NewsFantasy Fantasia Bunko’s festival brings back Our Last Crusade for season three, and gives the Date A Live team a King’s Proposal (anime news). Kadokawa's Fantasia Bunko festival confirms Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World season 3, and dates King's Proposal's TV anime… ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy 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). Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically… ColonelFrog / 26 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
NewsScifi Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator. Parrot Analytics says AI anxiety has made The Terminator a streaming comfort watch, 42 years after release. We look at the numbers, and… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Matthew Ward returns to Aradane, where the gods have woken up in a foul mood. Matthew Ward heads back to the world of his Legacy Trilogy with The Silverlight Trilogy, signed to The Broken Binding Publishing and due… ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
NewsHorror The Kingslayer turns ghostbuster: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau leads MGM+’s The Black Tapes. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in MGM+'s eight-episode version of the 2015 horror podcast The Black Tapes, playing sceptic Dr Richard Strand. ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Great Scott! Back to the Future Part II’s first draft sent Marty to 1967, and gave Doc LSD. Bob Gale has posted an early draft of Back to the Future Part II, in which Marty goes to 1967, is arrested as… ColonelFrog / 27 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
NewsScifi Matt Howarth dies aged 72: farewell to the creator of Those Annoying Post Bros. and Savage Henry. Matt Howarth, the self-taught creator of Those Annoying Post Bros., Savage Henry and Bugtown, has died aged 72. Michael Swanwick says he deserved… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsSpy-Fy Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot. Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem are reportedly writing Zodiac, Marvel's Disney+ spy thriller about two agents hunting people with special abilities. It shoots… ColonelFrog / 23 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
ReviewBooks Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review). Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from… UncleGeoff / 24 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Walter Koenig dies aged 90: the Enterprise loses its navigator, and the Psi Corps its finest nightmare. Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Chekov and Babylon 5's Psi Cop Bester, has died aged 90. A navigator, a writer and, it turned out,… ColonelFrog / 26 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
NewsScifi From hedge knight to blue genius: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Peter Claffey reportedly cast as Beast in Marvel’s X-Men. Peter Claffey, Dunk in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is reportedly Marvel's new Beast. It's unconfirmed, but filming is said to start… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
