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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
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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
TrailerStar Trek Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 trailer promises dinosaurs & puppets (trailer). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Just when you thought modern Star Trek couldn’t get any stranger without somebody… ColonelFrog / 17 Jun 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
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TrailerAnime/manga Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War’s last trailer sharpens its swords for the very final episodes (video). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the trailer on YouTube: LAST TRAILER | BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War Final… ColonelFrog / 17 Oct 2026
NewsAnime/manga Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos – Paramount+ Sends the Water Tribe’s Wild Child on a Gap Year Paramount+ orders Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, a teen romp for the doomed Water Tribe Avatar, and renews Seven Havens for Books 3… ColonelFrog / 10 Oct 2026
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TrailerScifi Devils’ Crest: the Sword Art Online creator’s latest game doesn’t trap you inside, it comes to visit (trailer) Reki Kawahara's Devils' Crest becomes a Production I.G television anime, streaming exclusively on Prime Video from 6 November 2026. ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
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