NewsAnime/manga Murciélago: Tokyo’s police put a serial killer on the payroll, and HIDIVE books her for January. A new teaser and main cast for the Murciélago anime, in which a former death-row inmate becomes the Tokyo police's licensed killer of… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
TrailerScifi Gods Don’t Give Gifts: Gossip Goblin’s AI sci-fi horror heads for cinemas, and possibly the Oscars (trailer). YouTube AI filmmaker Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, has a trailer out for Gods Don't Give Gifts, an AI-assisted sci-fi horror anthology heading… ColonelFrog / 7 Oct 2026
ReviewCri-Fi 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… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 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
ReviewScifi More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review) It’s taken some while to locate the sequel to ‘Women Of Wonder’, the aptly named ‘More Women Of Wonder’. In the end, I… UncleGeoff / 21 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Yaga: Carrie-Anne Moss swaps the Matrix for a hut on chicken legs. Yaga, Kat Sandler's Baba Yaga mystery starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams, premieres 23 October on Crave and AMC+,… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi No Laughing Matter: Horror Short Stories (Beyond And Within) edited by Mike Chinn and Peter Coleborn (bok review) ‘No Laughing Matter’ is an anthology of nineteen tales that aim to ‘tread the thin line between horror and laughter’. First up is… Eamonn Murphy / 20 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi 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 Murphy / 16 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review) It’s taken some while to locate the sequel to ‘Women Of Wonder’, the aptly named ‘More Women Of Wonder’. In the end, I… UncleGeoff / 21 Oct 2026
TrailerFilms The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfZMdt00kEs When Sherlock Holmes retired, he went off… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
RoundupWorld getting weirder 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… ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
NewsDoctor Who 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… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
NewsFilms 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… ColonelFrog / 20 Oct 2026
NewsOffworld Report Clayface Faces The Critics, Humanity Becomes The Space Orcs And Essen Braces For 230,000 Gamers (Offworld Report, 12–21 October 2026). Clayface's review-embargo row, a Depression-era Pennywise, humanity as the galaxy's villains, Mouthwashing on consoles, Essen, a stolen lorry-load of graded cards and new… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
NewsStar Trek Mutiny on the Stargazer: James McAvoy nearly got to play young Patrick Stewart. Again (news). James McAvoy says he pitched Mutiny on the Stargazer, a one-season Star Trek prequel with himself as young Jean-Luc Picard, and "nearly did… ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsFilms Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film goes ‘very iced’, and joins Han Solo in the carbonite cupboard (film news). Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is 'very iced' as he and Tony McNamara move on to another project. Six years on,… ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 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
NewsHorror Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news). An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsComics Steve Yeowell, 2000AD artist, interviewed (audio). CColonelFrog9 June 2021 · 1 min read Comics Zenith comicbook Here’s a two-hour-long audio interview with the 2000AD comic-book illustrator Steve Yeowell, the inky nib and HB pencil behind such great strips as Zenith, Maniac 5, and Devlin Waugh. Zenith – when comics went Britpop? Filed underComicsSteve Yeowell ← Previous storyLoki (season 1, episode one of the new Marvel TV series reviewed).Next story →Jeff Bezos: To Infinity and Beyond as Amazon’s Lex Luthor plans to conquer space with his brother (news).
NewsFantasy The Wolf Among Us Remastered: Bigby goes black and white, and the sequel will remember that. The Wolf Among Us Remastered lands on 29 October with a monochrome Noir Mode, five playable deleted scenes and a demo out now,… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Sanjulian (1941–2026): the Spanish painter behind Vampirella, Creepy and Conan’s covers dies at 85 (obituary). Manuel Pérez Clemente, the Spanish artist known as Sanjulian, has died in Sitges aged 85. His painted covers for Warren’s Creepy, Eerie and… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy D’Orc: Sony buys Brett Bean’s half-dwarf, half-orc comic hit, wisecracking shield and all (comic book movie news). Sony Pictures has bought the live-action film rights to D'Orc, Brett Bean's bestselling Image Comics fantasy, with Bean writing the script himself. ColonelFrog / 20 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Peter Jackson: Gollum is two weeks from wrapping, and Tintin 2 has finally been written (film news). Peter Jackson says The Hunt for Gollum has two weeks of filming left, Shadow of the Past is being scripted, and Tintin 2… ColonelFrog / 20 Oct 2026
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