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Independents Day Robert D.Miles

Something different this month as we talk to a filmmaker whose life could have come straight out of a sci-fi movie but actually spurred him on to be behind a series of UFO conspiracy documentaries. The truth might be out there, just keep watching the skies!

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

The wait is almost over for the big screen adaptation of the hugely popular video game ASSASSIN’S CREED - but can it possibly live up to expectations?

Wild Things

From the Pages of the Acclaimed Novel Comes a Monster Calls, So We Take a Look at What to Expect From This Huge Visitor Come the New Year.

Pixar's Super Again!

We take a look at one of the most eagerly-awaited films of the year as Pixar’s super duper family return to the big screen in INCREDIBLES 2...

Jimmy McDonough

WE CAUGHT UP WITH WRITER AND BIOGRAPHER JIMMY MCDONOUGH TO CHAT ABOUT AN UPCOMING ONLINE VENTURE THAT WILL BRING CULT FILMS AND ART TO A NEW AUDIENCE.

Subspace Relay

Well that came out of nowhere. After a couple of years of rumours, dragging their heels and quickly changing the topic whenever anyone raises the subject, Paramount has finally announced not one, but two new Star Trek movies.

The Further is Calling…

LIN SHAYE is a huge, huge favourite of many a genre fan, with her likely best known for supporting roles in a whole host of horror efforts such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Alone in the Dark, Amityville: A New Generation, the 2001 Maniacs movies, Snakes on a Plane, Chillerama, the Ouija pictures, not to mention comedic turns in There’s Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber, and for chastising rock music as ‘the devil’ in the splendid Detroit Rock City. Of course, the past decade has seen the hugely charming Shaye playing a vital role in the massively popular Insidious franchise. For the fourth film in that series - INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY - horror hounds were all kinds of excited to hear that Shaye was getting top billing, and ahead of the film’s home release we were lucky enough to grab some time with this horror icon to discuss what she herself describes as “the highlight of my life”, the progression of Shaye’s Elise character throughout the Insidious franchise, the family feel amongst the series’ key players, and we even ask her about her role in the upcoming return of The Grudge.

Woman Created Frankenstein

How Mary Shelley Made A Monster

View From The Watchtower

GARETH EVANS PULLS MONITOR DUTY TO BRING YOU THE LATEST FROM THE WORLD OF COMIC BOOKS

Anime-Nation

A MONTHLY ROUND UP FROM THE WORLD OF ANIME AND MANGA FROM LITTLEANIMEBLOG.COM’S DOMINIC CUTHBERT

Sci-fi Ball

Southampton Grand Hotel February 2nd - 4th 2018

The Father Of The Dead

As another cinema legend leaves us, we pay tribute to GEORGE A. ROMERO, the man who changed the face of zombie movies - and horror films - forever… True icons are a rare breed.

Of Androids And Sacred Cows

Thirty Years After The Events Of The First Movie, A New Blade Runner Is About To Unearth A Long-Buried Secret With The Help Of The Original, Rick Deckard. Starburst Pops Some Vangelis On The Hi-Fi, Dons A Trench Coat And Looks Ahead To The Return Of A True Sf Enigma...

For Kingsman And Country

Get Ready To Don Your Best Bespoke Suit Or Frock, Ladies And Gentlemen, Because The World’s Most Well-Dressed Spies (Sorry, Bond) Are Back In Their Second Outing, Kingsman: The Golden Circle…

We're Crackers ...About Animals!

ANIMAL CRACKERS is heading to cinemas, so STARBURST looks into what this animated critter-packed offering is all about…

Watching Doctor Who

An In-Depth Look At The Whoniverse.

Deborah Watling (1948-2017)

The last few years have not been kind to that elite acting group often referred to as ‘the Doctor Who girls’, that band of brave, fearless young women who travelled through Space and Time alongside the Doctor in the ‘classic’ original run of the TV sci-fi legend (1963-1989).

Paradise Postponed

The Alien series has taken us on a long and – to put it mildly – very strange journey since a hibernating circle of seven dreamers returning from a deep space towing mission were awoken by a mysterious signal from a storm-blown planet known only as LV-426.

Unfinished Monkey Business

After the dawn and rise, civilisation attempts to strike back. We take a look at the eagerly-awaited third instalment of the successful update of the classic series as we go to WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES…

SimianScope

Although it might not have scaled the box office heights of behemoths like JURASSIC WORLD, the recent KONG: SKULL ISLAND was nevertheless a massive hit with moviegoers worldwide and likely to kickstart a franchise world that will include city-levelling scrapping with the likes of Godzilla. Kong himself is a cultural icon comparable with his nuclear-age nemesis Gojira, as well as other silver screen scarers like Dracula and the Alien franchise’s xenomorphs. The latest instalment of the rebooted PLANET OF THE APES saga hits screens soon and there are plenty of imit-ape-ors (boom!) that left us with films great, good and oh-so-bad. It’s only ape-propriate (boom!) that we give a little love to the greatest gorillas, the monkeys with the most and the primates you love to hate. It’s time to go ape (boo… ah, you get the idea).

The Brightest Star In The Galaxy

What’s in a name? Luc Besson is hoping his latest big budget sci-fiadventure VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS will win the war of the box office despite having the clunkiest title of the year…

Toy Story Of Terror!

The origins of the possessed and murderous doll Annabelle are further explored in ANNABELLE: CREATION...

Star Wars - An Awakening

No series conjures up the same level of excitement as STAR WARS - and this December, it’s finally back, without a midi-chlorian in sight. STARBURST brings you up to (light) speed on everything you need to know about THE FORCE AWAKENS…

Journey To A Neon Dystopia

With BLADE RUNNER 2049 soon to hit screens, we look back at a subgenre of fiction that has blossomed since the latter part of the twentieth century: CYBERPUNK.

More Human Than Human

When film historians look back on the cinema of the 20th century, there’s every chance that the one actor’s name that stands above all others will be HARRISON FORD. The highest grossing actor of all time, his films have brought in $4.87 million so far thanks to appearances in four STAR WARS movies, four Indiana Jones films and numerous other hits…

Better To Live As Your Own Man

Than As A Fool In Someone Else's Dream

Peter Capaldi's Dead*

With apologies to Bauhaus

Dan Dare Returns!

As the legendary comic strip prepares to make the leap to big finish audio drama, we find out what we can expect...

Outside The Box

 Every month brings us closer to the first full Doctor Who series to star Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, but even as cameras roll, we still know very little about the stories within that series.

Watching Doctor Who

AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE WHONIVERSE