Apollo 17 may have been the 20th century’s final manned mission beyond Earth orbit, but its crew left us with one very public legacy—the iconic “Blue Marble” image of planet Earth which, during the last 45 years, has become one of the most reproduced images in human history. Admittedly, that’s barely a pin-prick when compared […]
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Kill The Father (Review)
KILL THE FATHER BY SANDRONE DAZIERI • (Simon & Schuster) Out now When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son vanishes, police assigned to the case assume an abusive husband is the culprit. However, the Chief of Rome’s Major Crimes Unit has his doubts, and lures Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli—on […]
The Team – Series 1 (Review)
The Team — Series 1 (Nordic Noir & Beyond) Out Now When crime no longer stops at international borders, police forces in different countries have to work together; that’s the premise behind Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm’s The Team which, while lacking the innocent exuberance of 1980s’ action series The A-Team, is a solid attempt […]
What’s Causing the Strangest Star in the Universe?
Space dust? Alien structures? Planetary collisions? The behaviour of Tabby’s Star continues to inspire new ideas. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known,” the wise American scientist Carl Sagan once said. Nor is it always where you expected. At first glance the star designated KIC 8462852 seemed nothing unusual, an ordinary hydrogen-fusing F-type main-sequence […]
In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson
The much-loved Scottish author enjoyed a special connection with France, and is still remembered in some places today. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of classic novels including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is nowadays most often linked with either the Scottish capital Edinburgh—the city of his birth and […]
Go Commando!
As Dundee-based D C Thomson publishes the 5,000th issue of Commando, Paul F Cockburn asks how this iconic title continues to thrive. Commando For Action and Adventure—to give the line’s full title—is arguably British comics’ greatest survivor. Yes, 2000AD triumphantly published its 2,000th “prog” back in September 2016, but this small “digest” comic line—with its […]
Double Trouble
Revenge thriller The Library Suicides was an important personal project to director Euros Lyn, not least because his debut feature film was an opportunity to tell an unusual story in his native language. How did you get involved with a film adaptation of Fflur Dafydd’s best-selling Welsh-language novel Y Llyfgell? Fflur contacted me; she was […]
