Daybreakers
Trailer for an interesting concept for a horror movie - in Daybreakers, most of humanity have become immortal vampires, and it's the few human outcasts that are hunted down and farmed for blood. Trouble is, there's too many vamps and not enough human sheep to feed them. What's to do?

Forget life on Mars: how about life on Saturn's moon Enceladus?
For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring. Detecting salty ice indicates that Saturn's moon Enceladus, which primarily replenishes the ring with material from discharging jets, could harbor a reservoir of liquid water -- perhaps an ocean -- beneath its surface.

The Last Airbender bends some airtime
M. Night Shyamalan's live action fantasy-scifi movie The Last Airbender gets its first trailer. This is the one that was based on the cartoon Avatar, which was unusually imaginative for a toon.

Fantasy gets Polish
It's not only Polish builders that are doing well in the UK - now, so are Polish writers! The first annual David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel has been won by Andrzej Sapkowski for his novel Blood of Elves (published in the UK by Gollancz). The Award was accepted on Sapkowski’s behalf by his UK editor, Jo Fletcher. Well done, Andrzej.

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
An online trailer for the film G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Much maligned in advance by the netarati, this film might just be a suprise hit with the kids. Well, it has some cool-looking power armour suits anyway.

Cold Souls
Online trailer for a movie where the actor Paul Giamatti, plays an actor called Paul Giamatti, who pays a high-tech outfit to remove his soul and put it in cryogenic suspension - but then it gets stolen by soul traffickers and bought by Russian criminals. It might be genius, it might be arse of the highest order.

2012: Goodbye USA
The USA gets well and truly wiped out in this new disaster movie from the chap that gave us Independence Day. Watch the trailer here. Looks to be based on the Mayan predictions for a cyclic catastrophe every few millenia - possibly a reversal of the magnetic field combined with passing through a regular comet storm?

Zombieland trailer
Trailer for the film Zombieland. Woody from Cheers gets his rocks off killing zombies in the usual zombie-over-run USA scenario. A bit of senseless violence. Excellent.

The Dragon Keeper
Fantasy author Robin Hobb will be signing her latest novel The Dragon Keeper at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday 11th July 2009 from 1 - 2pm.

Virtuality
Trailer for Ron - Battlestar Galactica reboot - Moore's new TV pilot Virtuality - a vision of mankind's first ten year mission to another star (supposedly to save the Earth somehow). It turns out NASA selects the cast of Beverley Hills 90210 to save us, kits them out with some rather backward-looking VR games, then sends the self-involved little shits off to whine every light year of the way.

The legacy of Asteroids
I remember as a kid the allure and the mystique of walking into a games arcade. The smell of stale tobacco, the clinking of ten pence pieces, the air of victory, and the desperate groans that signalled the harsh reality of two words; ‘Game Over’.

Parallel dimensions
You are invited to Parallel Dimensions, a fantasy and science fiction event in Wirral, Cheshire (UK). Adele Cosgrove-Bray, Rob Haines, Adrienne Odasso, David Tallerman, CL Holland, Hazel Dixon and David Clements share the common bond of having had scifi work featured in anthologies by Hadley Rille Books.

Dead Snow (Mark's take)
A week long Easter vacation visit to a remote cabin in the mountains turns into a horror for eight young medical students, finds our Mark. Following the inspiration of Sam Raimi films Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola does his own horror film of something nasty out in the woods. This is very much by-the-numbers horror film making. It is not at all bad, but it has little that is fresh and new.

John Barrowman talks about Torchwood Children Of Earth
Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones return to the good old BEEB for Torchwood Children Of Earth, a new five part sci-fi TV series for BBC One. The cast, John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd and Kai Owen talk to SFcrowsnest about the return of Torchwood.

Back to the Futurama
20th Century Fox Television has signed up Simpsons guru Matt Groening for the return of his animated comedy science fiction series Futurama. The SFF toon is coming back for 26 new half-hour episodes - six years after the last series was canned.

James Lovegrove and Mark Chadbourn hit London
Fantasy and horror authors Lovegrove and Mark Chadbourn will be signing their novels The Age of Ra and Lord of Silence at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Thursday 9th July 2009 6 - 7pm.

Drag Me To Hell (Mark's take)
A bank loan officer refuses a loan extension to a woman of Gypsy origin. In return, the officer is cursed. The effects of the curse are horrifying and frequently revolting. Were this a new story written by Sam Raimi and his elder brother Ivan it would have been a better piece of horror. The effects and the action are all Raimi, but the story is cobbled together from familiar pieces. Largely this is a high-octane version of M. R. James's Casting the Runes with equal parts of shock and humour.

Rockfish
Fantasy author Brian Ruckley points us in the direction of Rockfish, a very nice cartoon short about a planet miner and his alien pet-like assistant.