Watching for the joy of mocking what’s on screen is an underrated pleasure. There’s a vast library of so-bad-it’s-good films out there, but I’m always on the lookout for more. And so, the made for TV movie ‘Heaven Sent’ looked like it had a lot of promise. The premise is […]
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The Fox in the Forest (2022: Tabletop Matters) Cards, cunning, and fairy tales (Review)
How’s the endless pandemic treating you? How was Lockdown and its sequels? How’re you finding sticking stuff up your nose, swabbing your throat, steamed up glasses, or washing your hands until they’re sore? If you’re looking for a diversion from the daily doom, try drifting into fiction, fantasy, or the […]
Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks (2021)(Review)
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)
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)
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)
“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 Flux – Once Upon Time (Episode 3)(Review)
“Once Upon Time”. We’re a long way down the time vortex, and there is no place like home. Doctor Who goes into overdrive in a badly structured meander into madness. CONTAINS SPOILERS To start with, an apology for wrongly titling this week’s episode in last week’s review. Perhaps too entrenched […]
Doctor Who Flux – War of the Sontarans (Episode 2)(Review)
“War of the Sontarans”. Better, but still bonkers. It’s episode 2 of the latest Doctor Who series and I think my brain may be starting to adjust to the manic pacing and nonsensical scripting – I actually watched this episode without hanging out the washing (that’s what happens when you […]
Doctor Who: Flux – Halloween Apocalypse (Episode 1)(Review)
The start of the much-anticipated thirteenth series marks the beginning of the end for Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor and showrunner Chris Chibnall, but will the number thirteen prove unlucky for the controversial combo? This episode, the first of six, leaves viewers wondering what the flux is going on? To try and […]
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Reassessment of Lynch’s ‘pathologically unpleasant’ film is complete (Review)
There was a time when people would have been surprised to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Criterion, you know. Janet Maslin’s infamous New York Times pan (“brain-dead grotesquerie… pathologically unpleasant”) set the tone for the initial Cannes reception, and things did not get any better once it […]