Brandon Sanderson

First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Captain’s Log

At the time of writing, in an ever-shifting

Playstation

Sean Connery

1930-2020

American Life

Mod hero Pennyworth returns to fight fascists again in ’60s London

AERIAL ASSAULT

SCI-FI TV ROUND UP 

Cutting Edge

Titan’s Blade Runner comic book moves closer to 2049 in a new 2029-set series

AARON DOUGLAS

AKA Chief Tyrol in Battlestar Galactica

An Irish Werewolf In Lockdown

DIRECTOR EXCLUSIVE

CK MCDONNELL

MEET THE FORMER STAND-UP COMEDIAN BEHIND PARANORMAL THRILLER THE STRANGER TIMES

Happy Horrordays!

The Misty Winter Special’s seasonal scare stories will chill your bones this Christmas

Penny Dreadful

SFX's high priestess of horror

Retro-active

The first TV version of Nineteen Eighty-Four was

Onward Chrisjen Soldier

Corinna Bechko and Alejandro Aragon are bringing The Expanse back to comics

IN THE NEXT SFX

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SERVING TIME

IT’S THE END OF AN ERA AS THE FAM FIGHT THE DALEKS TOGETHER ONE LAST TIME. SHOWRUNNER CHRIS CHIBNALL TAKES TIME OUT FROM PRODUCTION ON SERIES 13 TO TALK DALEKS, “CONTROVERSIAL” CHANGES AND WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR DOCTOR WHO 

DALEKS DOMINATION

Director Lee Haven Jones on the new-look Daleks

JAILHOUSE DOC

Jodie Whittaker is the Doctor

I'D RATHER JACK

John Barrowman is Captain Jack Harkness

SHIPPING FORECAST

Mandip Gill is Yasmin Khan

TRANSMISSION IMPOSSIBLE

GEORGE CLOONEY PLAYS A DOOMED SURVIVOR OF A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE IN NEW NETFLIX MOVIE T H E M I D N I G H T S K Y. SCREENWRITER MARK L SMITH AND CLOONEY HIMSELF TELL US HOW THEY STEERED IT TO THE SCREEN

ON THE QT

Mark L Smith on Star Trek

THE TERMINAL MAN

GEORGE CLOONEY TALKS DIRECTING HIS FIRST BIG SPACE MOVIE

ALL THAT JAZZ

THE CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF PIXAR’S LATEST ANIMATED ADVENTURE TELLS US WHAT WENT INTO MAKING 

DEEP IMPACT

THE EARTH IS BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE IN THE EXPANSE SEASON FIVE. WE VISIT THE TORONTO SET AND TALK TO SHOWRUNNER NAREN SHANKAR TO SEE WHAT’S IN STORE FOR HUMANITY

STRAIT TALK

Steven Strait plays James Holden

CHATHAM CHAT

Wes Chatham plays Amos Burton

FINAL SEASON OF THE WITCH

AS NETFLIX’S TEEN HORROR SHOW CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA MEETS AN UNTIMELY END, SFX GETS SPOOKED ON THE VANCOUVER SET

“It’s a huge responsibility”

Sabrina’s star is an old head on young shoulders

“You have to bring in new energy”

Michelle Gomez talks Lilith

WITCH CAME FIRST…

The cast talk past incarnations of Sabrina

THE ONE PERCENT

SHOWRUNNER BENJAMIN CAVELL TALKS GOOD VS EVIL IN THE LATEST TV ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN KING’S CLASSIC POST-APOCALYPSE NOVEL

SELF OBSESSIONS

WHO’S WHO? “WE’RE ALL HACKABLE RIGHT NOW,” SAYS BRANDON CRONENBERG, DIRECTOR OF BRUTAL BODY-SNATCH HORROR POSSESSOR

CATWOMAN CLAW AND DISORDER

THE TIME IS MIAOW! WHIP-CRACK AWAY AS SFX CELEBRATES 80 YEARS OF CATWOMAN

OTTO FARRANT

The young actor ready to throw himself into the fray as Alex Rider 

COVID

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SOUL

Jazz Good As It Gets

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Some of jazz’s sci-fi connections

VERSUS

RELEASED 7 DECEMBER 2000 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Ryuhei Kitamura Cast Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda

SHORT SHARP SHOCKS

Get eldritch quick

TRILOGY OF TERROR II

RELEASED 7 DECEMBER 1996 | 15 | Blu-ray

DEATH OF ME

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 15 | DVD/download

CHRONICAL: 2067

RELEASED 7 DECEMBER 2020 | 15 | DVD/download

WHITE SNAKE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | PG | Blu-ray/DVD/download

JINGLE JANGLE

Flabby Christmas

ISHIRŌ HONDA

Big Moth Strikes Again

THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1993 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Ronny Yu Cast Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Francis Ng, Elaine Lui

LEAP OF FAITH

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | SVOD Director Alexandre O Philippe

LATE PHASES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2014 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Adrián García Bogliano Cast Nick Damici, Tom Noonan, Lance Guest, Tina Louise

WICKED CITY/ DEMON CITY SHINJUKU

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1987/1988 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri Cast Yusaku Yara, Toshiko Fujita, Hideyuki Hori, Hiromi Tsuru

RENT-A-PAL

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 18 | Download

PINOCCHIO

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | PG | DVD/download

SAVE YOURSELVES!

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 15 | Download

AKIRA

Gangs Of Neo-Tokyo

SPREE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 15 | VOD

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THE WITCHES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | PG | VOD Director Robert Zemeckis Cast Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Jahzir Bruno, Stanley Tucci

HE CAME FROM THE SWAMP

The Florida Bs

DUNE

Spice Up Your Life

TOTAL RECALL

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1990 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Paul Verhoeven Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside

ROUND UP

We covered PENINSULA (out now, Blu-ray/DVD/ download),

FREAKY

Kill switch

HOST

RELEASED 4 DECEMBER (also VOD/download) 15 | 56 minutes Director Rob Savage Cast Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb

SKYLINES

RELEASED 18 DECEMBER (also VOD) 18 | 109 minutes

THE RINGMASTER

RELEASED OUT NOW! (also DVD/download) 18 | 98 minutes

THE CRAFT: LEGACY

RELEASED OUT NOW! (also download) 15 | 90 minutes Director Zoe Lister-Jones Cast Cailee Spaeny, Lovie Simone, Gideon Adlon, Zoey Luna

MURDER ME, MONSTER

RELEASED 18 DECEMBER (also VOD, 4 DECEMBER) 18 | 109 minutes Director Alejandro Fadel Cast Victor Lopez, Esteban Bigliardi, Tania Casciani, Romina Iniesta

COME AWAY

When Worlds Don’t Collide

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Scroogely Come Dancing

Inside Film

HEIRS OF THE NIGHT Series One

Vampire kids don’t suck

PARANORMAL Season One

Haunt Like An Egyptian

Centre point

THE ART OF STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN

This is the why

BONE HARVEST

RELEASED OUT NOW! 495 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook Author James Brogden Publisher Titan Books

NOPHEK GLOSS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Essa Hansen Publisher Orbit Books

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Chloe Gong Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

THE LAST RESORT

RELEASED OUT NOW! 299 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Susi Holliday Publisher Thomas & Mercer

WITCH BOTTLE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 314 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Tom Fletcher Publisher Jo Fletcher Books

THE ART OF STAR TREK: DISCOVERY

Mushroom visions

THIRTEEN STOREYS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 392 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook Author Jonathan Sims Publisher Gollancz

DUNE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Volume One

RELEASED 10 DECEMBER Publisher Abrams Comicarts Writers Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson Artists Raúl Allén, Patricia Martín

BATMAN: THREE JOKERS

Triple Trouble

MADI

Phase of the Moon

IRON MAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Writer Christopher Cantwell Artist Cafu

DEEP SPACE NINE: TOO LONG A SACRIFICE

RELEASED OUT NOW! (Paperback 12 January) Publisher IDW Comics Writer Scott and David Tipton Artist Greg Scott

THE PIPER

RELEASED OUT NOW! 218 minutes | Podcast Publisher BBC Sounds

SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES

New arachnid on the block

DOCTOR WHO: TIME LORD VICTORIOUS

Daleks In Distress

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA

It’s Frigg-ing brilliant

BULLET TIME

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

A PERFECT GIFT FOR EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST

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The Daleks

Fast Attack!

TotalRecall

Personal   recollections of cherished sci-fi

Corgi

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The Folio Society

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