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 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
TrailerScifi DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer). Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband… ColonelFrog / 30 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
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 DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks meets her upgrade in Alex Prager’s AI wellness nightmare (trailer). Elizabeth Banks signs up for an AI-led wellness retreat in DreamQuil, only to come home and find the robot double left with husband… ColonelFrog / 30 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 Trinity: The Best Kept Secret by Jacques F. Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris (book review). Geoff Willmetts reviews Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris’ investigation into the alleged 1945 Trinity UFO crash, an incident said to predate Roswell… UncleGeoff / 24 Sep 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
ReviewComics Batman Arkham Asylum: The Deluxe Edition Living Hell by Dan Slott, Ryan Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal (graphic novel review). Now here is an unusual book. Batman at most appears for a couple of pages near the beginning and towards the end. The… UncleGeoff / 27 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
