TrailerAnime/manga The Apothecary Diaries movie trailer: Maomao gets a suspiciously fresh corpse, some pirates and a Kenshi Yonezu song. The Apothecary Diaries: The Late Lady's Treasure gets its main trailer and a Kenshi Yonezu theme song. The film opens in Japan on… ColonelFrog / 23 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
TrailerFantasy The Rings of Power season three: one Ring to rule them all, and in the spreadsheets bind them (trailer). If the embed goes dark, the trailer is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=maP_Kyy3DCA Three months after the Comic-Con teaser, Prime Video has released the full trailer… ColonelFrog / 22 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Art the Clown enters the fog of Dead by Daylight, and he has brought a blowtorch. Terrifier's silent, monochrome menace joins Behaviour Interactive's slasher game. The public test build opens on 27 October, with the full chapter due in… ColonelFrog / 23 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 Waking The Warriors by Ben Okri (book review) When mainstream writers venture into the realms of SF or fantasy the result is often a disaster, partly because it is not the… PaulineMorgan / 23 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
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
NewsComics Bucky Barnes is back from the dead already, and Nick Fury Sr. has a job for him (spoilers). Spoilers for Avengers: Armageddon #5. Bucky Barnes's death lasted a single issue, and Chip Zdarsky's Immortal Soldiers #1, out on 13 January 2027,… ColonelFrog / 23 Oct 2026
