Entertainment
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THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA
The Korean tradition of telling folk stories goes back thousands of years.
2 min |
March 2022
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THE BALLOON THIEF
There’s a lot of thinky stuff to chew on in this debut from 24-year-old Aneesa Marufu.
1 min |
March 2022
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THE EMBROIDERED BOOK
How much alt do you like in your alt-histories?
1 min |
March 2022
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THE ART OF STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON TWO
BULLET TIME: A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS
1 min |
March 2022
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SCORPICA
This book takes far, far too long to become interesting.
1 min |
March 2022
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SEVENTH HEAVEN
JERI RYAN ON WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEVEN OF NINE IN SEASON TWO OF STAR TREK: PICARD
9 min |
March 2022
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PENNYBLADE
This epic fantasy adventure serves up a fresh take on elves, here called the commrach, who live in a rigid, if decadent, island community far from the human mainland.
1 min |
March 2022
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ONLY A MONSTER
It would be easy to dismiss Vanessa Len’s debut as a bog-standard YA fantasy, given its forgettably beige title and elements recognisable to any Harry Potter fan: a protagonist hitting a certain age and receiving magical powers; a nasty family who can only be the Malfoys; a section of London that’s basically Diagon Alley.
1 min |
March 2022
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Rockin' Back
Dance your cares away – furred rock from the Henson returns
4 min |
March 2022
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OFF TARGET
In a near-future world where genetic engineering is commonplace – no one eats real meat any more, and furniture is made from fungus-based mycoleather – the questions we already face about the engineering of humans become all the more urgent.
1 min |
March 2022
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MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING
In 1954, JRR Tolkien’s The Two Towers set the template for the middle volume of fantasy trilogies.
1 min |
March 2022
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MARLON JAMES
X marks the spot: how a Booker winner found his way to fantasy
4 min |
March 2022
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LOST IN THE WOODS
A TOWN WITH NO EXIT SURROUNDED BY MONSTERS WITH NO MERCY – WELCOME TO FROM
8 min |
March 2022
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It's Panda Monium!
Hormones, boy bands and red pandas collide in Turning Red, Pixar’s take on the Hulk
4 min |
March 2022
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CHAIN REACTION
HOLD ON TO YOUR LIMBS! LEATHERFACE REVS UP AGAIN IN GORE-SPLASHED SEQUEL TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
8 min |
March 2022
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BLOOD, SWEAT & CHROME
Just deserts
1 min |
March 2022
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ANTHEM
Kids In America
3 min |
March 2022
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ALAN TUDYK
Once Wash in Firefly, now a fish out of water in Resident Alien
4 min |
March 2022
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UNION OF THE SNAKE
ALL BACK TO KEPLER-22B TO CELEBRATE MOTHER’S NEWBORN IN RAISED WOLVES SEASON TWO
8 min |
February 2022
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Nanny State
The cult is coming in Servant season three
3 min |
February 2022
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY'S GREATEST COMIC: 2000 AD
CELEBRATES ITS 45TH BIRTHDAY IN FEBRUARY, AND ITS SECOND YEAR WAS A TALE OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT MERGERS
8 min |
February 2022
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Station Master
Don’t panic! Pandemic tale Station Eleven makes a timely leap to TV
4 min |
February 2022
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PAST IMPERFECT
AKIVA GOLDSMAN AND TERRY MATALAS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND CO-SHOWRUNNERS OF SEASON TWO OF STAR TREK: PICARD, TALK TIME TRAVEL AND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS…
10+ min |
February 2022
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DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH TAKES ANOTHER STAB AT DESTROING THE PLANET IN MOONFALL. HIS LATEST DISASTER MOVIE
10 min |
February 2022
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Cat Fight
Catwoman: Hunted sees the feline thief team up with Batwoman for the fight of her nine lives
5 min |
February 2022
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BRUCE CAMPBELL
The actor returns to the horror-comedy genre that made him an icon
4 min |
February 2022
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Dean Koontz
Please don’t send the bestselling author jars of fish – it’s a bit creepy.
2 min |
February 2022
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ASTRONAUT EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Man
It’s not exactly the final frontier, but William Shatner still wowed the world by flying into space
4 min |
February 2022
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SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
AS MARVEL’S LIVING VAMPIRE HITS THE BIG SCREEN, SFX UNCOVERS HIS ORIGINS WITH MORBIUS CREATOR ROY THOMAS
8 min |
January 2022
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A Family Affair
Superman & Lois showrunner Todd Helbing teases season two’s villains and the Kent family dynamic
4 min |