Captive State (alien invasion film: second trailer).
Set in a Chicago neighbourhood a decade after an invasion and occupation of Earth by an advanced alien race, Captive
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Stan Lee (1922-2018) a remembrance by: GF Willmetts.
It was inevitable that Stan Lee would pass on and the third of the original 1960s Marvel bullpen this year,
Read MoreStan Lee: December 1922 – November 2018. Nuff said?
So, a titan passes. Stan Lee is no more. In collaboration with various comic-book artists — notably Jack Kirby and
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Ophelia (movie trailer with added Daisy Ridley).
Daisy Ridley stars as Ophelia, in the movie Ophelia, a Games of Throne-like re-imagining of Hamlet, told from the main
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Doctor Who: Series 11 (or 36 depending on how you count) : Episode 6: Demons Of The Punjab by Vinay Patel
With the spotlight on Yaz this time, the Doctor takes her and her friends to 1947 India. It does make
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Volcanoids: are you a manic (steampunk) miner? (game trailer).
Here’s an interesting looking steampunk game – Volcanoids, where you play a pilot of a drill-ship (think the mole-tanks from Stephen
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London After Midnight by Thomas Mann (book review).
For those who don’t know, the 1927 film ‘London After Midnight’ directed by Todd Browning isn’t available for viewing. The
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If Pigs Could Fly (West Kensington Paranormal Detective Agency Book 1) by Jonny Nexus (book review).
Any book, whatever the genre needs humour. In life, there is rarely unremitting bleakness, there is often something to lighten
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Mike Grell: Life Is Drawing Without An Eraser by Dewey Cassell with Jeff Messer (book review).
Back in 1975, when I was getting back into American comicbooks and a UK fanzine called ‘The Panelologist’ broke the
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H.P. Lovecraft: Uncanny Tales of Cosmic Horror and Unspeakable Terror (book review).
There have been any number of Lovecraft anthologies over the years, evidence if it were needed of his enduring popularity
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