The Great British anthology series has had many vestiges throughout the broadcast years. Often finding a home in the mysterious or macabre genres, horror anthologies and the BBC go together like strawberries and cream and arguably peaked in the 70’s with series like Dead of Night and Supernatural, individually produced […]
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Fantasia Festival 2025: What We Are Looking Forward To!
The dog days of summer are upon us, along with a season of mania, chaos, and high strangeness – all of which can be found in the line-up for the 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which continues to bring attendees the best, boldest, and often most bizarre […]
Outside The Blue Box: Jackdaw (2023)
Jackdaw is a film that’s interested me for multiple reasons, the first and perhaps most important one being that it’s the feature debut of director Jamie Childs – who cut his teeth on a handful of episodes during Jodie Whittaker’s first series as The Doctor. The 11th series made an instant […]
Outside the Blue Box: Casualty: Results by Ben Aaronovitch
To understand where Casualty was in 1990, we must first go back in time one year earlier, to 1989. The fourth season of the hit BBC medical drama, which had begun life three years earlier in 1986, saw the show undergo some changes. The original producer, Geraint Morris, had left […]
Outside the Blue Box: The Andrew Cartmel Masterplan of Casualty (BBC, 1990)
You all know Andrew Cartmel, right? He’s the man with the plan. The Cartmel Masterplan to be exact. As script editor on Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989, his Masterplan shaped the final three years of the show’s classic era and would have gone on to set the tone for the series […]
Doctor Who (2025): The Wish World/The Reality War – I Don’t Even Know What To Think Anymore (SPOILERS)
Oh Christ. Those two words best sum up my thoughts going into this review, in both good and bad ways, as they reflect my feelings on pretty much everything: these two episodes, the trajectory of the show going forward, and the general state of the fandom – a fandom that […]
Andor Season 2 (2025) Round-up: Star Wars’ hard-to-swallow epic is just what fans needed
CONTAINS SPOILERS For once in their lives, Star Wars fans have a right to be upset. By the time any franchise devotees reach the end of Tony Gilroy’s ground-level Rebellion drama Andor, there’s a strong possibility they’ll feel more ashen than when they saw Princess Leia Mary Poppins herself back to safety in The […]
Doctor Who (2025) The Interstellar Song Contest – An Explosion of Camp and Fan Service, and Unexpected Politics
So this episode was a lot, wasn’t it? The Interstellar Song Contest will go down as one of the most extravagant episodes we’ve ever had, and that’s before you even get to the moments of fan service that, trust me, we will discuss. Reportedly the most expensive episode in the […]
Outside the Blue Box: The Mutations (1974)
Though every actor who has ever been lucky enough to portray the Doctor on-screen has put their own iconic spin on the character, it’s arguable that Tom Baker – at least for a certain generation – was a name inseparable from the role, and even perhaps the show as a […]
Doctor Who (2025) The Story and the Engine: Brilliant Low-Key Idea, Pompous Execution
Inua Ellams makes his Doctor Who writing debut with The Story and The Engine, an episode with a tone and setting unlike any Doctor Who episode I’ve ever seen. Typically the show never sets foot outside of either Europe or the USA for a whole episode, though there are some […]