Andrea Alvin gives the backstory on some of her late husband’s most famous posters – and a couple that never made the cut… John Alvin designed posters for some legendary movies, including Blazing Saddles, Batman Returns and The Goonies . With a book dedicated to the artist’s work out later …
Read More »The 20 Bars You Must Visit For The Ultimate Sci-Fi Pub Crawl
The World’s End – the latest comedy caper from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright – is all about an “epic” pub crawl. But surely, a truly epic pub crawl would involve not pubs in the same town, but pubs and bars in space, or in different universes, or …
Read More »Vampire Timeline
The last 50 years haven’t been good for ancient bloodsuckers. There have been quite a few of them hanging around for centuries – some even millennia – only to meet their doom in the last half century or so. Oddly this seems to have coincided with the rise of blockbuster …
Read More »Top 10 Sci-Fi And Fantasy Teddy Bears
With new movie Ted (read our review here ) introducing us to a foul-mouthed teddy bear brought to life after a wish, SFX assesses a few other toy bears of note… (opens in new tab) For most of us, a teddy bear was a childhood companion we carried everywhere like …
Read More »Top 10 Alternative Anime Heroines
(opens in new tab) Anime has brought us lots of colourful heroines over the years, but usually when a magazine publishes a list of great anime heroines, the results are full of ass-kicking, gun-toting, frequently undressed action chicks. That’s because most of these lists are written by men. So since …
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