This Week: Aug. 27-Sep. 3

This Week: TV | Film | Video | Trailers | Paperbacks | Hardcovers

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This Week: TV
Doctor Who is back, plus a double Futurama, Grimm, Alphas and more. Read on...

This Week: Movies
Yet another scrappy band saves humanity from certain distruction; and a beautiful lake in Georgia sparks a sci-fi-tinged cinematic debate over evolution. Read on...

This Week: Home Video
A big, bloated summer blockbuster about a war with aliens; a smarter, under-the-radar video franchise installment; a kid who can turn into a phantom and fight ghouls; and a convention of fairy-tale characters catches fire as a network drama. Read on...

New Trailers and Clips
The ghost of a Muppet Christmas past, a little girl dealing with melting ice-cap floods, a date for Armageddon, and five years of a little town full of strange science. Read on...

This Week: New Paperbacks
Newly released paperbacks in science-fiction and fantasy this week include books by Aaron Allston, Kevin J. Anderson, Piers Anthony, Philippa Ballantine, Rowena Cory Daniells, Lee Frazier, Laura Anne Gilman, Heather Graham, Kristine Grayson, Simon R. Green, Benedict Jacka, Suzanne McLeod, Adam Roberts, Gav Thorpe, and more. Read on...

This Week: New Hardcovers
James Stark is from hell, literally, and dealing with challengers to his new infernal throne (and a sociopathic ghost); a man who projects differently capable versions of himself is drawn into a the search for a paranormal camera; plus much more, including a guidebook to trolls, not one but two Mike Resnick anthologies, collections of Flash Gordon comics, Brian Aldiss essays, and E. M. Forster short stories, and a collaboration between a novelist and a veteran rock band. Read on...