Martin’s Close is subtitled “A Ghost Story For Christmas“, and is directed and adapted for TV by Mark Gatiss, from the original story by MR James. Set in 1684, the Martin in question is John Martin (Wilf Scolding), who’s on trial for murder, allegedly having bumped off a woman called Anne Clark (Jessica Temple) by […]
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a film with a title that made my heart sink – ANOTHER period drama? Thankfully, not, as it comes from Armando Iannucci (In The Loop), who has directed this new movie. Yes, it’s based on the novel by Charles Dickens, but you can be sure that it’ll have […]
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No Comments »Christopher Robin is… hang on, haven’t we already had this? Okay, so that was Goodbye Christopher Robin, but why do we always get two films in quick succession about a particular subject that no-one’s been too fussed about for a while? I first remember coming across this in 1991 with Patrick Bergin’s Robin Hood, and […]
Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex plot about how Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday is coming up, and the little bear cub decides he should get her […]
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Twice Upon A Time sees The First Doctor – played originally by William Hartnell, but here by David Bradley – in his final story arc, The Tenth Planet, leaving for the TARDIS in the South Pole, refusing to regenerate… but if he doesn’t, then the next, nor even the Twelfth Doctor cannot exist. Hence, this […]
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The Doctor Falls followed a first part which concluded with a ‘next time’, making it look like Peter Capaldi would be leaving at the end of the series as he regenerates into a new Doctor, but he and Steven Moffat will still be around for the Christmas episode before that happens, so we know that […]
World Enough And Time began with The Doctor doing that fake regeneration crap again, making my heart sink from the off, not least because the two-part finale is brought to you by the combination of Steven Moffat and Rachel Talalay, the latter who was responsible for… er… Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare – the worst […]
The Eaters Of Light sees Doctor Who series 10 practically crashing into the sun, it’s so bad, opening with kids hearing things, an inscription of the TARDIS on some stone, and a crow is… er… crowing, “Doc-Tor”. This crap really is being aimed at five-year-olds!! Anyhoo, there’s a beast called the Eater of Light… and […]
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Empress of Mars is the title of this 9th episode in series 10 of ‘new-Who’ and is also the title bestowed upon Iraxxa, the Ice Warrior Queen. After a pointless opening sequence where, on Earth, the Doctor learns that the Valkyrie device probes Martian ice caps, to see under the poles and beam back pictures […]
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The Lie Of The Land takes place six months on from the arrival of the Monks, and it appears they’ve been responsible for everything in the world from when it began… such is the brainwashing muck being spouted by The Doctor since Bill inadvertently changed the world last week… I mean, six months ago. Go […]
