TrailerFantasy
How to Train Your Dragon: or, How to reboot your franchise (new trailer).
How to Train Your Dragon. The animated series that soared into our hearts on the back of a slightly charred saddle and made…
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April 2025
TrailerScifi
TRON: Ares – The Grid crashes into reality, and it’s got Jared Leto’s cheekbones (trailer).
Dust off your lightcycles and start mentally prepping for a Nine Inch Nails-fuelled existential crisis, because TRON: Ares is real. Yes, after fifteen…
ReviewBooks
The Invincible Gene Colan edited by Clifford Meth (artbook review).
I heard of this book, ‘The Invincible Gene Colan’, last month, never having heard of it before, and wondered why I hadn’t seen…
NewsFantasy
Death of a Unicorn: Mark Kermode’s fantasy movie review (video).
Mark Kermode goes for a gallop with a unicorn in the odd new fantasy film, Death of a Unicorn. Watch his review, above.…
NewsScifi
First Men in the Moon (1964): Gin, Ray Guns, and Lunar bureaucracy in the Queen’s name.
Long before Neil Armstrong tiptoed across the Sea of Tranquility in monochrome, before Kubrick gave us pristine orbital ballet with a side of…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #102 June 2011 (magazine review).
Roy Thomas’ editorial in this 2011 edition of ‘Alter Ego’ focuses on why film and TV companies only like a couple of creators…
FeatureDoctor Who
Doctor Who Season 2? Two companions, one TARDIS, and no idea what’s going on (article).
Hold onto your sonic screwdrivers and polish your fez collection because Doctor Who is back for another round of timey-wimey chaos, now entering…
NewsScifi
The Eternaut: it’s snow joke (Netflix scifi TV series).
Aliens. Snow. Existential despair. Truco. Welcome, dear reader, to The Eternaut, Netflix’s latest attempt to introduce the world to a terrifying apocalypse that…
March 2025
ReviewScifi
We Are Not Anonymous by Stephen Oram (book review).
‘We Are Not Anonymous’ by Stephen Oram is a science fiction novel about the possible near future set in Great Britain. It extrapolates…
ReviewScifi
Trancers (1984) (classic film review).
‘Trancers’ is one of my favourite films. I’m still planning to watch the rest of the films in the series. It’s now been…
NewsScifi
No Step Climb: a short story by GF Willmetts.
The plan seemed straight forward enough. This was the third extra-solar long rock, Big M, passing near enough Earth to grab a lift…
TrailerScifi
Watch The Skies (scifi/horror film: trailer).
Watch the Skies (2025) crash-lands into the sci-fi landscape like a saucer-shaped curveball from the outer reaches of teen drama and extraterrestrial intrigue.…