'On the Edge of Jerusalem’ (2024) by Yara Saeed, a thoroughly Egyptian novel that feels like it was written by a Palestinian. The novel is told from a bystander's perspective and has hybrid characters...

The Netflix feature 'Unabomber' (2026) has Ted Kaczynski (Jacob Tremblay) becoming self-radicalised once he discovers he’s being surveilled as part of a CIA project. That’s the Manchurian Candidate sc...

'Ladyhawke' (1985) with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer as the lovelorn pair, with Matthew Broderick as much more than the amusing sidekick. This movie helped me make sense of Yara Saeed's SF detec...

'Ladyhawke' (1985) with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer as the lovelorn pair, with Matthew Broderick as much more than the amusing sidekick. This movie helped me make sense of Yara Saeed's SF detec...

Project: Kill (1976), starring Leslie Nielsen, is about a government assassination project where they use drugs to expand people’s mental and physical abilities, under the cover of producing better bo...

'A Flash of Green' (1984), a humdrum tale set in 1961 Florida with a local politician trying to strong arm conservationists over investment plans in a local bay. The badguy, Commissioner Elmo Bliss (R...

'A Flash of Green' (1984), a humdrum tale set in 1961 Florida with a local politician trying to strong arm conservationists over investment plans in a local bay. The badguy, Commissioner Elmo Bliss (R...

'The Tetramachus Collection' (1976) by Philippe Van Rjndt is about a priest trying to expose the Vatican’s WWII secrets. The ultra-secret semi-private intelligence agency hired to track down the archi...

James Gunn’s Supergirl (2026), starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, while overly long and under-plotted is actually quite good. Kara is a traumatised person who wants to deny her birthright to put he...

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' (2026) is amazingly well-directed, well-conceived, well-cast and well-acted. The standout here actually isn’t Tom Holland as Peter Parker, although he outdoes himself here,...

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' (2026) is amazingly well-directed, well-conceived, well-cast and well-acted. The standout here actually isn’t Tom Holland as Peter Parker, although he outdoes himself here,...

The End of Oak Street (2026). Yet another movie with dinosaurs, and yet another movie about ‘suburbia’. That said, the film is actually quite good and has some great surprises. An idyllic neighbourhoo...

'Teaching Science Through Science Fiction: A Story of Innovation in the Classroom and Beyond' (Springer, 2026) by Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann. The book is average size for someone of Dr Determann’s ca...

'Teaching Science Through Science Fiction: A Story of Innovation in the Classroom and Beyond' (Springer, 2026) by Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann. The book is average size for someone of Dr Determann’s ca...

The key to understand this Indie horror flick 'Backrooms' (2026) is, of course, furniture. Bland, tasteless post-modern future that comes from nowhere and so fits everywhere. Not that the story tells ...

The key to understand this Indie horror flick 'Backrooms' (2026) is, of course, furniture. Bland, tasteless post-modern future that comes from nowhere and so fits everywhere. Not that the story tells ...

'Obsession' (2025) does live up to the hype. A young man, Bear (Michael Johnston), is too shy to confess his feeling for his co-worker Nikki (Inde Navarrette) so he uses some new age novelty item, One...

'Obsession' (2025) does live up to the hype. A young man, Bear (Michael Johnston), is too shy to confess his feeling for his co-worker Nikki (Inde Navarrette) so he uses some new age novelty item, One...

This movie is beyond brilliant. Gritty realism, epic fantasy, breath-taking visuals, insane special effects, bombastic music and emotional highs. It leaves you a cathartic mess but morally better for ...

Only someone like Guillermo del Toro could take a story that’s been done to death, not least by the Hammer horror people, and gave it a visual and thematic makeover. Here Oscar Isaac plays the titular...

It seems whoever dreamed up the Charlie Kirk assassination grew up watching too much late-night television. The psycho in 'Dirty Harry' (1971) was using a .30-06!

“I’m excited to be here, you know, every day that I have on earth is a gift and a blessing, and I’m very grateful for that, because frankly, people are disappearing. Scientists are going missing. … No...

Breathtaking sci-fi movie, Project Hail Mary (2026), and by the creators of The Spider-Verse no less – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The story is from the Andy Weir novel of the same name and hard...

Charlie Kirk’s conspiracies are finally back in the news thanks to the resignation of Trump’s anti-terror chief, decorated Green Beret Joe Kent, noting how his unit wasn’t allowed to investigate possi...

It seems whoever dreamed up the Charlie Kirk assassination grew up watching too much late-night television. The psycho in 'Dirty Harry' (1971) was using a .30-06!

Mercy (2026), with Chris Pratt as the falsely accused cop Chris Raven and Rebecca Ferguson as the AI judge, Maddox. Dystopian world-building like 'Cyber Tracker' (1994), 'Firepower' (1993), 'The Runni...

Omar Nasr's lecture “British imperial propaganda towards Muslims in the Second World War” (CEDEJ, 9 June 2026) explains that propaganda is a two-way process, with intermediaries. This takes us another...

The latest issue of BOUNDARY SHOCK QUARTERLY by Blaze Ward is elegantly titled “GALACTIC GASTRONOMY” (Pubshare 29 March 2026); harking back to America’s New Deal era of post-war promises, the freedom ...

New CIA MKULTRA revelations have raised the possibility that Thomas Crooks and Tyler Robinson may have been brainwashed assassins. Political thrillers from the 1990s like 'Ulterior Motives' and 'The N...

New CIA MKULTRA revelations have raised the possibility that Thomas Crooks and Tyler Robinson may have been brainwashed assassins. Political thrillers from the 1990s like 'Ulterior Motives' and 'The N...

The latest issue of BOUNDARY SHOCK QUARTERLY by Blaze Ward is elegantly titled “GALACTIC GASTRONOMY” (Pubshare 29 March 2026); harking back to America’s New Deal era of post-war promises, the freedom ...

Omar Nasr's lecture “British imperial propaganda towards Muslims in the Second World War” (CEDEJ, 9 June 2026) explains that propaganda is a two-way process, with intermediaries. This takes us another...

Mercy (2026), with Chris Pratt as the falsely accused cop Chris Raven and Rebecca Ferguson as the AI judge, Maddox. Dystopian world-building like 'Cyber Tracker' (1994), 'Firepower' (1993), 'The Runni...

It seems whoever dreamed up the Charlie Kirk assassination grew up watching too much late-night television. The psycho in 'Dirty Harry' (1971) was using a .30-06!

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I need a good book on fitting. The toile is done! And the armholes were indeed a challenge. The first one was absolute ass. lol the second one was much better. I understood the con…

Charlie Kirk’s conspiracies are finally back in the news thanks to the resignation of Trump’s anti-terror chief, decorated Green Beret Joe Kent, noting how his unit wasn’t allowed to investigate possi...

Breathtaking sci-fi movie, Project Hail Mary (2026), and by the creators of The Spider-Verse no less – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The story is from the Andy Weir novel of the same name and hard...

“I’m excited to be here, you know, every day that I have on earth is a gift and a blessing, and I’m very grateful for that, because frankly, people are disappearing. Scientists are going missing. … No...

It seems whoever dreamed up the Charlie Kirk assassination grew up watching too much late-night television. The psycho in 'Dirty Harry' (1971) was using a .30-06!