I remember reading in an issue of SFX magazine about a new series from the team behind Hustle about a British policeman who is involved in an accident and wakes up to find himself back in 1973. Now, I liked … Continue reading Return to the Red Planet: Life on Mars Revisited
Last year, I wrote a review of the Sci-Fi Scarborough 2019 convention for this very blog that saw my stats skyrocket from about 20 a day to over 300! That shows you the popularity of this convention. The fact that … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough Online 2020
If Douglas Adams hadn’t passed away at the tragically young age of 48, the chances are that we’d have seen a great many more new creations from his ‘digital writing system’. But he did alas, and so, with the exception … Continue reading The Holistic Approach: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Revised version of a feature originally published in Strange Skins Digital #3 and taken from a chapter of the book The Space Between: Sci-Fi Cinema 1968-1977, which one day I will finish and actually publish. After the success of 2001: … Continue reading Barbarella: 52 Years of Doing Her Thing
My Baby shakes and shivers like a jelly do, She dance the Mashed Potato and the Boogaloo, She’s flunkin’ outta school but well-a bless my soul, She tops the classes when it comes to rock ‘n’roll, You could think to … Continue reading Rock ‘N’ Roll Dynamite!
Following on from the success of Tom Baker’s Doctor Who – Scratchman, BBC Books have released a novel by Sophie Aldred, who played the companion Ace in the era of the Seventh Doctor. Now, I have to confess that I … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – At Childhood’s End’ by Sophie Aldred: Review
When I was thirteen years old, I started to keep irregular sleeping hours. All teenagers do this; it’s part of that whole thing of taking control of your life thing. Kids these days spend these twilight hours online, chatting or … Continue reading Flickering Images: Serling, Hammer, Hitchcock and Her
Warning: Contains Spoilers! BIG Spoilers! John Lennon is quoted as having once said: “There are no problems, only solutions.” Alas, if one were to apply that quote to The Timeless Children, it would have to be amended to: “There are … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Timeless Children
SCANDAL IN THE HOUSE… AGAIN! The Japanese all-female rock band who’ve now been around for 14 years (but somehow don’t look a day over 22) return for their ninth studio album Kiss from the Darkness. I discovered Scandal about 5 … Continue reading Scandal – Kiss from the Darkness
Warning: Contains Spoilers! “You’ve no home planet, no influence, nothing! You’re just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spacecraft.” As far back as 1975’s Revenge of the Cybermen, the classic series was purporting … Continue reading Doctor Who – Ascension of the Cybermen
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