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’. It’s an easy observation of why this issue is hard to get with the sub-title of ‘Spies… 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
ReviewFantasy The Deep And The Drowned (Cutlass & Crow book 1) by Ian Green (book review) Pauline Morgan finds Ian Green's grimdark nautical fantasy, The Deep And The Drowned, cluttered, confusing and short on characters worth following. PaulineMorgan / 8 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Release the Kraken (Newfoundland edition): Netflix’s Below is the world’s most-watched show, and a Victorian clergyman got there first. The most-watched television programme on the planet this week is about a sea monster bothering a small fishing village in Newfoundland. If you… ColonelFrog / 12 Oct 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
RoundupScifi News Roundup: Bill Nighy Enrols At Starfleet Academy, Other Mommy Gets A D+ And Pooh Turns 100 (9–11 October 2026). Bill Nighy joins Starfleet Academy's final season, Other Mommy tops the box office despite a D+ CinemaScore, the British Fantasy Award winners, Pooh… ColonelFrog / 11 Oct 2026
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue # 26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. It’s an easy observation of why this issue is hard to get with the sub-title of ‘Spies… UncleGeoff / 12 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
NewsScifi Mother of God! Line of Duty’s Jed Mercurio bids for the TARDIS, and STV wants Doctor Who in Scotland (news). The bidders for the BBC's Doctor Who tender are out: Jed Mercurio, the makers of Line of Duty, and STV, which wants to… ColonelFrog / 9 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
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue # 26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. It’s an easy observation of why this issue is hard to get with the sub-title of ‘Spies… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 2026
