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We couldn’t let the season finale of Doctor Who pass without one last – for now! – cover. It’s been quite the journey, not only for everyone involved in re-launching the show, but for us at SFX. It takes a lot of work to get the kind of access we’ve

FANS OF THE SNOWPIERCER series have had to be a patient lot. The third season finale aired way back in 2022. While the fourth season finished production that same year, the show fell into television limbo when its home network TNT stopped airing orig

AFTER BRINGING ALL OF HIS many characters together in last year’s Big Game, Mark Millar is now entering a new era after shifting Millarworld to Dark Horse Comics, beginning with Nemesis: Rogues’ Gallery and continuing in Prodigy: Slaves Of Mars, whos

WHEN FUTURAMA WAS resurrected for a third time in July of last year, critics and fans alike wondered if the fact that the Planet Express crew had been in mothballs for a decade would diminish the potency of the show’s wit. But the 10 new episodes of

GROWING UP IN “THE BOONIES of Oregon”, Gail Simone was fascinated by comics from around the world, but it wasn’t until later in life that she discovered classic 1970s British girls’ weekly Misty, which she describes as “like catnip to me due to my lo

SOMETIMES YOU WANT to go where everybody knows your name – even if that name provokes nothing but titters, smirks and eye-rolls. “What we really wanted to do was Cheers with villains,” says Dean Lorey, executive producer of Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, the

FIRST PUBLISHED BY KING Features Syndicate in 1934, Flash Gordon’s appeal has proved to be truly timeless, with the character appearing not only in Alex Raymond and Don Moore’s long-running newspaper strip but also radio serials, television shows, fi

GROWING UP READING BRITISH girls’ weeklies like Tammy and Bunty, the only Marvel character that Lisa Jewell has ever felt any connection with is Jessica Jones. Now the superhero-turned-PI is the focus of the author’s latest novel Breaking The Dark, t

WHEN DISNEY ACQUIRED FOX, SUPERHERO geekdom erupted with joy. Marvel Studios could finally incorporate the X-Men into its cinematic universe! For Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool, though, the merger created a question: could the Merc with a Mouth exist withi

♦ Sylvester McCoy’s 1988 season will be the next Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-ray. Season 25 is due for release later this year and will include a host of brand new special features, including extended versions of all four stories and new special e

Tell us about your protagonist. → Aila followed her childhood dream and is now head zookeeper for the critically endangered Silimalo phoenix – but is also an anxious bi disaster who has an easier time talking to animals than people. Any other magical

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WEDNESDAY 5 July, 2023. SFX is standing on the set of the Remembered TARDIS – completely new to us at this point, though readers will have seen our previous Tales Of The TARDIS set report before that first hit iPlayer in November. Confused? No, we’re

♦ K-9’s head on a roundel ♦ Raggedy Doctor doll ♦ Various TARDIS keys ♦ Seal of Rassilon on a Yankee Candle jar ♦ Fez on a Toclafane ♦ Reinette’s fireplace ♦ Fourth Doctor’s scarf ♦ Sixth Doctor’s coat and cravat ♦ History Of The Time War book ♦ Port

HERE AT SFX WE’VE INTERVIEWED a universe of Doctor Who stars over the years. But it was a singular thrill to meet William Russell. Perhaps it was the fact he had been there at the very beginning. As schoolteacher Ian Chesterton he had been whisked fr

WHEN SFX CATCHES UP with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies in his office at Wolf Studios in Cardiff, he is – as you might expect from someone overseeing the Whoniverse – very busy. He’s sending notes on someone’s script and about to go and watch

THINK BACK TO EARLY 2019, A TIME when the Avengers were yet to face their endgame, and the words “superhero” and “fatigue” were rarely mentioned in the same sentence. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was still 100% cinematic, The Boys were yet to push t

DOGS REALLY are man’s best friend. Just ask Eli Roth, the director of Hostel and Thanksgiving, who has his French Bulldog to thank for landing the Borderlands gig. “Whenever I take her for a walk and she has to go to the bathroom, she won’t let me lo

GEN XERS GREW UP WITH SOME REALLY bizarre and dark films aimed right at their unsuspecting kid brains. There was a veritable smorgasbord of titles that caused nightmares and My First Existential Spiral, including Watership Down (1978), Gremlins (1984

It starts with canon. Antedians had existed, they were like blue fish-heads with a giant kind of Christmas tinsel-y looking costume. I looked at the structure of that first and that shape that’s so specific. How do we do that in a modern way? How do

"THE STARTING POINT WAS ALWAYS a slasher film from the killer’s perspective,” says Chris Nash, whose debut directorial feature In A Violent Nature considers horror from another point of view. When developing his innovative concept, he took inspiratio

“Of course we were doubting ourselves at some points in time, but I never wanted to have a score for this film,” says Nash of one of his stylistic choices. “Music itself is such an immediate manipulation of feelings. Nothing gets me to a specific emo

What was it like beginning your Walking Dead experience? AL: I just didn’t want to be fired. Because I was a Brit and I just was like, “Why have they got me in the middle of this iconic series?” Frank Darabont, he wrote [screenplays for] The Shawshan

THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT CHINA MIÉVILLE’S work helped define genre fiction at the turn of the century. Although not his first novel, 2000’s Perdido Street Station combined dark fantasy, socialist politics and richly detailed world-building to stunning e

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 99 minutes Director Michael Sarnoski Cast Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou In the original A Quiet Place, we only had a few newspaper headlines pinned up around John Krasinski’s CCTV monitors to explain

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 102 minutes Director Ishana Night Shyamalan Cast Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Oliver Finnegan Adapted from AM Shine’s folk horror novel The Watchers, The Watched marks Ishana Night Shyamalan’s film directing

RELEASED OUT NOW! U | 96 minutes Director Kelsey Mann Cast Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman Thank heavens this sequel doesn’t let down one of Pixar’s finest films. Young Riley’s emotional tribulations continue as she hits 13

RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 104 minutes Director Ti West Cast Mia Goth, Kevin Bacon, Giancarlo Esposito, Elizabeth Debicki Ti West’s X trilogy has always been one step ahead. The first film saw a group of ’70s porn stars being slaughtered by a sexually fr

RELEASED 12 JULY TBC | 101 minutes Director Oz Perkins Cast Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt While most horror movies cleave to being supernatural or not, Longlegs is an intriguing combination of the two, part Silence Of The L

RYAN REYNOLDS AND HUGH JACKMAN SMASH THE MCU’S FOURTH WALL IN DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE■

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1982/1984/1987 | 15 | Blu-ray Director Jean-Pierre Mocky Cast Marie-José Nat, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Mocky BLU-RAY DEBUT Prodigiously productive (his Wikipedia page lists 67 features), the late French direct

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1980 | 18 | 4K/Blu-ray Director Joe D’Amato Cast Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini Memorable movie rabbits: go! There’s Roger of course, Harvey, and Thumper. But the bunny seared into the mind of many

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 | PG | SVOD Directors Shannon Tindle, John Aoshima Cast Christopher Sean, Gedde Watanabe, Keone Young, Tamlyn Tomita NETFLIX Netflix switches gears with its second original contribution to the Ultra franchise, swapping the teen

RELEASED 29 JULY 1967 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Director Terence Fisher Cast Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow As well as ploughing through Tigon’s back catalogue, 88 Films is reviving the output of fellow British distributor Planet

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | PG | SVOD Directors Yoshiyuki Momose Cast Kokoro Terada, Rio Suzuki/Louie Rudge-Buchanan, Evie Kiszel NETFLIX Director Yoshiyuki Momose and scriptwriter/producer Yoshiaki Nishimura cement their status as the heirs to Hayao Mi

RELEASED 15 JULY 1984 | 12 | 4K/Blu-ray Director Nick Castle Cast Lance Guest, Dan O’Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart BLU-RAY DEBUT This kid-friendly ‘’80s space opera may feel like a patchwork of familiar elements, but its good-natured charm is irres

RELEASED 24 JUNE 1962 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD Director Sidney Hayers Cast Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls BLU-RAY DEBUT Campus politics takes a deadly turn in the latest entry in StudioCanal’s Cult Classics line. Based on

SPOILER WARNING! UK: BBC One/iPlayer, streaming now US: Disney+, streaming now Showrunner Russell T Davies Cast Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Bonnie Langford, Michelle Greenidge EPISODES 1.01-1.08 Now that the dust of death has settled, what does Ncuti

UK/US Apple TV+, streaming now Showrunner Bobs Gannaway Cast Jeanine Mason, Teri Hatcher, Brad Garrett, Gary Anthony Williams EPISODES 1.01-1.07 Skydance Animation has teamed up with Apple before – their not-entirely successful film Luck even gets an

UK/US Prime Video, streaming now Showrunner Gemma Burgess Cast Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel, Jordan Peters, Anna Chancellor EPISODES 1.01-1.08 In the chaos that followed Henry VIII’s death and the short reign of his sickly son, Edward VI, Henry’s grea

UK Paramount+, streaming now, Thursdays US MGM+, streaming now Showrunner Zak Penn Cast Lena Headey, Stephan James, Stephen Root, Wade Bogert-O’Brien EPISODES 1.01-1.08 There are plenty of people who wonder whether anyone is watching Apple’s TV outpu

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Creator Rapman Cast Tosin Cole, Adelayo Adedayo, Calvin Demba, Eddie Marsan EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Writer/director Rapman pitched Supacell as Heroes in London – and it’s a summary that’s hard to best. Five seemingly normal So

What is your daily writing routine like? ◗ I don’t have one! That may be disappointing for readers looking to find a suggestion for a replicable schedule formula, but it’s true. I write where and when I can. Do you find it helpful to listen to music

RELEASED 23 JULY 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Authors Keanu Reeves, China Miéville Publisher Del Rey Yes, that Keanu Reeves. If you’ve not been following comics closely then you may not be aware that the once and future Ted “Theodore” Logan h

RELEASED OUT NOW! 688 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Lev Grossman Publisher Del Rey Old and modern meet in this thrilling new interpretation of the Arthurian mythos from Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians. He situates his tale in the tumult of sixt

RELEASED OUT NOW! 201 pages/190 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Authors Georgia Cook, Una McCormack Publisher BBC Books Need some Fifteenth Doctor content to tide you over until the Christmas special? These two original novels should do the trick. G

A blood-spattered prologue sets the scene for India’s first grimdark fantasy novel. The stench of split flesh from the carcasses of the Children of Light wafted out to mock his hunger. The wolves had come, and then left without feeding. Ravens circle

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writer Cody Ziglar Artist Rogê Antônio ISSUES 1-3 With Deadpool & Wolverine hitting cinemas soon – and increasingly seeming like the MCU’s best hope for reigniting some of the old buzz – it’s no surprise to s

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Black Label Writer Mark Russell Artist Mike Allred ISSUES 1-3 One of the biggest problems with the 2022 Superman miniseries Space Age was the way it got distracted by a Batman-related subplot, so it’s probably sensible

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PC Also on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch Publisher Digital Eclipse VIDEOGAME We’re not sure exactly what dented the sanity of Trebor, the titular mad overlord of Wizardry, but the merciless nature of early

RELEASED 17 JULY Running time 185 minutes Format CD/download Publisher Big Finish AUDIO DRAMA While the majority of Big Finish’s Doctor Who output is original material, the company has occasionally adapted stories from Virgin’s long out-of-print New

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on iOS Also on Android, Nintendo Switch Publisher Lucasfilm Games/Zynga VIDEOGAME Giving popular videogame formats a Star Wars-flavoured makeover is almost as old as the franchise itself, and Hunters goes back to that extre

RELEASED OUT NOW! Running time 140 minutes Directors John Norton, Fay Lomas Broadcaster Radio 4 (now streaming on BBC Sounds) AUDIO DRAMA The latest entry in drama strand Limelight, this five-parter is the brainchild of writer Matthew Broughton, crea

Make no mistake, Batman Returns is the best Batman movie – and my personal favourite film ever – but it’s about time we gave the fourth instalment another chance. Yes, I’m talking about Batman & Robin. It’s come back into focus recently due to compar