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In this issue

STRANGER THINGS
Get the inside word on the Upside Down.

WICKED:FOR GOOD
We’re off to see the Wizard.

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
It’s got to be Prefect

THE RUNNING MAN
Edgar Wright gets on his marks.

THE WITCHER
There’s a new Geralt in town.

Goofy Gotham

Bat-Fam director Mike Roth on how Merry Little Batman became a series

3 mins

Needle And Dead

Julia Ducournau's Alpha is a shiver-inducing AIDS-adjacent drama

3 mins

The Immoral Hulk

Hyde leaves Jekyll behind in a new graphic novel series featuring collaboration from Johnny Depp

2 mins

Doing Time

The Doctor goes behind bars in Titan Comics' new series

2 mins

Sweett Dreams

Netflix tackles the Sandman again, but this time as animated film In Your Dreams.

3 mins

Zarjaz Yearbooks

The Treasury Of British Comics and 2000 AD Annuals 2026 might leave you Scarred For Life

2 mins

Nightmare Allies

The xenomorphs are the Axis of Evil in Alien vs Captain America

2 mins

Nein Lives

Return to Exandria with Vox Machina spin-off The Mighty Nein

3 mins

This Is How We Roll

Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans role play again with DIE Loaded

2 mins

Secret Origins

The Mighty Avengers vs The 1970s leads Bloomsbury's new Marvel Age Of Comics line

2 mins

Office Space

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos's out-of-this-world comedy-drama Bugonia

3 mins

Bunny Talks

Ke Huy Quan joins a crazy cast of animals - alongside a hair-raising horse - in Zootropolis 2

3 mins

Joust The Ticket

Game Of Thrones continues in new prequel series A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms

3 mins

JOHN WOODVINE 1929-2025

The man behind Doctor Who's Marshal

1 mins

DUNGEONS & DEMOGORGONS

THE END OF STRANGER THINGS IS NIGH. SFX MEETS THE SHOW'S CREATORS, THE DUFFER BROTHERS, ABOUT SAYING GOODBYE TO HAWKINS - FOR GOOD

10+ mins

RETURN TO OZ

THANK GOODNESS, AND REJOICIFY FOR WE TRULY HAVE RETUNED TO OZ. AFTER THE PHENOMENON THAT WAS WICKED, JON M CHU LEADS US BACK ALONG THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD FOR THE FINAL TIME, COMPLETING HIS DUOLOGY THAT HAS TRULY CHANGED THE WORLD OF MOVIE MUSICALS FOR GOOD

10+ mins

INFINITE IMPROBABILITY

STEP INTO THE MIND OF DOUGLAS ADAMS WITH AN IMMERSIVE NEW PRODUCTION OF THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

7 mins

FUTURE TENSE

IN A DYSTOPIAN NEAR-FUTURE, ΤΗΣ RUNNING MAN SEES GAME SHOW CONTESTANTS PURSUED AND KILLED AS THEY CHASE A LIFE-CHANGING JACKPOT. SFX HUNTS DOWN DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT AND STAR GLEN POWELL TO DISCUSS HOW TODAY'S WORLD HAS CAUGHT UP WITH STEPHEN KING'S'80S NOVEL

10+ mins

NEW WITCHER, WHO DIS?

THE WITCHER'S FOURTH SEASON IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. NEW AND OLD, PAST AND PRESENT, TRUTH AND FICTION - SFX DIGS IN

7 mins

CALLY'S WAR

AS SERIES TWO HITS BLU-RAY, BLAKE'S 7 STAR JAN CHAPPELL TELEPORTS BACK TO HER DAYS ABOARD THE LIBERATOR

9 mins

The Man In The White Suit

EVEN IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN the original Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), you probably know its brilliant premise.

7 mins

TASHA SURI

Mythical country: the fantasy writer tells us about her new novel

4 mins

TRON: ARES

Living off the Grid

2 mins

BLACK PHONE 2

Ethan Hawke's maskwearing child snatcher returns from the grave as a vengeful Freddy Krueger type in a sequel to Scott Derrickson's 2021 thriller that struggles to build on the original's strong foundations.

1 mins

THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Adapted from Max Porter's 2015 book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, this morose drama puts an elevated horror spin on a story of family bereavement.

1 mins

BUGONIA

Alien vs Redditor

1 mins

IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS

\"I wish I'd never filmed any of it, but I did. So now I'm finishing it, because what else am I going to do?\" asks filmmaker Nick, in what might be the best explanation any character has ever offered for continuing to make their found footage horror movie long after they should've turned the camera off and run.

1 mins

PRIMITIVE WAR

If you felt Jurassic Park skimped on jungle warfare and Platoon came up short in the dinosaur department, Primitive War could be the film for you.

1 mins

ALPHA: Death by stoning

After the punk rock madness of Titane and the rotting flesh of Raw, Palme d’Or-winning director Julia Ducournau turns inward, crafting a feverish coming-of-age tale that mutates into something cold and tragic: a fable about infection, fear and the limits of love.

1 mins

GOOD FORTUNE

Trading Places - Being an angel may give you wings, but not job satisfaction.

1 mins

LAZARUS

EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Unlike previous Harlan Coben TV shows, Lazarus is based on an original storyline from the prolific crime author, rather than being an adaptation.

1 mins

PEACEMAKER Season Two

Love and gore

2 mins

REVIVAL Season One

Diminishing returns

1 mins

GEN V Season Two

Back to superschool

1 mins

CHAIN REACTIONS

Another year, another doc by Alexandre O Philippe, who's previously delved into topics such as Psycho, Alien and The Exorcist.

1 mins

FRANKENSTEIN

Creature feature

2 mins

THE AMBULANCE

BLU-RAY DEBUT The prolific maverick Larry Cohen was a master of the high-concept pitch, and this one's worthy of an urban myth: what if the ambulance picking people up is abducting them for medical experiments? Eric Roberts is a comic artist caught in a mystery when the woman he's hitting on collapses, then disappears.

1 mins

ALTERED STATES

Essentially Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde if it'd been written by Carlos Castenada, Ken Russell's characteristically unrestrained take on a script by Network's Paddy Chayefsky is a bracing mix of acid trip visuals and hoary old tropes.

1 mins

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

Aristocratic scaring

1 mins

DEAD OF NIGHT

Oh! What's recurrin'?

1 mins

DAIEI GOTHIC Volume Two

This mystery about a missing author plays like a mash-up of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone. Sam Neill is an insurance investigator tasked with locating Sutter Cane. The trail, impossibly, leads to Hobb's End, a town from Cane's novels.

1 mins

DAIEI GOTHIC Volume Two

Once Nippon a time...

2 mins

SHORT SHARP SHOCKS: Volume Four

BLU-RAY DEBUT Another macabre selection box of shorts, curated by the BFI. The main attraction is Roger Christian's haunting \"Black Angel\", the support feature to The Empire Strikes Back. It's a vividly realised medieval fantasy that anticipates the mist-and-armour aesthetic of Excalibur.

1 mins

MARTYRS

The Agony And The Ecstasy

1 mins

THE DIABOLICAL DR Z

Connoisseurs of Euro sleaze will find much that's characteristic about this Jess Franco effort, a comic stripy blend of gothic horror, SF and spy-fi.

1 mins

THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN

88 Films is releasing this under its Slasher Classics Collection brand, which feels slightly misleading.

1 mins

NIGHT GALLERY

The dark art

1 mins

THREE/THREE... EXTREMES

Six of the East

1 mins

THE BARBARIANS

BLU-RAY DEBUT The director of Cannibal Holocaust was behind this silly fantasy adventure.

1 mins

THE ISLAND

BLU-RAY DEBUT Anyone with an interest in how US cinema had an influence overseas should get something from this Hong Kong horror.

1 mins

THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL

Sometimes, a novel has all the right elements, but they just don't quite come together.

1 mins

SLOW GODS

Lives and how to live them

3 mins

In His Day

A head trip and a nostalgia trip, but above all an endlessly intriguing, page-turning romp

6 mins

ULTIMATE OZ UNIVERSE: THE LOST LANDS

GRAPHIC NOVEL While Wicked adds songs to L Frank Baum's classic fantasy, this Elton John-endorsed graphic novel takes a more action-packed approach, initially at least.

1 mins

GODZILLA: KAI-SEI ERA

Across The Zilla-verse

2 mins

THE UNCHOSEN

ISSUES 1-4 While comparisons can be drawn with his current work on Marvel's Uncanny X-Men - or indeed, other schools for gifted youngsters, as seen in Wednesday or Harry Potter David Marquez's first series as a writer/artist excels not only with its typically lush artwork, but also its compelling storyline.

1 mins

BIG-ASS SWORD

GRAPHIC NOVEL Asking the important question, “What if a robot had a really big sword?”, this new graphic novel is very much in the tradition of 2000 AD’s punky spirit, even if it doesn’t manage to linger long in the memory.

1 mins

SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM

Special K - Asking the important question, “What if a robot had a really big sword?”, this new graphic novel is very much in the tradition of 2000 AD’s punky spirit, even if it doesn’t manage to linger long in the memory.

1 mins

GHOST OF YÖTEI

VIDEOGAME Ghost Of Yōtei takes the ancient Greek approach to retelling history, weaving together truth and mythology so neatly that you can no longer see the seams.

1 mins

SILENT HILL f

Turning Japanese

1 mins

STAR TREK: KHAN

Ceti limits

1 mins

DOCTOR WHO

Ghosts of futures past

1 mins

China Syndrome

Big Trouble In Little China was never going to be easily pigeon-holed.

3 mins

FOUND FOOTAGE

If it helps, pretend the questions for this issue's quiz are playing on a static-ridden old VHS tape...

1 mins

Doctor Who “Voyager”

While I believe “Voyager” is the high point of Doctor Who in comics, I struggle to recount the plot, as this is a case where - to quote Jefferson Airplane - “logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead”.

1 mins

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SFX UK Magazine Description:

Publisher: Future

Category: Entertainment

Language: English

Frequency: Monthly

SFX is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future plc. It was founded in 1995 and is currently the biggest-selling science fiction and fantasy magazine in the UK.

SFX covers all aspects of science fiction and fantasy, including news, reviews, interviews, and features. It also has a strong focus on the latest films, TV shows, and games.

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