SFX

Rob Graham, email Yes, The Rings Of Power is slow, and not as good as the classic movie trilogy, but it’s still intriguing and very enjoyable and looks visually stunning. House Of The Dragon, meanwhile, is turning into a worthy successor to Game Of T

WHENEVER HE TAKES ON A ROLE, PAUL Dano likes to chart out his character’s prior experiences beforehand. After Dano signed up to play the Prince of Puzzles in The Batman, director Matt Reeves was so impressed with his work that he passed it on to DC C

RELEASED IN 2007, ENCHANTED was both love letter to and spoof of the classic Disney fairy tale, in which Amy Adams’s (animated) soon-to-be Princess Giselle is catapulted into the real world by the evil Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon). With an impressi

DAN JURGENS AND HIS FELLOW creators didn’t envisage the Last Son of Krypton’s dramatic death at the hands of Doomsday becoming a defining moment for superhero comics when they first embarked upon The Death Of Superman. Serialised in four core titles

“WE KEEP MOVING INTO NEW directions because we’re curious,” says producer Roy Conli. “And I think curiosity should drive us well into the future.” He’s talking about the restless creative ambitions of Disney but could also be sharing the mission stat

Can I just hibernate in Laurie Strode’s house until spooky season comes back around again? I say that, but here at SFX we’re already looking ahead to the cover story for Christmas 2023 – and oh boy, what a long-awaited return that is! But I’m getting

WHEN THE HAGEMAN BROTHERS – Dan and Kevin – first pitched Star Trek: Prodigy, an animated canonical series aimed at a younger generation, they warned executives it wasn’t going to be a traditional Nickelodeon programme. What we got was, arguably, one

BEFORE EVEN A SINGLE SCENE HAS HIT screens, new CGI animation Transformers: EarthSpark has already been renewed for a second season. This, executive producers Ant Ward and Dale Malinowski say, is no small spark. “We have a very big story planned,” Ma

AHEAD OF NEXT year’s TV show, the Marvel Universe is enduring a second Secret Invasion this month at the hands of writer Ryan North and artist Francesco Mobili – although the shape-changing Skrulls’ latest incursion takes a very different form to the

IN THE ORIGINAL LET The Right One In movie, the father of child vampire Eli – spoiler alert – kills himself halfway through the film, first by disfiguring himself with acid, then offering his neck to his bloodthirsty daughter and finally falling from

IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH Quentin Dupieux’s filmography, you’ll know that it’s wildly idiosyncratic. Recent UK releases include Deerskin, about a deerskin jacket obsessive out to dispose of every other jacket in the world, and Mandibles, in which two d

BLENDING A RICH SWIRL OF social satire with the tooth-rattling bite of horror, black comedy The Menu promises to be a distinctive cinematic dish. “There’s obviously a symbiotic relationship between dramatic tension and comedic tension,” director Mark

BEST KNOWN FOR playing Ash in the Evil Dead films, Bruce Campbell wasn’t sure what hero to focus on when DC approached him about scripting what eventually became Sgt Rock vs The Army Of The Dead. “It was something completely out of the box,” he admit

Lileala is a pampered beauty prepping to be the Rare Indigo; she can literally shimmer. Following strange and sudden changes to her body, she morphs into a telepathic healer who penetrates the minds and souls of her ancestors, and uses her new awaren

IT WAS A TIME OF MAGIC, A TIME OF muscle-bound barbarians, of dragons named Vermithrax Pejorative, and of kinky demons who sound a lot like Dr Frank-N-Furter. But as the 1980s came to an end, Hollywood was starting to lose interest in swords, sorcery

The big question… We know Kit and Airk are Sorsha’s kids. Is Madmartigan their dad? Dempsey Bryk: I don’t know if we can say but we’re on the spot… I’ll tell you. It’s their kids. What’s the relationship like between the two twins? Bryk: I think that

How would you sum up Graydon? Graydon is a very smart introvert, the guy who’d rather be in a library reading about an adventure than actually going on an adventure. He’s fiercely loyal but a little socially awkward and naïve – even though he knows p

What do we need to know about Jade? Jade has a lot of feelings, but hates anything chaotic – it would just be a nightmare for her. She likes rules and she likes to be clear-headed, to know what the plan is. She’s a very structured, cool woman. How do

AUGUST 28, 2020: THE DAY THE WORLD lost actor Chadwick Aaron Boseman when he succumbed to his private battle with cancer. His passing shocked not only his legion of fans and many of his peers, but Marvel Studios as well. For five years, Boseman was t

AFTER 50 YEARS ON-SCREEN, THE creepy, kooky Addams Family are off to conquer streaming. But rather than family-based farce and morbid puns, Netflix’s Wednesday spins the deadpan Addams child off in her own series, grappling with life at boarding scho

THE TITANS ARE BACK IN ACTION, BUT THE fourth season of the superhero drama will explore new territory, namely the supernatural corner of this universe. The season three finale found the team claiming victory over Scarecrow and embarking on an RV roa

What attracted you to this role? Honestly, a big part of the reason why I did the show is because Wednesday is a Latina character, and that’s never been represented. Anytime I have an opportunity to represent my community or give other girls that loo

IT’S BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE DIRECTOR LUCA Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name shot Timothée Chalamet to fame, winning him an Oscar nomination for his role as a teenager experiencing his sexual awakening. No one could have predicted what might form their

How did you interpret Lee and Maren’s need to feed? For me, it felt like the cannibalism was a metaphor for what your ancestors leave you with – your immediate parents, but also the trauma that you’ve lived with from generations past. You wrestle wit

FOR THE LAST DECADE, screenwriters Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have been telling stories that exist in the spaces where humans and technology intersect. Person Of Interest, Westworld and Reminiscence are all set in near futures where the delights and do

IT WAS ON A DISMAL, OVERCAST DAY a few years back that Ben Willbond found himself on a train bulleting through Peterborough when a thought struck him. What if aliens invaded planet Earth and ended up in Cambridgeshire? As a comedy writer he immediate

What appealed to you about We Are Not Alone? • I thought the script had so much going for it, it had a real Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead-type energy. I mean, comedy writers who are actually funny are few and far between, and this is actually funny. Ar

Ben Bailey Smith ducks away from our Zoom chat for a few seconds. He returns holding a photograph of his six-year-old self at Christmas 1983, dressed as Darth Vader with a toy AT-AT at his feet. “The Darth Vader outfit was like a bin bag,” he laughs,

SOMETIMES YOU’VE GOT TO CLOSE a door to open a window. Alan Moore has retired from comics. It’s no exaggeration to say that, as the author of Watchmen, From Hell, V For Vendetta, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and many other all-time classics,

• Give the gift that keeps on delivering • Over 80m, agazines to choose from • Free delivery straight to your door www.magazinesdirect.com/XM22 Terms and conditions Offer closes 31/01/2023. Offer open to new UK subscribers only. Pricing is guaranteed

RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 125 minutes Director Jaume Collet-Serra Cast Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Pierce Brosnan Black Adam could be a watershed moment for the DCEU. Dwayne Johnson certainly wants it to be

RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 111 minutes Director David Gordon Green Cast Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, James Jude Courtney Can you make a good Halloween film without Michael Myers in it? And does anyone really want a mature, thoughtful

RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 115 minutes Director Parker Finn Cast Sosie Bacon, Jessie T Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey This highly effective scare machine should appeal to fans of It Follows and Ring. Its greatest strength is a recurring uncanny imag

RELEASED 23 NOVEMBER TBC | 130 minutes Director Luca Guadagnino Cast Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland At this point, Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet could reunite on absolutely any project that they want. So the fa

UK/US Prime Video, streaming now Showrunners JD Payne, Patrick McKay Cast Morfydd Clark, Markella Kavenagh, Robert Aramayo, Daniel Weyman EPISODES 1.01-1.08 The Rings Of Power is famously the most expensive TV show ever made. Whether there’s a degree

UK BBC One, now on iPlayer Showrunner Chris Chibnall Cast Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Sophie Aldred, Janet Fielding SPECIAL Where to begin with the way the Thirteen Doctor’s time ends? It’s a bit of a dog’s dinner, cooked up from a recipe of the le

UK/US Disney+, streaming now Showrunner Jessica Gao Cast Tatiana Maslany, Jameela Jamil, Tim Roth, Mark Ruffalo EPISODES 1.01-1.09 Marvel is taking the piss. Both out of itself and the kind of internet haters who were always going to loathe She-Hulk

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunners Mike Flanagan, Leah Fong Cast Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Heather Langenkamp EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Mike Flanagan’s latest (co-created with Leah Fong and based on the 1994 YA book by Christopher Pike) is

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunner Joe Barton Cast Jay Lycurgo, Nadia Parkes, Emilien Vekemans, Paul Ready EPISODES 1.01-1.08 Lumbered with a clumsy name for its Netflix debut, this adaptation of Half Bad – Sally Green’s somewhat more daintily t

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1963-1966 | 15 | Blu-ray Directors Massimo Pupillo, Alberto De Martino, Mino Guerrini, Damiano Damiani Cast Gordon Mitchell, Gérard Tichy, Franco Nero, Rosanna Schiaffino BLU-RAY DEBUT Grand residences are about the only pers

EXTRAS RELEASED 7 NOVEMBER 1977 | 15 | Blu-ray Director Robert Wise Cast Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift BLU-RAY DEBUT A ’70s movie based on a popular novel, which sees a well-to-do American family’s life turned upside down by t

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | Download (also in selected cinemas) Directors Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper Cast Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake Detailed and imaginative worldbuilding is the main draw of this Lithuanian/Fre

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1970 | 15 | Blu-ray Director Roddy McDowall Cast Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Cyril Cusack, Richard Wattis BLU-RAY DEBUT The latest BFI Flipside rarity takes its name from a 16th century ballad about a man captured by the queen

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 16+ | Disney+ Director Michael Giacchino Cast Gael Garcia Bernal, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R Thatcher DISNEY+ Ostensibly a showcase for one of Marvel’s more obscure players, this Halloween one-shot stakes a

RELEASED OUT NOW! 256 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author George Saunders Publisher Blooomsbury Publishing All science fiction fans are grimly familiar with the idea that readers of literary fiction can be rather sniffy about the field. What’s le

RELEASED OUT NOW! 288 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Veronica Roth Publisher Hodder & Stoughton When you’ve made your name as an author who likes to dabble in the odd dystopia – as Veronica Roth has done with her Divergent and Carve The Mark

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Writer Priest Artist Rafa Sandoval ISSUES 1-4 As the movie tagline “The world needed a hero. It got Black Adam” indicates, launching a new monthly title featuring a morally questionable, seemingly immortal despot

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Editors Ben Abernathy, Kristy Quinn Artist Artists: Various SPECIAL ISSUE DC’s latest addition to their regular torrent of bumper-sized anthology celebrations sees them toasting three decades of candy-coloured cr

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Black Label Writer Ram V Artist Christian Ward ISSUES 1-3 Cosmic Horror is not a genre you’d normally associate with DC’s underwater superhero Aquaman, but this three-issue miniseries does a spirited job of exploring th