Comic Book Creator # 45 September 2026 (magazine review)
There are always some surprises with ‘Comic Book Creator’, usually with creators I’ve never heard of like Carol Lay, who’s
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings you Frankenstein’s flock (Mark Kermode film review).
Aardman go full Universal monster movie, Shaun turns mad scientist, and the scariest thing in the woods is a mob of villagers with pitchforks. Our take, after Mark Kermode’s.
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Resident Evil (2026) (Mark Kermode’s film review).
Twenty-four years and eight films in, somebody has finally worked out what a ‘Resident Evil’ movie should be: a terrified man with no idea how to reload, running away from something wet. Zach Cregger’s reboot reviewed, with Mark Kermode’s verdict attached.
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The Old Guard 2 (2025) (film review).
Uma Thurman’s Discord digs up a 500-year grudge and the rules of immortality get murkier than ‘Highlander’. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard 2’ (2025).
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The Old Guard (2020) (film review).
Charlize Theron leads a team of immortal mercenaries who keep getting shot and keep getting back up. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard’ (2020).
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2001: Beyond The Infinite by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. (book review)
John L. Flynn’s light, heavily illustrated guide to Kubrick’s ‘2001’ has interviews with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood going for it, but it trips over an avalanche of factual errors along the way.
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – twice the tributes, half the hope (trailer 2).
The second trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back to the Second Quarter Quell, where 48 tributes enter the arena, a young Haymitch Abernathy draws the short straw, and Ralph Fiennes becomes the third actor to sniff President Snow’s roses. In cinemas November 20, 2026.
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Cryptology #8 April 2026 (magazine review).
You can always tell when a magazine is taking off when some issues seem to be selling out. Cryptology #8
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HBO Casts A Spall, A Ghost And A Boy With A Camera, And Appears To Have Cast Ginny Weasley Twice
HBO’s Harry Potter series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey for season two. It has also, by our reading, cast Ginny Weasley twice.
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Doctor Strange Endless Nightmare by Kevin J. Anderson, Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (review).
Periodically, publisher Abrams has been releasing standalone stories using characters from the Marvel Universe. Here we have Doctor Strange: Endless
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