First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Light My Fire

Elemental’s Peter Sohn on making his most personal Pixar movie

A Bat Out Of Halal

The team behind Count Abdulla bring Muslim vampires to ITV

Hero Ingredients

This year’s Marvel Voices: Pride introduces more new mutants, symbioses and heroes

Weapons Of Choice

Loki’s past catches up with him in a new miniseries

A Life Less Ordinary

It’s the end of the world and, quite rightly, Beau Is Afraid

Lady Of The Ring

Victory escapes from Vampirella’s shadow in her own comic book

The Killing Moon

Terror is on ice as Declan Shalvey and Andrea Broccardo relaunch Marvel’s Alien

SPACE AND TIME Celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO

The BBC has announced new cast for Ncuti

All At Sea

There’s something fishy ahoy as Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard return to Wild’s End

AY CHAO

MEET THE FORMER LAWYER BEHIND JAZZ AGE FANTASY SHANGHAI IMMORTAL

NORMAN REYNOLDS 1934-2023

Remembering the man who got the ball rolling…

ENTERPRISING SITUATION

AS THE STAR TREK RENAISSANCE CONTINUES, STRANGE NEW WORLDS RETURNS…

BEAST WARS

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS

TAN GLED WEB

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

UNDER THE CGI

SFX DEEP-DIVES WITH DIRECTOR ROB MARSHALL ON HOW HE REMADE (AND CHANGED) THE DISNEY ANIMATED CLASSIC THE LITTLE MERMAID

THE FORCE REAWAKENS

IGNITE LIGHTSABERS! HERE’S EVERYTHING WE LEARNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF STAR WARS AT THIS YEAR’S CELEBR ATION

GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI

GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI

BLAME IT ON THE BOOGEYMAN

DIRECTOR ROB SAVAGE RETURNS WITH A TERRIFYING ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN KING’S THE BO OGEYMAN – PROMISING VISCERAL SCARES, HEREDITARY -LEVEL PERFORMANCES AND A HORRIFYING CREATURE

MANHATTAN TRANSFER

NEW YORK! NEW YORK! IT’S LITERALLY A HELL OF A TOWN AS MAGGIE AND NEGAN ARRIVE IN NEW SPIN-OFF SERIES THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY

DALEK HUNTER

HANDS OFF! THESE DOCTOR WHO TOYS ARE NOT FOR PLAYING WITH…

BEN BARNES

The actor talks darkness, music and wanting to be a superhero

THE STUFF OF DAEAMS

TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS ON FROM THE RELEASE OF The City Of Lost Children, MARC CARO AND JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET LOOK BACK AT THEIR SECOND CO-DIRECTED FEATURE

TEMI OH

Inner space explorer: meet one of SF’s most exciting new voices

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3

Breaking up the band

BEAU IS AFRAID

Coming, Mother!

THE OLD MAN MOVIE: LACTOPALYPSE

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THE POPE’S EXORCIST

Clerical terror

SILO Season One

The land down under

THE MANDALORIAN Season Three

This isn’t the way

THE ARK Season One

It’s got a lot of bottle

STAR TREK: PICARD Season Three

Old dogs, new tricks

STAR WARS: VISIONS Volume Two

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DEAD RINGERS

Cronenberg reborn

THE POWER Season One

Who run the world? Girls!

REPULSION

She’s Lost Control

MORGIANA

BLU-RAY DEBUT Juraj Herz, director of Czechoslovak New

SHE DIES TOMORROW

BLU-RAY DEBUT This profoundly anxious film isn’t about

ENYS MEN

Frighten Rock

5-25-77

Patrick Read Johnson’s 5-25-77 is certainly a passion

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP:QUANTUMANIA

Back to minuscule

FULL CIRCLE

Strange Little Girl

PETER PAN & WENDY

The Darling buds of today

THE ARTIFICE GIRL

Writer/director/star Franklin Ritch’s thoughtful, relentlessly talky meditation on

FUTURE SOLDIER

Supersoldier turned bounty hunter Captain Mo Harrington comes

LITTLE BONE LODGE

This sort-of-home-invasion thriller is impressively taut and twisty,

RESTART THE EARTH

Giant sentient plants have taken over in this

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Sacrificial fam

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

Gone Girls

THE RESURRECTION OF CHARLES MANSON

The thing with 78-minute horror movies is they

HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN

The mother load

ROUND UP

Hot on the heels of the cinematic release

AIRSIDE

Terminal case

PERILOUS TIMES

Ancient myths and very modern problems collide in

SCARLET

The Scarlet Pimpernel with vampires is the pitch

MORE PERFECT

Connect Law

THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN

The scale of Mark Lawrence’s vision in this

ON THE NATURE OF MAGIC

On the surface there’s a lot to like

19 CLAWS AND A BL ACK BIRD

Strong meat

FABLEHOUSE

Who fancies a children’s book that’ll make you

THE MALEVOLENT SEVEN

Déjà vu? No glitch in the Matrix here:

SEAHURST

You know that old cliché about how the

MARCH’S END

For many readers of fantasy, our first encounter

REISSUES

Our paperback picks for May include Kiersten White’s

THE BLIGHTED STARS

Humanity’s attempts to conquer death are going a

VERGE

While we’re starting to feel the effects of

FANS

If you’re looking for a comprehensive examination of

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more books that we couldn’t fit

Christopher Priest

But what does the award-winning author’s cat do at night?

THE AVENGERS: WAR ACROSS TIME

The Big Kang Theory

SERGEANT STRONG

COLLECTION As his name indicates, there’s nothing subtle

THE 10,000 DISASTERS OF DORT

COLLECTION Set in the then fashionably futuristic year

SCARLET WITCH

Trouble in store

BLOODLINE: DAUGHTER OF BLADE

ISSUES 1-3 Though there’s more than a shade

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR

Outwit, outplay, outlast

DOCTOR WHO: DALEKS! GENESIS OF TERROR

AUDIO DRAMA 1975’s “Genesis Of The Daleks” is

DEAD ISLAND 2

VIDEOGAME Few games have nailed the sloppy practicaleffects

DARK SEASON: LEGACY RISING

The Four Seasons

DOCTOR WHO: PIONEERS

AUDIO DRAMA Three very different types of pioneer

NEW YORK CITY

Start spreading the news, we’re quizzing today! As The Walking Dead’s Maggie and Negan visit the Big Apple, we test your knowledge of all things NYC

Might y Mouse

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