NewsFantasy Mashle goes live action: Warner Bros. bets on a wizarding school where the hero solves everything with his biceps (film news). Mashle: Magic and Muscles gets a live-action film in Japanese cinemas on 19 March 2027, from Warner Bros., Fuji TV, CREDEUS and Toho. ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
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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
NewsCulture Death To The Deepfakes: Sladen’s Daughter Calls Time On AI Sarah Jane. The uploader has now removed the original version featuring Elisabeth Sladen’s AI likeness. DigitalogMedia says the version now online is the reworked edition,… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
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NewsScifi Event Horizon’s Paul W.S. Anderson heads back into the dark with Kevin J. Anderson’s Nether Station and Nether Vortex (film news). Paul W.S. Anderson will direct film adaptations of Kevin J. Anderson's cosmic horror novels Nether Station and Nether Vortex, with Weird Tales producing. ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
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NewsScifi Event Horizon’s Paul W.S. Anderson heads back into the dark with Kevin J. Anderson’s Nether Station and Nether Vortex (film news). Paul W.S. Anderson will direct film adaptations of Kevin J. Anderson's cosmic horror novels Nether Station and Nether Vortex, with Weird Tales producing. ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
NewsCons Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games). Kojima Productions' tenth-anniversary show in Tokyo puts Physint's 150-page script, five Bill Skarsgård busts and some very familiar mechs on display. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
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NewsDoctor Who John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary). John Leeson, the actor who gave Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 his clipped, faintly pompous and thoroughly lovable voice, has died at the… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news). Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla's 72nd birthday, and in North America via GKIDS on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsOffworld Report Clayface Oozes To The Top, Warcraft Rolls For Initiative And Essen Runs Out Of Halls (Offworld Report, 22–31 October 2026). Clayface tops the box office, Yaga lands, D&D meets Warcraft, Essen sets a record and PSA's stolen cards get a checklist. Genre news,… ColonelFrog / 31 Oct 2026
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TrailerGames Fate of the Galaxy: the free Star Wars dogfighter that spent nineteen years in the hangar (trailer). Fan-made Star Wars space combat sim Fate of the Galaxy, built on FreeSpace 2, is out free for PC, Mac and Linux after… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsComics Holy puppet strings: Mason Thames becomes Dick Grayson in DC’s stop-motion hybrid Dynamic Duo (film news). Mason Thames will voice Dick Grayson in DC Studios' animated Dynamic Duo, made by Swaybox with a mix of CGI, stop-motion and real-time… ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 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
