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Star Trek Discovery: Season Three is available on Blu-ray™, DVD and to Download & Keep now from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. To celebrate the release, we’re giving away a copy of Star Trek Discovery: Season Three on Blu-ray™ as well as a Star Trek Discovery Property of U.S.S. Discovery Embroidered Hat and
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Released: 20 August 2021 Certificate: 15 Director: David Bruckner Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski Cast: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 108 mins Rebecca Hall stars as a woman confronted with her own mortality in David Bruckner’s scary supernatural horror The Night House. Recently widowed from her husband Owen
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Summer 2021 anime season is well underway, and while it can’t hope to match the ultra-stacked winter and spring seasons, there’s still plenty to get excited about. Whether anything on offer this quarter will match the dizzying height of spring’s Vivy, To Your Eternity or Odd Taxi, to name just three highlights, remains to be seen, but there’s certainly
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Over a three-year period in the late Eighties, Octavia Butler wrote one of the most interesting and thoughtful sci-fi trilogies around. Lilith’s Brood, which consists of Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989) is a fascinating look at interspecies cooperation and co-habitation, as well as a study of humanity, our weaknesses and potential downfalls.
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Science fiction, speculative fiction, in fact all the sub-genres herein, is a fantastic place to really express emotions, social commentary, thoughts, idealisms, violence, human rights (and lack of) and so on… But writing with these in mind there’s a sense of trepidation and hesitancy. Whether this is a thread of the community in which we
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We all know that genre is enjoyed throughout the world, but it’s always great to read genre from the perspective of those from different countries and cultures. That’s why we’re so excited about The Best of World SF​ – an anthology that draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction – robots, spaceships and
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The anime season of winter 2021 will forever be remembered as one of the most spectacular in recent memory. Not only did we have the continuation of modern masterpiece Attack On Titan and practically perfect shounen Jujutsu Kaisen from autumn, but we also had shows like the second half of the second season of the
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Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded and innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars.
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Now that the final episode of WandaVision has aired on Disney+, we count down our top five most wanted pieces of merchandise to show our love for the bewitchingly fun first season… WandaVision kicked off as a black-and-white take on Fifties and Sixties sitcoms, smartly adding a splash of colour as the episodes moved on.
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In Residuum (the final instalment in Dominic Dulley’s epic space opera The Long Game series), Orry Kent just wants a quiet life. But even a little R&R on the holiday planet of Halcyon turns wild when she accidentally sparks off a revolution amongst the downtrodden native workers. But that’s small beer compared with the news
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(1993) Trust Tim Burton to bring a gothic slant to festive proceedings by exploring the prospect of a Halloween character standing in for Santa. The result is a morbid stop-motion musical marvel, where presents are delivered to fright rather than delight. (1972) An escaped homicidal maniac dressed as Santa comes knocking after a devious wife
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If you asked a random sample of film fans to name an Eighties movie about the threat of nuclear Armageddon, chances are Steve De Jarnatt’s 1988 film Miracle Mile won’t be the one named. John Badham’s suspense thriller WarGames, Mick Jackson’s horrifically realistic BBC docu-drama Threads and Harry T Murakami’s animated drama When The Wind
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Boy, do we have a great competition for all the Doctor Who fans out there! To celebrate the final set of releases in The Doctors documentary series with the addition of The Peter Davidson Years and The Doctors: Heroes And Villains, we are giving away a complete set of The Doctors releases, from the first
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Since Dracula first appeared in Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name in 1897, the character has been depicted in books, graphic novels, cartoons TV, films and even audio dramas. Here, Jonathan Barnes, author of Dracula horror sequel Dracula’s Child runs down his top ten best Draculas in popular culture… Christopher Lee in Count Dracula
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“It’s a suburban ghostbusters!” Richard McDowell laughs as we discuss his new TV series Truth Seekers. “Make of that what you will. That’s what makes it unique. There’s no show on television like this, that’s even close to this. There’s lots of wonderful things in it.” Truth Seekers follows the story of Gus (Nick Frost)
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