Category: GENRE
No Time To Die (2021) 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (DVD review).
Strictly speaking, the latest James Bond film, ‘No Time To Die’ should be dated 2020 rather than 2021, so I’ve watched the film end of December and the extras in January. I haven’t been waiting for it to appear in the cinema but a home release. At 2 hours 43 minutes, it also stands as […]
Elon Musk: the ‘M’ is for Mars (science video).
The ultimate objective of human space travel, according to planetary scientists and Elon Musk, is to transform mankind into a multi-planetary species, so let’s see whether this is doable.
Behind the Fermi Paradox (science video).
Isaac Arthur joins John Michael Godier for a conversation on science fiction, including Dune, Star Wars, and Foundation. They also talk about the Fermi paradox and how it ties to Galileo’s work.
Raised By Wolves: scifi TV series, season 2 (trailer).
Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), together with their brood of six human children, join a newly founded atheistic colony in Kepler 22 b’s unknown tropical zone in season two of Raised By Wolves. But navigating this odd new society is just the beginning of their difficulties, as Mother’s “natural child” threatens to wipe […]
UFO Comic Anthology Volume One (book review).
I’ve been waiting for a long time to see the ‘UFO’ cartoon strips from the 1971 ‘Countdown’ comic again. As is pointed out in the introduction, unlike Century 21’s other TV series, ‘UFO’ wasn’t shown simultaneously across the country. For me, Westward TV had it a year before HTV which was one of the last […]
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (book review).
There have always been school stories. Most of us have read them at some point. Post-war there was ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars’ and the ‘Chalet Girls’ books. More recently, the ‘Harry Potter’ books are the most wildly known of the fantasy schools, though there are many others such as the college in Rachel Caine’s ‘Morganville […]
UFO/UAP news roundup (16th Jan 2022).
Here’s the weekly roundup of all the new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic of UFOs, UAPs, and a sugary side-dollop of woo. Micah Hanks returns to take a deep dive into the UAP question. Micah is a writer, podcaster, history buff, science nerd, and philosophy aficionado. […]
Let sleeping aliens lie? (science video)
One theory for the Fermi Paradox is that aliens are undetectable because they sleep somewhere in the galaxy, silently tucked away. However, how and why would such Extraterrestrial Empires go into hibernation? Luckily, the Bad Lad of science, our Isaac Arthur, is on hand to investigate in this 30-minute video.
Bigbug (new Netflix comedy-scifi film: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for an interesting-looking Netflix science fiction film called Bigbug. French w/English subtitles from the Amélie movie bod. When their well-intentioned home robots lock them in for their own protection due to an android revolt in the future, a group of squabbling suburbanites finds themselves stranded together and having to survive a little […]
Scream: horror movie review, by Mark Kermode (video).
Horror flick Scream is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. A new Ghostface assassin arises twenty-five years after the initial Woodsboro murders, enticing Sidney Prescott back to learn the truth.
