Blake’s 7 And Gareth Thomas
A quick post to note the passing last week of the seventy-one year old Welsh-born actor Gareth Thomas, who is bestContinue Reading
Category: Science-Fiction
The New Rockstars Need A Lesson In History And Geography
The pretentiously-named geek website, The New Rockstars (“What The Internet Cares About Right ****ing Now!”. By which they mean maleContinue Reading
Biggs Darklighter And Other Deleted Characters And Scenes From Star Wars
Most hardcore Star Wars’ fans will be aware of these deleted scenes from the original trilogy of movies, the eponymousContinue Reading
Masters Of The Force Awakens
A magnificent mash-up of 1987’s big-screen turkey, “Masters of the Universe”, and 2015’s winner of Most-Grating-British-Accent-Ever, “Star Wars: The ForceContinue Reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, VFX Before And After
Watch it while you can!
The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special
With all the hype this week surrounding the release of J. J. Abrams’ new addition to the Star Wars franchise, “Star Wars: The ForceContinue Reading
The Glass Ceiling In The Star Wars Triology
Here’s something to annoy the Sad Puppies crowd, a super-cut of all the spoken dialogue from women other than Princess Leia inContinue Reading
ASF-TFIF Brings You Dancing Predators With Danny Glover
Following a purgatory week of meetings and teleconferences of questionable merit – slidey-widey PowerPoint presentations being a poor substitute for empirical evidence, no matterContinue Reading
Peter Capaldi Finds His Doctor Who
I must admit to being fairly critical of Peter Capaldi’s work in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who – havingContinue Reading
Exploring The Genre Frontier In Joss Whedon’s 2005 Movie Serenity
I have a great deal of affection for Joss Whedon’s prematurely ended science-fiction series, “Firefly”, which aired on Fox TelevisionContinue Reading
Kelly Sue DeConnick Interview With The DB
A quick post to note this Daily Beast interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick, one of the more interesting figures working in comics today.Continue Reading
2000 AD and Judge Dredd Quality Comics’ Collection
The problem with being a hopeless Teicógach (or Irish Geek) is the habit of collecting one’s interests – or obsessions –Continue Reading
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Hugogate Or The Hugo Awards, Sad Puppies And Rabid Puppies
When I was growing up in Ireland during the 1980s and ’90s possessing a passion for Science-Fiction almost inevitably led one toContinue Reading
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
Neil Gaiman at the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2015.
Star Wars Versus Star Trek Epic Trailer
I’m not a huge fan of either “franchise”, however would I watch this? Damn sure I would! 😉
Some Fan News
I know that quite a few of my readers are “fangirls” with an interest in all aspects of geek cultureContinue Reading
Saltire: Ionnsaigh, The First Scottish Language Graphic Novel
A quick break away from politics with news of the release of Saltire: Ionnsaigh, the first graphic novel in the ScottishContinue Reading
Cultus Obscuram, Once Upon A Time… Space
Il était une fois… or “Once Upon a Time…” is an ongoing animated series produced by the multi-talented FrenchContinue Reading
Atmo-Craft, Colin Wilson
During a quick discussion over on CLR in relation to Joss Whedon’s short-lived Sci-Fi series “Firefly” I was reminded of theContinue Reading
The Forge In The Forest, Ian Miller
Ian Miller is a British artist whose distinctive, sometimes surreal style will be familiar to many readers of Fantasy andContinue Reading
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Cultus Obscuram – Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
The old cliché “…so bad it’s good” springs to mind when one watches the 1975 cinematic release “Doc Savage: TheContinue Reading
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Even A Fanboy Has His Limits
Is it just me or is there now a dearth of thoughtful and well-informed websites and blogs on the genreContinue Reading
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