NewsFantasy Delicious in Dungeon season two lays the table with new character art, but dinner isn’t served until October 2027 (anime news). Delicious in Dungeon season 2 reveals new character art of Falin, Kabru, Mithrun and Thistle. Studio Trigger's sequel premieres on Netflix in October… ColonelFrog / 24 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
ReviewBooks 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… UncleGeoff / 24 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Wildwood scores 100% and a box-office kicking, as Travis Knight says Amazon let He-Man down too (film news). Laika's Wildwood has 100% from critics and an estimated $11m–12m US opening on a budget said to be over $100m, as Travis Knight… ColonelFrog / 25 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Ryu Murakami (1952–2026): the author of Audition and Coin Locker Babies, and Hideo Kojima’s “bible”, dies at 74 (obituary). Ryu Murakami, author of Coin Locker Babies, In the Miso Soup and Audition, has died at home aged 74, his publisher Gentosha has… ColonelFrog / 25 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Fallout Shelter: The Experiment – war never changes, but the prize money does. Prime Video locks real contestants inside a Vault-Tec shelter for a $1,000,000 prize. Vault 11 would like a word about the format. ColonelFrog / 23 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
NewsScifi The Ghost in the Shell: Science SARU jacks back in, with a new anime project announced on a paper flyer (anime news). Science SARU will animate a new Ghost in the Shell project for Bandai Namco Filmworks, following its 2026 series. The format and date… ColonelFrog / 24 Oct 2026
NewsSpy-Fy 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… ColonelFrog / 23 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
ReviewBooks 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… UncleGeoff / 24 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
NewsGames Save our games: Mass Effect fans rally after BioWare’s closure, and Marvel’s Blade has until 13 November to find a new home (games news). The #SaveMassEffect petition asks EA to license the series to another studio, while Arkane Lyon and Marvel's Blade face a 13 November deadline… ColonelFrog / 25 Oct 2026
