NewsAnime/manga Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos – Paramount+ Sends the Water Tribe’s Wild Child on a Gap Year Paramount+ orders Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, a teen romp for the doomed Water Tribe Avatar, and renews Seven Havens for Books 3… ColonelFrog / 10 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 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
ReviewFantasy The Deep And The Drowned (Cutlass & Crow book 1) by Ian Green (book review) Pauline Morgan finds Ian Green's grimdark nautical fantasy, The Deep And The Drowned, cluttered, confusing and short on characters worth following. PaulineMorgan / 8 Oct 2026
TrailerHorror Apocalypse Z: New World Trailer – Humanity’s Last Resort (Literally, It’s the Canaries) Spain's zombie hit returns for Halloween, with Europe's survivors holed up in the Canary Islands, a supply run to the mainland, a new… ColonelFrog / 9 Oct 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
NewsScifi The Million-Year Picnic Is Over: Bradbury’s Mars Runs Out of Calendar The final chapter of Ray Bradbury's original The Martian Chronicles is dated October 2026. So why does the prophet of the post-literate age… ColonelFrog / 10 Oct 2026
NewsFilms The Last Temptation of Becky: No Room at the Inn for the Fourth Reich Becky joins the CIA, checks into Hitler's old bunker, and finds Neil Patrick Harris planning the Fourth Reich. The guest book is about… ColonelFrog / 8 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
NewsScifi Mother of God! Line of Duty’s Jed Mercurio bids for the TARDIS, and STV wants Doctor Who in Scotland (news). The bidders for the BBC's Doctor Who tender are out: Jed Mercurio, the makers of Line of Duty, and STV, which wants to… ColonelFrog / 9 Oct 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: King Finishes The Talisman, Carrie Goes Back To School And Geralt Gets A Wash (28 September–2 October 2026). Stephen King closes the Talisman trilogy, Mike Flanagan's Carrie wins over the critics, Madeline Miller returns with Mestra, The Witcher 3 gets a… ColonelFrog / 2 Oct 2026
TrailerStar Trek Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 trailer promises dinosaurs & puppets (trailer). Just when you thought modern Star Trek couldn’t get any stranger without somebody accidentally evolving into a salamander again, along comes the trailer… ColonelFrog / 17 Jun 2026
TrailerGames Star Wars: Galactic Racer – the Burnout crew take podracing back to the Outer Rim (trailer) Former Burnout developers bring podracing back in Star Wars: Galactic Racer, out 6 October on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. ColonelFrog / 3 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
NewsComics Frank Miller: American Genius – rain, ninjas and redemption, now free on YouTube (comics documentary). If the embed above has vanished into the shadows of Hell’s Kitchen or been quietly set to private, you can watch the documentary… ColonelFrog / 9 Oct 2026
