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YOU’RE SPINNING AROUND Stuart Bannerman, email With all the changes to the Star Trek and Doctor Who universes, you asked us what we’d like to see as a spin-off. I’d like to see more from the timeline of TNG and DS9. Yes, I know we had Picard and whilst season one was pretty good, turning Picard into an android was insane, and lost me! I love Star Trek because of the morals of that universe. Not for the VFX and space battles, but for the glimpses of the possibility that humanity might actually sort itself out in the future. SFX: Hey, does anybody here speak whale? Caffeine Cold, email My idea is for a DS9-style spin-off featuring Seven of Nine and Raffi Musker. Seven and Raffi use their skills, experience and…

DARREN SCOTT EDITOR RAVES → Yes, I’m just going to keep saying that Star Trek: Picard is brilliant. → Rumours of a Halloween Horror Nights movie? Yes please! RANTS → I’ve let my Star Wars comics build up for about two years and now it just seems too complicated to work out the reading order. → Sad to see Star Trek: Discovery go. IAN BERRIMAN DEPUTY EDITOR RAVES → Rewatched every Evil Dead movie as prep for this issue’s feature on Evil Dead Rise. Loved them all. Is there another horror franchise as consistently good? → The documentary about Doctor Who story editor David Whittaker on the season two Blu-ray box set is a lovely piece of work. → Twitter thread of the month: Labour politicians as Star Trek characters…

The Doctor Who revival in 2005 opened so many doors for me: the friends I’ve made, the experiences I’ve had – the career I ended up with… Way back when I was a nipper, it was Sarah Jane Smith that made me want to be a journalist. Well, maybe I just secretly wanted to be Sarah Jane Smith. How I loved her, and Elisabeth Sladen who played her – breaking my heart so much in 2006’s “School Reunion”. I was very fortunate to get to know her a little bit, and it was always a joy to chat – or drag her to the bar with a gaggle of gays after an event. I was absolutely devastated when she passed. The next morning I had to get a teary flight…

FOUND FOOTAGE MOVIES HAVE virtually become a genre in themselves over the past 25 years. But while most are patched together from old VHS or iPhone clips, few make use of unearthed footage from eight decades ago. That’s the conceit behind LOLA, a low-budget but toweringly inventive feature from first-time director Andrew Legge about two sisters who, during the early days of the Second World War, create a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. “I liked the idea of doing a period found footage movie,” Legge tells Red Alert. “I loved the idea of these sisters outside the time they’re in. And I loved the idea of doing a time travel movie but a slightly different version, as LOLA isn’t a time machine.” The seeds of LOLA lie…

BRANDON CRONENBERG DOESN’T just want Infinity Pool to freak you out – he wants it to make you laugh, too. “We were always chuckling to ourselves when we were developing it, we thought it was going to be funny,” he tells Red Alert. That’s quite a strange admission for a director whose latest film has been widely described as “shocking” thanks to scenes of Alexander Skarsgård naked and breastfeeding, and Mia Goth wildly screaming while pointing a loaded gun at a bus full of people. It’s no wonder early audiences found it a bit much. “During our early test screenings with friends and colleagues, there was very little laughter,” the director says. “I thought, ‘We’re fucked. We really fucked up this film, it’s a disaster because nobody’s laughing.’ They seemed…

OUTSIDE OF THE JURASSIC World franchise, there aren’t a lot of premium dinosaur movies to dazzle cinemagoers. Writers/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place) tell Red Alert that they’ve lamented that fact for the last 20 years. Obsessed with terrible lizards since they were both kids, they’ve filled that void with their recently released, original sci-fi take on a dino movie, 65. Essentially a two-hander, it features Adam Driver as Commander Mills, a working-class space pilot on a long-haul job to pay for his ill daughter’s treatments. When his ship crashes, only he and a young girl who was in cryogenic sleep, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), survive. They find themselves on a hostile planet that is revealed to be Earth, 65 million years ago. When that premise came to…