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Keith Tudor, email It was great to see the Sea Devils return in the Doctor Who Easter special. I enjoyed their classic look, and I liked the ambition of the episode. It did, however, feel incomplete. One moment the Doctor and Yaz are trapped in the S

AFTER A BRIEF sojourn in streaming television with Devs, writer/director Alex Garland is back to cinematic storytelling with his latest Men, a thoughtful yet challenging exploration of horror, myth and toxic masculinity. It stars Jessie Buckley as Ha

IRENE (SISSY SPACEK) and Franklin York (JK Simmons) are harbouring a secret in Night Sky – a cosmicsized secret. The TV series centres on the elderly married couple, who years ago uncovered a chamber in their backyard. This otherworldly structure gra

SET IN A WORLD POPULATED BY genetically-altered superhumans, George RR Martin and Melinda M Snodgrass’s shared universe anthology Wild Cards has previously enjoyed several original comic book spin-offs. Now, scripted by Paul Cornell – who’s contribut

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: LONDON takes place at Picturehouse Central in London from 9-12 June, with additional festival screenings taking place in cinemas across the UK. Two premieres of particular interest to SFX readers are Brian And Charles and Hatc

COINCIDING WITH his 60th anniversary, Ant-Man is returning in a new miniseries by writer Al Ewing and artist Tom Reilly. It focuses not only on the miniature Avenger’s current incarnation Scott Lang, but also highlights the other two holders of the s

Tell us about your protagonist. Sylah was destined to rule the empire, trained by rebels to one day infiltrate the upper class. But the massacre of her family cuts her destiny short, so she turns to drugs and drink to numb her days. How does magic wo

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THE PLANETARY Union’s mid-level exploratory vessel USS Orville has a bit of swagger about her this year. Yes, she’s had some work done, but it’s more than just cosmetic. As the formerly comedic sci-fi show returns for a third season – subtitled New H

Episode one starts big – how long does it take to create those effects? It usually takes, on a normal television schedule for a network, about eight to 10 weeks. For our new streaming Hulu experience, we’ve dedicated about 20 to 24 weeks per episode.

Where is New Horizons taking the viewer, in your opinion? I never thought that Seth MacFarlane could one-up the second season, but he’s done it. This season, I just can’t believe what he accomplished as a director and writer. These mini-movies gave h

OVER THE 14 YEARS THAT MARVEL STUDIOS has been making movies, and now streaming series on Disney+, its ongoing successes have fed a mission to expand the narrow definition of who a superhero can be in the cultural zeitgeist by showcasing characters l

Kamala was your first audition. How did you land her? I got the casting call through a WhatsApp forward, which is like the Brownest way this could have happened. My aunt was like, “You’ve read all the comics, just go for it.” I sent my headshot and a

Where do we find Owen at the beginning of Dominion? Owen is living a little bit off the grid, because they have taken responsibility for Maisie. Over the course of this film, there’s a particular reason why she is so wanted by the baddies. Claire and

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION – the conclusion of the Jurassic World saga – could have simply ould have simply rehashed the formulas of its successors, that gobbled up over $2.9 billion at the worldwide box office. But that kind of lacklustre and uninspire

NEVER DARE, double-dare or triple-dare Eric Kripke. Ever since the Supernatural creator landed the gig as showrunner of The Boys – the TV series about corrupt superheroes and the covert vigilante group intent on exposing their dirty little secrets –

After 15 seasons of Supernatural, what made Soldier Boy a role you could sink your teeth into? Any opportunity to get to play in a world created, or shepherded by, Eric Kripke, is one that I will blindly sign up for. I love the experience that he giv

ORIGINAL MOVIES or prequels? Which you prefer depends greatly on your own point of view – or at the very least, when you were born. Nonetheless, there’s one character who straddles both eras of Star Wars storytelling like a bearded colossus, a Jedi M

It’s been almost 30 years since Jurassic Park. How surprised were you to get that call for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom? I think I was surprised. How did that happen? I’m trying to remember. Wait a minute. “Oh, they’re doing a second Jurassic World

Where do we find Obi-Wan Kenobi when the story begins? The Jedi Order are decimated, everyone’s gone into hiding, and nobody can risk contacting one another. Obi-Wan lost his brother and his best friend to the Dark Side and I think feels entirely res

We’ve not seen Darth Vader at this point in the Star Wars timeline. What’s his state of mind? Darth Vader is very focused on finding Obi-Wan Kenobi. He feels like there’s some unsettled business, but he’s very much driven by his anger. He’s still ree

WE ARE ROLLING!” COMES the cry. “SFX are hot!” Why, thank you. Ah… apparently they don’t mean us, but the squibs on a stuntman’s chest, ready to be activated by an effects person. A group of neatly lined-up squaddies present arms, cock their weapons,

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR MAY HAVE become a superstar but he was also an action figure, a child’s plaything, a T-O-Y – and not even a flying one at that. It turns out, however, that even pretend Space Rangers come from somewhere… Lightyear, Pixar’s 26th movie,

HOW DO YOU PICK BETWEEN IDEAS, DECIDE which project is worth investing time in? JM Miro (aka Steven Price) can remember precisely how his Talents Series made its way to the top of the to-do list. He’d just arrived home and his wife, Washington Black

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 139 minutes Directors Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Cast Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis A crazed music video where a man smashes through an apartment building; a touching buddy comedy in which Paul

RELEASED 10 JUNE 15 | 93 minutes Director Andrew Gaynord Cast Tom Stourton, Dustin Demi-Burns, Georgina Campbell There is nothing more British than our penchant for casual cruelty disguised as having a laugh. This is banter island. Insults are traded

RELEASED 1 JUNE 15 | 100 minutes Director Alex Garland Cast Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin The claustrophobic unease of Ex Machina. The corrupted bodies of Annihilation. The nightmarish fatalism of Devs. Lurking beneath the

UK/US Disney+, all streaming now Showrunner Jeremy Slater Cast Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, F Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke, Ann Akinjirin And now for something completely different. Or is it? A Marvel series about a superhero with mental

UK STARZPLAY, streaming now US STARZ, streaming now Creators Jeff Astrof, Sharon Horgan Cast Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear, Gus Birney, Mira Sorvino Your tolerance for this horror sitcom will probably depend upon how bored you get watching Courteney Co

UK/US Apple TV+, Fridays Showrunner Silka Luisa Cast Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Jamie Bell, Phillipa Soo Anyone jonesing for the return of The Handmaid’s Tale could probably fend off the shakes with this one-off series, which foregrounds Elisabeth

UK Sky Max, Fridays/all streaming on NOW Showrunner Pete McTighe Cast Clara Rugaard, Nicholas Gleaves, Matthew McNulty, Nenda Neururer Imagine, if you will, Broadchurch as penned by MR James. Or maybe Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) redone as a bleak

UK BBC One, all on iPlayer Director Koby Adom Cast Masali Baduza, Jack Rowan, Helen Baxendale, Paterson Joseph It took so long for another series of this TV take on Malorie Blackman’s YA book to be announced that we rather assumed the axe had fallen.

UK/US Prime Video, all streaming now Creator Brian Watkins Cast Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Tom Pelphrey It’s less “Home On The Range” and more “Hole On The Range” in this oddball show, which brings high weirdness to rural Wyoming. Josh B

RELEASED 20 MAY/6 JUNE Director Eskil Vogt Cast Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim Young children can be very cruel sometimes, especially if they haven’t yet fully developed a sense of empathy for the

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1982 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Chung Sun Cast Lau Wing, Chen Kuan-Tai, Lo Lieh, Tien Ni This Shaw Brothers horror/wuxia hybrid puts a gruesome spin on the Chinese tradition of paper lanterns. At first it looks to have a monstrous anta

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | SVOD Director Rob Jabbaz Cast Berant Zhu, Regina Lei, Tzu-Chiang Wang An Infected movie even the Marquis de Sade might have blanched at, this Taiwan-set shocker weds the pessimism of George Romero’s work, Society’s orgi

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1995 | 15 | Blu-ray Director Robert Longo Cast Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Takeshi, Ice-T Nothing dates like the future, as Johnny Mnemonic proves. Based on a short story by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson, this tale of a data courie

RELEASED 6 JUNE 2022 | 15 | Download Also in selected cinemas from 3 June Director Rob Savage Cast Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro, Mogali Masuku Rob Savage’s follow-up to the terrifying virtual seance in Host is another pandemic-speci

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD/download Director Roland Emmerich Cast Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, John Bradley, Michael Peña From its title down, Moonfall is a movie in thrall to the gravity of its own preposterous premise: Earth’s satell

RELEASED 26 MAY 320 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Alastair Reynolds Publisher Gollancz There are good reasons why Alastair Reynolds has a reputation for crafting big science fiction. His debut novel Revelation Space (2000) redefined widescr

RELEASED 9 JUNE 400 pages | Hardback/ebook Author David Koepp Publisher HQ Hello and welcome to (cue Skeeter Davis wailing, “Don’t they know it’s the end of the world…?” and a gaudy logo:) “APOCALYPSE OF THE MONTH!” Strangely, for a book that feature

RELEASED 27 MAY 225 pages pages | Hardback Author Chris Bentley Publisher Signum Books Fans of Gerry Andersons’s live-action shows have been spoiled of late, with a collection of UFO strips from Countdown and a Moonbase Alpha Operations Manual. This

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher IDW Publishing Writers Jackson Lanzig, Colin Kelly, Christina Rice Artists Timothy Green II, Andy Price, Maria Keane With any humans limited to fleeting appearances, Star Trek’s alien species take centre stage in this pair

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writer Rainbow Rowell Artists Rogê Antônio Sometimes, a comics publisher hitting the “superhero reset” button is perfectly understandable. Take the case of Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk: she’s spent the last

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PlayStation 5 Also on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC Publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment Nine movies, one game, all wrapped up in wholesome Lego goodness. Pick your starting poi

RELEASED 19 MAY Number of players: 2-4 Publisher Portal Games Batman is sometimes called “the world’s greatest detective”, so an investigative game that puts you in the Batsuit makes sense, right? This isn’t that. Open the box and you’re presented wi

RELEASED OUT NOW! 167 minutes | CD/download Publisher Big Finish Christopher Eccleston’s second series for Big Finish begins with a trio of tales set on the Doctor’s favourite planet. Small-scale and melancholy, these are stories which foreground cha

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The year 1994 was one of the best of my life. I was 23 and somehow getting paid pretty well for writing about PCs and gaming – my two biggest passions. Smoking, boozing and other things were a way of life; Supergrass’ “Alright” genuinely could have b