Warning: Contains Spoilers! In the last series of Doctor Who, the third slot was occupied by Boom, a dark slice of hard sci-fi with futuristic soldiers, in which a companion was killed and then brought back to life. In the … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Well: Review
The review of Sci-Fi Scarborough 2025 is also available as an extended, enhanced audio version as part of The October Club podcast. You can stream it on Spotify using this link, or on YouTube using the embedded link at the bottom of the page. Sci-Fi Scarborough 2025 is the eighth convention that my wife and I have attended and the eleventh that has been held. I had very positive feelings about it when the guest list was revealed week by week on a Friday evening. Once again, there was a strong Doctor Who presence, with announced appearances by Carole Ann … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough 2025: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! A lot more thought seems to have gone into the order of stories in Ncuti Gatwa’s second season than his first. Last year there was a palpable sense that Space Babies belonged in the latter half of … Continue reading Doctor Who – Lux: Review
It’s hard to believe that a mere 22 years divide the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake. They look so different! They could almost have been made on separate planets! By way of modern comparison, … Continue reading They Get You When You Sleep! Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jack Finney started as a magazine writer working mainly in the genres of crime and thrillers, but it was his first full-length science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1955) that was to prove his breakthrough work. It was popular enough … Continue reading They’re Here, Alright! You’re Next! Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Remember the garish covers of those 1930s pulp magazines like Astounding Science Fiction, which gleefully sported an image of colourful giant robots against a sweeping futuristic vista completely unrepresentative of the stories contained within? Now imagine that … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution: Review
The route to MB3 (not a motorway, for those new to the game) is a circuitous one. After 17 years out of the music business, Miki Berenyi returned in 2016 as the singer and guitarist of Lush, the cult shoegaze/dreampop/whatever … Continue reading Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla: Review
Hot on the heels of their previous album (well, warm on the heels – Luminous was released just over a year ago) Guinness World Record* holding Japanese band SCANDAL have released the four track EP Love, Spark, Joy! containing three … Continue reading SCANDAL – Love, Spark, Joy! EP: Review
Back in the late 1980s, when I first joined Doctor Who fandom in earnest, The Savages was one of a group of ‘invisible’ stories that also included The Myth Makers, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve and The Macra Terror. … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Savages: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! The main problem with the 2011 version of The Thing – the third movie adaptation of John W. Campbell’s 1938 short story Who Goes There? – is that it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. … Continue reading It’s Not Human… Yet! The Thing (2011)
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