The latest dispatches Saturday, 7 November 2026
News Scifi
At 81, M John Harrison could become the oldest Booker winner ever on Monday. A look at The End of Everything, the iGhetti and sixty years of wrong-footing readers.
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
Review Horror
The Book Palace's Spooktacular! hardback special gathers Graham 'Ghastly' Ingels, Basil Gogos, Nik Poliwko, Shane Oakley and Tom Grindberg.
UncleGeoff / 7 Nov 2026
Review Scifi
GF Willmetts reviews Omnilingual, seven H. Beam Piper short stories from 1947 to 1959, from Martian archaeology to Benjamin Bathurst's vanishing.
UncleGeoff / 7 Nov 2026
News Scifi
MGM+'s From topped Nielsen's US streaming chart with 1.65 billion minutes after landing on Netflix, though its fifth season will still be its…
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
News Culture
From Axanar to Warhammer, Harry Potter to Doctor Who knitting patterns: how genre franchises keep setting the lawyers on their own fans.
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
Trailer Scifi
Brad Bird's retro-futurist noir Ray Gunn gets a full-length trailer ahead of its 4 December cinema release and 18 December Netflix debut.
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
News Horror
Nicolas Cage has given his blessing to Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider, Marvel's 2028 film from Shawn Levy. The original flaming skull approves.
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Asked about a live-action Corpse Bride, Tim Burton neither says yes nor no. Twenty-one years on, the stop-motion bride is still better off…
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
News Scifi
Adam Driver says The Hunt for Ben Solo is dead: "No more Star Wars." He joins a growing queue of Star Wars films…
ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
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Trailer Horror
Netflix's The Hunchback, Soul of Paris, Jean-François Richet's dark Victor Hugo reimagining with Vincent Cassel, has a trailer and arrives on 27 November.
ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
News Comics
Batman: Knightfall Part 2: Knightquest, the R-rated animated sequel with Azrael as Batman, arrives on digital, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on 15…
ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
News Horror
Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children #1, the first Slaughterverse crossover by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera, is a 64-page one-shot out…
ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
News Comics
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
News Horror
DC Studios has hired Evil Dead Wrath's Francis Galluppi to write a new John Constantine movie, while Keanu Reeves' long-promised sequel stays in…
ColonelFrog / 5 Nov 2026
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