Saturday 7 March 2009

SFX 181




















DOCTOR WHO
With the Davies/Tennant era of Doctor Who coming to an end, we talk to Russell T Davies about this year's TV specials - and we reveal the winners of our Dress The Doctor competition!

CORALINE
We go behind-the-scenes on the new 3D stop-motion movie based on Neil Gaiman's classic novel!

PRIMEVAL
Rawr! We go on set and talk to the cast and crew about what's in store for the third season of ITV's dino-fest.

MONSTERS VS ALIENS!
We talk to the directors of DreamWorks' upcoming 3D animated movie.

LESBIAN VAMPIRES
In honour of Lesbian Vampire Killers, we look back on the history of sexy female vampires in Hammer horror movies.

THE FANNISH INQUISITION
We put your questions to Bruce Campbell. Groovy!

COUCH POTATO
It returns! And this time it's brought flying saucers (sadly not of the sherbet variety...)!

REWIND
Lois and Clark. I twas naff, but was it really so bad? We look back on the series that launched Teri Hatcher's career.

ANATOMY OF A CLASSIC
What made The Shining such an enduring classic of film?

TIME MACHINE
We look back on the TV adaptation of The Tripods and investigate why it came to an untimely end.

PROFILES
We talk to Fringe's John Noble, Battlestar Galactica's Mary McDonnell and scary Brit-horror author David Moody.

BOOK CLUB
This month we've been reading John Wyndham's classic The Day of the Triffids - have you?

WISHLIST
What do you want to see from this year's Doctor Who specials?

SPOILER ZONE
We welcome the return of Lost, Battlestar Galactica and Heroes and continue our coverage of Chuck, Supernatural and Fringe.

PLUS!
BIG SHOT: We get a first look at Sky1's new fantasy drama production, an adaptation of David Almond's children's book Skellig.
FREEZE FRAME: Are we excited about the sci-fi flavoured sequel to the very silly Crank? At least one of us is!

Doug Naylor tells all about the upcoming Red Dwarf specials!

We highlight the five things you must know about BBC2's new fantasy comedy, Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire.

Producer James Cawley talks to us about bringing Buck Rogers back for the web.
Josh Friedman talks about the closing episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles' second season!

We ask Bryan Fuller about life after Pushing Daisies!

Shakespeare, vampires and martial arts, all in one movie? We report on Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead!

RATED: Friday The 13th, Push, Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans, Ghost Town, Twilight, Mutant Chronicles, Ian McDonald's new novel Cyberabad Days, Watchmen movie tie-ins, Resident Evil 5, and loads of other stuff.

All this and lots more...

NEXT ISSUE: SFX182, on sale Wednesday 8 April

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