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Martin Brown, email Having just finished season one of Silo I felt compelled to write in to say that not only is it the best thing on TV right now, it could be the best TV series I’ve ever seen. Bringing Hugh Howie’s brilliant Wool books to such stun

Saying you have a favourite theme park ride is something that only certain types of people do, and I’m absolutely one of them when it comes to my love for the Haunted Mansion. I have been known to partake many times in one day, one immediately after

TALK ABOUT preparation. Before Danny and Michael Philippou set out to make their feature debut Talk To Me, they took a trip to Rhode Island to the family home made famous in The Conjuring. “We also got haunted dolls from all over the world and brough

THE LAST SEASON OF WHAT WE Do In The Shadows was a carnival of the bizarre: vampire nightclubbing, supernatural night markets, home renovation and energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch’s) bizarre cycle of regeneration from Baby Colin back to hi

BILLED AS A FRESH coming-of-age tale, new animated series My Adventures With Superman hopes to leap competing superhero shows in a single bound with the internship trio of nerdy Clark Kent (Jack Quaid), an ambitious Lois Lane (Alice Lee) and the came

DESCRIBED BY STAR TREK: Defiant scripter Christopher Cantwell as “our Infinity Gauntlet”, Star Trek: Day Of Blood sees the crew of Worf’s stolen starship join forces with Star Trek’s Benjamin Sisko-led USS Theseus in a blockbuster comic book crossove

TO MARK THE 20TH anniversary of his comic book company Millarworld, Mark Millar is bringing his numerous series together in this summer’s crossover, Big Game. Drawing on almost everything from 2003’s Wanted to this year’s Night Club and Nemesis Reloa

“MY OLDER BROTHER GOT ME HOOKED on sword and sorcery in a big way when I was a kid – reading fantasy novels and playing Dungeons & Dragons,” recalls Jim “Zub” Zubkavich, a childhood fan of Robert E Howard’s Cimmerian. After scripting the Barbarian’s

FIVE DECADES AFTER her first appearance in 1973’s Conan The Barbarian 23, Dynamite Entertainment is sending Red Sonja in a bold new direction, as the She-Devil becomes an outlaw from justice when she faces off against the menace of the sinister His M

AFTER APPEARING IN last year’s Moon Knight TV show, Layla El-Faouly makes her comic book debut in this month’s Moon Knight 25, before assuming her role as the latest Scarlet Scarab in writer David Pepose and artist Marcelo Ferreira’s new miniseries M

Dèmi grew up in hiding, hearing ancestral stories about the forbidden blood magic both she and her mother wield. Trusting the wrong person costs her mother’s life. So she’s ready to do anything to protect her loved ones, even kidnap the sole heir of

Showrunner Russell T Davies has reported that all eight episodes of series 14, plus the four specials, are in various stages of preparation to complete – the new title sequence has not yet been finalised. Script work is also underway on four episodes

Amazon Alexa-approved product Tough multilayered construction with a built-in microphone Call functionality including play and pause Alexa can be used at a touch by connecting to the Boompods app A host of attachment options Fully drop-tested and wat

THE RASCALLY DEMON Crowley (David Tennant) and the neurotic angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) put aside their differences to pull off one doozy of a Hail Mary and prevent an impending Apocalypse in Good Omens’ first season. The task cemented the pair’

Crowley and Aziraphale come off as the best of frenemies at times. Where do they stand with one other now? DT: They are indeed. What’s different in season two is because of what happened at the end of season one, they no longer have head offices that

You and Michael know these characters inside out. Do you have a shorthand? It’s a hard thing to be objective about. Although I didn’t know Michael that well before we shot season one, it was always easy and exciting working together. It’s well-oiled

How has knowing your characters better informed this series? The first series was the first time we really properly worked together. It feels like we haven’t stopped working together since. Everything that has happened in-between plays into coming ba

WHENEVER A NEW version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes along, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael are always three things: they are mutants; they are ninjas; and they are turtles. They are, however, very rarely actually teenagers,

Danny DeVito’s face lights up, remembering something. “I have something you’re gonna really like, just stay right where you are. Don’t move,” he says before getting up, stepping to his right and off camera from our Zoom conversation. “Don’t move!” hi

DIRECTOR JUSTIN Simien has a history steeped in Disney, he tells SFX. The films he grew up with – Beauty And The Beast, Oliver And Company and The Little Mermaid – were, he says, “a big deal in me figuring out I even wanted to be a filmmaker”. Visiti

WHEN IT COMES TO transferring fan-favourite animated characters to live action, the Walt Disney Company effectively wrote the rulebook. Over the last decade the studio has developed an extremely lucrative sideline making the likes of Beauty And The B

The Futurama season seven finale “Meanwhile” was very well-regarded. Did that 2013 episode feel like a true ending to you? I think when you’re in the middle of anything, no matter what’s going on, you feel like that’s the last time you’re ever gonna

WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICAN television, if a new series makes it on air and manages to last a season, that’s almost a miracle. If that series becomes a hit and lives on for multiple seasons, the creators have truly beaten the odds. And then sometimes y

“THAT’S ME!” REBECCA ROMIJN says excitedly when she sees herself on the cover of SFX magazine. “I’m in Star Trek,” she beams and greets us with a Vulcan salute. “I got in trouble because I was doing it this way,” she whispers, pulling her thumb to he

DAN: This is the statue of Fuxi who, originally, was going to be the brother of the Creator twins who was involved in the Mogwai mythology. We ended up later on swapping it out for his sister Nüwa. There’s a statue that resides in the heart of Jade V

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER. When SFX sits down to chat with bona fide legend Jamie Lee Curtis it’s only been days since she won her – long-overdue – Academy Award. Everything Everywhere All At Once scooped a whopping seven wins, including Best Pict

THE ’70S WAS THE DECADE OF THE musical variety show in the US, with everyone from Johnny Cash to the Brady Bunch filling the airwaves with light entertainment sketches and a sprinkling of camp comedy. But before the Brady Bunch returned, another offb

A DECADE SINCE ZOMBIE SHOW IN THE Flesh debuted on BBC Three, the series still stands out as a uniquely sensitive take on the undead – one whose themes have arguably become even more topical in this post-Covid era of proliferating conspiracy theories

Kieren’s surname is Walker. Given that The Walking Dead was on its third season by the time In The Flesh aired, we have to ask: was that a cheeky nod to the undead in Robert Kirkman’s show being referred to as “Walkers”? “No, a complete coincidence!”

Supernatural star Misha Collins is swapping his halo for a more villainous role in Gotham Knights. The TV drama takes place in the wake of Batman’s murder and unmasking. Collins portrays Harvey Dent, the charismatic District Attorney tasked with brin

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“IT WAS ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE – SO STRANGE AND surreal,” recalls Matthew Waterhouse about landing the role of precocious teenage mathematician Adric in Doctor Who in 1980. “Like a lot of these life-changing things, it actually happened really fast. You

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 145 minutes ▸ Director Andy Muschietti ▸ Cast Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemonn → Some films arrive with baggage; The Flash has an entire airport carous

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 91 minutes ▸ Directors Kirk DeMicco, Faryn Pearl ▸ Cast Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Jane Fonda → From the Ray Harryhausen behemoth in Clash Of The Titans to the toothsome beastie who swallows Jack Sparrow in the

▸ RELEASED 28 JULY 15 | 94 minutes ▸ Directors Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou ▸ Cast Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji → Even given the lowest expectations of social media-obsessed Gen Z teens, the characters in Talk To Me are

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 127 minutes ▸ Director Steven Caple Jr ▸ Cast Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Pete Davidson, Peter Cullen → Looking to keep the Transformers bandwagon rolling, Rise Of The Beasts represents a tone somewhere between Travis

UK Paramount+, first part of box set 13 July US Peacock, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Martin Gero ▸ Cast Raymond Lee, Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee, Ernie Hudson, Susan Diol EPISODES 1.01-1.18 Being mean about this update of Quantu

UK Netflix, streaming now US Max, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Greg Walker ▸ Cast Brenton Thwaites, Mame-Anna Diop, Teagan Croft, Joshua Orpin EPISODES 4.01-4.12 DC’s B-lister superteam series Titans ends with a fourth season that’s pretty much the sam

▸ UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Charlie Brooker ▸ Cast Annie Murphy, Samuel Blenkin, Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz, Anjana Vasan EPISODES 6.01-6.05 After a four-year hiatus largely due to rights issues, Black Mirror finally returns under the ae

UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▸ Creators Camille Couasse, Sarah Farkas ▸ Cast Tomer Sisley, Camille Claris, Zineb Triki, Éric Pucheu EPISODES 1.01-1.06 The “time machine” in this stylish French time travel crime thriller (first aired on France 2) is a

US/UK Netflix, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Brian Duffield ▸ Cast Nicolas Cantu, Mae Whitman, Darren Barnet, Benjamin Bratt EPISODES 1.01-1.08 This action-heavy Netflix cartoon is set in the same MonsterVerse as Kong: Skull Island and the Godzilla movi

UK/US Prime Video, streaming now ▸ Showrunners Aaron Mark, Dara Resnik ▸ Cast Justina Machado, Kita Updike, K Todd Freeman, Marc Maron EPISODES 1.01-1.08 It’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl set up a small business together in a b

▸ RELEASED 17 JULY 2023 | 18 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download ▸ Director Lee Cronin ▸ Cast Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols → Fede Álvarez’s 2013 “re-imagining” of Evil Dead was a satisfactory, if po-faced, attemp

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | PG | SVOD ▸ Directors Nick Bruno, Troy Quane ▸ Cast Riz Ahmed, Chloë Grace Moretz, Eugene Lee Yang, Frances Conroy NETFLIX Shapeshifting punk Nimona, created by She-Ra showrunner ND Stevenson, should have hit the big screen

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 368 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Paul Tremblay ▸ Publisher Titan Books → There’s a monster out there, and it’s coming to get you. That’s the main take-away from almost all of the 15 stories in this new collection by

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 450 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Stephen Aryan ▸ Publisher Angry Robot → At first glance, The Judas Blossom appears to be a work of historical fiction akin to Bernard Cornwell, rooted in a real time and place. In this case, it

▸ RELEASED 13 JULY 186/167/160/183/249 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Authors Phil Ford, Keith Temple, Pete McTighe, Peter Harness, Stephen Gallagher ▸ Publisher BBC Books Prepare to rearrange your bookshelves, Who fans, as the latest batch of a

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Marvel Comics ▸ Writer Jed MacKay ▸ Artists Pasqual Ferry, Andy MacDonald ISSUES 1-4 Coming back from the dead is rarely a problem in superhero comics; what’s more important is what comes next, and the latest Marvel he

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▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Reviewed on PC ▸ Also available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One ▸ Publisher Focus Entertainment VIDEOGAME Aliens: Dark Descent is a surprisingly smart take on the horror series, bringing real-time tactical battles to

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Number of players Two ▸ Publisher Atomic Mass Games TABLETOP GAME This new skirmish game offers a more intimate experience than the large scale battles of Star Wars: Legion. In many ways it feels like an equivalent to Atomic Mas

Name the two-part The Six Million Dollar Man adventure that pitted Steve Austin against trained sharks. What was the name of the toothless shark “worse than its bite” who appeared in the pages of Monster Fun? In Deep Blue Sea, the mako sharks are bei