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Space opera tells large-scale adventures among stars, spacecraft and interstellar societies. Its stories can encompass exploration, politics, war and encounters with other worlds.

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Rebel Moon – a Netflix space opera film with a Snyder twist? (trailer)

From Zack Snyder, the mastermind behind cinematic epics like 300 and Man of Steel, comes his latest brainchild, Rebel Moon – Part One:…

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Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news).

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.

Ebenezer: Ti West turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story, with Johnny Depp in the nightshirt (film news).

Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).

Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).

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

Allen: the alien who never rang, and the bloke who’s still waiting by the phone (trailer).

Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot.

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).

Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

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

From hedge knight to blue genius: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Peter Claffey reportedly cast as Beast in Marvel’s X-Men.

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Space opera

November 2023

Rebel Moon – a Netflix space opera film with a Snyder twist? (trailer)