NewsAnime/manga Donguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings: a small ecological uprising for your desk (merchandise). Donguri's pull-back Ohmu keyrings from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind come in calm blue and furious red, move at different speeds,… ColonelFrog / 7 Sep 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 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
NewsFantasy HBO Casts A Spall, A Ghost And A Boy With A Camera, And Appears To Have Cast Ginny Weasley Twice HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey for… ColonelFrog / 15 Sep 2026
ReviewHorror Cryptology #9 June 2026 (magazine review). The Cryptologist doesn’t like the summer months, but I suspect vampires aren’t keen on them either. No leisurely meals, just a quick bite… UncleGeoff / 25 Sep 2026
ReviewHorror Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings you Frankenstein’s flock (Mark Kermode film review). Aardman go full Universal monster movie, Shaun turns mad scientist, and the scariest thing in the woods is a mob of villagers with… ColonelFrog / 21 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
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
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 Forbidden Science 7 Final Report: The Journals Of Jacques Vallee 2020-2025 (book review), This seventh volume of Forbidden Science covers Jacques Vallée’s life from 11 January 2020 to 24 October 2025. He says it will be… UncleGeoff / 30 Aug 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). 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
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
TrailerFilms Clayface trailer: DC Studios sculpts a body-horror villain for Halloween DC Studios has dropped a new trailer for Clayface, James Watkins' horror thriller about a Gotham actor who gets his face back and… ColonelFrog / 24 Sep 2026
16Sep 2023 ReviewBooks The New Apocrypha: A Guide To Strange Sciences & Occult Beliefs by John Sladek (book review). With the USA intelligence services releasing their classified UAP/UFO reports, if you’re pursuing any early books on the subject, you’re likely to pause… UncleGeoff / 16 Sep 2023
3Jan 2023 ReviewScifi The Steam-Driven Boy And Other Strangers by John Sladek (book review). This John Sladek volume tends to be referred to by the main part of its title, ‘The Steam-Driven Boy’ with the ‘And Other… UncleGeoff / 3 Jan 2023
11Oct 2022 ReviewScifi The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review). The last book I read by John Sladek (1937-2000) a long time ago was ‘The Müller-Fokker Effect’ (1970) which I thought was a… UncleGeoff / 11 Oct 2022
