NewsFantasy Shattered Legends: Matt Mercer runs Daggerheart for a party of hololive VTubers, and it’s canon to Exandria (video). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the teaser on YouTube: Shattered Legends Teaser | hololive production x Critical… ColonelFrog / 18 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
NewsFantasy Shattered Legends: Matt Mercer runs Daggerheart for a party of hololive VTubers, and it’s canon to Exandria (video). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the teaser on YouTube: Shattered Legends Teaser | hololive production x Critical… ColonelFrog / 18 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Fangs for the rumour: is A24’s bachelor-party horror from The First Omen’s Arkasha Stevenson a vampire film? (news). A24 has a horror film on the way from The First Omen director Arkasha Stevenson, and the internet has decided, more or less… ColonelFrog / 18 Oct 2026
NewsHumour Merrick & Treves: HBO Sends the Archer Gang Back to Whitechapel (and Back, and Back Again) HBO orders two seasons of Merrick & Treves, the Archer team's animated comedy about Queen Victoria's time police hunting Jack the Ripper. ColonelFrog / 14 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 Red Rising finally climbs out of the mines as Paramount hands it to Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (news). Pierce Brown’s Red Rising has spent more than a decade in development tunnels deeper than any Helldiver’s shaft, and somebody has finally struck… ColonelFrog / 17 Oct 2026
TrailerFilms The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfZMdt00kEs When Sherlock Holmes retired, he went off… ColonelFrog / 15 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
NewsAnime/manga Ghibli Park is growing a Toxic Jungle, and we demand a full-size Pirate Airship (news). Studio Ghibli has apparently looked at its enormous park in Aichi, looked at the millions of people already wandering around it pretending not… ColonelFrog / 11 Aug 2026
NewsOffworld Report Kishimoto picks up the brush, Pinhead divides the room and the Stargate dials again (Offworld Report: Sunday Sweep, 11th October 2026). NYCC turns twenty: Kishimoto draws Naruto again, Ray Gunn premieres, Stargate dials Jac Schaeffer, and Pinhead splits critics from players. ColonelFrog / 11 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
TrailerGames Star Wars: Galactic Racer – the Burnout crew take podracing back to the Outer Rim (trailer) Former Burnout developers bring podracing back in Star Wars: Galactic Racer, out 6 October on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. ColonelFrog / 3 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
NewsBooks The Batman film we never got: Joe Manganiello’s memoir reveals how Deathstroke planned to ruin Bruce Wayne’s life (news). There is a whole branch of film history devoted to the films that never got made: Jodorowsky’s Dune, Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, George… ColonelFrog / 18 Oct 2026
NewsScifi The Forever Purge: a horror-scifi review by Mark Kermode (audio). CColonelFrog17 July 2021 · 1 min read Films · Scifi The Forever Purge They are still purging in the near dystopian future of the USA – in fact, now, they just can’t stop! The Forever Purge movie comes under the wry eye of our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. The Forever Purge ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Filed underFilms ScifiThe Forever Purge ← Previous storyA Psalm For The Wildbuilt: A Monk And Robot Book by Becky Chambers (book review).Next story →Kenobi: will the Star Wars TV series be a good’un? (news).
NewsScifi Red Rising finally climbs out of the mines as Paramount hands it to Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (news). Pierce Brown’s Red Rising has spent more than a decade in development tunnels deeper than any Helldiver’s shaft, and somebody has finally struck… ColonelFrog / 17 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Kazuo Ishiguro’s week: three one-star reviews for Klara and the Sun, and a Tim Burton film he is writing himself Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun gets one star from the Guardian, Times and Telegraph, while Tim Burton signs up for an original… ColonelFrog / 17 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Zendaya and Alex Garland were both meant to be taking a break, and now they’re making an A24 sci-fi film together Zendaya will star in Alex Garland's untitled A24 sci-fi film, due to shoot in 2027, though both had promised to take a break. ColonelFrog / 16 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
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