First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“It’s gonna be a hot time in the

Puppet Master

The wooden boy with a nose for trouble gets a stunning stop-motion make-over in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

World’s Finest

Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo reunite for Batman/Spawn

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Star Trek icon George Takei brings his past alive in Allegiance

What The Butler Saw

Octavia E Butler’s seminal science fiction novel Kindred finally gets adapted

Time Bandit

Does time run out for Kang the Conqueror in Timeless ?

Bad Sister

Claudia Christian reunites with her Babylon 5 castmates for new comic series Dark Legacies

Pike Life

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comes to comics with The Illyrian Enigma

Twin Freaks

Director Alexandre O Philippe dives deep into how The Wizard Of Oz influenced David Lynch

Spirited Away

Sean Anders on Spirited , his radical reinvention of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

When Love Returns

The restored version of The Muppet Christmas Carol debuts on Disney+

River’s Edge

Stef Penney talks about adapting Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows for radio

HADEER ELSBAI

MEET THE LIBRARIAN BEHIND FEMINIST FANTASY THE DAUGHTERS OF IZDIHAR

KEVIN O’NEILL 1953-2022

A true one-off in the world of British comics 

SEASON`S BEATINGS

VIOLENT NIGHT

Na’vi Blues

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

COME TO DUST

THE BBC’S BOLD AND BRILLIANT ADAPTATION OF HIS DARK MATERIALS IS BACK F OR ITS THIRD AND FINAL SERIES. SFX VISITS THE SET ONE LAST TIME

FUTURE IMPERFECT

SHOWRUNNER JEREMY CARVER UNPACKS THE STR ANGE AND WACKY FOURTH SEASON OF DC’S DOOM PATROL

ELIF QUEST

SHOWRUNNER DECLAN DE BARRA CHRONICLES THE COMING OF THE FIRST IN  THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN

WATER PRESSURE

INSPIRED BY SOME GENRE GREATS, THE RIG BRINGS OFFSHORE TERROR TO TV

GHOST WATCH

GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTM AS

SPACE GIRL

MAUREEN O’BRIEN

BRENTON THWAITES

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

NEVER SLEEP AGAIN (AGAIN)

LEADING LADY HEATHER LANGENKAMP AND DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGR APHY MARK IRWIN DISCUSS Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, THE DIRECTOR’S BOLD ATTEMPT TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO THE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET SERIES

MICHAEL MOORCOCK

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER

Recipe for succession

LUPITA NYONG’O

Nakia in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

VIOLENT NIGHT

Slay ride

MATILDA THE MUSICAL

Child’s Play

THE MENU

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NOCEBO

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DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES

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PREY FOR THE DEVIL

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ANDOR Season One

No need to Force it

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Season Three

Paying Visitor a visit

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Season One

Furnishing frights

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season One

Blond On Blonde

STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI Season One

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WEDNESDAY Season One

Strange Little Girl

DOCTOR WHO Season Two

The Monochrome Set

WE ARE NOT ALONE

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GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS Volume One

The James gang

SON OF THE WHITE MARE

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WORZEL GUMMIDGE

The original straw man scrubs up nicely

SLUMBERLAND

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THE AMAZING MAURICE

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VAMPIRE CIRCUS

Doom At The Top

THE CAT AND THE CANARY/THE GHOST BREAKERS

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PINOCCHIO

Puppet regime

EBOLA SYNDROME

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NIGHTMARE AT NOON

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SPIRITED

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | PG

LYNCH/OZ

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THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

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NOPE

Shoot for the sky

BODIES BODIES BODIES

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HELLRAISER

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STAR TREK : PICARD Season Two

A disorderly Q

ROUND UP

It seems like five minutes since DON’T WORRY

CIT Y OF LAST CHANCES

Tour guide required, apply within

WORMHOLE

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DR WHO & THE DALEKS: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILMS

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THE RED SCHOL AR’S WAKE

Shipping – literally…

RAYGUNS & ROCKETSHIPS

Pulp Fiction

SHADO TECHNICAL OPERATIONS MANUAL

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

WHERE IT RAINS IN COLOUR

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BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW

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CLIVE BARKER’S DARK WORLDS

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ALSO OUT

As ever, there’s plenty more books we couldn’t

Aliette de Bodard

THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE

City Of Last Chances

AN EXTRACT FROM A NEW BOOK

CAT WOMAN: LONELY CITY

Selina’s final score

THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

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LOVE EVERLASTING

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PREDATOR

Hunter killer

FINN: ORIGINS

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GOTHAM KNIGHTS

Bat-street Boys (and girl)

CHILDREN OF THE STONES

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SMILE CLUB

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JUDGE DREDD

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Dapol Figures

Total Recall