Last month the Critics Choice Association showered indie sci-fi film Everything Everywhere All at Once with five wins out of fourteen nominations in their general awards.

In their Super Awards dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, horror and action, Everything only received four nominations, tied with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness in third place behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with five and The Batman with six.

Indie studio A24 who brought us Everything Everywhere All at Once are auctioning that film's props for charity (Laundry Workers Center, Transgender Law Center and Asian Mental Health Project).

Included are hot dog fingers and the Auditor of the Month / butt plug trophy.

This week we look at new star-studded climate change series Extrapolations,  meet Shazam's new nemesis-ters, a look at interplanetary adventure shooter Scars Above, highlights from IGN's FanFest and how to survive 65 million years in the past.

Sony have revealed a new third carrot sci-fi shooter Smells Like a Mushroom.

Could be well timed to capitalize on the popularity of HBO's The Last of Us series which features malevolent fungal zombies.

Thirteenth Doctor Who actor Jodie Whittaker has landed her first post Tardis role and it's in our backyard. Or on our beaches, rather.

She has temporarily relocated down under to film the six part series One Night (not sci-fi) set against the New South Wales coastline. Filming has already commenced in the Sydney and Illawarra region.

Directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan have won the Director's Guild of America top prize.

This follows a win for them at the Critics Choice Awards. They missed out at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

While Everything Everywhere All at Once was tied second for number of nominations (10) at this year's British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), it won only Best Editing (Paul Rogers).

Science fiction's only other win came courtesy of Avatar: The Way of Water for Best Special Visual Effects (Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon).

The past two weeks have been uncommonly quiet on the entertainment trailer and news fronts. We had put that down to Marvel (Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania) and Harry Potter (Hogwarts Legacy) but there was a third factor in the mix.

Folk were probably also holding back content for the IGN Fan Fest. Mostly gaming but also a dab of television and film.

Star Wars being a somewhat biggish franchise, they often make multiple news ripples in any given week and this is just such a one.

There's new lots of new info about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - combat stances, lightsaber combat and puzzle rooms. - a clip for The Mandalorian season 3 and Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn) has shared his opinion that there are too many Star Wars spinoffs.