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
Remember this in the days to come, When uncertainly is the whole of your life, Did I do right? Did I do wrong? Did I make the world in which I live? This world when a knock upon the door, … Continue reading Remember This
Warning: Contains Mild Spoilers! How to make Skeleton Crew: take a generous amount of The Goonies, mix in Explorers with a large helping of Disney’s Treasure Planet and… now, what am I missing? Oh yes, add a soupçon of Star … Continue reading Star Wars – Skeleton Crew: Review
When most people think of Thin Lizzy, they imagine them as a four piece. The twin guitar sound of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson/Gary Moore/Snowy White/John Sykes (delete as applicable) was such a part of Thin Lizzy in their pomp … Continue reading Thin Lizzy – Acoustic Sessions: Review
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