![Happy Death Day 2U [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).](https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/df6e482d-6776-4a0a-a82d-bc2bf305d7fb-2507_TFP_00294AR-150x150.jpg "Happy Death Day 2U [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).")
Here’s the trailer for what will now, confirmed, be the final concluding season of Amazon’s excellent The Man In The High Castle TV series. In this last season, the American Resistance becomes a full-blown rebellion, driven by Juliana Crain’s (Alexa Davalos) visions of a better world. A new Black insurgent movement emerges to fight the forces […]
Coming to Netflix on 15th March 2019, here’s their Love Death + Robots – an animated anthology (presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher) featuring sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell – in the form of eighteen animated stories.
![Alita: Battle Angel [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).](https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/620x349-150x150.jpg "Alita: Battle Angel [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).")
It should not be such a novelty act to witness resilient feminine empowerment at the helm of an adventurous SF-oriented manga film. It also should not be a curiosity as to why such an adventurous SF-oriented manga film be considered merely serviceable especially coming from the notable creative likes of heralded and profiled filmmakers James […]
That Attack on Titan fantasy-SF anime sure is some weird s%$^, with the surviving remnants of humanity holed up in a fallen-tech city-state and besieged by massive mutant things called – rather appropriately – Titans. Well the second part of the 3rd season is now upon us and out via, what, Netflix, I think – or maybe […]
Life on Mars is getting an Chinese adaption. The BBC will be working with Phoenix Entertainment Group to create a local Mandarin adaptation. The deal marks BBC Studios’ first partnership with the Beijing-based production house. So, how do you say “Take that seat belt off! You’re a police officer, not a bloody vicar” in Mandarin? Or “Listen […]
BBC Studios will be making a TV series out of the Runestaff fantasy novels by fantasy legend Michael Moorcock. The Runestaff saga consists of four books: The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God’s Amulet, Sword of the Dawn, and The Runestaff. Michael Moorcock’s tale of a resistance force trying to bring down tyrannical rule […]
Any books I have about film director Stanley Kubrick tend to centre on one particular SF film. When Nathan Abrams’ book, ‘Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual’, came up in the Eurospan catalogue, I thought it was about time I read a bit more. That isn’t to say I don’t know anything about Kubrick’s background […]
Hector A. Garcia’s book, ‘Sex, Power And Partisanship’, makes more sense with its sub-title, ‘How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense Of Our Political Divide’. In other words, are we bred to be the way we are politically. Essentially, he reasons that in the USA, to be a Republican or left-wing is to be overtly masculine and […]
Now here is a book you want to dally over, Rhodri Evans’ book, ‘Capturing The Universe’, collects together photographs of all the planets, before exploring the Milky Way and what lies beyond, the universe at large. Actually, it’s bigger than large and you can well believe that there are as many stars as grains of […]
One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA’s return to the Red Planet. The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its […]
Now here is a book you want to dally over, Rhodri Evans’ book, ‘Capturing The Universe’, collects together photographs of all the planets, before exploring the Milky Way and what lies beyond, the universe at large. Actually, it’s bigger than large and you can well believe that there are as many stars as grains of […]
Any books I have about film director Stanley Kubrick tend to centre on one particular SF film. When Nathan Abrams’ book, ‘Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual’, came up in the Eurospan catalogue, I thought it was about time I read a bit more. That isn’t to say I don’t know anything about Kubrick’s background […]
Royal Mail are pleasing fans of the Marvel comic-books with a new 15-stamp set illustrating various capes from the comic books. The ten main stamps show Spider-Man; Hulk; Thor; Iron Man; Doctor Strange; Captain Marvel; Peggy Carter; Black Panther; Captain Britain and Union Jack. A further five stamps are part of an exclusive short comic […]
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 2 arrives with us on Thursday April 4th 2019, where there is a new evil growing in New Orleans and our light-N-dark twosome must stand strong against some sub-Punisher enhanced vigilante stuff by the looks of it.
