Month: September 2015

“We sacrificed high art for world peace. I think it’s a fair trade.” So speaks Margaret Mond, a regional controller of Western Europe presiding over the British Isles,

Wray Nerely is not having a good day, perhaps not even a good decade. It’s ten years since Spectrum was cancelled, and while the show became a cult

Almost four hundred years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the best known and most highly regarded playwright of England, if not the world, but as this world

“It seems unbelievable that so much history could be centred around one person, but the record is clear.” So writes Leonard McCoy, former ship’s surgeon of the USS

“Who wants to see some ghosts?” The question is a trick one, posed by David Williams (The Man in the High Castle‘s Rupert Evans) to a lecture theatre

It was in Journey’s End that Davros made the Doctor face himself, branding him “The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of

It’s over fifteen years since the name M Night Shyamalan became synonymous with the supernatural with the release of The Sixth Sense, a reputation he strengthened with Unbreakable

Eleven years have passed since the PreCrime division was disbanded following the scandal uncovered by Chief John Anderton which implicated the head of the department in murder and

Signing on for Gemini Force One? It’s unlikely that Ben Carrington ever imagined it would be a walk in the park, nor would he have wanted it to

Where science fiction is a trip, and exploration of an idea, horror is a mood, a feeling, usually bad. Science fiction is an intellectual thrill which can stand