• To Protest and Server… but does ‘Kerblam!’ deliver..?

    The Tardis receives an unexpected delivery, courtesy of the galaxy’s most expansive shipping company, ‘Kerblam!’ and while the Doctor is delighted by the contents, Yaz notices that it also include a secret plea for help – and that’s one thing the Doctor can never turn down. Infiltrating the vast...
  • Skin in the Game: Spike Lee nails ‘BlackKklansman’…

    It’s the early 1970s and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) makes the fateful decision to join the Colorado Springs Police Department. He will be their first black police-officer and though the Powers-That-Be seem to actively discourage him, he’s determined to make a difference, even if it means starting in...
  • Doctor without Borders? ‘Demons’ takes on Partition…

    As Yaz listens to some of the stories that her grandmother Umbreen tells of her youth she is interested by some of the details that she appears to be deliberately leaving out.  Given a recent (off-screen) mishap with Death-Eyed Turtles, Yaz feels the Doctor owes them a more personal...
  • Star Trek short ‘Calypso’ has magic in its moves…

    A life-pod drifts through turbulent space and after many months is picked up by a much larger craft: the USS Discovery. But the sole occupant of the pod finds himself in a sick-bay with no-one else around. Eventually a voice tells him his location and begins to supply his...
  • Doctor Who and the shape of Ptings to come..?

    While scavenging for parts on a junk asteroid, the Doctor and her team accidentally set off a sonic mine and end up in the Tsungara medical facility, needing time to recover. But time may be a luxury because separated from the Tardis means that there’s no way off the...
  • Queen’s royal ‘Rhapsody’ will rock everything but the boat…

    It’s the 1970s and a million bands are created with their members hoping for stardom, but those dreams are about to come true for Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) when their band ‘Smile’ loses its lead singer and a fan named Freddie Mercury introduces himself...
  • ‘Slenderman’ horror offers slim pickings…

    Wren (Joey King), Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Katie (Annalise Basso) and Chloe (Jaz Sinclair) decide to up the ante by exploring the internet phenomena known as ‘Slenderman’ but it’s a decision they quickly regret. When one of them goes missing, the others start to realise that whatever took her...
  • Doctor Who: Between Arach and a Hard Case…

    After traversing time and space, the Tardis team are finally back in Sheffield, though it seems they’ve hardly been gone at all.  However it also appears that something is very wrong in – and under – the city. What turns out to be far more than a missing-persons concern...
  • Dark (Sacred) Night Returns: Bosch & Ballard cross paths…

    A year ago, Harry Bosch made a promise to himself and a forlorn mother that he would solve the cold-case murder of her daughter, Daisy. The mother, Elizabeth Clayton, attempting to resist the pain-numbing lure of the streets on which Harry had found her and which claimed Daisy, is...
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