Month: October 2013

With over three hundred editions produced during the fourteen year run from 1970 to 1984, BBC’s Play for Today strand was conceived as immediate and contemporary, offering political

Despite their erratic timeline and release pattern, the forthcoming release of X Men: Days of Future Past will be the seventh entry in that franchise in fourteen years,

Originating as a short story in 1977 and expanded to a novel in 1985, Ender’s Game went on to win the both the Hugo and Nebula awards for

Captain America is one of the first generation of superheroes, dating back to March 1941, where he took a patriotic stance against the axis powers, and was in

On the afternoon of Friday 20th September, we were delighted to have a lengthy chat with one of the pioneering producers of contemporary radio, Dirk Maggs, about his

1966 was an important year for science fiction. In America, Samuel Delaney and Larry Niven released their novels Babel 17 and Neutron Star, Fantastic Voyage was a summer

The label “science fiction” is one which many authors have sought to avoid being trapped within. The great John Wyndham referred to his own works as “a modified

The 2012 horror anthology film V/H/S had great potential. It could have been an homage to the early days of the videocassette, when many horror films which had

In its never ceasing demand for audiences for its latest productions, it is inevitable that Hollywood will be examined by those to whom those wares are marketed, and

Any director/ writer/ editor/ cameraman working in low budget Spanish language grindhouse cinema is immediately going to draw comparisons with Robert Rodriguez, and it is unlikely the Chilean