Insightful; scathing; eloquent; witty: a Jacob Edwards film review is like playing charades with a late-night entrenchment of university professors, all in danger of losing their faculties. Jacob clearly has high standards if low expectations, and when it comes to the cinema, he suffers death by a thousand ticket stubs. His critiques are cathartic, uproarious, irreverent and erudite, perhaps best served with digestifs. Beware, any filmmaker who spends less time and effort making a movie than Jacob does in reviewing it. Speculative fiction film reviews of: Tron Legacy; Paul; The Adjustment...

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #53 contains three stories. In "Restitution" Mitchell Edgeworth takes us back to the Black Swan, its crew double-crossed by the thief Nisha. In "Dodge Sidestep's (and Martin's) Final Dastardly Plan" regular TQF cover artist Howard Watts completes his absurdist musical trilogy. And "Rathfern's Menagerie" is a bodyswapping science fantasy from Allen Ashley. The issue also contains fifty pages of reviews by Jacob Edwards, Douglas Ogurek and Stephen Theaker.