The Witchfinders arrives in the latest wave of ‘Target Books’ style releases – alongside Dalek, The Crimson Horror and re-releases of The Pirate Planet, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and the TV Movie – and for some … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Witchfinders’ by Joy Wilkinson Review
I don’t often feel the need to explain my poetry, but this is an exception. This is not so much a poem about John Lennon as a poem about people’s tendency to push their own political and ethical agendas through … Continue reading Don’t Put Words in my Mouth
My home is narrow but stretches far,Beyond the reach of my black eye,Through mountain pass and clovered vale,The jewelled traveller am I. The night sky is my silvern blanket,A waterfall my cooling shower,A million steps recount my lifetime,As wooden wheels … Continue reading Gypsy
The name of Hammer Films is now inseparably attached to classic horror, but this occurred more by financial necessity than artistic choice. Throughout their 60s heyday, the studio were trying to get all manner of projects off the ground, their … Continue reading Return to the Lost Continent!
Patrick Troughton’s first year as the star of Doctor Who is a season of extremes; on the one hand you’ve solid gold classics like Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders and The Moonbase and on the other, you’ve got The … Continue reading Something Fishy This Way Comes: The Underwater Menace Revisited
An American Story is a novel that revolves around the events of 9/11, but it is explicitly not a novel about conspiracy theories. Christopher Priest goes to great lengths to have his protagonist express his disdain for conspiracy theories and … Continue reading ‘An American Story’ by Christopher Priest: Review
Warning: contains spoilers! Disney+ have followed up their successful first MCU television series with something very different. Well, it had to be, didn’t it? WandaVision was so unique that there was no way they were going to follow it up … Continue reading The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Review
It was a terrible disappointment in 2020 when the annual Sci-Fi Scarborough convention was cancelled due to COVID-19, but we were far enough into lockdown for it to be not entirely unexpected. We hoped and dreamed that by Easter 2021, … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough Online 2021
Summer holiday television is a thing of the past. Kids these days spend their annual 6 weeks away from school mainly playing computer games and any TV that they do watch is confined to digital or streamed channels dedicated to … Continue reading Summers of Love: The 60s in the 70s
The first Twilight Zone I ever saw was Twilight Zone – The Movie. Okay, don’t judge; I was born in 1970, before the age of even the domestic video recorder and the three TV channels that existed in Britain at … Continue reading Wanna See Something Really Scary? Revisiting Twilight Zone – The Movie
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