First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Captain’s Log

“Spoilers, sweetie.” © BBC Time Fracture is –

Rebel Rebel

SCI-FACT! Star Wars: Andor is set five

Back On Song

Lucifer’s back - and doing a musical episode

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

Lucifer himself Tom Ellis on show tunes, social media and series finales

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Nine Lives

Reece Shearsmith talks us through the latest season of Inside No. 9

Monster Hit

Season three of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous finds the kids encountering new dinos and old foes

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Superhero Swansong

Mark Millar on the end of life, the universe and everything as Jupiter’s Legacy reaches its Requiem

AVA REID

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND JEWISH FANTASY THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN

The Root Cause

Humanity faces a fungal threat in In The Earth, Ben Wheatley’s folk-horror response to the pandemic

ON SCREEN FIRST LOOK

Halloween Kills Yes, we know images of Michael

THE FINAL FRONTIER

FELIX SILLA 1937 – 2021

BLEEDING LAS VEGAS

ALMOST 15 YEARS  AFTER IT WAS FIRST  ANNOUNCED, ZACK SNYDER’S  “GENRE-BUSTING”  ZOMBIE  HEIST THRILLER IS FINALLY  HERE. NATURALLY WE GOT  THE LOWDOWN ON  ARMY OF THE DEAD  FROM THE MAN  HIMSELF…

DAWN OF THE DAD

DAVE BAUTISTA IS SCOTT WARD

THE MONSTER SQUAD

Meet the cast of Army Of The Dead

APOCALYPSE HOW?

Would any of the Army Of The Dead cast survive a real zombie apocalypse?

THE DECIL'S WORK

HAVING GROSSED $1.8 BILLION WORLDWIDE,  THE CONJURING UNIVERSE IS OFFICIALLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL HORROR FRANCHISE EVER. AS THE LATEST FILM HITS CINEMAS, WE CATCH UP WITH DIRECTOR MICHAEL CHAVES AND PRODUCER PETER SAFRAN

TRIAL AND TERROR

Ruairi O’Connor plays Arne Cheyenne Johnson

HOW'S YOUR HEAD?

MARVEL’S  M.O.D.O.K.  SEES THE DISEMB ODIED FLOATING HEAD  FINALLY GETTING THE SPOTLIGHT  HE THIN KS HE DESERVES!

BEHIND EVERY GREAT HEAD...

The supervillain’s greatest foe just might be his wife, Jodi Tarleton, played

CRACKIN TIME

A NEW IMMERSIVE THEATRE EXPERIENCE AIMS TO PUT YOU DIRECTLY INTO THE DOCTOR WHO UNIVERSE.  BUT WHAT IS TIME FRACTURE ALL ABOUT?

DESIGNING DOCTOR WHO

Working on the sets, props and costumes means production designer Rebecca Brower is completely, ahem, immersed in the immersive experience

THE EFFECTS OF INTERGALA CTIC

VFX SUPERVISOR JEAN-CLAUDE DEGUARA TELLS US ABOUT HELPING TO BRING THE WORLD OF SKY’S PRISONERS- ON-THE-LAM SPACE OPERA TO LIFE

MURPHY'S LAW

WRITER ED NEUMEIER AND DIRECTOR PAUL VERHOEVEN EXPLAIN HOW A LOW-BUDGET SCI-FI SATIRISING REAGAN’S AMERICA SPAWNED A LONG-RUNNING FRANCHISE

THE EDGE OF GLORY

TAKE A DETAILED LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES ON STAR WARS:  GALAXY’S EDGE WITH ART FROM A NEW BOOK

ANDREW HORTON

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

STREET FIGHTER

AS ATTACK THE BLOCK TURNS 10, DIRECTOR JOE CORNISH REFLECTS ON THE MAKING –  AND FUTURE – OF HIS DEBUT FEATURE

CJ CAREY

Editing the past… Meet the writer of a new alternate history novel 

ARMY OF THE DEAD

Rob Zombie

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS

Four more times SF and fantasy paid a trip to the Strip

MORTAL KOMBAT

Not-so-Flawless Victory

THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

NETFLIX The synopsis for Things Seen And Heard

UNDERGODS

Triple Trouble

FRIED BARRY

SHUDDER The credits should give you the general

WEIRD WISCONSIN

Bill of no-goods

WE STILL SAY GRACE

Bruce Davison dominates as a god-fearing patriarch in

LADDIE

What’s that, Laddie? You were President of 20th

INITIATION

Because frat boys are always gross, the ones

THE DARKNESS

Who still uses a manual typewriter? Lisa, that’s

JOHNNY MNEMONIC

Set in the far-flung future of, er, 2021,

THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY

Island In The Streams

JUSTICE SOCIWTY : WORLD WAR II

DC’s latest animated movie anticipates the multiversal shenanigans

PF: PSYCHO GOREMAN

SHUDDER If you’re the sort who has a

OXYGEN

Take My Breath Away

THRESHOLD

ARROW “Threshold” is the name of the Star

STOWAWAY

NETFLIX Joe Penna’s directorial debut, 2018’s Arctic, was

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

The Girl With The Dragon, Sisu

ROUND UP

It was only last issue that we could

THE UNHOLY

Mary, quite contrary

EARWIG AND THE WITCH

Ghibli enters the CG dimension

DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN

Screening in both dubbed and subtitled forms, this

COMING SOON

OUT NOW! RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Indy’s

JUPITER’S LEGACY Season One

New Power Generation

INVINCIBLE Season One

Dismember The Titans

SHADOW AND BONE Season One

Solar flair

INTERGALACTIC Series One

Female Trouble

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Season One

Taking the shield

FOR ALL MANKIND Season Two

EPISODES 2.01-2.10 Ronald D Moore’s alternative history of

SHARDS OF EARTH

Architects & Morality

THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF

Horror writer Christopher Buehlman brings a generous dose

ALL OUR HIDDEN GIFTS

This YA mystery, set in Ireland, is a

THE KINGDOMS

Not your average Joe

IN THE RAVENOUS DARK

This should be an anime, one whose aesthetics

THE OTHERWISE

Did you know that cussed national treasure Mark

WIDOWLAND

Canon and thrall

WE ARE SATELLITES

Any summary of We Are Satellites’ plot might

WITHIN WITHOUT

When Jeff Noon returned to publishing novels in

ANNA

You don’t need to look hard to find

THE WITCH’S HEART

Loki was a bit of a player back

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks this month? Probably DEVOLUTION

GODZILLA VS KONG: ONE WILL FALL

Getting two skyscrapersized Titans to beat the crap

THE WOOD BEE QUEEN

An abundance of ideas compete for space in

TEN LOW

This is a sci-fi western. It’s other things

ALSO OUT

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

Veronica Roth

The author of the Divergent books believes in simplicity

BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE

The Monochrome Knight Returns

RESISTANCE

GRAPHIC NOVEL Look elsewhere if you’re after escapist

FULL TILT BOOGIE

COLLECTION Originally appearing in a Regened all-ages issue

BLADE RUNNER

It never rains but it pours

ADAM ETERNO: A HERO FOR ALL TIME

COLLECTION Even in the oddball pantheon of classic

THE NINTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: RAVAGERS

Fantastic Voyage

AVALON Volume One

AUDIO DRAMA Sadly, Blake’s 7 cast are increasingly

WARHAMMER QUEST: CURSED CITY

Urban decay

RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE

Village Of The Damned

PRUE’S FAREWELL

The morning after lockdown ended. © CBS