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January 2018

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The Coffee Break Screenwriter Breaks The Rules by Pilar Alessandra (book review).

If you read Pilar Alessandra’s previous book, ‘The Coffee Break Screenwriter’ then you will want its sequel, ‘The Coffee Break Screenwriter Breaks The…

UncleGeoff2 Jan 2018

May 2016

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ReviewBooks

The Coffee Break Screenwriters 2nd Edition by Pilar Alessandra (book review).

The sub-title of Pilar Alessandra’s book ‘The Coffee Break Screenwriters 2nd Edition’ is ‘Writing Your Script 10 Minutes At A Time’. Basically, she’s…

UncleGeoff1 May 2016

Murciélago: Tokyo’s police put a serial killer on the payroll, and HIDIVE books her for January.

Gods Don’t Give Gifts: Gossip Goblin’s AI sci-fi horror heads for cinemas, and possibly the Oscars (trailer).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Editorial – October 2026: Do AIs Need Humans?

More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review)

Yaga: Carrie-Anne Moss swaps the Matrix for a hut on chicken legs.

No Laughing Matter: Horror Short Stories (Beyond And Within) edited by Mike Chinn and Peter Coleborn (bok review)

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

More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review)

The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer).

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).

Godzilla Minus Zero: Ginza gets a red carpet instead of a stomping, and Takashi Yamazaki wears King Ghidorah on his heels (monster movie news).

Clayface Faces The Critics, Humanity Becomes The Space Orcs And Essen Braces For 230,000 Gamers (Offworld Report, 12–21 October 2026).

Mutiny on the Stargazer: James McAvoy nearly got to play young Patrick Stewart. Again (news).

Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film goes ‘very iced’, and joins Han Solo in the carbonite cupboard (film news).

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

Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news).

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