Doctor Who – The Power Of The Doctor (2022)(TV Review)

Alex Paine 02/11/2022

I have discussed Doctor Who plenty of times, doing pieces on each of Jodie Whittaker’s series, but the first specific episode review of Doctor Who I did was way back in January 2018, when I covered the recent Twice Upon A Time, the final episode for both Peter Capaldi as […]

Culture

Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks (2021)(Review)

David O Hare 07/01/2022

CONTAINS SPOILERS Since Doctor Who crashed back on our Christmas TV schedules in 2005 with tenth Doctor David Tennent’s maiden voyage in The Christmas Invasion, the festive tradition of Christmas Who’s sat nicely alongside our turkey and Quality Street on the 25th December. That was until Chris Chibnall took over […]

Doctor Who Flux – the Vanquishers (Episode 6)(Review)

David O Hare 09/12/2021

CONTAINS SPOILERS Mr Chibnall’s opus culminates as the Flux’s various plots end in a flurry of recycled ideas and unanswered questions. In an extra-long finale, did the Doctor uncover her past, or open a can of worms? Disparate plots are a running theme of this series, and the finale is […]

Doctor Who Flux – Survivors of the Flux (Episode 5)(Review)

David O Hare 30/11/2021

Doctor Who Season 13: Flux – Survivors of the Flux CONTAINS SPOILERS Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice stamping our mark on a 58-year-old English science fiction show. But finally, there’s light at the end of the Flux tunnel as this episode manages where others […]

Doctor Who Flux – The Village of the Angels (Episode 4)(Review)

David O Hare 25/11/2021

“The Village of the Angels”. Fan favourites the Weeping Angels return with a bang in this week’s episode and despite some inconsistencies, it’s an episode peppered with nostalgic scares and menace. CONTAINS SPOILERS This series is like a greatest hit’s tour of Doctor Who villains, a bumpy ghost train, with […]

Doctor Who Series 12, Part 2 – Classic Film Kid

Alex Paine 19/03/2020

Continuing from yesterday where the classic film kid talked out his general thoughts and feelings on the season, today brings us to the main event of his Series 12 Doctor Who coverage. SPOILER ALERT This is the main part of my doctor who coverage, fully summing up my opinions on […]

Doctor Who Series 12, Part 1 – Classic Film Kid

Alex Paine 18/03/2020

SPOILER ALERT We have a lot of stuff to unpack here. If you haven’t fully seen the season yet, please read this review after you’ve watched the finale. Hello, it’s the Classic Film Kid here, and with another series of Doctor Who over and done, it’s time to take a […]

Dracula (2019) – Classic Film Kid

Alex Paine 18/02/2020

SPOILER WARNING Hello everyone, it’s the Classic Film Kid once again! We’re well into the New Year now, and I’ve been watching a lot more TV than I usually do. I kept up with the BBC’s His Dark Materials and their recent Christmas Carol trilogy, and of course the new […]

Classic Film Kid: Doctor Who Series 11

Alex Paine 25/01/2019

Hello film buffs and fellow Whovians, it’s the Classic Film Kid here! Today, I will be looking at Doctor Who again to discuss the recent 11th series, the positives and negatives, and also a quick ranking of all 10 episodes at the end. Without any further ado, let’s get started. […]

Editorials

Myrkas of the World Unite: Is Doctor Who Posh? (Part 2)

Graham Williamson 06/10/2018

The classic series of Doctor Who ended on a council estate, and the revived series began on one. It’s tempting to see the choice of location as a subtle reassurance that Doctor Who was picking up where it left off. The impression was strengthened when Rona Munro, the writer of […]

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George A. Romero’s Martin (1977) Vampire horror through the hazy gaze of an Antisocial Creep (Review)

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A Million Days (2023)Hard Sci-Fi or Hardly Sci-Fi?(Review)

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Aberrance (SXSW 2023)(Review)

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The Night of the Hunter (1955): The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First (Review)

Chris Chibnall