Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton!

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Reading list to follow!

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening)

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NEWS

TV Severance

TV Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

FILM The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

FILM Dune

TV Twisted Metal

FILM The Creator

TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

TV Only Murders In The Building

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

TROPE ON A ROPE

Something has happened here…

Straight to camera blogging as disasters unfold

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - competence

The Martian - Andy Weir

FILM The Martian

FILM All Is Lost

FILM Die Hard

FILM The Mechanic

The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey

TV The Expanse

FILMS The Bourne franchise

Discworld series - Terry Pratchett

FILM Snatch

TV Doctor Who - Midnight episode

TV Columbo

TV Poirot

TV Jonathan Creek

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

MINES OF EURGH

FILM Ready Player One

Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is Realms Unknown firm favourite Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).

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NEWS

FILM Star Wars: Starfighter

FILM K-Pop Demon Hunters

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN INTO?

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix

My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Grady Hendrix

Clockwork Boys - T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher

TROPE ON A ROPE

FILM Mulan

Game of Thrones - George RR Martin

DEEP DIVE - the paladin

Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold

FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

TV Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks

COMIC Die - Kieron Gillen

MINES OF URRGH

Rapunzel

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).

The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy.

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NEWS

FILM Red Sonja

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

FILM 28 Years Later

FILM Bring Her Back

FILM Weapons

FILM Together

Swordheart - T Kingfisher

TROPE ON A ROPE

Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake

Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies

FILM Looper

FILM Together

TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy

TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek

FILM Tusk

PODCAST Smodcast

Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

Ghost In The Shell

Dune - Frank Herbert

TV Alien: Earth

FILM Ex Machina

MINES OF EURRGH

Campery to mean villainy

FILM Jupiter Ascending

TV Twilight

FILM The Little Mermaid

FILM The Lion King

FILM Robin Hood

FILM The Fifth Element

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Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes!

The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners.

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NEWS

Who Is Elara Voss?

FILM Highlander

TV Outlander

Epic Games secures legal win against Google

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Superman

Sinners

TROPE ON A ROPE

Jack Reacher series - Lee Child

The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POV

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison

Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. Qureshi

The Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. Qureshi

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

MINES OF EURRGH

Girls and their dragons

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

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Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!

They discuss time loops in sci-fi, the tropes of hypersexualised futures and post-coital never-nudes, and whether prison 'relationships' belong in the mines of urrggh!

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NEWS

FILM Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

FILM Spider-Man: Brand New Day

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?

FILM Sinners

FILM Bring Her Back

TROPE ON A ROPE

Hypersexualised futures

FILM Blade Runner 2045

FILM Showgirls

FILM Starship Troopers

FILM The Fifth Element

Never nudes in sexy scenes

FILM Sex and the City

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - time loops

FILM Groundhog Day

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P. D. Ouspensky

TV The Twilight Zone ‘Shadow Play’

FILM Edge of Tomorrow

TV Russian Doll

FILM Happy Death Day

FILM Happy Death Day 2 U

TV Doctor Who - Eve of the Daleks

FILM Source Code

FILM Twelve Monkeys

FILM Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

The Dark Tower - Stephen King

PLAY Ghost Stories

FILM Triangle

TV Doctor Who - Heaven Sent

TV Dark

MINES OF URRGH

Bourne series - Robert Ludlum

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Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!

They discuss Arthurian legend in fantasy (and some sci-fi), David Bowie's tights in Labyrinth, and audible sharpness (*insert your own sword noise here!*)

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NEWS

FILM The Odyssey

TV Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?

Perfume - Patrick Süskind

The Emperor’s Blades - Brian Staveley

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan Bannen

TROPE ON A ROPE - audible sharpness

FILM Robin Hood

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Arthurian legends

The Once and Future King - T.H. White

FILM The Sword and the Stone

FILM Star Wars

FILM Harry Potter

TV Merlin (Sam Neill)

FILM Monty Python and the Holy Grail

PODCAST Camlann

TV The Rottentrolls

TV Sir Gadabout - The Worst Knight in the Land

FILM The Green Knight

The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper

POEM The Dragons of Dinas Emrys - Pendaran

TV Merlin (BBC)

COMIC Camelot 3000

MINES OF URRGH

FILM Labyrinth

Avalon series - Marion Zimmer Bradley

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