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The New Weird is associated with fiction that mixes and unsettles familiar genre boundaries. Strange settings and unsettling transformations can sit alongside fantasy, science fiction and horror.

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March 2018

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Terminal (first trailer: hello Margot Robbie).

This fantasy crime movie in high new weird style follows the adventures of a pair of assassins with a nasty mission, a fatally…

ColonelFrog30 Mar 2018

Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news).

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.

Ebenezer: Ti West turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story, with Johnny Depp in the nightshirt (film news).

Trick or treat? Hollywood has given us neither, as Halloween weekend arrives without a big new horror film (film news).

7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news).

Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

Would you kindly? Francis Lawrence says Netflix’s BioShock film is still alive, despite the “regime changes” (film news).

Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot.

Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

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).

7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news).

Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

“Never say never”: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made their peace with losing Solo, and Kathleen Kennedy sent a nice note about Project Hail Mary (Star Wars news).

Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

Phase through walls, phase into the MCU? Cailee Spaeny tipped as Kitty Pryde for Marvel’s X-Men (rumour).

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New Weird

March 2018

Terminal (first trailer: hello Margot Robbie).