Ed Fortune

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Journalist, Literary Editor and Columnist at Starburst Magazine

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AFRICAN KUNG FU NAZIS II Is Going on Tour!

2 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Martin Unsworth |Laura Potier |Ed Fortune

Following the cult success of African Kung Fu Nazis (as seen in STARBURST #488 – available here), director Sebastian Stein has come up with African Kung Fu Nazis II and it’s even crazier! This is one film every fan of exploitation cinema must see!Here’s the official synopsis:Seriously? Hitler is back again? And this time he is trying to become the President of Ghana? But wait…why is he acting so strangely? Could it be? Is he really a… Robotto??? The answers to these questions are yes, yes and yes.
2025 Hugo Award Finalists Announced

2 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Ed Fortune

The nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at Seattle Worldcon 2025. The Hugo Awards is a major indicator of the state of science fiction, as Worldcon members tend to be the genre’s most dedicated fans. They consume a great many new works of science fiction every year and are willing to travel across the world to attend genre book conventions. For this reason, the Hugos are followed closely by fans and professionals alike.
SPIDER-MAN 4 Title Announced To Be BRAND NEW DAY

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 is no longer untitled, with the CinemaCon announcement that the upcoming MCU feature is titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Holland appeared in a video clip to announce the title, and added, “Brand New Day is a fresh start”.
JOHN WICK Universe Expanding: All Updates

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

CinemaCon is always a news-rich time of year for film lovers, and Lionsgate’s presentation at the conference brought many updates on their Keanu Reeves-starring John Wick universe. The studio presentation kicked off with an extended look at the Len Wiseman and Ana de Armas spinoff film, Ballerina, the trailer for which released last year. Ballerina is due to hit cinemas on June 6th, 2025. Lionsgate announced that Shannon Tindle is directed an untitled animated movie from a script by Vanessa Taylor.
Brandon McCaffrey • SECRETS OF A WALLABY BOY

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

Paying homage to the cheeky Confessions comedies of the 1970s, Secrets of a Wallaby Boy follows a horny young gay chap who thinks his new job as a cycle courier might help score him some action. But he has no idea about the sinister truth behind Wallaby, Inc…With the film now available on Prime Video and Tubi, we spoke to some of its key cast and crew, including Brandon McCaffrey, who plays the lead role of Tim Coaster.
GROUPCHAT Screenlife Horror Releases Trailer

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

Host meets Dungeons & Dragons in GroupChat, a new screenlife horror for which the trailer has now been released. In GroupChat, a grieving game master’s new online role-playing adventure spirals into a deadly reality, trapping players in a supernatural fight for survival. “This is an insanely personal film to me, as I wrote it to help deal with the passing of my own father,” writer-director Dan Brownlie told Bloody Disgusting.
Count 'Em: Three Noteworthy Number Sequences Made Famous By Media

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Ed Fortune

In pop culture, all sorts of people, places, and things can become iconic for a variety of reasons. This even extends to numbers – ordinary things that often become in-jokes or sorrowful reminders, depending on how they were used in media. Here, we’ve gathered arguably the three most famous number sequences from the most ardent fandoms.
PERFORMANCE (1970)

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Ed Fortune |Laura Potier

Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance (1970) quickly became a cause célèbre when it was released and fifty-five years later retains its reputation as a classic piece of British cinema. I have never been able to understand the appeal of this movie, and believe me, I have tried more than once over the years and decided to give it one more attempt with the recently released Criterion presentation, which is the only time I have ever been able to watch this film from beginning to end.
Milanka Brooks • Black Mirror - USS Callister: Into Infinity

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

Milanka Brooks is an English Actress known for their work on movies such as Do Not Disturb and Gun Shy, audio dramas such as Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures and TV shows such as Boy Meets Girl and Black Mirror. Milanka has reprised her role as Elena Tulaska in Black Mirror’s first ever sequel episode, USS Callister: Into Infinity. We caught up with her to find out more. Why do you think Black Mirror fans were so keen to see USS Callister again?
THE TELEPHEMERA YEARS: 1972, part 1

3 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier |Martin Unsworth |Ed Fortune

Ah, telephemera… those shows whose stay with us was tantalisingly brief, snatched away before their time, and sometimes with good cause. They hit the schedules alongside established shows, hoping for a long run, but it’s not always to be, and for every Street Hawk there’s two Manimals.