ALIEN: Out of the Shadows By Tim Lebbon Published by Titan Books, paperback, £7.99, OUT NOW I remember reading about this in the month or so running up to its release and I admit to scoffing at the premise. Set 37 years after the events of the classic Ridley Scott film, ALIEN, the […]
By now you’ll have read/heard any number of gushing reviews of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s black comedy Birdman, which stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up Hollywood actor best known for his superhero movies, now searching for credibility and relevance in the social media age. The thing is, they’re all right. Birdman is brilliant. So good, in […]
Between February and March 1974, renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick experienced a series of bizarre occurrences (summarised here in graphic form by the legendary R. Crumb) which as far as he was concerned constituted a direct communication from either God, an alien intelligence, or both. Experiencing visions of the ancient past (specifically 1st […]
Halloween Horror, Page and Screen – Recommendations from the Geekzine team Here at Geekzine Towers we feel very strongly about all things spooky, and what better excuse to indulge our love of horror films and books than the annual marketing ploy that is Halloween. Below you will find recommendations from the Geekzine team, some of […]
Nightcrawler is one of those films where you know from a very early point in the plot that terrible things are going to happen. The trajectories which characters embark upon, either by their own volition or at the behest of another, seem destined to terminate in chaos and ruin, and you can barely bring yourself […]
The Voynich manuscript (so called) is one of the most profound mysteries in the history of literature. Believed to have been written in the 15th century, it appears to be rendered in an entirely artificial language and is illuminated with strange drawings, the nature of which ranges from the biological and pharmaceutical to the astronomical […]