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Review: Doctor Who: Leviathan
By Matthew Kresal. The Colin Baker era of Doctor Who , filled as it was with various trials and tribulations, left behind a plethora of unmade serials. Some were scripted for the originally planned season 23 before the series went on hiatus, only to be replaced by Trial of a Time Lord . Others were serials grandfathered into the era (such as The Space Whale aka The Song of Megaptera ) or commissioned but never produced (such as The First Sontarans from Andrew Smith). Amon
Oct 266 min read


Review: The Art of Saving the World
By Owen Michael. Cover courtesy Amazon. The Art of Saving the World was a birthday gift from my younger sister, who (accurately) thought a fantasy story with an asexual heroine and heavily featuring alternate universes was a concept that would appeal to me. It's not quite alternate history as traditionally defined; only one alternate universe is depicted as having clear and major world differences, as opposed to clear differences for the main character and her family. But it
Oct 2110 min read


Tales from Development Hell: John Carpenter’s Creature from the Black Lagoon
By Ryan Fleming. A famous Hollywood celebrity poses with his co-star Julie Adams. Image courtesy the FDA (who Adams autographed it for...
Oct 79 min read


Tales From Development Hell: Live 2 Tell
By Ryan Fleming. All Eyez on Me, Tupac Shakur's last album released while he was alive and shortly after he first wrote Live 2 Tell....
Sep 239 min read


Review: Doctor Who: The Dark Planet
By Matthew Kresal. The Dark Planet cover, courtesy Big Finish Productions. Early 1960s Doctor Who is at times an extraordinary thing to...
Sep 98 min read


Not So Killer Shark
By Colin Salt. Bruce Begins. 1974 hardcover, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Of the theory that behind every great 1970s movie is a...
Aug 263 min read


Tales From Development Hell: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
By Ryan Fleming. Release poster, image courtesy wikipedia. The notion of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg collaborating on a film...
Aug 159 min read


Roads not Taken, at the Deutsches Historisches Museum
By Gary Oswald. A promotional image of the event; from the DHM website, copyright DWM & David von Becker. From December 2022 to January...
Aug 125 min read


Operation: Aliens
By Ryan Fleming and Charles E.P. Murphy In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right...
Aug 810 min read


Review: All the White Spaces
By Ryan Fleming. Cover courtesy Amazon. “Is Alternate History a genre or a setting” is an oft-debated topic in the genre (or the...
Jul 2513 min read


Review: Superman: Red Son
By Matthew Kresal. Red Son's first collection, picture courtesy Amazon Richard Donner, director of the 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman ...
Jul 114 min read


Tales From Development Hell: Jurassic Park IV
By Ryan Fleming. The infamous dino-humanoid concept art by Carlos Huante that made it online after the news of the script broke. Picture...
Jul 19 min read


Review: The Climax
Cover courtesy Internet Archive Aaron Burr is not the most famous of the first generation of statesmen in the USA, but he is one of the...
Jun 246 min read


Tales From Development Hell: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian
By Ryan Fleming. The 'ghost with the most', image courtesy Amazon Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was released in 2024 to box office success...
Jun 179 min read


Review: The Years of Rice and Salt
By Ryan Fleming. Cover for the audiobook; picture courtesy Amazon. An odd habit from some in recent years is the complaint about the...
May 2012 min read


Review: Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures
Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...
May 135 min read


Tales From Development Hell: Night Creatures
By Ryan Fleming. Vincent Price stumbles through the end of the world (taken from Last Man on Earth). Since the birth of film censorship,...
Apr 259 min read


Review: Remember, Remember
Review by Charles EP Murphy The cover of the original hardback, picture courtesy Amazon. Delphine, a young domestic slave, escaped from...
Apr 157 min read


Review: Doctor Who: Genesis of the Cybermen
By Matthew Kresal. Cover of Genesis of the Cybermen, picture courtesy Big Finish From their first appearance in 1966’s The Tenth Planet ,...
Apr 87 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Ridley Scott's Dune
By Ryan Fleming Ridley Scott doing a Q&A in 2015, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There have been many attempts to adapt Frank...
Mar 2510 min read
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