Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

I hate everything. ALAMY Can I just hibernate

Out Of This World

Disney brings retro pulp power to animated yarn Strange World

Puzzle Piece

Paul Dano goes from the big screen to the comic book page with The Riddler: Year One

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Amy ’s Choice

Barry Josephson on Disney’s belated sequel to 2007’s Enchanted

Doomsday Scenario

DC commemorates The Death Of Superman with a new 30th anniversary special

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Destination Federation

Two Janeways are better than one in Star Trek: Prodigy

Are Friends Electric?

After the war, Transformers: EarthSpark marks a new beginning

Second Coming

Marvel is bringing back Secret Invasion – but who can you trust?

Making His Mark

Demián Bichir on the new version of Let The Right One In

Down The Hatch

French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux talks about his latest oddball offering, Incredible But True

Unquiet On The Western Front

Hitler meets zombies in Bruce Campbell’s Sgt Rock vs The Army Of The Dead

A Matter Of Taste

May we recommend The Menu?

DENISE CRITTENDON

MEET THE MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER BEHIND WHERE IT RAINS IN COLOUR

ZACK ESTRIN 1971-2022

Remembering the writer and showrunner

As Ufgood As It Gets

STAR WARWICK DAVIS AND SHOWRUNNER JONATHAN KASDAN REVEAL HOW THEY BROUGHT CULT ’80S FANTASY WILLOW BACK TO THE SCREEN – WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HAN SOLO

ETERNAL FLAME

MARVEL STUDIOS SHIFTS THE BLACK PANTHER MYTHOLOGY INTO A NEW CHAPTER WITH BLACK PANTHER: WAK ANDA FOREVER

DEAR DEAD DAYS

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS IS BACK, BUT THIS TIME SHE’S DITCHING THE FAMILY AND HEADING TO BOARDING SCHOOL FOR NETFLIX’S NEW MURDER-MYSTERY SERIES WEDNESDAY

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

THINGS ARE GETTING DISTINCTLY DARK INTITANS SEASON FOUR, AS SHOWRUNNER GREG WALKER TELLS SFX ABOUT A PSYCHO CULT LEADER AND “MAGICK WITH A K”

FAREWELL TO THE FLESH

BONES AND ALL IS A LOVE STORY WITH A BLOODY TWIST. DIRECTOR LUCA GUA DAGNINO AND STAR TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET TALK TR ANSGRESSION AND TR ANSFORMATION

London calling

WILLIAM GIBSON’S SCI-FI NOVEL HAS BEEN ADAPTED INTO A NEW PRIME VIDEO SERIES FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF WESTWORLD

ILLEGAL ALIENS

GHOSTS WRITERS LAURENCE RICKARD AND BEN WILLBOND MOVE INTO SF TERRITORY WITH THEIR NEW COMEDY, WE ARE NOT ALONE, A UNIQUE MASH-UP OF ALIEN NATION AND THE THICK OF IT

BEN BAILEY SMITH

The other Doc Brown travels to a galaxy far, far away in Andor

MAGIC WORDS

LEGENDARY WRITER, PERFORMER, MAGICIAN AND ANARCHIST ALAN MOORE TALKS TO SFX ABOUT HIS SUPERB NEW ANTHOLOGY ILLUMINATIONS

BLACK ADAM

Holding out for an antihero

HALLOWEEN ENDS

Making the Michael

SMILE

Grin and scare it

BONES AND ALL

Love at first bite

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT

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NEPTUNE FROST

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WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

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MIA AND ME: THE HERO OF CENTOPIA

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ALSO OUT

Daniel Stamm’s The Last Exorcism was inaccurately named,

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER

Season One

THE DEVIL’S HOUR

★★★★★ UK/US Prime Video, streaming now ►Creator Tom

DOCTOR WHO:THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR

The Wrong Goodbye ★ ★ ★☆☆ UK BBC

SHE-HULK : AT TORNEY AT LAW

Season One

THE BAS TARD SON & THE DEVIL HIMSELF

Not Half Bad ★★★★☆ UK/US Netflix, streaming now

THE MIDNIGHT CLUB

Do tell them Pike ★★★ ☆ ☆ UK/US

WRECK

,Death Ship ★★★☆☆ UK BBC Three, streaming on

CHAPELWAITE

Season One

GOTHIC FANTASTICO

Putting the Boot into horror ► RELEASED OUT NOW!

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 7 NOVEMBER 2022 | 15

A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1973 | 18 | Blu-ray

AUDREY ROSE

“But all I did was put the heating

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1923 | PG | Blu-ray

GHOSTWATCH

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1992 | 12 |

COME BACK LUCY

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1978 | PG |

HIGHLANDER

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1986 | 15 | 4K

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1932 | 12 |

VESPER

Seeds of change

V/H/S/99

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC |

PENNYWISE: THE STORY OF IT

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15

DEATHSPORT

★★ ☆ ☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1978 |

POST MORTEM

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC |

TWO WITCHES

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 18 |

THE BALLAD OF TAMLIN

Away with the fairies

MANIAC

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1981 | 18 |

YOU WON’T BE ALONE

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15

HOCUS POCUS 2

★★☆☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | PG |

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT

“I used to be a werewolf, but… well,

NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI’S ’80S KADOKAWA YEARS

Spirited Away ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1981-1986 | 15

A BOY AND HIS DOG

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1975 | 15 |

TALES OF UNEASE

★★★ ☆ ☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1970 |

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 12 |

ROUND UP

A teenage girl stops eating in eerie, femalecentric

LIBERATION DAY

Freedom and why it matters

CELESTIAL

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THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT

POSTER GIRL

The Golden Child

NO GODS, NO MONSTERS

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THE MAGIC OF MINALIMA

A font of wizarding graphics

GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME

★ ★★★ ☆ ► RELEASED 3 NOVEMBER 304

OUR SHARE OF NIGHT

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 736 pages | Hardback/ebook

FAMILY BUSINESS

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT

A FRACTURED INFINITY

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks : THE THIS (★★★★★,

THE RISE OF THE DRAGON

BULLET TIME A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

LOKI

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED 17

THE STARS UNDYING

★ ★★★ ☆ ► RELEASED 10 NOVEMBER 516

ALSO OUT

Vaishnavi Patel’s KAIKEYI (out now, Orbit) reimagines the

Garth Marenghi

The legendary horror writer honours the pages of SFX with his presence

BLACK ADAM

Ringing the changes

HARLEY QUINN 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

★★★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! ►

MINDSET

★★★★ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! ► Publisher

KEPLER

★★★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED 16 NOVEMBER ►

SCORN

Lots of gristle and little meat

MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

★★★★ ☆ ► RUNNING UNTIL 21 January ►

SCIENCE FICTION: VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION

A muddled itinerary

DOCTOR WHO: HIDDEN DEPTHS

Some assembly required

CHILDREN

We test your knowledge of creepy kids, child prodigies and more

Maximilian from The Black Hole

Maximilian even manages to hover menacingly. Dave Bradley,