Captain’s Log

“If I want your opinion, I’ll beat it

King Kang

Kang the Conqueror journeys through the future of the Marvel Universe in one-shot special Timeless

Bleat Child Of Mine

In Icelandic folk horror Lamb, a couple adopt a most unusual daughter…

Good Cop Bad Cop

Umbrella Academy ’s Tom Hopper geeks out over joining the Resident Evil franchise

Parasite Lost

Riz Ahmed is out to thwart an alien invasion in Encounter

Senior Moments

In Boom! Studio’s new futuristic mini-series Buffy The Last Vampire Slayer, she’s getting on a bit

Electric Warrior

Batman faces off against power-mad villain EMP in new mini-series One Dark Knight

Moreau To Come?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season four lands the kids on a mystery island

Outstanding In His Field

Mackenzie Crook’s Worzel Gummidge is back this Christmas, and the man himself couldn’t be happier

Castles In The Sky

A new BBC radio adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle returns Diana Wynne Jones’s wizard to Wales

SEASON OF THE WITCHER

AS THE UNIVERSE OF ANDRZEJ SA PKOWSKI’S CR EATIONS EXPANDS ON SCREEN, THE WITCHER’S GER ALT EMBR ACES HIS DESTINY IN SEASON TWO OF THE FLAGSHIP SERIES

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND SHOWRUNNER ZACK ESTRIN LOOKS BACK ON THE FAMILY JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME AS THE FINAL SEASON OF LOST IN SPACE COMES HOME TO ROOST

THE LOST BOY

Maxwell Jenkins on being part of an elite club and joining the MCU

THE MAN IN THE MASK

STAR WARS’ MOST INFAMOUS BOUNTY HUNTER TAKES CENTRE STAGE IN THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT. STARS TEMUER A MORRISON AND MING-NA WEN TELL SFX ABOUT GANGSTERS, REINVENTING AN ENIGMA AND GIVING IT SOME “IHI”

DESIGNING DUNE

DIG DEEP INTO THE WORLDS OF DUNE WITH A NEW MAKING-OF BOOK BY ONE OF THE FILM’S EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Designing Foundation

PRODUCTION DESIGNER RORY CHEYNE REVEALS HOW HE BUILT THE VA RIOUS WORLDS AND SPACESHIPS OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE FOR THE FIRST SEASON OF FOUNDATION

THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL

ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK

SPIRITED AWAY

MARK GATISS WISHES YOU A SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST

Mark’s top three from 50 years of A Ghost Story For Christmas

WAR OF THE WORLDS

WE CAN EXPECT AN EXPLOSIVE WRAP-UP FOR THE EXPANSE, AS SHOWRUNNER NAREN SHANKAR EXPLAINS

HOLDEN OUT FOR A HERO

Steven Strait on saying goodbye to his character

KUMAIL NANJIANI

The star channelling Bollywood and John McClane in Eternals

ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL

Director Brian Henson and star Kevin Bishop set sail down memory lane in celebration of Muppet Treasure Island’s 25th birthday

LAURA JEAN McKAY

The Clarke Award winner on where she found her inspiration

ENCANTO

It’s all relatives

MIND PROBE

GETTY How much did Colombia itself inspire this

NINE DAYS

Young Soul Rivals

LAMB

Raising the baa

SILENT NIGHT

► RELEASED 3 DECEMBER 15 | 92 minutes

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

► RELEASED 10 DECEMBER U | 96 minutes

FOUNDATION Season One

The Empire Set Back

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

Not enough of a hook

Y: THE LAST MAN

Me and my monkey

COWBOY BEBOP Season One

Not fully in the saddle

THE MEZZOTINT

UK BBC Two, TBC ► Writer/director Mark Gatiss

DOOM PATROL Season Three

UK Starzplay, streaming now US HBO Max, streaming

HELLBOUND Season One

Bad tidings of a great void

BEHIND THE MONSTERS

► UK/US Shudder, streaming now ►Showrunners Gabrielle Binkley,

DOCTOR WHO: GALAXY 4

Drahvin Miss Crazy

SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT

ALAMY RELEASED OUT NOW! 1989 | 15 |

BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD

MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN

Fatal Petrifaction

THE WRAITH

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1986 | 15 | Blu-ray

ENCOUNTER

Bugs Life

STAR TREK : DISCOVERY Season Three

Feel the Burn

THE ONE

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2001 | 15 | Blu-ray

HORROR NOIRE

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | NR | SVOD

4K X FOUR

Getting this month’s Ultra HD highlights off to

FINCH

Man, bytes, dog

CANDYMAN

Black Mirrors

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

A Marvel kung fusion

THE SUICIDE SQUAD

Gunn reform

BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY

Note to self

EVEN GREATER MISTAKES

Some good time Charlie

JURASSIC PARK THE ULTIMATE VISUAL HISTORY

Prehistory in the making

Ken MacLeod

Silence is golden for the Scottish science fiction author

Crescent City

UNLEASH THE THRILLING NEW FANTASY EPIC THAT WILL LEAVE YOUR HEART R ACING…

ECHOL ANDS

Great Wide Hope

BATMAN ’89

100% Joel Schumacher free

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Groot Expectations

THE YEAR OF MARTHA JONES

Tellin’ Stories

CARRY ON

They may have never made a sci-fi Carry On, but the ribald British comedy series has plenty of genre connections

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends

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