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Doctor Who series six: the one where Hitler ends up in a cupboard (retrospective).
Doctor Who series six, the year Steven Moffat decided the show needed fewer Daleks and more trousers-wetting confusion. This was the season that…
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August 2025
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Weapons: Mark Kermode’s horror movie review (video).
So, then, Weapons. Mark Kermode is here to discover what a lovely, twisted, unhinged little thing you are. Zach Cregger, last seen tormenting…
NewsScifi
Ark II: classic scifi TV series retrospective (video).
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Logan’s Run, Noah’s Ark, and a public information film about recycling were all mashed into…
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Time Tunnel revisted: classic TV retrospective (video).
Back in the halcyon age of television, when men wore ties in missile silos and all science was conducted by lantern-jawed Americans with…
July 2025
NewsShort fiction
Your Death In Our Hands: a short story by GF Willmetts.
For all you people with terminal illnesses, we can offer you a spectacular filmed ending that will make money for your loved ones.…
NewsScifi
Outland: Marshal O’Nonsense and the Dirty Space Dozen (classic SF film retrospective).
There’s a moment in Outland (1981) when Sean Connery’s beleaguered space Marshal, eyebrows doing most of the acting, stares down a corridor of…
NewsHorror
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2: Freddy’s Back (and this time he’s brought friends).
Well, well. Just when you’d finally stopped having cold-sweat dreams about homicidal animatronics and that infernal chuckle in the dark, Freddy Fazbear has…
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The Fantastic Four First Steps, Mark Kermode’s film review (video).
Mark Kermode steps in to have a look at the superhero film, The Fantastic Four First Steps. And once you’re watched his take,…
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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…
NewsCons
Kaiju, Cowabunga, and Klingons – IDW Goes Thermonuclear at San Diego Comic-Con 2025.
There’s going big… and then there’s IDW Publishing at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. If you thought Godzilla was the biggest beast in comics,…
NewsScifi
Jurassic World Rebirth: Mark Kermode’s movie review (video).
Mark Kermode is here to watch the SF monster movie Jurassic World Rebirth, so you don’t have to. You can watch his take…
NewsScifi
M3GAN 2.0… Mark Kermode’s scifi film review [video].
Mark Kermode is back to review this horror scifi hybrid. You have to admire the sheer audacity of a franchise that looks at…