Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror – Review From its earliest beginnings, Doctor Who has always featured historical celebrity figures. From Wyatt Earp (in 1966’s The Gunfighters) to Charles Dickens (in 2005’s The Unquiet Dead), the Doctor likes to name drop, or drop in on names, from time to time. Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (a story […]
The Harry Potter films, especially the third film onwards, are visual feasts loaded with British iconography and scenery as well, showcasing a myriad of fantastical creatures and concepts from worldwide folklore. As well as being beautiful storybooks come to life the Potter films also have a commendable amount of thematic richness not often seen in […]
Orphan 55 – Review In the early days of Broadcasting House the three-word mantra of “Inform, Educate and Entertain” constituted the mission statement for all BBC programming. Ringing the school bell for this syllabus was the founder Director General, Lord Reith, whose autocratic approach to programming demanded that all content had to satisfy these criteria. […]
In the 1990s the Spice Girls were crowned pop queens with hit after hit, their rallying cry was “Girl Power”. In practice I am not sure questionable talent bolstered with sex appeal, hardly unusual for performers of any gender in the pop world, but definitely a confusing message to the girls out there. In 2017 […]
Spyfall: Part Two – Review “Previously on Doctor Who” … the TARDIS team, Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) were last seen hurtling towards certain death on board Daniel Barton’s (Lenny Henry) crashing jet. Meanwhile the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) finds herself trapped in the Upside Down mysterious home world of the story’s antagonists […]
Spyfall: Part One – Review James Bond and Doctor Who have always shared a close association over the years. Both are the products of the swinging sixties (Dr. No releasing in 1962, Dr. Who the following year) and both have reinvented themselves numerous times through recasting their leads. And just as you can gauge a […]
The term “Manbaby” was coined by Last Jedi director Rian Johnson as early as February 2018, but used several times subsequently, including when he criticised online trolls (I hesitate to use the term fans) for hounding Kellie Marie Tran on social media (which was publicised in June 2018). Regardless of the sincerity of the term’s […]
The Joker emerges from his grey larval form Arthur Fleck (A.Fleck geddit?) like a colourful butterfly. He dances carefree down the grimy set of stairs that represented his torment earlier in the film. As his feet gracefully caress each step the soundtrack pumps out a forgotten 70s classic, Guardians of the Galaxy style. As your […]
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