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→ Star Trek: Prodigy’s finale was breathtaking. This feels like the most epic Trek yet. → Adored Wednesday. More please! → Season two of Chucky is now available in the UK on Sky Sci-Fi and NOW – it’s barmy but brilliant. Here’s hoping they get a seas

→ Raised By Wolves’ Travis Fimmel joining prequel series Dune: The Sisterhood. → Blade Runner 2049’s Michael Green writing Bioshock adaptation for Netflix. → Rogue One droid K-2 set to appear in season two of Star Wars: Andor. → Sony launching a smal

→ Night At The Museum’s Shawn Levy in talks to develop and direct a Star Wars movie. → Daniel Kaluuya voicing Hobie Brown aka Spider-Punk in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. → Mare Of Easttown’s Cailee Spaeny in the frame for the next Alien insta

➤ SCI-FACT! Conroy played Bruce Wayne in live-action in Batwoman episode “Crisis On Infinite Earths Part Two”. “BATMAN IS NOT THE MASK,” argued Kevin Conroy. “Batman is who he really is in his soul.” As the voice of the Dark Knight he defined that av

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THERE ARE WRITERS WHO WOULD LIKELY get tetchy if you were to frame a conversation about their work in comparison to a hit movie. Not Jonathan Carroll, who is happy to discuss his new novel Mr Breakfast, a tale of characters living out alternate lives

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 192 minutes ▸ Director James Cameron ▸ Cast Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis Avatar: The Way Of Water starts with some scene-setting: sweeping shots of Pandora’s floatin

How has performance capture evolved since the first Avatar? → Some of the facial capture has certainly evolved, but I don’t think the mocap suits have changed much in 13 years! I think the major technical innovation between Avatar and The Way Of Wate

▸ RELEASED 6 JANUARY 18 | 90 minutes ▸ Director Carlota Pereda ▸ Cast Laura Galán, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar Much of this Spanish-language horror is hard to watch, and not just the impressively gory scenes, but the teenage bullyin

UK/US Prime Video, 6 January ▸ Creator David Macpherson ▸ Cast Martin Compston, Mark Bonnar, Rochenda Sandall, Owen Teale EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Given the number of Line Of Duty alumni here (Martin Compston! Mark Bonnar! Rochenda Sandall! Owen Teale!) –

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 102 minutes ▸ Director Don Hall ▸ Cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Gabrielle Union, Jaboukie Young-White Disney hasn’t tended to dip into the straightforward adventure genre much since the one-two flame-out of Atlantis: Th

UK MUBI, streaming now ▸ Creator Lars von Trier ▸ Cast Bodil Jørgensen, Nicolas Bro, Mikael Persbrandt, Lars Mikkelsen, Tuva Novotny EPISODES 3.01-3.05 How much does Lars von Trier love Twin Peaks? Going by Kingdom: Exodus, the answer is a lot. Just

UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▸ Showrunners Jantje Friese, Baran bo Odar ▸ Cast Emily Beecham, Andreas Pietschmann, Aneurin Barnard, Isabella Wei EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Set in 1889, on a cruise ship full of migrants running from their pasts, travelling fr

UK Disney+ streaming now US AMC, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Angela Kang ▸ Cast Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt EPISODES 11.01-11.24 And so we come to the end of a long and bumpy road. The Walking Dead has been on air for

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1960-1963 | U | Blu-ray ▸ Creator Gerry Anderson ▸ Cast Nicholas Parsons, Graydon Gould, Paul Maxwell BLU-RAY DEBUT Stingray was the first Gerry Anderson series made in colour, but it’s no longer the oldest one you can watch in co

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021-2022 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD ▸ Showrunners Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise ▸ Cast Sonequa Martin-Green, Anthony Rapp, Doug Jones, Blu del Barrio There are few things we can actually thank the pandemic for, but the fact that it ga

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1972 | U | Blu-ray (4K/standard) ▸ Director Douglas Trumbull ▸ Cast Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint After the phenomenal success of Easy Rider, Universal gambled on giving several young filmmakers small budgets and

Fans of It Follows should enjoy SMILE (out now, 4K/Blu-ray/DVD/download), which sees a therapist becoming the next link in a chain of suicides who died with a creepy grin on their face. We said: “More chewy subtext than you usually find in a popcorn

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 144 pages | Hardback ▸ Author Thibaud Villanova ▸ Publisher Titan Books ● We make this the fourth or fifth unofficial Ghibli cookbook, but it looks like the most authentic and elegant one. ● The author has written over 25 geek-the

Pick of the paperbacks this month: Jo Harkin’s TELL ME AN ENDING ( , 5January, Penguin). Its Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind-esque premise concerns Nepenthe, a chain of clinics who offer memory removal. After legal proceedings regarding resurfa

What is your daily writing routine like? ◗ I’m up around 7.00am. I walk and feed our dog Freddy, have my breakfast and coffee, and then I write. I try not to look at email or get online until after lunch. I used to write long into the night, but now

▸ RELEASED 2 JANUARY 44 minutes | Download (vinyl edition follows in February) ▸ Label Invada Records SOUNDTRACK Expect ragged static, metallic clangs, and what sounds suspiciously like a wetted finger being run around the rim of a wine glass from Ma

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 47 minutes | Vinyl ▸ Label Trunk Records SOUNDTRACK In the past, Trunk Records have released LPs of The Wicker Man and Blood On Satan’s Claw; the addition of Witchfinder General to their catalogue makes it a clean sweep for the th