Been over a year since I did one of these, and that’s because I’ve gone through one of those periods where I don’t use my stereo much, other...

Thought 1.  I am loving the new My List option on Netflix UK. I can see why Netflix were against its introduction at first, on the grounds...

I don’t know whether this will be a new regular feature on the blog or a one-off embarrassment, but a tip of the hat to Peter Tennant’s “T...

Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #44  is now out! It features five stories, arranged roughly in the chronological order of their settings: “A L...

Arctic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell (Del Rey, pb, 340pp) is set the day after tomorrow, in a world much changed by the melting of the ice ...

Saga, Vol. 2 (Image Comics, tpb, 152pp) continues a comic that has been outstanding from the very first issue. Writer Brian K. Vaughn and...

Ten programmes we (Mr and Mrs Theaker) gave up on before the end: Heroes Sliders Earth: Final Conflict Andromeda Xena: Warrior Princ...

Scare Magician Wan Conjures Up another Haunted House Hit Just before The Conjuring started, my wife said, “I dropped my wedding ring.” Wh...

Ten programmes we (Mr and Mrs Theaker) watched from the beginning to the very end: Babylon 5 The X-Files Star Trek: Enterprise Fring...

Fifteen albums I bought without hearing a single song by that artist, and whether I like them now: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Gho...

Zombies storm the box office, again. Last winter, romantic zomedy Warm Bodies reached number one at the box office. This summer, a differ...

Ten actors who might have played Dr Who on film had Peter Cushing regenerated: Peter Sellers Jane Fonda Sean Connery Sigourney Weaver...

John Greenwood , TQF co-editor, has begun to submit stories elsewhere. "Consumer Testing" appears in Bourbon Penn #7  and "...

Ten albums I bought as presents for other people that I was chuffed to get an MP3 copy of via Amazon Auto-Rip: 5:55 , Charlotte Gainsbou...

Randalls Round (Oleander Press, pb, 176pp) collects several well-written tales of horror and suspense. They were written by Helen M. Leys...

I'm back running the British Fantasy Awards this year, and the nominees have just been announced: Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holds...

Double Feature: Rise of the Guardians / Hotel Transylvania . Accentuate the positives. Whether from the last, clutching vestiges of Britis...

The filmgoer hoping to evade Edward Cullen’s (Robert Pattinson) constipated-while-sucking-on-a-lemon smile or Jacob Black’s (Taylor Lautne...

In Martian Sands by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing, hb, 224pp), Mars has been settled. The New Israelis are governed by a succession of simu...

Another streaming pile of BS. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome , directed by Jonas Pate, released 9 November 2012 (online); 10 Feb...