How did you get involved with The Hunt? Well [director] Craig Zobel [and writers] Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof developed it and went out to the market place with it with Craig attached to direct it. It was quite competitive but I loved it. And later I learned that Damon said he wanted to make
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Can you tell us how you met the Wachowskis and got involved in The Matrix comics? We met at Marvel comics, and worked on a book called Ectokid. Lana was hired to be the writer right at the same time I was hired. The Matrix was still years away at this point, this was mid-Nineties
We speak to Adam Silvera, the New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die At The End, History Is All You Left Me and What If It’s Us about his latest novel and his first foray into fantasy, Infinity Son. Can you tell us more about your new novel, Infinity Son? Infinity Son is about
If you’re desperate for a new genre podcasts for the new year, look further than BBC Sounds’ Murmurs. Presented as fragments of found sound (think voice notes, answer phone messages and phone calls), each episode of this anthology series is immersive and mysterious, and treads the lines between magical realism, sci-fi, fantasy and occasionally horror.
Henry James’ classic novella The Turn Of The Screw gets the studio treatment in Universal’s horror adaptation The Turning. We speak to director Floria Sigismondi about Bly, the new Miles and Flora and more… After starting life as a 12-part serialisation in Collider’s Weekly magazine in 1898, it may seem quite remarkable that Henry James’
“It took me six weeks to read it,” Andrea Riseborough tells us. “I haven’t ever sat with anything for so long. At one point I even asked if people would help me read it because I couldn’t read it at night before bed. “The thing is I just believe it, that’s the thing, as an
It’s been a long time coming but Star Trek: Discovery is finally making its UK network TV debut on E4 on 15 December, and star Sonequa Martin-Green could not be more thrilled about the idea of new fans discovering the story of Michael Burnham and the crew. “It’s always so exciting when I think about
Sylvester McCoy played the Doctor from 1987 to 1989 (and a bit in 1996) on television, since 1999 on audio with Big Finish, and in all sorts of other places as well. With all the available episodes of classic Doctor Who coming to BBC/ITV streaming platform Britbox on Boxing Day, we spoke to Sylvester about
If you’ve always thought The Thick Of It could use a few more spaceship, Armando Iannucci’s new sci-fi comedy Avenue 5 is the show for you. Check out this fun new trailer: From Armando Iannucci, the creator of The Thick Of It and VEEP, comes Avenue 5, a space tourism comedy set 40 years into the future
It’s a golden rule in horror films that the rich people in that big house up the street are up to something weird, and pizza delivery woman Sam (Hayley Griffith) is about to find out just how true that is in crowd-pleasing horror comedy Satanic Panic. When she’s stiffed on her tip by the snooty
“I could have picked an easier project for sure, but I’m really glad that I didn’t!” laughs director Michael Dougherty. “I mean, there’s a lot of different adjectives that I could use! Overwhelming, exhausting, challenging obviously, but ultimately very rewarding. It was definitely the most difficult thing that I’ve ever done or put myself through.”
We are thrilled to be able to reveal the book cover for John P Murphy’s new sci-fi novel Red Noise, as well as an exclusive Q&A interview with the author himself. Find out more about the book below: When an asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the
Aardman Studios have always been into their sci-fi – Wallace and Gromit’s first outing took them to the moon for A Grand Day Out, there’s the Terminator homage in A Close Shave, not to mention that pesky Were-Rabbit. In their next film, though, Aardman are bringing us aliens for the first time. The follow-up to
Actor Denise Crosby talks playing Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation By Krystal Sim 19-09-19 867 As Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Tasha Yar, Denise Crosby provided fandom with its watershed moment when her character died toward the end of Season One, but her legacy lives on… Part of the original cast of Star
Following the release of her new novel, dystopian political sci-fi VOX, we talk with author Christina Dalcher about her influences, her characters and more… Your protagonist Jean is in many ways quite a relatable one – she never took a huge interest in politics until it was too late, and often throughout VOX it feels like
“Puppets, Maxine. You see, it’s the idea of being inside someone else’s skin and seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.” From Dead of Night to Puppet Master, marionettes have been used to explore humanity’s inner psyche in cinema since they could, well, walk. Why the fascination? What is it about them that
As Paramount’s remake of Pet Sematary makes it to DVD, Blu-ray and digital, we speak with cat trainer Melissa Millett, who worked with the cats that played Church in the film. She tells us how she trained the them, how they made them look like zombie cats, how to get started training your own cat, and loads
David Cronenberg’s harrowing shocker The Brood is still the former body horror director’s most personal film. We take a look into the chilling manifestations of this now 40-year-old production… The Brood is the brainchild of writer- director David Cronenberg. Forty years on it arguably remains the former body horror director’s most personal movie. It concerns the
TV series don’t come much more mind-bending than Legion, and the X-Men spin-off is not going to take things any easier on us in its final season. Noah Hawley and the stars take us inside the dojo… “You don’t wanna know everything,” deadpans Noah Hawley. “What I like about Legion is that I could tell
It’s been a little under six years since James Wan gave us The Conjuring and brought the case files of Lorraine and Ed Warren to the big screen. Since then the “Conjuringverse” has become one of the biggest and most profitable franchises going in any genre with sequels and spin-offs delivering hit after hit. But
After the gravitas of Avengers: Endgame, the stakes are lowered and things are looking up as Peter Parker takes on Europe and summer romance on a class trip. We speak to Spider-Man: Far From Home actor Zendaya to find out more… After everything the Marvel Cinematic Universe put is through over the last few years
Time operates differently in the Men In Black universe. Or rather, it does as far and its production is concerned. There was already a bit of a gap between the first and second films in the franchise, which were released in 1997 and 2002 respectively. But all calendars were thrown out completely when MIB 3
*WARNING: Spoilers for Season 5 ahead!* Something tells us that ‘Striking Vipers’ will be the Black Mirror Season 5 episode that gets talked about the most, thanks to one particularly brilliant line – and episode director Owen Harris isn’t surprised. “The line that sold me in the script was when he says ‘I even had
**SPOILERS for the Game Of Thrones Season 8 finale follow** We spoke to Isaac Hempstead Wright twice in the run up to Season 8 of Game Of Thrones. TWICE. Did he let slip during that time that Bran ended the show as the King of the Six (!) Kingdoms? No, he bloody didn’t. But we should have
WARNING: Major spoilers for The Society episode 3 below. Season 1 of Netflix’s latest teen series The Society premiered on the streaming service last week and it already has viewers hooked. Starting in the wealthy town of West Ham in New England, the show follows a group of teenagers as they are mysteriously transported to an exact replica
“Can we just start the interview by saying how amazing it is that astronomers have just captured the first image of a black hole ever, and it’s also the [American] release of High Life in the same week?” exclaims Mia Goth when we speak to her in early April. “I like to think that’s the
With the fifth and final season currently airing on Netflix UK and The CW, iZombie is on its last course. We talk to showrunners and writers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero about what’s next for Liv and why the zom-com-rom-dram the happiest show in the world… Fans of The CW’s irreverent undead comedy-drama iZombie were
“We only barely finished it in time to make the Toronto film festival”, director Bernard Rose recalls when talking about the international premiere of his film Paperhouse in 1988. “I remember I hand-carried the print with me to Toronto. I flew over there for the screening…I literally had the print in my luggage. People were
Over the last 10 years or so Amy Seimetz as emerged as one of the most interesting actors and filmmakers out there. She made her mark on horror fans with a dazzling break-out turn in Adam Wingard’s A Horrible Way To Die, starred in Shane Carruth’s superb (and uncategorisable) Upstream Color and appeared in the
Shazam! hits cinemas today and it’s an absolute delight (read our five-star review here). For anyone who’s missed the trailers, it’s the story of orphaned teenager Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who’s given the power to turn into a musclebound grown-up superhero (Zachary Levi) by saying the word “SHAZAM!” A blend of spectacular superheroics and Big-style
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