TrailerScifi ghost – end of night: Sonny Boy’s director imagines a world without work, and somehow it is still miserable (anime trailer). Madhouse has released the main trailer for ghost – end of night, Shingo Natsume's first original anime film, which opens in Japan on… ColonelFrog / 10 Nov 2026
NewsComputers Salon closes after 31 years. SFcrowsnest, which got online four years earlier, raises a quiet glass (opinion). Salon, one of the web's first magazines, closes after 31 years. SFcrowsnest, online since 1991, on why genre readers keep us going. ColonelFrog / 9 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
ReviewBooks Futuristic: Rockets, Robots And Rayguns Of Space Age Pop Culture by Mark Voge (book review). This book, ‘Futuristic’ by Mark Voger, has a long sub-title, ‘Rockets, Robots And Rayguns Of Space Age Pop Culture’. What it really is… UncleGeoff / 10 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy A Court of Forgotten Melody goes on a European billboard tour, one ominous sentence at a time (book news). Bloomsbury put a new quote from A Court of Forgotten Melody, Sarah J. Maas's seventh ACOTAR novel, on an Amsterdam billboard. The book… ColonelFrog / 10 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Trinity takes the graveyard shift: Carrie-Anne Moss joins Halsey’s underground radio horror Replacer (film news). Carrie-Anne Moss has joined Replacer, a Montreal-set psychosexual horror written by and starring Halsey, directed by Avan Jogia and executive produced by Lilly… ColonelFrog / 10 Nov 2026
NewsHumour Slopcore: the robots have formed a band, and they’d like a word about your P(doom). AI music videos about AI, made mostly by AI, have become a genre with a name, a mascot, a fan chart and an… ColonelFrog / 8 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Communion with the weather: The Day After Tomorrow freezes Netflix’s chart 22 years on, and it all started with the alien-abduction man (film news). The Day After Tomorrow tops US Netflix 22 years on. Its source book was co-written by Communion's Whitley Strieber and Art Bell. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
TrailerScifi Fantastic Mr Fixer: Olivia Colman’s talking fox offers Jai Courtney a deal he really should refuse (The Fox trailer). Every so often a film turns up with a pitch so peculiar you have to read it twice to check you haven’t nodded… ColonelFrog / 10 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 Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 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 Dragon Ball Z Goes To Court, Gorilla Grodd Stands Trial And Arkane Gets Suitors (Offworld Report, 1–5 November 2026). A Dragon Ball Z composer becomes Texas Attorney General, Gorilla Grodd gets a true-crime show, Arkane draws bidders and SETI turns to game… ColonelFrog / 5 Nov 2026
NewsGames Resistance is futile, and so is your wallet: Magic: The Gathering boldly goes Star Trek (tabletop news). Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek lands on MTG Arena today and on tabletop on 13 November, with four Commander decks and a… ColonelFrog / 10 Nov 2026
NewsComics Darth Vader meets Doctor Doom, and the cape budget doubles: Hope Assembles unveils new variant covers (comics news). Marvel's new variant covers for Star Wars | Marvel: Hope Assembles #1 put Darth Vader face to face with Doctor Doom, ahead of… ColonelFrog / 7 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
NewsComics Doctor Doom in Marvel Rivals: two roles, one ego, if the leakers are right (games rumour). A dataminer claims Doctor Doom is coming to Marvel Rivals as both a Vanguard and a Duelist after Nightcrawler. NetEase hasn't confirmed it. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
