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THE WONDER YEARS

AS ROBIN CELEBRATES 80 YEARS OF TIGHTS AND FIGHTS WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THE ULTIMATE COMIC BOOK SIDEKICK

JUPITER MOON

BRITAIN’S FIRST SCI-FI SOAP WENT INTO ORBIT 30 YEARS AGO AS THE CENTREPIECE OF ILL-FATED SATELLITE NETWORK BSB. SFX LOOKS BACK AT WHAT WAS DUBBED “CROSSROADS IN SPACE”

MUTANT REHAB

AFTER YEARS STUCK IN MOVIE PURGATORY, THE NEW MUTANTS IS FINALLY SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY. WE ASK DIRECTOR JOSH BOONE WHY IT TOOK SO LONG

DOCTOR SLEEP

Returning to old haunts

AVENGING THE AVENGERS

WHAT WAS STANLEY KUBRICK’S INDIRECT ROLE IN THE FAILURE OF A FILM BASED ON A BELOVED FRANCHISE?

LUKE EVANS

Cinema’s bad boy is taking to the stage to tour his new album

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

How the British author rebooted teenage secret agent Alex Rider

Going Back To The Wells

The latest take on HG Wells’s classic the war of the worlds favours weighty socio-political themes over martian heat-rays. SFX meets the cast and crew of Fox’s uncomfortably realistic sci-fi epic

SILENT FRIGHT

A QUIET PLACE MADE A LOT OF NOISE. NOW JOHN KRASINSKI RETURNS TO DIRECT A QUIET PLACE PART II, AS EMILY BLUNT’S BEREAVED NEW MUM ONCE AGAIN BATTLES SOUND-SENSITIVE ALIENS

HOMEWARD BOUND

VOYAGER debuted on 16 January 1995 with “Caretaker,” the two-hour series premiere that catapulted the crew of the USS Voyager (as well as the crew of a Maquis ship) over 70,000 light-years away from home – marooning them in the Delta Quadrant and faced with an epic journey back to our solar system. Seven years and 172 episodes later, they finally returned to Earth. SFX opened hailing frequencies and caught up with some of the show’s key players to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary

EMPIRE GAMES

YOUNG LOVERS ARE TORN APART BY RACISM IN MALORIE BLACKMAN’S ALTERNATE-WORLD YA NOVEL NOUGHTS + CROSSES. PRODUCER PREETHI MAVAHALLI TELLS US HOW THEY BROUGHT IT TO THE SCREEN

The Gospel Of Jean-Luc

Star Trek: Picard is here, and our hailing frequencies are open…

Shoot To Kill

Brazilian co-directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles take aim in Bacurau

DIESEL POWER RED

VIN DIESEL POWERS UP AS THE SUPER-SOLDIER BLOODSHOT, HELL-BENT ON REVENGE IN THE FIRST EVER LIVE-ACTION VALIANT COMICS-BASED FEATURE FILM. DIRECTOR DAVE WILSON TALKS ABOUT HIS THREE-YEAR MISSION TO BRING THE HERO TO LIFE

Branching Out

Lynn Renee Maxcy, the writer of new interactive film The Complex, explains why “Bandersnatch” was a gift

AIDAN GILLEN

He’s back to explore Area 51 and Roswell in Project Blue Book

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

ALEX GARLAND DOWNSIZES TO THE SMALL SCREEN AND FINDS HIS NARRATIVE PERFECT FIT IN SILICON VALLEY TECH-THRILLER

See No Evil...

MOVE ALONG, THERE’S NOTHING TO SEE HERE… FORTUNATELY, SFX GETS AN EYEFUL ON SET FOR THE INVISIBLE MAN

WILLIAM GIBSON

The cyberpunk luminary tells us how current affairs shape his fiction

Luna

THIS MONTH’S TELETALK CURIO, FAR FROM BEING A LOAD OF OLD CLUNK, PROVED COMPULSIVIEW FOR MANY DIMINIS EACH SATURTOCK

FLYING FREE

MARGOT ROBBIE BRINGS HARLEY QUINN BACK TO CINEMAS –WITH SOME FRIENDS. SFX ROUNDS UP THE BIRDS OF PREY FOR A CHAT

DEATH WISH

DIRECTOR JEFF WADLOW TALKS TWISTING THE CLASSIC FANTASY ISLAND TV SERIES INTO A FULL-ON HORROR FILM…

LIVES

BBC TWO’S AWARDS-GUZZLING ANTHOLOGY SERIES INSIDE NO. 9 IS FINALLY RETURNING AFTER AN AGONISING TWO-YEAR ABSENCE. ITS CREATORS, STEVE PEMBERTON AND REECE SHEARSMITH, TELL ALL…

BITSIE TULLOCH

A feisty new Lois Lane is getting her own series with Superman soon

Adam Animate

The man who loves danger is back, as a lost episode is recreated

ARKHAM FIRE

COLOUR OUT OF SPACE BRINGS THE MINDSPLINTERING TERROR OF HP LOVECRAFT TO THE SCREEN. “THE ONLY WAY OUT IS DEATH OR MADNESS. OR BOTH!” DIRECTOR RICHARD STANLEY TELLS SFX

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

ALEX KURTZMAN HAS DONE A GREAT MANY THINGS SINCE BECOMING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE IN 2009 – BUT ACHIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE IN BRINGING JEAN-LUC PICARD BACK MAY BE HIS BIGGEST MOMENT YET…

ROYCE PIERRESON

The Witcher star on playing the mage Istredd in Netflix’s fantasy epic

LOCKED AND LOADED

SFX HAVE GOT THE KEY – BUT CAN WE FIND THE SECRET TOO? WE TAKE A TRIP TO KEYHOUSE TO GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON LOCKE & KEY…

THE IT FACTOR

HE’S THE MAN BEHIND ONE OF THE BIGGEST HORROR ICONS OF RECENT YEARS – AND B I L L S K A R S G Å R D SAYS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN THE LAST OF PENNYWISE THE DANCING CLOWN…