DR. BLOODMONEY
One of the late Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels, involving nuclear war, mutants and a disc jockey in space
ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN
The magnum opus of France’s Philippe Caza, a 528 page graphic novel whose inception spanned the years 1989 to 2008
2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
HUMAN ANIMALS
A little-known Spanish made post-apocalyptic drama, of primary interest due to its complete lack of dialogue
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
THE LAST CHILDREN
This uber-bleak depiction of a post-nuclear Germany was published, unbelievably enough, as a children’s book
AFTER THE BOMB
A very eighties Cold War inflected post-nuke novel
THE BED SITTING ROOM
In which the UK’s new wave science fiction scene came (briefly) to Hollywood, courtesy of director Richard Lester
RED DAWN
“Better dead than red” cinema got a memorable 1980s rethink in RED DAWN, a “what-if?” narrative about a Russian invasion of the US