NewsAnime/manga The villain announces her own sequel: Gushing Over Magical Girls season two is confirmed for 2027 (anime news). Kadokawa has confirmed that the adults-only magical girl parody Gushing Over Magical Girls returns for a second season in 2027, with the original… ColonelFrog / 15 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Everybody wants to be a Mind: why the AI bosses keep quoting Iain M. Banks, and what the Culture novels actually say (opinion). Musk, Amodei and Hassabis all cite Iain M. Banks's Culture as the future they want. A new essay asks whether they've read past… ColonelFrog / 13 Nov 2026
NewsComics Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home. Prime Video's first teaser for Criminal, the Brubaker and Phillips noir adaptation with Charlie Hunnam, Emilia Clarke and Luke Evans, arrives in two… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
NewsBooks Man Of Two Worlds: My Life In Science Fiction And Comics by Julius Schwartz with Bryan M. Thomsen Julius Schwartz was an American Science Fiction literary agent and comicbook editor. Born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York, to Romanian Jewish… Eamonn Murphy / 14 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Four million swords in seventy-two hours: Phantom Blade Zero walks into Game Awards week with the numbers on its side (games news). S-GAME says Phantom Blade Zero sold more than four million copies in its first 72 hours. With The Game Awards nominations due on… ColonelFrog / 15 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Rip and tear, but do mind the hostage: the Doom Slayer kicks his way into Rainbow Six Siege on 22 December (games news). Ubisoft has confirmed a Doom crossover for Rainbow Six Siege: the Doom Slayer arrives on 22 December as an Elite skin for Tachanka,… ColonelFrog / 15 Nov 2026
NewsScifi We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (science news). In 1960 the journal Science calculated that humanity would end on Friday 13 November 2026. We checked. It didn't. ColonelFrog / 14 Nov 2026
NewsScifi We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (science news). In 1960 the journal Science calculated that humanity would end on Friday 13 November 2026. We checked. It didn't. ColonelFrog / 14 Nov 2026
ReviewScifi The Monster Of Piedras Blancas (1959) (film review) This 1959 film, ‘The Monster Of Piedras Blancas’ came on to my want to watch list when it was noted in ‘Cryptology’ that… UncleGeoff / 15 Nov 2026
NewsAnime/manga Spy x Family Season 4 and a second film: Operation Strix has its budget renewed for 2027 (anime news). Spy x Family is getting a fourth TV season and a second film, both in 2027, announced at Tokyo's Extra Mission II event… ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsScifi We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (science news). In 1960 the journal Science calculated that humanity would end on Friday 13 November 2026. We checked. It didn't. ColonelFrog / 14 Nov 2026
NewsDoctor Who John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary). John Leeson, the actor who gave Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 his clipped, faintly pompous and thoroughly lovable voice, has died at the… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news). Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla's 72nd birthday, and in North America via GKIDS on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsOffworld Report Spider-Man Gets Seven Extra Minutes, Scrooge Haunts The Box Office And A Horror Game Takes The Golden Joysticks (Offworld Report, 6–14 November 2026). Spider-Man's extended cut, Ebenezer tops the box office, Resident Evil Requiem wins the Golden Joysticks, an AI row at the Caine Prize and… ColonelFrog / 14 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news). The IAU has named minor planet (645530) Patrickstewart in honour of Sir Patrick Stewart, weeks after his death. Picard joins Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi The most expensive Star Wars prop ever sold began life as a 1950s British camera flash: Darth Vader’s lightsaber fetches $4.875m (Star Wars news). Darth Vader's duelling lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back has sold for a record $4.875m. It was built from a 1950s British camera… ColonelFrog / 15 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Angela gets a new Marvel ongoing, and New York gets a demon problem it can’t blame on the rats (comics news). Marvel's new Angela ongoing by Wes Craig and Pere Pérez starts on 10 February 2027, sending Heven's deadliest warrior to hunt demons in… ColonelFrog / 14 Nov 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
