Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

Hurry back! Saying you have a favourite theme

Dead Or Alive

Could What We Do In The Shadows’ dysfunctional vampire clan grow in season five?

Talk To The Hand

DIRECTOR EXCLUSIVE

Press Gang

The Man Of Steel returns in My Adventures With Superman

Kahless Talking

Sharpen your knives as IDW’s Star Trek crossover Day Of Blood arrives

Worlds Collide

Mark Millar is crossing over nearly all of his Millarworld characters in Big Game

Savage Tales

Conan begins a new era in comics at Titan

A Study In Scarlet

Torunn Grønbekk celebrates Red Sonja’s 50th anniversary

SPACE AND TIME

Celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO

Beetle Juice

Scarlet Scarab comes to comics in Moon Knight: City Of The Dead

JOHN ROMITA SR 1930-2023

The artist who made Spider-Man a star

Miracle Workers

THEY’RE BACK – AND THIS TIME THEY’RE IN ALL-NEW TERRITORY. NEIL GAIMAN TALKS RETURNING FOR SEASON TWO OF GOOD OMENS

Hellraiser

David Tennant is Crowley You and Michael know

Divine Being

Michael Sheen is Aziraphale How has knowing your

THE PHANTOM MENACES

DISNEY’S GREATEST ATTR ACTION BECOMES THEIR LATEST BLOCKBUSTER AS BIDS YOU WELCOME…

TURTLE POWER

MUTANT MAYHEM DIRECTOR JEFF ROWE TAKES US INTO THE SEWERS TO MEET THE NEWEST VERSION OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

REBEL

AHSOKA REUNITES HEROES FROM ANIMATED SHOW STAR WARS REBELS. AS SHE PREPARES TO TAKE MANDALORIAN SABINE WREN INTO LIVE-ACTION, STAR NATASHA LIU BORDIZZO TEASES WHAT’S IN STORE

RETURN TO BENDER

RISES FROM THE GRAVE AGAIN TO LAND THE PLANET EXPRESS CREW AT HULU

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

REBECCA ROMIJN IS, LIKE HER CHARACTER IN STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLD S LIVING HER BEST LIFE

DESIGNING GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI

SUPERVISING PRODUCER DAN KRALL AND ART DIRECTOR TARA RUEPING SHARE THEIR SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI AS THEY BRING THE WORLD OF GREMLINS BACK TO LIFE

MOTHER NATURE

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS BREAKING NEW BOUNDARIES WITH HORROR GRAPHIC NOVEL

THE LOST ADDAMS FAMILY

IT’S TV’S FIRST FAMILY OF GHOULS AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE, IN A ’70S VARIETY SHOW CAR CRASH UNSEEN FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS. SFX ENTERS THE ADDAMS FAMILY FUN HOUSE

IN THE FLESH

TO MARK THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF IN THE FLESH, WE LOOK BACK AT THE KITCHEN-SINK ZOMBIE SHOW WITH CREATOR DOMINIC MITCHELL – AND PREVIEW A NEW “FANTASY SERIES THREE” SCRIPT

MISHA COLLINS

A man of many faces, this time he’s adopting Gotham’s most famous pair

HALLO SPACEBOY

DOCTOR WHO HAS BROUGHT MATTHEW WATER HOUSE FULL CIRCLE…

STEPHEN ARYAN

Meet the writer of a new Persian-inspired fantasy

THE FL ASH

Batman Returns

RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN

Tentacular spectacular

TALK TO ME

Dealt a bad hand

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS

Robots in disappointment

THE SECRET KINGDOM

RELEASED 21 JULY PG | 98 minutes Director

TUNNEL TO SUMMER, THE EXIT OF GOODBYES

RELEASED 14 JULY 12A | 83 minutes Director

QUANTUM LEAP

Season One

TITANS

Season Four

VORTEX

Season One

BLACK MIRROR

Season Six

THE WITCHER

Season Three, Volume One

SKULL ISL AND

Season One

THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH

Redefined Young Cannibals

How To Make Friends

MAY

FRONTIER(S)

Borderline personality disorder

ROBOTS

PRIME VIDEO Released to so little fanfare it

EVIL DEAD RISE

A Tale Of Two Sisters

THE HAUNTED STRANGLER

The Karloff brand may have lost some of

SAKRA

Co-directed and produced by legendary star Donnie Yen,

THE UNTOLD STORY

BLU-RAY DEBUT The first third of this Category

STAN LEE

DISNEY+ Yes, that’s the title. No fancy wordplay,

4K X FOUR

MORE OLD MOVIES AVAILABLE ON UHD

NIMONA

Smells Like Protean Spirit

THE BREACH

Ever misremembered a brand name? Blame a physicist!

THE BLACK DEMON

Making a killer shark movie in a world

THE BLOODY JUDGE

BLU-RAY DEBUT Jess Franco’s 17th century shocker rides

LOLA

This economical tale sees two sisters in 1941

SCREAM VI

Slicing up the Big Apple

TENTACLES

Jaws dropping

MEDUSA

Dually inspired by the Greek myth of Medusa

RUN RABBIT RUN

NETFLIX Though this Aussie chiller also centres on

BURIAL GROUND

An Italian zombie film not overly concerned with

ROUND UP

More recent movies coming to disc include horror-comedy

THE BEAST YOU ARE

Free night terror with every copy

SILVER NITRATE

There’s just something compelling about the idea of

ONE

With global warming causing worldwide eco-chaos, an ultra-radical

THE JUDAS BLOSSOM

The Path Of Khan

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS

Suzanne Collins claimed she was inspired to write

DOCTOR WHO NOVELISATIONS

Targets acquired

THE REVELS

Historical fiction can be hit or miss. Some

AFTER DEATH

What would you do if you died, but

THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL

The spectre of the Great War looms over

DOOM GUY

John Romero is the co-creator of the most

REISSUES

Our reviewer was deeply impressed by Mariana Enriquez’s

BOYS IN THE VALLEY

This chilly supernatural novel is not lacking in

THE JASAD HEIR

That feeling when you’re 20 pages from the

THE POMEGRANATE GATE

Creating a fantasy world that draws on the

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more titles we couldn’t fit in.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Mexican-Canadian novelist is warmed by her fan response…

DOCTOR STRANGE

Carry On Doctor

STAR TREK: DEFIANT

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher IDW Writer Christopher Cantwell

INDIGO CHILDREN

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Image Comics Writer Rockwell

PLANET OF THE APES

Going viral

THE AMBASSADORS

RELEASED OUT NOW! (collection out 9 August) Publisher

ALIENS: DARK DESCENT

Lethe Weapons

DIABLO IV

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PlayStation 5 Also

FINAL FANTASY XVI

Clive And Dangerous

STAR WARS: SHATTERPOINT

The Struggle is real

SHARKS

Shark! Shark! As Meg 2: The Trench surfaces, here’s a quiz to clear the beaches…

Dimension Of Miracles

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy