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WelcomeAnother year comes
to a close and the lists of
the very best of 2018 are
amassing, and what a year
it’s been. Marvel established
dominance yet again with
the one-two punch of Black Panther and
Infi nity War, Deadpool 2 showed that
actually sometimes the joke is funnier the
second time around, and Venom proved
to everyone that sometimes dismal reviews
don’t stop you from absolutely smashing
box offi ce records.
We had some great franchise revivals
(Jamie Lee Curtis’ return in Halloween was
a triumph) and some not-so-great (we’re
still not sure how The Predator ended up
being quite such a mess).
Our current golden period of horror was
cemented critically (hands up everyone
who’s not over Hereditary), commercially
(The Nun, Insidious: The Last Key, The First
Purge, etc) and sometimes even both (A
Quiet Place).
Big name fi lmmakers took big genre
swings with the likes of Ready Player
One and A Wrinkle In Time and arthouse
cinema was alive with the sound of weird
brilliance from Annihilation and Sorry To
Bother You to Mandy and The Endless. And
let’s not even start on all the telly...
But with every end-of-year list comes
the growing sense of excitement about
the year-to-come. As you will see in
our massive preview special, there’s an
incredible wealth of genre entertainment
heading our way with huge fi nales and
grand new beginnings, and we can’t wait
to bring you the latest on each and every
one of them.
But wait! We’re not done with 2018 just
yet. Emily Blunt is stepping into one of
cinema’s most delightfully iconic roles in
Mary Poppins Returns, parallel universe
spy story Counterpart is heading into an
ambitious second season, Sandra Bullock
goes post-apocalyptic with an amazing
cast in Bird Box, and Robin goes extremely
f***ing dark in Titans.
Meanwhile, we pull together some
precious memories from the making of
Alien and The Birds, take a trip back to
everyone’s favourite childhood mystery spot
Eerie, Indiana and have a look at the life of
a true SF legend: Rod Serling. Speaking of
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