A fleck of brilliance amid the flotsam: time to give this melodramatic superhero and sci-fi twaddle a rest Considering the highest-gross...

Lone Wolf 24: Rune War (Collector’s Edition) by Joe Dever Holmgard Press, hardback, £16.99, December 2019, ISBN 9781916268005 In addit...

Lone Wolf 23: Mydnight’s Hero (Collector’s Edition) by Joe Dever Holmgard Press, hardback, £16.99, April 2019, ISBN 9781527237728 Now t...

Same game, new charms: sequel swaps roles to keep the play engrossing. A quirky quartet of avatars. A depthless villain. Angry beasts. P...

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, by J.J. Abrams (Walt Disney Studios)  A conclusion four decades in the making.  The rele...

free epub | free mobi | free pdf | print UK | print USA | Kindle UK | Kindle US GUEST-EDITED BY DOUGLAS J. OGUREK Vicious pa...

The John Smith Show In my review of The Man in the High Castle, Season 2 in 2017 I summarised the events of the first two seasons and ...

Dev Harmer died at Leather Hill, the worst battle of a terrible decade-long war between humanity and Polis+, AI zealots who see an atheist...

Maleficent’s coming to dinner! Elegant antihero meets regal villain. One can’t help but be drawn in when Maleficent’s (Angelina Jolie) v...

Other comic book-based movies laughable in comparison to masterpiece that emphasizes character, explores social stigma on mental illness ...

Lone Wolf 30: Dead in the Deep by Vincent Lazzari and Ben Dever Holmgard Press, hardback, £19.99, June 2019, ISBN 9781527240797 Give...

The British Fantasy Awards have just been announced, at FantasyCon 2019 in Glasgow. I had a go at reading this year's nominees and fai...

One last post in this failed series before the actual awards are announced! An odd thing about this category is that it is an all-male s...

The mother of Jonathan Tamberlain threatened to kill him if he ever squandered his gifts on criticism, and she wasn't just speaking me...

Blockbuster horror soars when it clowns around, stumbles when it gets serious Any horror aficionado worth his salt will scoff at a horro...

Detection on Different Levels? In his latest book, Allegory and Ideology (2019), Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson describes...

Think you’ve heard the worst wedding night catastrophe? Think again.  Ready or Not , with its cozy mansion and eccentric characters, bri...

In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature, Stephen Theaker asks Tim Major a few questions. What do you use for note-taking ...

I've finished reading the items nominated for the British Fantasy Award 2019 for comics and graphic novels , and thought about how I w...

Quarter-sized brains and close quarters: gator flick swamped with suspense Monster films sometimes suffer from several maladies: a too-l...