NewsCulture
Sometimes there’s a man, I won’t say a hero.
Thanks to Boingboing for highlighting the existence of this amusing documentary on the real Dude that the character of the same name was…
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August 2012
NewsFilms
Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007.
One for the BONDage and spy-fi fans among you. MGM will be releasing a new documentary in October this year called ‘Everything Or…
NewsHorror
The Apparition (Frank’s Take).
The poltergeist puff piece The Apparition would not put a decent scare into Casper the Friendly Ghost. This generic boofest is set in…
NewsBooks
Ecko Rising by Danie Ware
I really do hate coming down hard on a writer’s debut novel, but as I read Dani Ware’s novel, ‘Ecko Rising’, I was…
NewsFilms
The Avengers alternative beginning.
Those movie types over at Marvel know how to frontload the success of their DVDs/Bluerays for The Avengers, in this case, one of…
NewsDoctor Who
Doctor Who – bedroom romp.
Well, it’s not much of a bedroom romp, to be sure, but the Doctor does smash the Amy Pond and Rory bedroom rule…
NewsBooks
The Reef by Mark Charan Newton.
On the idyllic island of Arya, something is killing the native ichthyocentaurs at a rapid rate. Concerned by this threat to such a…
NewsBooks
The Coldest War (book 2) by Ian Tregillis
It is 1963, some eighteen years after World War Two, in this alternative reality, Germany wasn’t split between Russia, American and Great Britain,…
ReviewBooks
Bad Glass by Richard E. Gropp (book review).
‘Bad Glass’ is the debut novel from Richard E. Gropp. who won the Suvudu Writing Contest beating more than 700 aspiring authors. It…
NewsTV
War Of The Worlds: The Final Season DVD boxset.
A very big improvement from season one, the ‘War Of The Worlds’ series was completely transformed from a rather turgid ambling affair to…
NewsBooks
Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann.
With the spate of Vault books in recent years, I did wonder if there would be any type of books that could compete…
NewsBooks
Wicked Business (book 2) by Janet Evanovich
‘Wicked Business’ is the second in this series based on the seven deadly sins staring Diesel and Lizzy. Evanovich also writes a series…