All Mankind seasons 3 and 4: a journey beyond the stars (video: TV series retrospective).
In the cosmic sandbox that is For All Mankind, seasons 3 and 4 rocket beyond the moon, taking the space race to Mars…
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The Lost Expedition (The Dream Rider Saga book 3) by Douglas Smith (book review)
When thinking about Douglas Smith’s ‘Dream Rider Saga’ and ‘The Lost Expedition’ in particular, the word epic kept bouncing around in my mind.…
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Foundation TV series 3rd season faces a fiscal fiasco: Galactic Empire temporarily bankrupted? (news)
In the latest cosmic kerfuffle to hit the airwaves—or should we say, fail to hit—the eagerly awaited Season 3 of Foundation on Apple…
ReviewScifi
The Bezzle (Red Team book 2) by Cory Doctorow (book review).
‘The Bezzle’ by Cory Doctorow is the second novel in the ‘Red Team’ series about cybercrime. This is the return of our forensic…
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Illustrators #43 (magazine review).
This issue of Illustrators focuses on the Western genre, a realm where something called Science Fiction eventually took over in the pulps. As…
TrailerScifi
A Quiet Place: Day One – the start of the silent alien apocalypse? (trailer).
In the (hopefully) hush-hush world of cinema, where whispers become screams and silence is golden, there comes a spin-off prequel so eagerly anticipated,…
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Gambling Odds Part B: a story in two halves by: GF Willmetts.
Something we’ve kept out of the public eye is knowing that there are alien sentients watching us out there. Not because they’re scared…