The following is my personal list of lightsaber battles in the Star Wars movies, ranked in order of excitement, significance and technical skill. I’ve set myself several rules for this task: A) I’m restricted to the 9 movies that make … Continue reading Star Wars Lightsaber Battles: Ranked Worst to Best
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 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
“Star Wars – An Adaptation for Radio in 13 parts, based on characters and situations created by George Lucas.” That’s how it started. Or at least that was how it started when the BBC broadcast it in 1981. The narration … Continue reading Rogues, Rebels and Robots: The Star Wars Radio Serial Revisited
My wife and I look forward to Sci-Fi Scarborough weekend all year round and have a ritual that we adhere to every time we go. On Friday afternoon, we drive to Scarborough from our home in South Tyneside and book … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough 2024: Review
Cards on the table, I’m a big fan of Sci-Fi Scarborough. My wife and I make a pilgrimage to this independently run event in the beautifully unspoilt North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough every year and we just love it. … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough 2023: Review
In 1962, Universal Pictures announces that they will be making a motion picture adaptation of Harper Lee’s ground-breaking novel of race and intolerance, To Kill a Mockingbird. “Oh no,” protests a self-proclaimed ‘film fan’, recalling Universal’s successful run of horror … Continue reading The ‘D’ Word
Sci-Fi Scarborough is back! And not online either, this time it’s IRL, as the kids say. Or perhaps that should be IRS – In Real Scarborough? The excellent independent sci-fi con has had a rough ride of it over the … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough 2022: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Like most kids who were into Star Wars, I loved Boba Fett in the 1980s. Unlike most kids, it was the sparseness of his big screen appearances that attracted me to him. He’s such a cool character, … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett: Review
It was a terrible disappointment in 2020 when the annual Sci-Fi Scarborough convention was cancelled due to COVID-19, but we were far enough into lockdown for it to be not entirely unexpected. We hoped and dreamed that by Easter 2021, … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough Online 2021
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