Oi! This article has got more spoilers than Mario Andretti’s Alfa. So if you’re sensitive over that sort of thing, now’s the time to naff off and play with your Tonka toys. Alright, Tinkerbell? You have been warned. I’m a … Continue reading One Flash of Light but No Smoking Pistol: Ashes to Ashes Revisited
This is another chapter from my book ‘The Space Between: Sci-Fi Cinema 1968 – 1973’, as yet unpublished. Well, I might as well do something with it! This contains spoilers, by the way – but if you don’t know how … Continue reading Damn Dirty Apes: Planet of the Apes (1968)
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
