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New Blu-rays are hitting the shelves this week, including the release of Scott Cooper's Antlers, and Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You!

Five Centimeters Per Second succeeds very well and left us feeling very satisfied afterward.

Film about closing doors opens in fall 2022 // Makoto Shinkai (your name., Weathering With You) revealed his new work Suzume no Tojimari (literally, Suzumes...

An alien world 10 times more massive than Jupiter is surviving where it shouldn't! And it's forcing astronomers to rethink planetary birth.

Real evidence of extraterrestrial life will come from a distant corner of space, not UFOs in our sky.

Counter Craft The long and short of novel lengths Share We like to pretend that art is art. That an author writes what they are inspired to write, with no concern but the voice of the muse. This is a useful fiction. It is good for writers to focus on the art when writing and worry about the business side later. But it is a fiction. Writers are aware of market demands, what kinds of novels get buzz, and what subjects award judges gravitate towards. Even writers with high artistic aspirations a...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Blazing Griffin releases 8th and final episode of the puzzle-solving detective game   ‘Makes you feel like a TV detective’ - Pocket Gamer Glasgow, 9 th April, episode 8 of Murder Mystery Machine, titled ’The Tyger and The Lamb’ is now available on Apple Arcade, wrapping up the season ahead of the game’s PC and Console release later in 2021...

In the title story of I’m Waiting For You, the first of Korean science fiction writer Kim Bo-Young’s works to be translated into English, the unnamed protagonist says he felt he was prepared for solo space travel because he’d once spent a few months without leaving his home. After a year in which so much of the world has experienced an even more extreme version of such isolation, that idea might seem trite. But then the character goes on to explain how wrong he was: That wasn’t actuall...

Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño review – more mysteries and enigmas Rob Doyle The executors of the Roberto Bolaño archive have us right where they want us. Like pushers who know we’re hooked enough to keep buying product of diminishing quality, every couple of years they staple together something new from the notebooks, loose papers and computer files Bolaño left behind when he died in 2003 and tack it to the end of his oeuvre. It mightn’t be long before we’re present...

RIP Mira Furlan, the Heart of Babylon 5 Share To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Babylon 5, has passed away. She was 65. The news was confirmed last night by Furlan’s own social media accounts, with a message shared from the actress reflecting on her life nearing its end, evoking ...