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Supernatural (opens in new tab) Season Eight Episode Four “Bitten” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 8.04 Writer: Robbie Thompson Director: Thomas J Wright THE ONE WHERE Three student film-makers find lycanthropy hairy going. VERDICT If there’s one thing you can say about Supernatural ; it’s never been afraid …

In The Flesh : A first look at the BBC’s new zombie series Way back in May we reported (opens in new tab) that the BBC had announced plans for a new zombie series (to air on BBC Three) from writer Dominic Mitchell, whose script was discovered through a writers’ …

Anyone walking into Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest expecting a thinly veiled biopic of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as played by Philip Seymour Hoffman – a sweeping, savage character study in the vein of, say, Daniel Plainview – won’t take long to realise their error. A sliver of Joaquin Phoenix’s …

With Star Wars Episode VII on its way, we’re in a Force-fuelled mood of nostalgia here on the forest moon of SFX. Join us as we switch off our targeting computers and strike straight for the heart of the ’70s… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, …

Aussie PJ Hogan’s first local feature in nearly two decades is his most subversive and personal since Muriel’s Wedding . Toni Collette again headlines as hitchhiker Shaz, hired to take over a household of adolescent girls by an absent philandering father (Anthony LaPaglia) who has sent his Sound Of Music …

Disney is acquiring Lucasfilm (including LucasArts) and is targeting Star Wars Episode VII for release in 2015, the company announced this afternoon. After 35 years of independence, founder and CEO George Lucas is passing ultimate leadership of the Star Wars franchise and all the rest of the company’s properties to …

(opens in new tab) Guess whose favorite character is Wallace (and not as in …And Gromit. I mean Wallace Wells)? You guessed right! I have a deep, abiding love for both the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels and the criminally under-rated fight musical that Edgar Wright turned it into. They’re gloriously …

Paper Mario: Sticker Star (opens in new tab) may well have featured in the 3DS sizzle reel (opens in new tab) from Nintendo Direct yesterday, but this full standalone trailer released afterwards is certainly worthy of a look in its own right. For starters, it uses the word ‘Nyarglebargle’, which …

Torrents of claret. Ghost girls. “Heeeere’s Johnny.” The key scares of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 art-horror are such staples of Scary Moments schedule-filler, it’s tempting to think we know the Overlook inside out. This bang-up reissue says otherwise. Seen in its rightful place on the big screen, it’s clear to see …

Buffy : The Making Of A Slayer book review: Bored now. This lavish hardback making of Buffy The Vampire Slayer arrives 15 years after the show’s debut. If that makes you feel old then reading it you’ll assume Nancy Holder thinks you’ve gone senile as well, as so much of …