First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“It’s a lilium philadelphicum!” ALAMY We’re usually so

Ruff Justice

Good boys! Enter the ultimate paw patrol in DC League Of Super-Pets

Roman Roads

James Moran and Rona Munro have turned their Roman-era Doctor Who episodes into prose

Luck Around You

Apple TV+ is taking a chance on new animation Luck

It’s About Time

Beloved time-travel comic Paper Girls gets a big-budget TV series adaptation

Shadow Lounge

What We Do In The Shadows gets into the club scene

Born Again

Daredevil scribe Chip Zdarsky on taking over DC’s Batman

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

New York Stories

Northern vampire travels to the Big Apple in new Radio 4 horror English Rose

Island, Getaway

The fifth and final season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous concludes the campers’ crazy adventures

Space Oddities

This Summer 2000 AD will Comic Rock you

MARY MCMYNE

MEET THE PROFESSOR BEHIND RAPUNZEL RIFF THE BOOK OF GOTHEL

COLIN CANTWELL 1932-2022

Visionary behind the iconography of Star Wars

FIRST KILL

DIRECTOR DAN TR ACHTENBERG TAKES THE PREDATOR FR ANCHISE BACK TO BASICS WITH NEW MOVIE PREV

MCU IN COURT

MARVEL DEPLOYS THE STRONG ARM OF THE LAW IN THE NEW LIVE-ACTION SHE-HULK SERIES

WAY WEST OUT

WATCH THE SKIES! HORROR MASTER JORDAN PEELE RETURNS WITH “THE GREAT AMERICAN UFO FILM” NOPE

IN DERAM

THE SANDMAN ON TV? SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE… EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID S GOYER EXPLAINS HOW HE HELPED BRING NEIL GAIMAN’S MASTERPIECE TO LIFE

ZOMBIELANDS

THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE LOOMS LARGE IN THE RESIDENT EVIL TV SERIES

REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS

WITH THE PETER CUSHING-STARRING DALEK MOVIES NEWLY RESTORED IN 4K, WE TALK TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ANTHONY WAYE

LOST CHILDREN

SKY’S NEW VERSION OF THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS ISN’T THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT TELEVISING THE CLASSIC JOHN WYNDHAM BOOK. WE LOOK AT A 2001 PITCH WHICH FAILED TO HATCH

CHACE CRAWFORD

We dive deep with the star of The Boys

SCREAM IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS THEME PARKS ARE CHANGING THE GAME WITH MOVIE RIDES – WE TOOK A TRIP ON THE JURASSIC WORLD VELOCICOASTER TO FIND OUT MORE

SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA

The Mexican-Canadian author talks about reinventing HG Wells

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

Gods And Funsters

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

Despicable We

SHE WILL

Victoria’s Secret

LIGHTYEAR

Ranger Things

THE BLACK PHONE

Dial M For Murdered

THE DEER KING

★★☆☆☆ ➤RELEASED 27 JULY 15 | 113 minutes

KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME

★★★★☆ ➤RELEASED 22 JULY (also VOD) TBC |

OBI-WAN K ENOBI

The Twin Dilemma

THE BABY

Sleepless nights ahead

THE BOYS Season Three

Sick bags at the ready!

THE LAZARUS PROJECT Season One

Stuck On Repeat

HALO Season One

This is Spartans!

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Season Three

Apocalypse now… again

THE DALEK MOVIES

The Peter principal

OKJA

Pig tale

THE CURIOUS DR HUMPP

Medical malpractice

DOCTOR WHO Season 22

Cancel culture

EXECUTIVE ORDER

Back to Africa

RUBIKON

★★★☆☆EXTRAS☆☆☆☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 |

MOLOCH

RELEASED 21 JULY 2022 | TBC | SVOD

MONSTROUS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | Download

ON THE 3RD DAY

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC | SVOD

THE NORTHMAN

Axe to grind

THE SEVENTH CURSE

➤RELEASED OUT NOW! 1986 | 18 | Blu-ray

THE SEA BEAST

Moby-Dick pic

THE APPOINTMENT

Going to the dogs

SPIDERHE AD

Love Is The Drug

DOCTOR STRAN IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

When Worlds Collide

THE BRAIN

Remote control

SUMMER TIME MACHINE BLUES

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2005 | PG |

ROUND UP

A shy girl becomes a superstar singer in

THE LAST STORM

Rain with a chance of terror

THE LAST BLADE PRIEST

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 536 pages | Paperback/ebook

UPGRADE

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

HER MAJEST Y’S ROYAL COVEN

Spicing things up

THRUST

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

DOCTOR WHO NOVELISATIONS

Up Pompeii and the Scottish play

THE BIG DARK SKY

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED 19 JULY 390 pages | Hardback/ebook/

THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU

►RELEASED 19 JULY 304 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook ►Author

ONCE UPON A FEVER

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 323 pages | Paperback/ebook ►Author

LAMES OF MIRA

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 68 pages | Hardback/ebook/ udiobook

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks this issue: THE BOOK

STAR WARS: SHADOW OF THE SITH

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 468 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

LIFE CEREMONY

The Edible Woman

ALSO OUT

As ever, there’s lots more books we couldn’t

Tim Lebbon

He might let you buy him dinner if you ask nicely…

IMMORTAL X-MEN

Sinister goings-on

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

★★☆☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! ►Publisher Marvel Comics ►Writer

THE LEGEND OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT

★★★★★ ►RELEASED 14 JULY ►Publisher Jonathan Cape ►Writer/artist

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST

Demon Days

THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE: NIGHTMARE COUNTRY

►RELEASED OUT NOW! ►Publisher DC Comics ►Writer James

THE QUARRY

Camping it up

UNIT: BRAVE NEW WORLD -SEABIRD ONE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 160 minutes | CD/download Publisher

ENGLISH ROSE

RELEASED 15 JULY 150 minutes | Podcast Broadcaster

DOCTOR WHO: REDACTED

The Files

THE VINYL COUNTDOWN

Our pick of the latest LPs

PETER CUSHING

As his Dalek movies get a 4K release, we check how much you know about horror’s nicest gentleman

Highlander: The Series

There can be only one Adrian Paul. Fortunately.