Author Archive: ColonelFrog
Colonel Frog is a long time science fiction and fantasy fan. He loves reading novels in the field, and he also enjoys watching movies (as well as reading lots of other genre books).
Vagrant Queen (scifi TV series: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the new scifi TV series from SyFy, Vagrant Queen, based on the Vault comic-book space opera-like series of the same name. Elida built a life as a scavenger and outlaw, but when an old frenemy, Isaac, turns up with news about her long-lost mother, she is forced to return to her […]
Samuel L. Jackson reads Stay the F**k at Home (weird news: video).
Do you want to listen to Samuel L. Jackson read that children’s classic, Stay the F**$ at Home? Sure you do, mo$£$erf$$£er!
Stop the Earth, I want to get off (science news).
Around 12,000 people have applied to join NASA’s next class of astronauts, to take part in America’s plans to explore the Moon and take humanity’s next giant leap – human missions to Mars. Applications were received from every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories. However, the process is just beginning for […]
Greenland (scifi disaster movie: trailer).
Just what you need during a pandemic, a fictional apocalypse movie, in this case Greenland starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor and David Denman (and directed by Ric Roman Waugh). Greenland features a comet passing by Earth, with its fragments splitting off and creating lots of little ‘Deep Impacts’. Sadly, Bruce Willis […]
Truman Show under fire for frankly stupid plotline (news).
The Truman Show, the world’s longest-running and most expensive reality television program broadcast live around the clock worldwide, has come under fire as the show’s new director, Peter Jackson, has introduced a series of increasingly implausible plotlines. “It’s like they now want the Subject of the show to realise they’re really in an enormous set […]
Walking Dead: meet the Princess (first footage)!
Take a look at what’s to come when The Walking Dead returns to your TV screens when the current real-life pandemic is over – this one features the famous Princess character from the comic-books for the first time (as played by actress Paola Lazaro). Heck, we never thought we were going to see her!
U.S. Space Force launches Space Fence (because anything sounds better with Space in it).
The newly formed wing of the US military, Space Force, has now launched its Space Fence orbital sensor system, because anything sounds better, and frankly more sexy, with the word ‘Space’ attached to it. The Space Fence orbital sensor system is located on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands … but just […]
Spy Wars with Damian Lewis (spy-fy TV series: full episode).
Ace actor and swoon-worthy ginger tiger Damian Lewis brings us a full episode of the Spy Wars documentary series from the Smithsonian Channel. This one looks at the life of Oleg Gordievsky, who was one of the KGB’s rising stars… and biggest traitors. He provided stolen Russian intel to the UK, but he is most […]
Prometheus Alien movie: WTF really happened? (video).
Our canny reader Kroft has been combing his way through the very rare 150-page script written by Damon Lindelof for the Alien franchise movie, Prometheus, which was later removed from the 20th Century Fox web site by the direct orders of Ridley Scott. Luckily for us, the script reveals many of the missing background details […]
William Gibson audio interview: how to create the future (interviews).
The cyberdaddy of cyberspace, science fiction author William Gibson, sits down with us for a 30 minute-long audio-cast with his thoughts on everything from current politics, pandemics, and the big one … the future evolution of humanity as the tech wave accelerates. This interview is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
