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Monday, December 29, 2014

Doctor Who: Last Christmas

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“Last Christmas” is the tenth Doctor Who Christmas special in as many Christmases — a decade of Russell T. Davies’s and Steven Moffat’s a...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Time Bandits: The Criterion Blu-ray review

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The movie portion of this review was previously published at Bullz-Eye .  Stills are not screengrabs from the Criterion Blu-ray. If yo...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Happy Birthday, Ben Watt!

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There’s always time and space to write a little bit more about Ben Watt and/or Tracey Thorn, but today the focus must be on Ben, for ...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Doctor Who: Death in Heaven

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Picking up from the various precarious cliffhangers we were left with last week, “Death in Heaven” goes pretty silly for the first 10 or 1...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Nightbreed: The Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack review

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The director’s cut of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed has been a very, very long time coming, and rare is a film more deserving of a top to b...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

Doctor Who: Dark Water

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Let’s not bury the lede here, and please allow your recapper a bit of gloating. All the way back in my recap for “ Deep Breath ” I posited...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series DVD review

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Cult classic sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati , now making its complete series DVD debut, takes viewers to a much different time – before iPods a...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Doctor Who: In the Forest of the Night

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If there’s one thing that continues to amaze me about Doctor Who , or more specifically its fans, it’s all the wildly different reactions ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Doctor Who: Flatline

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Honest to Pete, it’d be nice if this season could deliver just one truly awful installment, so as a recapper I could have a little fun tea...
Friday, October 17, 2014

The Innocents: The Criterion Blu-ray review

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[Note: Screengrabs are taken from the MGM DVD release.] Two big budget studio ghost stories from the early sixties are cinematic siblings...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express

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After last week’s episode, aspects of which seemingly half of Whoville had big problems accepting, it must be reassuring for disgruntled f...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Doctor Who: Kill the Moon

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Doctor Who is no stranger to outrageous, unbelievable plots. One could even say the show has practically been built on them. “Kill the Mo...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Doctor Who: The Caretaker

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However you might react to “The Caretaker,” hopefully everyone will at least agree that, given the setup of the season so far, it’s a stor...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Doctor Who: Time Heist

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Show of hands: Who else guessed the identity of the Architect as soon as the premise was thrown out there? It wasn’t that there were any p...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

The Zero Theorem

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As someone who’s been a disciple of all things Terry Gilliam for the better part of 30 years, it seems pretty obvious that his most innova...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Doctor Who: Deep Breath Blu-ray review

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Wait a minute! Wasn’t this just on my TV a few weeks ago!? Yes, the feature-length season premiere of Doctor Who , entitled “Deep Breath,”...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Doctor Who: Listen

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Part of the genius of Season Three’s benchmark “ Blink ” is how utterly standalone it is, which is why it’s often the go-to installment to...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Mark Gatiss: Robot of Sherwood Interview

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Mark Gatiss writes and acts, and we could have an intense debate over which he does better. You’ve seen him onscreen in Game of Thrones a...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood

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Season Eight has been dark so far, but I don’t think I realized exactly how dark the first two episodes were until I started watching “Rob...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Doctor Who: Into the Dalek

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After 50 years of Dalek stories, it cannot be easy coming up with something that hasn’t been done before — something that can also be re...
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