Captain’s Log

“Prepare yourself for Warp 10 excitement!” As I

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Locking Up

Locke & Key’s showrunners reveal the final battle of good versus evil

Holding The Baby

Resident Alien gets some new visitors in the second half of season two

NEWSWARP MCU update:

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Hunting High

Another comic shimmers into view as Predator makes its Marvel debut

Halcyon Days

Slap on the factor 50 – Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation has three new adventures to tell

Power Pack

The kids-friendly Secret Headquarters leans more towards Sky High than Kick-Ass

Turning The Tables

So who’s going to survive? Place your bets

NEWSWARP

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Branching Out

The baby Flora colossus is back with five short adventures in I Am Groot

Ancient World’s Finest

DC’s oldest superteam gets ready for its movie debut in Black Adam: The Justice Society Files

Foxx Hunting

Jamie Foxx raises the stakes in vampire movie Day Shift

Turkish Delight

An Istanbul-set fable about a djinn and a lonely academic, Three Thousand Years Of Longing sees Mad Max’s George Miller realise his passion project

Eye Sore

Boyd Holbrook bites back as The Sandman’s adversary the Corinthian

To The Devil A Daughter

Puberty outs the Antichrist in FX’s new animated comedy Little Demon

Dead Or Alive

The undead get the anthology treatment in Tales Of The Walking Dead

Worlds Wide Web

With anniversary special Amazing Fantasy #1000 and The Edge Of Spider- Verse, it’s a banner month for Spidey

The Aim Of The Rose

The Clarkson twins on Red Rose, their new social media-obsessed horror series

STACEY McEWAN

MEET THE TEACHER BEHIND FANTASY NOVEL THE LEDGE

GREG JEIN 1945-2022

Remembering the Star Trek and Close Encounters model maker

REBELS WITH A CAUSE

ROGUE ONE HERO IS BACK! SHOWRUNNER TONY GILROY, AND STARS DIEGO LUNA AND GENEVIEVE O’REILLY, TELL SFX ABOUT THE BOURNE-INSPIRED PREQUEL SERIES THAT’S “MAKING IT REAL”

BLOND AMBITION

TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE GAME OF THRONES, THE DRAGON-RIDING TARGARYEN DYNASTY WENT TO WAR FOR THE IRON THRONE. SHOWRUNNER RYAN CONDAL REVEALS HOW NEW PREQUEL SERIES House Of The Dragon IS BRINGING SUCCESSION TO WESTEROS

First Among Prequels

House Of The Dragon wasn’t the only Game Of Thrones spin-off in the works

LOOKS WHO'S TOLKIEN NOW

WITH THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, AMAZON IS TAKING US BACK TO MIDDLE-EARTH. WE GET THE LOWDOWN ON THE BIGGEST TV SHOW IN HISTORY

ELF PORTRAITS

Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo strive for immortality as Galadriel and Elrond

UNDER MY SKIN

HOW BARRIE GOWER AND HIS TEAM BROUGHT VECNA TO LIFE IN STRANGER THINGS

ELLA BALINSKA

The real-life gamer on her role in the new Resident Evil TV series

FLUX INCAPACITATOR

IN 1991, PETER CHUNG’S AEON FLUX FLOORED MTV’S AUDIENCE WITH ITS THRILLING, SEXY AND INTELLIGENT ANIMATED STORIES

RF KUANG

Magic words: the writer of The Poppy War tells us about her new novel

NOPE

Don’t Look Up

KEKE PALMER

Emerald Haywood in Nope

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

It’s Miller time!

BODIES BODIES BODIES

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THE FEAST

Nature girl

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS

Animal Firm

STAR TREK : STRANGE NEW WORLDS

The Enterprise Incidents

PAPER GIRLS Season One

Future imperfect

MS MARVEL

Jersey Girl

THE SANDMAN

Dream weaver

STRANGER THINGS Season Four, Volume Two

UK/US Netflix, streaming now ► Showrunners The Duffer

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Season One

As The World Falls Down

RESIDENT EVIL Season One

Zero point

PREY

It’s good to stalk

GREEN LANTERN: BEWARE MY POWER

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CREAT URES THE WORLD FORGOT

Cave art

BEWARE MY BRETHREN

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UNIVERSAL TERROR

Three servings of Special K

WICKED WORLD

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LUCK

In for a penny

WHEN I CONSUME YOU

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HELL HIGH

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GOOD MADAM

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MUNSTER, GO HOME

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DOG SOLDIERS

Gunning with wolves

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE

I Wanna Be Selected

WHAT JOSIAH SAW

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DRIVE

On the Wong track

4K X FOUR

Fourth-billed Dwayne Johnson’s been shunted to the front

KILLER’S MOON

Lunatic free-range

FL AT LINERS

A Matter Of Life And Death

LIGHT & MAGIC

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RED SONJA

Low Nielsen rating

ROUND UP

Sega’s spikey speedster returns in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

BABEL

Shadows cast by dreaming spires

RICKY’S HAND

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THE CHANGE

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THE UNDERTAK ING OF HART AND MERCY

A dead sweet romance

THE BOOK EATERS

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THE MAN WHO LEAPT THRO UGH FILM

Beauty And The East

BULLET TIME

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

ION CURTAIN

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DEAD WATER

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THE BOOK OF GOTHEL

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REISSUES

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s CERTAIN DARK THINGS ( ★★★★☆,

THE FIRST BINDING

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OKAY THEN THAT’S GREAT

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MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTERS

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ALSO OUT

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

David Quantick

The former NME writer is rocking out to Boston nowadays

BATMAN: FORTRESS

Angry aliens vs Caped Crusader

EIGHT BILLION GENIES

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ROCKETEER: THE GREAT RACE

The Jet Set lifestyle

THE BEST OF CAT GIRL

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STRAY

Pussed apocalypse

SPACE: 1969

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DOCTOR WHO: INTO THE STARS

Across The Universe

UFO: DESTRUCT POSITIVE!

The Coming Of SHADO

UFOs

The truth is out there! How much do you know about these close encounters of the trivia kind?

Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy