• Doctor Who (S10 Ep.7) ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World…’

    The Doctor is now aware of an imminent threat to the Earth, but still unsure of when and how it will come. Summoned – in his role as ‘President of Earth’ in times of global crises – he is shown a very ancient pyramid built at a critical location...



  • Doctor Who (S10 Ep2) ‘Smile’ review…

    *Only Minor Spoilers* The Doctor may have certain duties and obligations that are keeping him close to Earth and the university in particular, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t take little side-steps… after all, even if you have to stay somewhere, the whole point of having a machine...
  • Legion




    Mutant, Interrupted: Is FX/Marvel’s ‘Legion’ crazy cool..?

    David Haller (Dan Stevens) is completely aware he’s not like most other people. Unable to function well in society, he’s grown up accustomed to the voices in his head and not always being able to control his impulses. But the medications he receives in the lockdown facility that is...
  • 24-Legacy

    Straight Outta Time : ’24’ clocks in for another tour of duty…

    Before a second of its first episode had been broadcast, 24 arrived on television schedules in the Fall of 2001 with the kind of zeitgiest-grabbing topicality that can’t be programmed, engineered or bought. Mere weeks earlier viewers had watched helplessly as the all-too-real world came powering through their television screens...
  • NBC's Emerald City

    NBC’s new ‘Emerald City’ pushes Every Witch way but Loose…

    Dorothy Gale works hard at the local community hospital, taking shifts and providing a welcome distraction for some of the patients who adore her. Perhaps they don’t notice or even choose to overlook her purloining some of their medication to take home to her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry....
  • Doctor Who

    Super, Man: Who’s X-Mas special is an antidote to a grim 2016…

    The following review contains spoilers. proceed with caution… On top of a New York apartment block, many years ago… a mysterious visitor is trying to put right what once went wrong with a device that’s definitely not a Christmas Tree and a gem that’s definitely not candy, but as...
  • The OA

    ‘The OA’ : Irritable Vowel Syndrome for Netflix?

    There’s something weird about Netflix‘s new offering The OA and it’s not just the story itself – though that’s a good place to start. A young woman (Brit Marling) jumps from a city bridge, her leap caught on camera. At first she’s a Jane Doe, but with the footage...
  • Rogue One

    Wars-Story: How ‘Rogue One’ gave a last chance to new hope…

    Jynn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the daughter of  an architect named Galen (Mads Mikkelsen) who was the senior designer on the galactic Empire’s war-efforts. Realising his designs would lead to wholesale slaughter rather than peace, he quit his job and escaped into obscurity with his family. But the Empire has...
  • Doctor Strange

    ‘Doctor Strange’: Marvel’s new smooth operator…

    Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is that kind of doctor for whom the profession has brought riches, fame and more than a slight amount of arrogance.  Perhaps they are all well-deserved, but one night it is all snatched away when a terrible traffic accident on a mountain road badly injures...
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