NewsAnime/manga Bagpuss of Destruction: Dragon Ball Super Wakes Up Looking Rather Better Toei's redrawn remake of Dragon Ball Super's opening arcs has premiered, with a purple god of destruction, sharper faces and far less padding. ColonelFrog / 12 Oct 2026
TrailerScifi Gods Don’t Give Gifts: Gossip Goblin’s AI sci-fi horror heads for cinemas, and possibly the Oscars (trailer). YouTube AI filmmaker Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, has a trailer out for Gods Don't Give Gifts, an AI-assisted sci-fi horror anthology heading… ColonelFrog / 7 Oct 2026
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 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
NewsFantasy Pan’s Labyrinth Gets a Third Dimension and Absolutely No Goddamn AI Twenty years on, the Pale Man is coming back to British cinemas, and this time he can reach out of the screen for… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
ReviewHorror Van Helsing And His Kin by Daniel O’Brien (book review) Author Daniel O’Brien makes a strong point in his introduction to ‘Van Helsing And His Kin’ that next to the legendary Count…you know… UncleGeoff / 15 Oct 2026
NewsHumour Merrick & Treves: HBO Sends the Archer Gang Back to Whitechapel (and Back, and Back Again) HBO orders two seasons of Merrick & Treves, the Archer team's animated comedy about Queen Victoria's time police hunting Jack the Ripper. ColonelFrog / 14 Oct 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
NewsScifi Transformers Animated Season Four Finally Rolls Out – Seventeen Years Late and on Paper When Cartoon Network cancelled Transformers Animated in 2009, it left Optimus Prime’s Detroit crew stuck at the end of season three. Season four… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
TrailerFilms The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer). Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfZMdt00kEs When Sherlock Holmes retired, he went off to the Sussex Downs to keep bees and write a… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 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 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). Russell T Davies calls BBC director-general Matt Brittin's praise for an AI-made Doctor Who episode "clumsy", and says production with a new Doctor… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 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
NewsOffworld Report Kishimoto picks up the brush, Pinhead divides the room and the Stargate dials again (Offworld Report: Sunday Sweep, 11th October 2026). NYCC turns twenty: Kishimoto draws Naruto again, Ray Gunn premieres, Stargate dials Jac Schaeffer, and Pinhead splits critics from players. ColonelFrog / 11 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
NewsComics James Gunn Loves Batman Beyond, Which Is Not Quite the Same Thing as Making It On the red carpet at the Clayface premiere in Los Angeles on 13 October, James Gunn was asked which animated properties might make… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
8Sep 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
3Feb 2017 SF /BooksIdeas worth exploring ReviewBooks Paul Verhoeven Interviews edited by Margaret Barton-Fumo (book review). Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is really an individualistic man. He worked out how to attract Hollywood by interesting set design even when the… UncleGeoff / 3 Feb 2017
12Feb 2014 NewsScifi RoboCop (film review by Frank Ochieng). The late 1980s was an ideal time for Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s original sci-fi techno-crime thriller ‘Robocop’ to make its presence known in the cynical… FrankOchieng / 12 Feb 2014
