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Oh, isn’t that just bloody typical. The chance of anything coming from Mars were a million-to-one, they said. .. then two come along at once. Yes, in two very different ways, the Red Planet will be making its influence felt on television screens over the next few months. The...
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Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to…. sort out rights, finances and inter-studio relations! After all our coverage of the problems SONY and Marvel Studios have had over the Spider-man situation, it now appears that there is more to say in their shared universe. After...
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When Malcolm was still a young boy he discovered his father, a famous and respected high-society doctor, Martin Whitly (Martin Sheen) was a notorious serial-killer and though Whitley was subsequently captured and imprisoned, it’s had a profound effect on his son’s mental health. Decades later, Malcolm, now going by...
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Criminal is actually a twelve-episode anthology split over four continents, three in each of the principalities: UK, France, Germany and Spain, with only the set remaining largely unchanged between them. (This review is solely for the UK section for the moment!). The casts are different, the crimes are varied,...
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While it’s true that it might not have a smidgen of the budget of Avengers: Endgame, the CW‘s upcoming cross-series specials are certainly getting rather ambitious with their casting. The CW shows collectively known as the ‘Arrowverse‘ (Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash and Arrow – as well as...
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The Fugitive, starring David Janssen and Barry Morse was a staple of 1960s television, an early and very successful example of mixing a procedural tv show with an ongoing arc. Janssen played Dr. Richard Kimble who is believed to have murdered his wife. Kimble insists he’s innocent and grappled...
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While there is no doubt that the most recent Jurassic Park films have done well at the box-office, they’ve fared less well with critics and the general consensus was that the Jurassic World: Lost Kingdom was a wholly uneven and sometimes even silly venture. That film left dinosaurs escaping...
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It’s the 1990s and Charles Xavier’s dream of mutants being judged as regular people, even considered ‘superheroes’ who can help in a crisis, seems to have been fulfilled. Though it’s not perfect, there’s a tolerance and co-existence that he’s sought all his life. When the Endeavor space-shuttle runs into...
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The world is not a safe place – whether you be human or a creature of magic – and survival can mean the hardest of decisions and the weightiest of compromises. The humans of the ‘Burgue’ enlisted the help of the ‘fae’ to protect their homeland from the invaders...