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Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Act Of Faith

Beck and Woods explain how Heretic is the project they’ve been working towards their whole career

Cape Of Good Hope

Documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story unpacks the inspirational actor-activist

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Lynxed In

Alex Segura’s The Legendary Lynx moves from books to comics in Mad Cave’s new graphic novel

Star Troopers

Tom Hardy moves from films to comics with Arcbound

Stoned Love

Producer Matthew B Roberts explains how Outlander’s penultimate season sets up the show’s finale

Crossing Over

What If…?’s Kahhori meets Daredevil, Echo and Moon Knight as she moves from TV to comics

Going Underground

The TV series may be ending, but Lower Decks continues in a new ongoing comic series

Galaxy’s Greatest Annuals

The 2000 AD and Treasury Of British Comics annuals are both returning for 2025

Curtain Up

A lavish stage musical of the first Percy Jackson book is coming

Red Alert

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Get used to seeing

DAVID GRAHAM 1925-2024

The voice of Parker, the Daleks and more

MAKANA YAMAMOTO

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND “CYBERPUNK LESBIAN SPACE HEIST” HAMMAJANG LUCK

DEFYING ALL ODDZ

WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WITCHES, THE WICKED OLD WITCHES OF OZ. BUT BEFORE WE’RE WHISKED BACK TO THAT MAGICAL LAND, WE SPEAK WITH DIRECTOR JON M CHU AND HIS CREATIVE TEAM ABOUT ALL THINGS

GALINDAFIED

Costume designer Paul Tazewell on dressing Oz

OZMOPOLITAN !

Production designer Nathan Crowley on building Oz

GREENIFY

Hair/make-up designer Frances Hannon on painting Oz

WITCH PICKING

Iconic actors in iconic Ozian roles

SPACE SISTER HOOD

DUNE: PROPHECY SHOWRUNNER ALISON SCHAPKER EXPLAINS WHERE THE PREQUEL ABOUT THE BENE GESSERIT FITS IN THE FRANK HERBERT TIMELINE

HOLY TERROR

Jessica Barden plays young Valya Harkonnen, on a mission to redeem her family House

POWER RIVAL

Jodhi May is an Empress muzzled by a muted marriage and an overbearing Sisterhood

GOING SOLO

APPLE’S ACCLAIMED SCI-FI RETURNS AFTER ITS SHOCKING, TWISTY FINALE. SHOWRUNNER GRAHAM YOST BREAKS DOWN WHAT’S NEXT

DESIGNING SILO

THE EMMY-WINNING DESIGN TEAM BEHIND – SET DECORATOR AMANDA BERNSTEIN AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER GAVIN BOCQUET – TALK SFX THROUGH CREATING THE SHOW’S UNDERGROUND WORLD OF SEASON ONE

FINDING NEMO

THE UNCHARTED HISTORY OF CAPTAIN NEMO RISES TO THE SURFACE IN NAUTILUS

Talkin"Bout My Generation

JAY LYCURGO ON TITANS, FANDOM AND A NEW GENERATION OF ZOMBIES

STARFLEET DECOMMISSION

LOWER DECKS CREATOR MIKE MCMAHAN EXPLAINS HOW HE WENT ABOUT CHARTING A LAST SERIES OF ADVENTURES FOR THE USS CERRITOS

THE UNBEARABLE DARKNESS OF BEING HUMAN

IN THE SECOND PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES FEATURE, SHOWRUNNER TOBY WHITHOUSE AND VAMPIRE HAL ACTOR DAMIEN MOLONY LOOK BACK AT THE MAKING OF THE FINAL TWO SERIES, THE BIG CAST CHANGES, THE SPIN-OFF AND THE IDEAS THAT NEVER MADE IT TO SCREEN

BLAKE'S 7

AS BLAKE’S 7 COMES TO BLU-RAY WE DISCOVER HOW THE BBC’S VERY OWN SPACE REBELLION BEGAN

BLAKE'S 7 DISC BREAKDOWN

DISC ONE THE WAY BACK/SPACE FALL Two episodes,

ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY

Witchfinder general: meet the biggest name in British literary horror Words by Jonathan Wright /// Portrait by Hal Shinnie

80 HERETIC Look: Hugh’s Talking

CINEMA 80 TV 82 HOME ENTERTAINMENT 86 BOOKS 94 COMICS 100 GAMES & STUFF 102

HERETIC

The missionary admission

SMILE 2

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 127 minutes

SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY

★★★☆☆ RELEASED 1 NOVEMBER 12A | 104 minutes

TERRIFIER 3

Slay ride

THE FRONT ROOM

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 95 minutes

Jeff VanderMeer

We reach out to the author of the Southern Reach books

ABSOLUTE POWER

No More Heroes

PARANOID GARDENS

★★★★✩ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Dark Horse Comics

EC COMICS

Entertaining Comeback

HERETIC

★★★★★ RELEASED 6 NOVEMBER Publisher Image Comics Writer

BLAKE’S 7

As the ’70s TV show makes its HD debut, we test how much intel you have about Roj Blake and his band of freedom fighters

Mork & Mindy

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

THE PENGUIN Season One

Return To Oz

TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT

Season One

CURFEW

Men Behaving Meekly

NAUTILUS

Redefining Nemo

THE DEVIL’S HOUR Series Two

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

CITADEL: DIANA

The Di Who Loved Me

GENERATION Z

Your elders and biters

DOCTOR WHO Season 25

Hi Who silver refining

DAIEI GOTHIC

Revisiting old haunts

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO!

RELEASED 18 NOVEMBER 1962 | 15 | Blu-ray

COLUMBIA HORROR

Lorre and disorde

HÄXAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1922 | 15 | Blu-ray

THE RADLEYS

A light bite

THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT

★★★✩✩ EXTRAS ★★★✩✩ RELEASED 18 NOVEMBER 2024 |

CHILDREN OF THE PINES

★★★✩✩ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 | N/A |

YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER

★★★✩✩ EXTRAS ★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2018 |

DADDY’S HEAD

★★★ ✩ ✩ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 |

I VAMPIRI

Gothic revival

EL VAMPIRO

Criaturas de la noche

THE INVASION

RELEASED 11 NOVEMBER 2007 | 15 | 4K/Blu-ray

THE OBLONG BOX

The Red Mask Of Death

ROUND UP

Recent movies now coming to shiny disc include

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory

First Read AN EXTRACT FROM A NEW BOOK

RED SONJA: CONSUMED

Lives And Loves Of A She-Devil

ABSOLUTION

RELEASED OUT NOW! 528 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE TELLER OF SMALL FORTUNES

★★★★✩ RELEASED 5 NOVEMBER 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/

BARROWBECK

Village Of The Damned?

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 448 pages | Hardback/ebook

DESIGNING TERRY PRATCHETT’S DISCWORLD

Moving pictures

FORTRESS SOL

RELEASED OUT NOW! 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE INCUBATIONS

★★★★✩ RELEASED 12 NOVEMBER 256 pages | Hardback/ebook

AN ACADEMY FOR LIARS

★★★✩✩ RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook/

FEAST WHILE YOU CAN

★★★★✩ RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Paperback/ebook/

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s

HUM

★★★★✩ RELEASED 7 NOVEMBER 272 pages | Hardback/ebook

WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST

★★★★✩ RELEASED 7 NOVEMBER 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/

THE FINAL ORCHARD

★★✩✩✩ RELEASED 12 NOVEMBER 400 pages | Paperback/ebook

ALSO OUT

As ever, there are plenty more books we

SILENT HILL 2

Once more, with feeling

DOCTOR WHO: THE SIRENS OF TIME – REDUX

★★★✩✩ RELEASED 5 NOVEMBER Running time 129

METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO

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