I have to confess that I thought the latest ‘Spaceship Away’ was just running late, especially as I knew publisher Rod Barzilay was involved in writing a Dan Dare book for Haynes Publishing, which is coming out later in 2013 and yes, I am scheduled to be reviewing it. Seems like this issue got lost [...]
Proving that sleep is for wimps, Bear McCreary strikes again with a cracking soundtrack for the game that is tied into the new TV series, .Defiance’. or is it a TV series tied into a game? This riddle live on to rival the ‘chicken or the egg?’ so we’ll just take what we have here [...]
It’s Science Fiction but not as we know it. Andy Secombe’s detective-cum-Science Fiction novel seems a bit of a cheat but still provides a solid offering. Our lead character Jack Lindsay is a private detective who boasts an old school mentality. He can barely pay the rent, dresses scruffily and doesn’t deal with authority well. [...]
Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods is powering our way like the anime equivalent of a comet… feast upon this trailer and weep, fans of all things Japanese.
From up On Poppy Hill: a film review by Mark R. Leeper Goro Miyazaki, son of the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, makes his own animated film. This is a straight drama with none of his father’s fantasy touches. Instead it tells the story of a lonely high school age girl without a father and with [...]
There’s a second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy coming your way soon. Don’t believe us? Let us show you this trailer as absolute proof then, oh doubting ones.
BBC Three is going ahead with a second season of Dominic Mitchell’s horror TV series, In The Flesh, following on from its first 3-parter. The drama was developed by BBC Drama in Salford, with writer Dominic Mitchell discovered through ‘Northern Voices’, a BBC Writersroom competition. Series two will revisit Roarton where the living and the [...]
‘The Tick’ isn’t a comic I ever actually read back in my day. However, if you think of ‘the big blue yonder’ as being the male version of DC’s Inferior 5’s Dumb Bunny in being strong as an ox and just as smart, you wouldn’t be far wrong. He gets lost in metaphor, let alone [...]
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers dons the pointy teeth along with Merlin’s Katie McGrath (playing Mina) in a new TV series based on ze vampire, a-ha-ha. Okay, that last bit was channeling the Count, but what the heck, right? Here be the official blurb.. Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”) stars in this provocative [...]
A surreal video shot in present day San Fran when the Enterprise from Star Trek turns up and dukes it out with the imperial forces of the Empire above the city! At least it answers the long-standing question about who would win a Star Trek Enterprise versus Death Star duel.
Possibly attempting to mimic the success of the play ‘Les Miserables’, Richard Cocciante and Luc Plamondon adapted the other famous Victor Hugo novel ‘Notre-Dame De Paris’ (a.k.a. ‘The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’) as a musical stage play. Gilles Amado filmed the stageplay and the result is a confusing hodgepodge of anachronism, revision of plot and [...]
Spotting author N.M. Gwynne on BBC1’s ‘Breakfast Show’ in early May promoting his book ‘Gwynne’s Grammar’, I quickly but in a request to the nice lady publicist at Ebury Press and was reading it within a couple days. Unlike the other grammar book I read a couple months back, this one is more like a [...]
NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C. NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and authorized the spacecraft’s continuation into [...]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of [...]
A lot of the articles I write often start from seeing a problem and then seeing how I can resolve it within the reality without bringing in anything not already presented. Occasionally, there is a revelation. Sometimes, two. This one falls under the latter and something in its current state that shows why it won’t [...]
Anthologies of short stories often have a theme around which all the stories are based. The best provide a wide range of interpretations covering a number of genres. They show the diversity of talent of the authors whose work is included. It is rarer for a single author collection to be themed. The season in [...]
It’s Science Fiction but not as we know it. Andy Secombe’s detective-cum-Science Fiction novel seems a bit of a cheat but still provides a solid offering. Our lead character Jack Lindsay is a private detective who boasts an old school mentality. He can barely pay the rent, dresses scruffily and doesn’t deal with authority well. [...]
Spotting author N.M. Gwynne on BBC1’s ‘Breakfast Show’ in early May promoting his book ‘Gwynne’s Grammar’, I quickly but in a request to the nice lady publicist at Ebury Press and was reading it within a couple days. Unlike the other grammar book I read a couple months back, this one is more like a [...]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for comedy-SF-horror movie The World’s End, aiming to do for Invasion of the Body Snatchers what they did for zombies in Shaun of the Dead… Martin Freeman is also back as a non-Hobbit and Bond Girl Rosamund Pike shows up too.
I don’t know how many sequels were made of the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ from 1974 but I suppose with a little research the answer would be easily enough discovered. Frankly, it’s of little importance because this is probably the version with most relevance as far as the story goes, picking up just after the [...]
When I saw the title ‘Superman And Philosophy’, I did wonder how the philosophers would deal with this topic. Would they be focusing on the comicbook, the film version or mix and confuse the two. With a long history, how familiar would these writers be on the entire subject, let alone the reboots the character [...]
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