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Rob Graham, email Good to see classic sci-fi novels getting adapted for both big and small screen, with Arthur C Clarke’s Rendevous With Rama coming soon and hopefully the rest of the Dune series to follow. I’m enjoying Foundation, which could be a r

PREPARE FOR THE fur to fly in Catwoman: Hunted. The new animated DC film finds Batman’s most cunning adversary pulling off her latest caper: stealing a priceless jewel. However, when the escapade goes awry, it pits the notorious cat burglar against a

THE FIRST SEASON OF RESIDENT Alien ended on some bullshit. Well, at least, that’s how its titular alien (played by Alan Tudyk) put it in the final scene when he realised that his young human frenemy Max Hawthorne (Judah Prehn) had stowed away on his

BARDS WILL SURELY be singing the praises of The Legend Of Vox Machina for years to come. The tale goes that Critical Role – a group of friends who met as voiceover actors – began livestreaming their Dungeons & Dragons games. Soon enough, they launche

THE LAST EXORCISM director Daniel Stamm is taking another crack at the subject in The Devil’s Light. The supernatural horror follows Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers), a 25-year-old nun convinced that evicting malevolent spirits from people is her callin

FOLLOWING IN Deadpool’s footsteps, Prophet could soon become the latest of Rob Liefeld’s creations to hit the big screen. Jake Gyllenhaal is poised to play the lead role of super-soldier John Prophet, directed by Extraction’s Sam Hargrave and scripte

EVER MADE A LIFEchanging choice and then panicked about the repercussions? That’s what’s facing former cult member and current nanny Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) in the latest, third season of Apple TV+’s horror drama Servant. After killing Josep

WAR CHANGES PEOPLE, sometimes in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. In Amulet, the debut feature from writer/director Romola Garai, ex-soldier Tomaz moves into a house in London after fleeing his war-torn home country. But while he quickly strikes

FOUR DECADES AFTER launching Doctor Who Weekly, Dez Skinn is returning to Gallifrey’s finest, teaming up with Cutaway Comics to edit a special collected edition of Demon Of Eden. Formerly The Demons Of Eden, Ian Winterton and Martin Geraghty’s sequel

WITH ITS LINE-UP infamously including the ghostly spirit of Princess Diana, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s X-Statix was a wry, superpowered reflection of the pop culture of the early years of the new millennium. Now, two decades after their last ap

A SELF-DESCRIBED “HORROR HEAD”, Benjamin Percy has always had a penchant for “dark, nasty and weird” anti-heroes like Man-Thing, Werewolf By Night, John Constantine and most especially Ghost Rider. Now the Wolverine scribe is resurrecting original Sp

Tell us about your protagonist – what’s her story? Joan has just learned the truth: her family aren’t just eccentric, they’re monsters with terrifying hidden powers. And the cute guy at work is actually a legendary monster slayer who’ll do anything t

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS we know it, and Station Eleven showrunner Patrick Somerville wants you to feel fine. Or at least more optimistic than the standard post-apocalyptic scenario. “If eight billion people die between episodes one and two, what

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WHEN SFX catches up with the cast and crew of Star Trek: Picard, production has resumed on the final two episodes of season three. Announced at 2021’s Star Trek Day, filming took place consecutively with season two. Akiva Goldsman says there was alwa

What was the first conversation you had with Terry Matalas about returning as Q? The first thing he said was, “I’m sure you expected this to take place.” I said, “Well, no, actually I didn’t, Terry. There were many other opportunities along the way,

How did you feel about the first season of Picard? Oh, I was very, very pleased. Even though there had been a lot of preparation for season one, which included two long meetings between myself and the producers, in which I explained to them in detail

Roland Emmerich has decimated the Earth over and over. The master of disaster obliterated major cities in Independence Day, turned the planet into a frozen wasteland in The Day After Tomorrow, and ravaged the globe with seismic catastrophes in 2012.

Because Flux was a six-parter, we knew that sets would be coming back, but we didn’t actually know when. So it was a bit difficult, to start with, with our organising. Usually when we do an episode we just build for that, then strike the sets and go

TALK ABOUT IMMACULATE conception. Raised By Wolves’ first season culminated with the somehow pregnant android Mother giving birth to a massive flying snake. This bonkers twist is par for the course for the sci-fi series, centred on two robots seeking

After the 40th anniversary’s ruby celebration, are you commemorating 2000 AD’s 45th with any special theme? I’m going for a music-related theme, tying in to 45rpm. Hence Tharg spinning discs on Brian Bolland’s cover of the anniversary issue, which li

FIRST PUBLISHED IN February 1977, 2000 AD has truly established itself as the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic over the past four and a half decades, thrilling Earthlets with the weekly adventures of classic characters such as Nemesis the Warlock, Slaine, Rog

It’s been over 40 years since Bruce Campbell and his friend Sam Raimi went to a remote cabin in Tennessee to make a scary movie. The Evil Dead became one of the greatest horror films ever made and cemented Campbell as one of the genre’s icons. Now he

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 148 minutes Director Lana Wachowski Cast Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne-Moss, Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris Early on in The Matrix Resurrections, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Morpheus 2.0 giv

DIRECTOR HENRY SELICK WAS ONLY halfway through The Nightmare Before Christmas when he started thinking about what he should do next. After years spent plugging away as a stopmotion animator at places like MTV and Disney, he’d finally established his

RELEASED 11 FEBRUARY 18 | 146 minutes Director Kirill Serebrennikov Cast Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Yuri Kolokolnikov Potentially more divisive than a poem screamed into a library, Petrov’s Flu has a punk rock devotion to its own tone-deaf voi

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 148 minutes Director Jon Watts Cast Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei Across the two previous films, the Marvel/Sony partnership produced fun, energetic and (mostly) small-scale Spider-Man movies starring Tom H

RELEASED 28 JANUARY 15 | 99 minutes Director Romola Garai Cast Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Angeliki Papoulia, Imelda Staunton Actor Romola Garai’s first time behind the camera is one of those indie horrors – Caveat and Possum are other recent example

UK/US Disney+, streaming now Showrunner Jonathan Igla Cast Hailee Steinfeld, Jeremy Renner, Vera Farmiga, Alaqua Cox, Tony Dalton, Florence Pugh EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Christmas 2021 was a double whammy for Marvel, with Spidey ruling the big screen and H

UK Disney+, streaming now US Hulu, streaming now Showrunners Will Speck, Josh Gordon Cast Jason Sudeikis, Fred Tatasciore, Olivia Munn, George Takei EPISODES 1.01-1.10 How’s this for a needlessly convoluted premise? Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) is an injur

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Director Choi Hang-yong Cast Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, Lee Joon, Kim Sun-young EPISODES 1.01-1.08 With K-dramas currently on-trend among cult TV connoisseurs, Netflix is no doubt hoping to pique the interest of a post-Squid Ga

UK/US Prime, streaming now Showrunner Rafe Judkins Cast Rosamund Pike, Zoë Robins, Daniel Henney, Madeleine Madden EPISODES 1.01-1.08 When Jeff Bezos banged his glove made of gold onto his table made of money, demanding that his underlings bring him

UK/US Apple TV+, streaming now Showrunners Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson Cast Karen Prell, John Tartaglia, Donna Kimball, Jordan Lockhart EPISODES 1.01-1.13 There’s a worrying moment at the start of Back To The Rock when the series opens with a song

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Cast Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Joey Batey EPISODES 2.01-2.08 It may have been a smash hit for Netflix but The Witcher’s first season had its fair share of problems. This

EXTRAS RELEASED 31 JANUARY (download out now) 2021 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director Jason Reitman Cast Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace Nearly four decades after Messrs Spengler, Stantz, Venkman and Zeddemore fir

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 18 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director David Gordon Green Cast Jamie-Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall We turn to the Halloween franchise for tension and brutal murders, not social c

EXTRAS RELEASED 31 JANUARY (download out now) 2021 | 18 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director Edgar Wright Cast Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg Continuing his tour of film genres, Edgar Wright arrives at psychologic

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 15 | SVOD Director Mattson Tomlin Cast Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo NETFLIX This comparatively low-key post-apocalypse reminds us that even after a robot uprising which has decimated humanity, it’s not advis

EXTRAS RELEASED 7 FEBRUARY 1980 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Joseph Ellison Cast Dan Grimaldi, Charlie Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Osth BLU-RAY DEBUT Psycho straps on a flamethrower in this grim horror, as an abused momma’s boy takes revenge on her sex, kil

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC | SVOD Director Edoardo Vitaletti Cast Stefanie Scott, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rory Culkin, Judith Roberts SHUDDER Human cruelty and the crush of religious dogma are equal horrors to the dark arts in this period chiller. We may

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Director Leos Carax Cast Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell Devised by Ron and Russell Mael of pop ironists Sparks, Annette draws inspiration from Jacques Demy’s 1964 classic

EXTRAS RELEASED 31 JANUARY 2021 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Prano Bailey-Bond Cast Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Michael Smiley, Sophia La Porta, Vincent Franklin Does watching violent material inevitably lead to violence? It’s a question Prano Bailey-Bon

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2001 | 15 |Blu-ray Director Brad Anderson Cast Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Lucas BLU-RAY DEBUT An abandoned mental hospital horror that’s actually worth your time! Rather than the usual teens on a dar

RELEASED 17 FEBRUARY 448 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Daniel Abraham Publisher Orbit Books Welcome to Kithamar, ancient city on the river Khahon, home to plague and pickpockets. Daniel Abraham builds this world with all the confident craft

RELEASED 3 FEBRUARY 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Thomas Olde Heuvelt Publisher Hodder & Stoughton What is it that drives some people to climb mountains? Putting your life on the line, Free Solo-style, for some intangible sense of accom

RELEASED 3 FEBRUARY 304 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Adam Roberts Publisher Gollancz Social media is bad. Anyone who uses social media knows this, because people say it on social media all the time. So will the thing that comes after it be

RELEASED 15 FEBRUARY 400 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Gareth L Powell Publisher Titan Books Humanity has become a spacefaring civilisation, but not in a manner inducing confidence that a Star Trek-style utopian future lies ahead. That’s because hum

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writer Jonathan Hickman Artists Valerio Schiti, Stefano Caselli, RB Silva ISSUES 1-4 Sometimes, there is such a thing as “too successful”. Case in point: Jonathan Hickman’s 2019 relaunch of the X-Men – via th

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC/Black Label Writer Tom King Artist Greg Smallwood ISSUES 1-3 Writer Tom King’s quest to bring unexpected depth to the DC Universe’s lesser-known edges continues with his latest 12-issue Black Label miniseries. Following

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PC Also on Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X Publisher Thunderful Games VIDEOGAME Despite what the grungy title might lead you to believe, The Gunk is a routinely beautiful, often enjoyable, but disappointingly brief interplanet

RELEASED OUT NOW! 140 minutes | Podcast Publisher Radio 4/BBC Sounds AUDIO DRAMA All of Piers Corbyn’s worst nightmares come true in this sporadically compelling but largely limp five-part BBC drama, which posits a post-Covid-19 future in which the m

RELEASED OUT NOW! 311 minutes | CD/download Publisher Big Finish AUDIO DRAMA It’s 50 years since Peladon first appeared in Doctor Who, and Big Finish is celebrating with a set of four stories based on the planet. “The Order Of Peladon” sees David Tro

Which stocky, beakless seabirds could you find on the planet Ahch-To? Which type of bird was Manimal able to transform into? Clue: it’s not a budgerigar. Which Doctor Who companion had an avian nickname? (And no, we’re not after Polly…) What’s the na

Doctor Who More behind-the-scenes exclusives from Flux Unwelcome The property comes with a few small conditions… Silverpoint The BBC’s newest sci-fi series has arrived Shining Vale House always wins! Seaquest DSV *Dolphin clicking noises* SFX 350 ON

Growing up in Hong Kong, I was surrounded by a mixture of Western and East Asian pop culture. On the English language TVB Pearl, you’d find anime like Marine Boy alongside Hanna-Barbera cartoons, while over on the Cantonese language TVB Jade, they ha