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NewsComputers Back-Up Your Computer Files: a knowledge article by Geoff Willmetts. I know this is a long piece about an apparently easy operation, but it is full of decisions you are likely to make… UncleGeoff / 3 May 2026
ReviewCri-Fi A Century Of Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy by Tony Lee Moral (book review). It goes without saying that Alfred Hitchcock is still famous today as one of the masters of cinema. Films such as Vertigo, North… NealeMonks / 7 Jul 2026
NewsCulture Editorial – October 2026: Do AIs Need Humans? Hello everyone Science fiction has an unusual specialisation as a genre: it warns of dangers in society, wrapping them in stories to make… UncleGeoff / 27 Sep 2026
TrailerFantasy The Man with the Bag: Arnie’s Santa raids the Naughty List for a Christmas heist (trailer). Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Santa Claus in The Man with the Bag, a Prime Video holiday heist comedy where Alan Ritchson's thief must recover… ColonelFrog / 30 Sep 2026
TrailerScifi DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer). Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband… ColonelFrog / 30 Sep 2026
TrailerFantasy The Man with the Bag: Arnie’s Santa raids the Naughty List for a Christmas heist (trailer). Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Santa Claus in The Man with the Bag, a Prime Video holiday heist comedy where Alan Ritchson's thief must recover… ColonelFrog / 30 Sep 2026
NewsCulture The Space Force uniform ‘inspired by Starship Troopers’, and nobody involved appears to have watched the film (news). Trump posted a 'next generation' Space Force dress uniform to Truth Social, with a design sheet naming Starship Troopers as the inspiration. It… ColonelFrog / 8 Sep 2026
TrailerScifi DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer). Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband… ColonelFrog / 30 Sep 2026
TrailerFilms Fortitude trailer: Nicolas Cage plays the man who accidentally invented James Bond (trailer). Every so often a film turns up that is neither science fiction nor fantasy, and yet lands squarely in the SFcrowsnest in-tray on… ColonelFrog / 2 Sep 2026
ReviewBooks Trinity: The Best Kept Secret by Jacques F. Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris (book review). Geoff Willmetts reviews Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris’ investigation into the alleged 1945 Trinity UFO crash, an incident said to predate Roswell… UncleGeoff / 24 Sep 2026
NewsDoctor Who Doctor Who Vanishes Into The Time Vortex (news). If you listen carefully, you could almost hear the wheezing-groaning sound of a TARDIS materialising in the offices of the BBC procurement department.… ColonelFrog / 15 Jun 2026
NewsAnime/manga Ghibli Park is growing a Toxic Jungle, and we demand a full-size Pirate Airship (news). Studio Ghibli has apparently looked at its enormous park in Aichi, looked at the millions of people already wandering around it pretending not… ColonelFrog / 11 Aug 2026
RoundupScifi News Roundup: Alderman’s Mimmoths, An R-Rated Godzilla And Gremlins Sent To Bed Until 2028 (21–25 September 2026). Naomi Alderman turns grief into a science fiction novel full of creatures nobody can catch, Godzilla picks up its first ever R rating,… ColonelFrog / 25 Sep 2026
TrailerStar Trek Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 trailer promises dinosaurs & puppets (trailer). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Just when you thought modern Star Trek couldn’t get any stranger without somebody… ColonelFrog / 17 Jun 2026
NewsCons George Lucas spends a billion dollars to win an argument, and the Lucas Museum finally opens (news). After sixteen years, three cities, two civic rejections and roughly a billion dollars of his own money, George Lucas opens the Lucas Museum… ColonelFrog / 8 Sep 2026
NewsSteampunk 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… ColonelFrog / 23 Sep 2026
TrailerSuperheroes VisionQuest: Marvel’s android walks into a trap on purpose (official trailer). Marvel’s official VisionQuest trailer swaps August’s quiet navel-gazing for a rescue mission, with Paul Bettany’s Vision strolling knowingly into a trap while James… ColonelFrog / 1 Oct 2026
TrailerScifi Gemini Man (scifi action film trailer). CColonelFrog25 July 2019 · 1 min read Films · Scifi Here’s some clone-alone action in SF-actioner movie Gemini Man as Will Smith, assassin, fights Will Smith, slightly younger assassin. Not holding much hope out for this film, I have to say. Gemini Man (scifi movie trailer). Filed underFilms ScifiGemini Man ← Previous storyZombieland Double Tap (horror movie sequel: trailer).Next story →“One More Thing, Sir…”: A Memoir by Michael Sloan (book review).
TrailerScifi DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer). Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband… ColonelFrog / 30 Sep 2026
ReviewScifi Forbidden Planet (1956) (film UHD Blu-ray review) Do I have to tell you the plot of the 1956 film ‘Forbidden Planet’? OK, for those Science Fiction fans who might have… UncleGeoff / 28 Sep 2026
NewsScifi Ray Gunn: Brad Bird gives film noir a jetpack, aliens and a thoroughly suspicious Scarlett Johansson Brad Bird's long-gestating Ray Gunn finally has a trailer: a retro-futuristic film noir starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits, in cinemas… ColonelFrog / 23 Sep 2026
ReviewScifi The Old Guard 2 (2025) (film review). Uma Thurman’s Discord digs up a 500-year grudge and the rules of immortality get murkier than ‘Highlander’. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of… UncleGeoff / 18 Sep 2026
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