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WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
The winners of the 2024 challenge are listed below
- PARALLEL by Team Pingus
- RAPIER’S FOLLY by Team Cobra Wolf
- A SMALL DETOUR by Team Big Tent
Congratulations and well done to all the other teams who made a film in a weekend! Click here for full information on the challenge.
Extracurricular:
Cosmic cult classic colourised!
John Carradine is the tall salty stranger in this wonderful 50s scifi movie. The Cosmic Man (1959) tells the tory of an orb that arrives on Earth and seems to have bought a passenger, The Cosmic Man, who is here to… warn us, frighten us or threaten us? You decide. It is perfect ‘kick back’ scifi, cheesy dialogue, and
Folio Society: Dune Messiah
Always gorgeous, The Folio Society have some new titles coming and following on from their release of DUNE, which coincided with the latest movie version, they are releasing DUNE MESSIAH, Discover the true scope of Frank Herbert’s vision in Dune Messiah, the epic second act in the classic sci-fi saga, presented in a cinematic illustrated edition. The second instalment
The beginning of modern science fiction
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is said to be one of the earliest ‘proper’ works of science fiction, but the pulp magazine established it in the USA and was one of the most influential publications for the genre. Hugo Gernsback published AMAZING STORIES in 1926 and put the genre on a fine trajectory. Take a read of the first issue
