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Keith Tudor, email Watching the last episode of Supernatural was emotional. I’d been hooked on the show since it first started on ITV2 back in January 2006. Fifteen years on and the finale delivered a very bittersweet conclusion. To me it felt fittin

SCI-FACT! After three movies and 30 episodes of the TV series, Rodriguez is now working on an animated version of From Dusk Till Dawn. FAMILY IS AT THE HEART OF filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s most recent works – The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl

THOUGH ARCHIVE IS GAVIN Rothery’s first film as a director, his involvement in the world of movies goes back to the early ’00s, when he and then-housemate Duncan Jones together cooked up the idea of what was to become Moon. However, it was Jones who

SCI-FACT! Kathryn previously worked with Freaky director Chris Landon on 2012’s Paranormal Activity 4. JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS MY FAVOURITE FINAL girl, and Drew Barrymore is my favourite scream queen!” says Kathryn Newton. “That scene alone I’ve watched

ONE OF THE BIGGEST international animation hits you probably don’t know about is Iginio Straffi’s Winx Club. A co-production between Italy’s Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon, since 2004 Winx Club has amassed a whopping 208 episodes (and four specials), an

SCI-FACT! From its West End debut in 1941, Blithe Spirit notched up nearly 2,000 performances – setting a new record for a non-musical show. “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE PLAY and loved the premise – the idea of being unfaithful to a dead person,” director

SCI-FACT! MacKinnon says the writers have already broken down season three of A Discovery Of Witches with author Deborah Harkness. DIANA BISHOP (TERESA Palmer)’s quest to unlock the depths of her witch powers takes a historical turn in season two of

Tell us about your protagonists. Kiem is an extroverted Imperial Prince who’s never out of the gossip sheets; Jainan is a quiet diplomat dealing with his traumatic past. They’re ordered to marry, in the middle of a political crisis and with no warnin

Ahead of a re-release of Barry Gray’s full soundtrack to 1962 series Fireball XL5 (due 22 January), this limited release pairs two tracks – the theme and “Zero G” – on orange 7” vinyl. £12.99, roughtrade.com Doctor Who: The Collection bounces back ne

IF CYBERPUNK IS ANYTHING, IT’S stubborn. Besides carving out a niche for itself in an industry overshadowed by the likes of Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop roleplaying game survived an attempt by its creator to blow it up. Quite literally: having de

SCI-FACT! Ricky Whittle finished second in the 2009 series of Strictly Come Dancing. SHADOW MOON (RICKY Whittle) spent the first two seasons of American Gods dealing with the unreasonable demands of his employer, Mr Wednesday (Ian McShane). Their rel

SCI-FACT! Prowse claimed he was also considered for the roles of Conan the Barbarian and Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me. HIS FACE WAS NEVER seen, his true voice never heard. But as the man inside the armour, Dave Prowse, imbued Darth Vader with a physi

AFTER 13 YEARS OF dominating the attention spans of global cinemagoers with its string of 23 box office successes, no one would hold it against Marvel Studios if it decided to lay off the gas a bit. But that’s not how the President of Marvel Studios,

THE MISADVENTURES of Sam Vimes and the coppers of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch have been thrilling and amusing readers for more than 30 years now, ever since the 1989 publication of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! The Discworld novels had many r

Angua is quite troubled, isn’t she? Yeah. Crime is being legalised and because of this, her purpose has been taken away. She keeps herself to herself and on the inside she’s riddled with fear and guilt – she’s a werewolf, you see! She struggles with

ALISON WRIGHT IS standing in the middle of a silent soundstage in Vancouver. The English actress, who plays Ruth in Snowpiercer – one of the crew of a miles-long train that’s been circling the globe since an icy apocalypse befell the Earth – is maske

There are tons of fun and interesting ways that The Mandalorian ties into Star Wars canon. Are you aware of all the Easter eggs when you’re working on the show? There’s plenty that are pointed out to me and there’s plenty that are obvious, but I thin

BACK IN OCTOBER 2019, WHEN THE CW’s Batwoman hit small screens as the latest series in the Arrowverse, no one expected the twists and turns audiences would weather. While the series itself offered up plenty of jaw-dropping moments for Kate Kane (Ruby

Was playing a superhero always a goal? I, for sure, wanted to do the superhero roles! I had just done an interview in May, before I even booked this, saying that was what I wanted. When I got the audition, it said, “Ryan Wilder, who will then become

The 2000 AD story starts with the 18 September 1976 edition of Action, featuring “Look Out For Lefty”, a hard-edged football strip. Hero Kenny “Lefty” Lampton’s skinhead girlfriend throws a bottle onto the pitch, hitting a player. “Good ole Angie!” K

I WAS AT A PRE-SCREENING OF SHAUN OF THE Dead and two of the film’s producers came up to me and said, ‘We have your next movie’,” remembers director Edgar Wright. “They had the rights to this new comic book and thought it was right up my alley – they

As Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation, “trouble always followed”, according to Q. For actor Whoopi Goldberg, it seems to be awards, nominations and accolades – dating back to her 1985 feature debut, The Color Purple, for which she won a Golden

IF YOU CAN GET PAST THE fashions (cravat city) and the out-of-date attitudes (Simon Oates’s womanising Ridge pinches the secretary’s bum in the first episode’s opening minutes), there is still much that is relevant to Doomwatch. Celebrating its 50th

RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 151 minutes Director Patty Jenkins Cast Gal Gadot, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Kristen Wiig, Chris Pine, Pedro Pascal How do you make a successful DC movie these days? By keeping it as far from looking like a DCEU movie as p

RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 106 minutes Director Ben Falcone Cast Melissa McCarthy, James Corden, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree Henry The films Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone have made together are hit and miss affairs, and none have made SFX rad

RELEASED 15 JANUARY (also download, 18 January) 15 | 110 minutes Director Gavin Rothery Cast Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando If Duncan Jones’s “Moon universe” follow-up Mute disappointed you by failing to DNA-match with his 20

RELEASED 15 JANUARY (also on Sky Cinema/Now TV) 12A | 99 minutes Director Edward Hallo Cast Dan Stevens, Judi Dench, Isla Fisher, Leslie Manno If there’s one thing Noël Coward was known for, it was wit. His joyful wordplay is the reason 1941’s Blithe

RELEASED OUT NOW! (also VOD) 15 | 92 minutes Director Adam Mason Cast KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford The makers of this Covid 19-riffing dystopia probably weren’t anticipating the fury its trailer inspired. If they had, they m

UK Sky Atlantic/Now TV, now US HBO Max, finished Showrunner Aaron Guzikowski Cast Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath, Niamh Algar Unsurprisingly, given the genre’s roots in the work of humanists like HG Wells, God is often missing from the

FIRST LOOK US BBC America, from 3 January UK TBC Director Simon Allen Cast Richard Dormer, Marama Corlett, Samuel Adewunmi, Lara Rossi It’s taken a decade, but Discworld adaptation The Watch is finally here. And, thank the gods, it’s good. Not perfec

SPOILER ALERT! US The CW, finished UK 4Music; streaming on All 4 Showrunners Andrew Dabb, Robert Singer Cast Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert So, 15 years on from Dean Winchester asking his brother, Sam, to help find t

UK/US: Netflix, streaming now Producer Nigel Paterson Narrator Sophie Okonedo In a few centuries’ time, a documentary series like this will probably be hosted by a clone of David Attenborough, jetting around the galaxy studying extraterrestrial life.

US AMC, finished airing UK Amazon Prime, streaming now Showrunner Matthew Negrete Cast Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Hal Cumpston, Nicolas Cantu Translating the gruesome world of The Walking Dead into a teen-driven YA adventure may sound counterintui

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director Christopher Nolan Cast John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki “Try and keep up” tweeted Warner Bros as Tenet played in pandemic-emptied cinemas. It w

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 12 | SVOD (also limited cinemas) Director George Clooney Cast George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler George Clooney’s first stab at directing a science fiction movie is the

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | YouTube video Directors Peter Caddock, Jon Doyle Cast Nicholas Briggs, Joe Sugg, Anjli Mohindra, Ayesha Antoine Ever thought that Doctor Whowould be much better without all the pesky organic lifeforms? Good news: there isn’t

EXTRAS RELEASED 4 JANUARY (download out now) 2020 | 15 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director Josh Boone Cast Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga You’ve got to feel for New Mutants director Josh

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | PG | SVOD Director Robert Rodriguez Cast YaYa Gosselin, Pedro Pascal, Priyanka Chopra, Vivien Lyra Blair Back in 2005, after a brainstorm with his kids, Robert Rodriguez threw their wacky superhero ideas onto the screen in th

EXTRAS RELEASED 4 JANUARY 2020 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Director Josephine Decker Cast Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young WithThe Haunting Of Hill House still fresh in people’s minds, a biographical drama about Shirley Jackson – widely recogni

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1997 | 18 | Blu-ray Directors Jim Gillespie, Danny Cannon, Sylvain White Cast Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brandy Norwood It’s hard to imagine anyone picking I Know What You Did Last Summer

RELEASED OUT NOW! 374 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Ernest Cline Publisher Century Ready Player One was never high literature, but it was fun. By setting a relentless stream of pop culture references against a fast-moving quest to recover a

RELEASED 14 JANUARY 352 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Jenni Fagan Publisher William Heinemann Sometimes a building just feels wrong, like it’s been tainted by the bad things that have happened within its walls. That’s certainly true of 10 Luckenbooth

RELEASED 14 JANUARY 304 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Richard Flanagan Publisher Chatto & Windus How do you convey the enormity of what’s happening in the Anthropocene epoch? For Australian author Richard Flanagan, winner of the 2014 Booker Prize, th

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Writer Gene Luen Yang Artists Dike Ruan, Philip Tan Marvel has become expert at taking seemingly B-list characters and transforming them into superstars, and until recently it didn’t get much more B-list than Shang-

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Image Comics Writer James Tynion IV Artist Martin Simmonds Once in a blue moon comes a comic so fully formed that you know you’re holding an instant classic. The Department Of Truth starts impossibly strongly and gets stro

RELEASED OUT NOW! Number of players Two Publisher Games Workshop Blood Bowl is one of Games Workshop’s most iconic titles, and yet it languished out of print for 22 years before being rebooted in 2016. This new edition gives the current rules a bit o

RELEASED OUT NOW! Number of players Two/up to four with Mega-Mania Publisher Rebellion Unplugged Block Maniawas originally published by Games Workshop back in the mid ’80s. Over the years it’s gained a bit of a cult reputation that feels deserved, bu

Complete the title of this Korean zombie horror: Train To _____. Name the ITV series in which passengers on a train are accidentally cryogenically frozen after it crashes, only waking up 52 years later. A steam locomotive was one of two alternate for

What’s your era of Doctor Who? Y’know, the one that, because it landed at just the right time, made you a fan. Mine was the last two seasons of the Sylvester McCoy era, a wonderful late explosion of Nitro-9 and creativity that made the show feel fres