THE FOREVER SEA

JOSHUA JOHNSON’S IMPRESSIVE DEBUT NOVEL

READY PLAYER TWO - Watts Going On

Ready Player One was never high literature, but it was fun.

LUCKENBOOTH Inside No 10

Luckenbooth largely eschews a conventional plot and structure, instead focusing on snapshots of the lives of nine people who live in the tenement over almost 100 years.

INSCAPE

THE TRUTH IS JUST A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

GALLOWGLASS

To adapt Leo Tolstoy’s observation that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, each member of such a family is uniquely unhappy in his or her own particular fashion.

DOORS OF SLEEP

Some people dream of other worlds; Zax Delatree actually travels to them when he sleeps.

WONDER WOMAN 1984

In a league of her own

This Charming Mando

Shortly after the launch of the second episode of season two, sfx caught up with the mandalorian himself, pedro pascal, speaking from Budapest

TENET

You Only Live Twice

SUITING UP

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE ACTOR PLAYING THE TITLE ROLE LEAVES YOUR SHOW? CAROLINE DRIES EXPLAINS HOW BATWOMAN BEGINS AGAIN

WHOOPI GOLDBERG

A big sci-fi fan, she’d have loved to have been the first female Doctor...

WE'RE ALL DOOMED!

CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR, BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS THE SHOW EXPLORED MATTER MORE THAN EVER. SPEAKING IN 1988, CO-CREATOR GERRY DAVIS REVEALED HOW HE AND KIT PEDLER SCARED THE NATION

KIERAN LARWOOD

Write Of The Lepus: meet a children’s author whose heroes are rabbits

THE ODD COUPLE

Phase Four of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe begins – slightly later than planned – with the surreal and secrecy shrouded Disney+ series WandaVision. SFX speaks to its showrunner and stars

BACK ON TRACK

AS SNOW PIERCER PREPARES TO RETURN FOR ITS SECOND SEASON, SFX HAS A SNOOP AROUND THE VANCOUVER SET. WELL, VIRTUALLY…

GREAT SCOTT!

DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT AND STAR MICHAEL CERA RETURN TO AN OLD SAVE POINT TO REMINISCE ABOUT 10 YEARS OF SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD. CONTINUE?

Final Season Of The Witch

As Netflix’s teen horror show chilling adventures of sabrina meets an untimely end, sfx gets spooked on the vancouver set

SELF OBSESSION

WHO’S WHO? “WE’RE ALL HACKABLE RIGHT NOW,” SAYS BRANDON CRONENBERG, DIRECTOR OF BRUTAL BODY SNATCH HORROR POSSESSOR

TRANSMISSION IMPOSSIBLE

GEORGE CLOONEY PLAYS A DOOMED SURVIVOR OF A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE IN NEW NETFLIX MOVIE THE MIDNIGHT SKY . SCREENWRITER MARK L SMITH AND CLOONEY HIMSELF TELL US HOW THEY STEERED IT TO THE SCREEN

SERVING TIME

IT’S THE END OF AN ERA AS THE FAM FIGHT THE DALEKS TOGETHER ONE LAST TIME. SHOWRUNNER CHRIS CHIBNALL TAKES TIME OUT FROM PRODUCTION ON SERIES 13 TO TALK DALEKS, “CONTROVERSIAL” CHANGES AND WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR DOCTOR WHO

THE TERMINAL MAN

GEORGE CLOONEY TALKS DIRECTING HIS FIRST BIG SPACE MOVIE

THE ONE PERCENT

SHOWRUNNER BENJAMIN CAVELL TALKS GOOD VS EVIL IN THE LATEST TV ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN KING’S CLASSIC POST-APOCALYPSE NOVEL

OTTO FARRANT

The young actor ready to throw himself into the fray as Alex Rider

CLAW AND DISORDER

THE TIME IS MIAOW! WHIP-CRACK AWAY AS SFX CELEBRATES 80 YEARS OF CATWOMAN

DEEP IMPACT

THE EARTH IS BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE IN THE EXPANSE SEASON FIVE. WE VISIT THE TORONTO SET AND TALK TO SHOWRUNNER NAREN SHANKAR TO SEE WHAT’S IN STORE FOR HUMANITY

ALL THAT JAZZ

THE CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF PIXAR’S LATEST ANIMATED ADVENTURE TELLS US WHAT WENT INTO MAKING SOUL

Designing His Dark Materials

Production designer Joel Collins talks us through the creation of Cittàgazze, the crossroads between the worlds that takes lyra to new adventures in season two of his dark materials

SWAP CHOP

HAPPY DEATH DAY DIRECTOR CHRIS LANDON RETURNS WITH POST-SLASHER COMEDY-HORROR FREAKY, A FREAKY FRIDAY MEETS FRIDAY THE 13TH MEETS MEAN GIRLS FREAKSHOW YOU CAN’T LOOK AWAY FROM

YOON HA LEE

The American-Korean writer can’t visualise, but he sure can imagine…

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The Truth Seekers star talks breakfast cereal, death threats and drag