NewsAnime/manga Murciélago: Tokyo’s police put a serial killer on the payroll, and HIDIVE books her for January. A new teaser and main cast for the Murciélago anime, in which a former death-row inmate becomes the Tokyo police's licensed killer of… ColonelFrog / 21 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
ReviewScifi More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review) It’s taken some while to locate the sequel to ‘Women Of Wonder’, the aptly named ‘More Women Of Wonder’. In the end, I… UncleGeoff / 21 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Yaga: Carrie-Anne Moss swaps the Matrix for a hut on chicken legs. Yaga, Kat Sandler's Baba Yaga mystery starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams, premieres 23 October on Crave and AMC+,… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi No Laughing Matter: Horror Short Stories (Beyond And Within) edited by Mike Chinn and Peter Coleborn (bok review) ‘No Laughing Matter’ is an anthology of nineteen tales that aim to ‘tread the thin line between horror and laughter’. First up is… Eamonn Murphy / 20 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review) ‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between science fiction writers, Coventry University and the… Eamonn Murphy / 16 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review) It’s taken some while to locate the sequel to ‘Women Of Wonder’, the aptly named ‘More Women Of Wonder’. In the end, I… UncleGeoff / 21 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
NewsFilms Godzilla Minus Zero: Ginza gets a red carpet instead of a stomping, and Takashi Yamazaki wears King Ghidorah on his heels (monster movie news). Godzilla Minus Zero held its Japan premiere on a red carpet above Ginza, with Takashi Yamazaki in King Ghidorah shoes and a cast… ColonelFrog / 20 Oct 2026
NewsOffworld Report Clayface Faces The Critics, Humanity Becomes The Space Orcs And Essen Braces For 230,000 Gamers (Offworld Report, 12–21 October 2026). Clayface's review-embargo row, a Depression-era Pennywise, humanity as the galaxy's villains, Mouthwashing on consoles, Essen, a stolen lorry-load of graded cards and new… ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
NewsStar Trek Mutiny on the Stargazer: James McAvoy nearly got to play young Patrick Stewart. Again (news). James McAvoy says he pitched Mutiny on the Stargazer, a one-season Star Trek prequel with himself as young Jean-Luc Picard, and "nearly did… ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsFilms Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film goes ‘very iced’, and joins Han Solo in the carbonite cupboard (film news). Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is 'very iced' as he and Tony McNamara move on to another project. Six years on,… ColonelFrog / 19 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
NewsHorror Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news). An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
24Jul 2025 TrailerHorror Shin Godzilla returns: Bureaucracy, behemoths, and a bloody big metaphor (monster movie trailer). Godzilla, that beloved scaly metaphor for nuclear horror, ecological collapse, and now—joy of joys—governmental inefficiency, is back in Shin Godzilla, freshly remastered in… ColonelFrog / 24 Jul 2025
21Oct 2016 SF /FilmsIdeas worth exploring NewsHorror Shin Godzilla (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper). Japan assesses its relation to the rest of the world and its relation to itself and its culture in a reboot of the… MarkRLeeper / 21 Oct 2016
19Oct 2016 NewsScifi Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla) (2016) (film review by Frank Ochieng) One might nostalgically recall the days back when the cheesy yet infectious Japanese monster movies were such a magnificent draw during those hazy… FrankOchieng / 19 Oct 2016
