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Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news).

Toei's Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~ is a 2027 spin-off with an original story and cast, and a teaser insisting the heroines are…

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).

Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically…

ColonelFrog26 Oct 2026

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Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is…

UncleGeoff12 Oct 2026

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Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.

Parrot Analytics says AI anxiety has made The Terminator a streaming comfort watch, 42 years after release. We look at the numbers, and…

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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Ebenezer: Ti West turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story, with Johnny Depp in the nightshirt (film news).

Ti West's Ebenezer, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story. In cinemas on 13 November.

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

ReviewHorror

Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).

GF Willmetts tracks down an Italian DVD of Spider Baby, Jack Hill's 1967 cult horror with Lon Chaney Jr. as chauffeur to a…

UncleGeoff27 Oct 2026

ReviewHorror

Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).

GF Willmetts tracks down an Italian DVD of Spider Baby, Jack Hill's 1967 cult horror with Lon Chaney Jr. as chauffeur to a…

UncleGeoff27 Oct 2026

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Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between science fiction writers, Coventry University and the…

Eamonn Murphy16 Oct 2026

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Allen: the alien who never rang, and the bloke who’s still waiting by the phone (trailer).

Netflix has released the first full trailer for Allen, Ludo Studio's Queensland-set alien reunion, ahead of its 12th November premiere.

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot.

Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem are reportedly writing Zodiac, Marvel's Disney+ spy thriller about two agents hunting people with special abilities. It shoots…

ColonelFrog23 Oct 2026

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Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

David Grusch returns to Joe Rogan with a field guide to the galaxy's warring tribes, the Pentagon unlocks the NDA cupboard, and a…

ColonelFrog3 Oct 2026

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Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news).

Russell T Davies calls BBC director-general Matt Brittin's praise for an AI-made Doctor Who episode "clumsy", and says production with a new Doctor…

ColonelFrog15 Oct 2026

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Godzilla Minus Zero: Ginza gets a red carpet instead of a stomping, and Takashi Yamazaki wears King Ghidorah on his heels (monster movie news).

Godzilla Minus Zero held its Japan premiere on a red carpet above Ginza, with Takashi Yamazaki in King Ghidorah shoes and a cast…

ColonelFrog20 Oct 2026

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Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from…

UncleGeoff24 Oct 2026

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Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

Andy Weir has revealed his Star Trek and Star Wars crossover idea, Star Star, in which Spock becomes a Force ghost and McCoy…

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

Andy Weir has revealed his Star Trek and Star Wars crossover idea, Star Star, in which Spock becomes a Force ghost and McCoy…

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

Netflix's adult animated steampunk Western Bass X Machina, inspired by lawman Bass Reeves, arrives on 3 November 2026 with mechanical minotaurs, cybernetic arms…

ColonelFrog23 Sep 2026

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From hedge knight to blue genius: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Peter Claffey reportedly cast as Beast in Marvel’s X-Men.

Peter Claffey, Dunk in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is reportedly Marvel's new Beast. It's unconfirmed, but filming is said to start…

ColonelFrog27 Oct 2026

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