Under the Flower – Circle of Hell Ep: 1- Ring around the Rosie The dream like visual of this 5 minute short almost have a Disney quality about them and the story reminds me of the type of fantasy adventure Disney used to thrive off; although I feel […]
So once again we join the adventures of Geek Girl. Created by Sam Johnson she’s just an average girl who gains special powers by donning a technically advanced pair of glasses. This issue concentrates on the arc development of a number of the main characters. There seems to […]
Between the cult classic ‘The League of Gentlemen’ and the critically acclaim of ‘Inside Number 9’ there was ‘Psychoville’. Reece Shearsmith’s and Steve Pemberton’s psychological horror comedy mystery seems almost forgotten now, but it deserves so much more. Just like ‘The League of Gentlemen’ ‘Psychoville’ see’s Shearsmith and […]
Once a ‘Doctor’ always a ‘Doctor’, but as Christopher Eccleston is more than happy to tell you they have also done other things. Here are my recommendations on where else to see your favourite ‘Doctor’s’. William Hartnell: Brighton Rock (1948) Chosen more for its classic film status than […]
This April 7th ‘The Grand Hotel’ will become a haven for the nerdy as it hosts this year’s ‘Brighton Beach Comic Con’. Guest will include ‘Buck Rogers’ Gil Gerrard and ‘Primeval’s’ Andrew Lee Potts; there will also be a trio of ‘Power Rangers’ with Erin Cahill, Jason Faunt […]
With the exception of series 1 and 10 every season of Doctor Who has that one episode the fans don’t want to talk about. You know, watch once and then never revisit and only mentioned when complained about in forums or when someone writes a witty article twelve […]
A comedian, DJ, presenter and a singer with a top ten single. In the modern day this would be the supposed career of Big Brother housemate post leaving the house (or Chris Moyles). But for nearly three decades it was the career of one of Britain’s national treasures, […]
‘Deck the Halls’ is a 2006 Christmas comedy starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick. It tells the tale of Buddy Hall (DeVito) and his quest to make his house visible from space using Christmas lights; this in turn aggravates his neighbour Steve Finch (Broderick) and hilarity ensues. So […]
‘Them’ is a 2016 horror short by ‘Vulpinos Film’. Directed and co produced by Charles Bolprand and staring Claudia Rivarelli. The short has little in the way of plot it’s a single header, which seems to focus on protagonist succumbing to worsening schizophrenia. The visual are more uncomfortable […]
The GX4000 was Amstrad’s short-lived attempt to enter the games console market. With a higher spec graphics card and more memory Amstrad saw the GX4000 as serious competition for Sega’s Master System and market leaders Nintendo’s NES. The 8-Bit console was into the European market in September 1990 […]
It’s hard to believe, but it has been ten years since ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’ first aired on ‘CBBC’. The ‘Doctor Who’ spin off focused on fan favourite companion ‘Sarah Jane Smith’ fighting and protecting aliens under the guise of an investigative journalist. After the success of ‘Sarah […]
Once again Moffat has done it; much like the thirteen ‘Doctors’ uniting in the fiftieth anniversary special here he gave ‘Whovian’s’ another nerd-gasm. The moment we head the voice and saw the silhouette we knew who it was. Roll on Christmas; one and twelve together, there won’t be […]
Those of you who enjoy their ‘Doctor Who’ to be both scientifically accurate and macabre were in for a treat with this weeks episode. For whilst we were treated a lesson in astrophysics we were also subjected to one of the darkest episodes of the modern era. Knowing […]
Back when ‘Doctor Who’ first started the idea was to split the stories into two categories; those set in the future to teach science and those set in the past to teach history. This idea was quickly dropped during the original series run. ‘The Eaters of Light’ was […]
Ever since the shows return in 2005 there has been a war between fans of Doctor Who. On one side you have the fans of the classic series that see modern ‘Who’ as pandering to the ‘Twilight / Potter’ generation; on the other fans of the modern series […]
‘Meh’; in my youth it was the noise the ‘cool kids’ used to make whenever they thought something was just average, ok, not terrible but not great. It was also the noise I made (although I was never a cool kid) after watching ‘The Lie of the Land’. […]
So like when comparing ‘A New Hope’ to ‘Empire Strikes Back’ the middle episode of ‘The Monks Trilogy’ was much darker to the first. The outlook was bleaker, humour sparse and although hope was teased little was given. Last weeks episode (and first of ‘The Monks Trilogy’) ‘Extremis’ […]
M. Night Shayanalan, meets The Matrix, meets The Mummy; throw in a little Black Mirror and yes the sixth episode of season was a mix bag of influences. The trick of course is to make all these parts work as one; thankfully writer Steve Moffat and Director Daniel […]
Space zombies not only sounds like an amazing straight to VHS eighties horror, but is also a short synopsis of this weeks episode. ‘Oxygen’ saw the ‘Doctor’, ‘Bill’, & ‘Nardole’ trapped on a space station where the air costs and is slowly running out. To complicate matters the […]
So far series ten has worn its influences proudly on its sleeve. We’ve seen episodes influenced by Japanese horror and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror; this time it was the turn of the horror films of the 1950’s. Having influenced quite a few previous episodes of Doctor Who, including […]
