Anna Bogutskaya is a film programmer, writer, creative consultant and podcaster, and co-founder of horror film collective The Final Girls. She is currently the Festival Director of Underwire Festival.

Farscape is anarchic and alien, sexy and savage – and that’s exactly how it sounds. The frantic stab of the first few seconds is like a needle scratch to shock you from your stupor: listen up, normal ...

Let’s not forget, as we begin on what could be an esoteric and convoluted journey, that Ra was not originally going to be an alien in the Stargate (1994) movie. Jaye Davidson’s character was an ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The X-Files episode ‘Home’ (S4, Ep2). Proceed with caution. Of the 202 episodes of The X-Files that I watched whilst growing up, ‘Home’ (S4, Ep2) is the one ...

Around 15 years ago, fresh from being a writer-producer on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, Damian Kindler went rogue. Drawing on experience gained working on a string of hit shows, he formed an ...

For movie geeks like us, it’s rare to happen upon a film you know little or nothing about. But that was exactly what happened in the late 1990s in a flat in North London when I came back one night ...

Somehow, the sequel trilogy has returned. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 brought with it some exciting announcements for fans of ...

ITV ‘dinosaur sci-fi’ show Primeval may have ended in 2011, but there is still an active Reddit community tossing back and forth theories about which season was best and why Cutter had to die. There’s ...

The history and mythology of The X-Files is one built on cultural subjugation and direct colonisation. The weird and disturbed American landscape investigated week in and week out by Special Agents ...

The Stargate universe is known for its fascinating and complex storylines, blending science fiction with mythology and exploring the depths of human nature. Among the many captivating plot elements, ...

Wyvern Gaming’s Brad Ellis is no stranger to games design or crowdfunding. His company has produced five tabletop/card/deckbuilding games and all five were ...

Farscape Season 1 VFX supervisor Paul Butterworth on the creation of Moya, beating Star Wars at their own game, and inspiring Guardians of the Galaxy. “It was a very bizarre, very bizarre project,” ...