TrailerScifi Devils’ Crest: the Sword Art Online creator’s latest game doesn’t trap you inside, it comes to visit (trailer) Reki Kawahara's Devils' Crest becomes a Production I.G television anime, streaming exclusively on Prime Video from 6 November 2026. ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
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
TrailerHorror Dead Howling trailer: werewolves versus zombies, and only one side has had its jabs A lone werewolf takes on an evolving zombie horde in the Dead Howling trailer, from the producer of Dog Soldiers. It closes FrightFest… ColonelFrog / 2 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
TrailerScifi Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 – more heresy, more pixels, and a Sister of Battle to share the purging (trailer) Auroch Digital's retro boomer-shooter sequel Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 arrives 14 October, with a Sister of Battle, all four Chaos gods and a… ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 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
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 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: 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
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
