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)
In 1976, Warner Bros acquired the rights to remake the 1951 RKO Radio Pictures production The Thing from Another World, but weren’t that excited about the project because science fiction was still considered a niche interest genre. It’s often incorrectly … Continue reading Man is the Warmest Place to Hide! John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
The August 1938 issue of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction featured a short story which initially seemed unremarkable, but which has gone on to be one of the seminal works of American science fiction. Who Goes There? was credited … Continue reading Keep Watching the Skies! The Thing from Another World (1951)
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The latest Blu-Ray boxed set from Doctor Who – The Collection is Season 7, not only the first season of episodes to feature the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, but also the first season to be screened … Continue reading How Many Beans Make Five? Doctor Who – The Collection Season 7: Review
Supernova is a bad sci-fi movie. In fact, it’s pretty much the metric by which all bad sci-fi movies are measured. I mean, sure, you can look at Robot Monster or Plan 9 from Outer Space and they are clearly … Continue reading Thar She Blows! Supernova Revisited
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