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Predator Badlands, a secret Aliens movie? (trailer)
Just when you thought the galaxy had run out of ways to say “Get to the chopper!”, the Predator franchise has donned its…
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Barsoom Reborn: John Carter rides again (in glorious animation) TV news.
Hold on to your radium rifles, dear readers, because John Carter of Mars is charging back into the fray – this time in…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #191 January 2025 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘Alter Ego’ marks the 250th appearance of the Fawcett Collector of America, which has a checkered past dating back to…
ReviewFantasy
The Emilie Adventures: Emilie And The Hollow World, Emilie And The Sky World by Martha Wells (book review).
‘The Emilie Adventures’ is a reissuing of Martha Wells’ two YA novels, ‘Emilie and the Hollow World’ and ‘Emilie and the Sky World’.…
ReviewDoctor Who
Torchwood season one (blu-ray review).
I bought the four season boxset of ‘Torchwood’. As I reviewed the episodes as they first came out, I’ll concentrate on the extras…
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Tron Ares – the Grid comes crashing into the real world (trailer).
It’s been 15 years since Tron: Legacy gave us Daft Punk in motorcycle helmets and CGI Jeff Bridges mumbling existential code poetry. Now,…
ReviewScifi
Aliens Vs Predator Requiem: Inside The Monster Shop by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr with Chris Ayers (book review).
Of all my Alien/Predator films, ‘Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem’ is the least watched of the series. You can’t see much because so much…
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Alien: Earth TV series trailer – because what the Xenomorphs really needed was the USA (video).
So, that Alien franchise, then, hey. That warm, chestbursting embrace we all keep going back to. Just when you thought we’d run out…
TrailerHorror
Stranger Things season 5 trailer: One Last Trip to the Upside Down (Hold Onto Your Walkman).
It’s 1987. Hawkins, Indiana, looks like a post-apocalyptic version of E.T. met The Mist at a Dungeons & Dragons convention—and lost. The Rifts…
ReviewScifi
Imago (A Lilith’s Brood Novel book 3) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
For the third of ‘Lilith’s Brood’ novels, we have ‘Imago’, and the metamorphosis of another of her offspring, Jodahs. His full name is…
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Adulthood Rites (A Lilith’s Brood Novel book 2) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
It is now sometime later on Earth and in the village of Lo. Lilith Iyapo is fifty-five with a hybrid baby son, Akin.…
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Dawn (A Lilith’s Brood Novel book 1) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
I’ve liked Octavia Butler (1947-2006) books ever since her ‘Patternist’ stories with the incredible body-swapping deadly Doro. I just needed to find time…