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Escape Room (2019) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
The formulaic frightener ‘Escape Room’ is certainly not worth entering for its cheap, collapsed creepiness. This half-baked horror sideshow will make its audience feel trapped…
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The Final Wish (2019) (a film review by Frank Ochieng).
‘The Final Wish’ is strangely contemplative in its attempt to shine an eerie light on the mysteries of death and estrangement. Director Timothy…
ReviewScifi
Stupefying Stories # 22 (emag review)
There seem to be quite a lot of small press fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror (FSFH) magazines on the market these days. I should know, I…
NewsCri-Fi
Widows (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (’12 Years a Slave’) commits a notable heist of his own that has nothing to do with his capable…
NewsHorror
The Golem (2018) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
‘The Golem’ is one of the rare horror films built around that folkloric creature, the golem. As with most golem tales, the golem…
ReviewScifi
2001: An Odyssey In Words edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter (book review).
To celebrate the centenary of Arthur C. Clarke’s birth, NewCon Press has produced a volume of stories that all contain exactly 2001 words.…
ReviewFantasy
Updraft (Bone Universe book 1) by Fran Wilde (ebook review).
Fran Wilde’s story, ‘Updraft (Bone Universe book 1)’ story is set in a city above the clouds, where citizens live in towers made…
TrailerSuperheroes
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.EL.D (season 6 trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the 6th season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.EL.D TV season – I thought this all ended with season five? Anyway, Agent…
TrailerFilms
Birds of Prey (trailer).
Here’s the teaser trailer for DC’s Birds of Prey movie, where, after splitting up with The Joker, Harley Quinn and three other female…
TrailerSuperheroes
The Boys (superhero trailer: coming to Amazon Prime).
Garth Ennis finally gets to port a TV Seth Rogen-developed adaption of his grimdark superhero comic-strip, The Boys, to Amazon Prime’s viewers. A…
ReviewComics
Alter Ego #156 January 2019 (magazine review).
The potpourri that is Alter Ego # 156 enters January with part 6 of a 2000 New York Comicon with creators from the…
TrailerFilms
The Umbrella Academy (another trailer).
When it rains, it pours, here’s a new longer trailer for Netflix’s Umbrella Academy TV series based on the comic-book of the same name.…