Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“Do not fuck with me.” This is the

A Family Affair

Superman & Lois showrunner Todd Helbing teases season two’s villains and the Kent family dynamic

From Hair To Eternity

Logan’s days of future past and present are chronicled in X-Lives Of Wolverine and X-Deaths Of Wolverine

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Sex Drive

A damaged young woman is impregnated by a car in Titane, Julia Ducournau’s latest body horror

Rise Of The Machines

New film Mother/Android tells a relationship story in the ruins of an android uprising

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Bird Of Prey

Charge your mead glasses: Hawk The Slayer flies again in a new comic series

SUE LYNN TAN

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS, A FANTASY INSPIRED BY CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

Once Upon A Time In Horror wood

Boom! Studios’ meta new Angel series is set in a parallel Tinseltown

Nine Lives

How To Train Your Dragon spreads its wings with a new series of present-day adventures

Long Time Coming

Scour those back issues: Marvel’s new event series The Reckoning War has some very deep roots…

Super History Man

Kurt Busiek on returning to the battlefields of Arrowsmith and the skies of Astro City

Losing My Religion

The Last Thing Mary Saw is an exploration of religion, repression and the supernatural

Superstan

Superman’s biggest fan Naomi leaps from comic book page to the small screen in a new series

The Girl With The Dragon In U

​Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime film Belle digs beneath the surface of beauty

Do You See What I See

Why hasn’t the Gremlins franchise had a Lego

Lethal Weapon

Hellboy mythology is explored in spin-off The Sword Of Hyperborea

THE FINAL FRONTIER

Remembering a Hammer starlet and a James Bond author

THE TOXIC AVENGER

THE SUICIDE SQUAD’S IS GETTING A WHOLE SERIES TO UNPACK HIS MANY, MANY ISSUES. PRODUCER PETER SAFRAN TELLS US MORE

GHOST TOWN

GHOSTFACE IS BACK – BUT WHO ARE THEY THIS TIME? SFX TRIES TO UNMASK A KILLER

DEAD LINE

IN THE NEW HORROR FROM THE MAKERS OF SINISTER, THE BLACK PHONE, A BOY IS TR APPED INSIDE A CHILD KILLER’S GHOST- FILLED BASEMENT

SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

AS MARVEL’S LIVING VAMPIRE HITS THE BIG SCREEN, SFX UNCOVERS HIS ORIGINS WITH MOR BI US CREATOR ROY THOMAS

HOLLY WOOD VAMPI RE

Mr Morbius, we’re ready for your close-up…

WHO YA GONNA CALL?

NO, NOT THEM, BUT R ATHER A HOST OF DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS AS WE GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE

CONNOR JESSUP

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

Gence In A Bottle

HAVING JUST CELEBR ATED ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY, RICHARD CURTIS’S WARM-HEARTED FANTASY BERNARD AND THE GENIE IS FINALLY AVAILABLE TO STREAM. HE AND DIRECTOR PAUL WEILAND LOOK BACK AT A FESTIVE FAVOURITE

LAUR ALAM

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

THE KING’S MAN

Duking it out RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 |

RA RA RASPUTIN

Four more fantastical outings for the beardy Russian mystic

TITANE

Auto eroticism

RESIDEN T EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY

Where the **** is Alice?

DOCTOR WHO: FLUX

The Flux of the matter

CHUCK Y Season One

Charles In Charge

INVASION Season One

The world ending with a whimper

SUPERMAN & LOIS Season One

Married… With Children

TITANS Season Three

UK Netflix, streaming now US HBO Max, streaming

LOST IN SPACE Season Three

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Director Zack Estrin Cast

SUPER CROOKS Season One

That Man Bolt

ARCANE Season One

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunners Christian Linke, Alex

DOCTOR WHO Season 17

The Adams Family

HOTEL POSEIDON

RELEASED 3 JANUARY 2021 | TBC | SVOD

THE AMAZING MR BLUNDEN

Callow/youths

THE MANGLER

RELEASED 10 JANUARY 1995 | 18 | Blu-ray

HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1970 | 15 | Blu-ray

MALIGNANT

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD/download

GL ASSHOUSE

Growing pains

RED SNOW

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC | Download

DEATH VALLEY

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC | SVOD

MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1988 | 15 | Blu-ray

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE

RELEASED 10 JANUARY 2021 | 18 | DVD/download

NO TIME TO DIE

Cary On Bond

VIRGIN WITCH

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1971 | 18 | Blu-ray

EFFECTS

RELEASED 10 JANUARY 1980 | 15 | Blu-ray/download

SHOCK

Supernatural Mario

DON’ T LOOK UP

Here Comes The Boom

VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE

Bad Romance

LAST TRAIN TO CHRISTMAS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | TBC | VOD

ARMOUR OF GOD

Just for kicks

ROUND UP

Two animated comedies to clue you in on

THE BOOK OF SAND

Into The Spider-Verse

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK

RELEASED 18 JANUARY 304 pages | Hardback/ebook Author

DEEP DIVE

RELEASED 11 JANUARY 288 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

THE ANOMALY

Flight Club

THE IVORY KEY

RELEASED 4 JANUARY 384 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

TECH NOIR THE ART OF JAMES CAMERON

Life drawing

THE CHOSEN TWELVE

RELEASED 20 JANUARY 384 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

PLANET OF THE APES: THE COMPLETE HISTORY

RELEASED 15 JANUARY 264 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

THE REVELRY

RELEASED 6 JANUARY 272 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks this time: Aliya

THE HELLEBORE GUIDE TO OCCULT BRITAIN

BULLET TIME A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS RELEASED

THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE BOOK

RELEASED OUT NOW! 200 pages | Hardback Author

36 STREETS

RELEASED 18 JANUARY 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more books we couldn’t squeeze in.

Charles Stross

The Laundry Files novelist loves a bit of writer’s block, curious fellow…

THE DEATH OF DOCTOR STRANGE

Sorcerer sub-prime

DARK AGES

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writer Tom

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writers Zeb

SUPERMAN ’78

Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back

DESERTER

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher VIZ Media Writer/artist Junji

HALO INFINITE

Hail To The Master Chief

DOCTOR WHO: LONDON, 1965

RELEASED 6 JANUARY Running time 71 minutes Format

THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE BATTLE IN BALIN’S TOMB

RELEASED OUT NOW! Format Two players Publisher Games

THE BOOK OF DUST: LA BELLE SAUVAGE

The Drowned World

BAYBAN THE BUTCHER

RELEASED OUT NOW! 192 minutes | CD/download Publisher

Street Hawk

ABC/EVERETT COLLECTION/ALAMY “Me go fast. You not run