Tales from the Urban Jungle • BRUTE FORCE (1947) | THE NAKED CITY (1948)
A double-bill of film noir classics from Arrow Academy on Blu-ray.
Freelance writer and film and television researcher (for hire). Recent work: The Black Archive 31: 'Warriors' Gate', a 2019 monograph on the classic 1980 Doctor Who story for Obverse Books, booklet essays for Powerhouse's Blu-ray of 'Birdy' and Arrow's 'Count Yorga Collection' and 'Woody Allen: Seven Films 1986-1991' Blu-ray releases. Other books include I.B Tauris's 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour - A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era' (2013) and 'Doctor Who - The Pandorica Opens' (2010).
A double-bill of film noir classics from Arrow Academy on Blu-ray.
A European prince terrorises the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.
The Doctor escapes from her alien prison with the help of an old friend, and returns to help prevent a disaster.
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
As the last remaining humans are ruthlessly hunted down by Cybermen, Graham, Ryan, and Yaz face a terrifying fight to survive as lies are exposed and truths are revealed for The Doctor…
In the far future, the Doctor and her friends face a battle across the farthest reaches of space to protect the last of mankind against the deadly Cybermen.
On a stormy night that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the plan was to spend the evening in the presence of literary greats… but the ghosts are all too real…
From ancient Syria to present-day Sheffield, and out into the wilds of space, something is stalking the Doctor and infecting people’s nightmares.
The Doctor and her friends split up to investigate multiple mysteries across planet Earth, which could threaten all of humanity…
The Judoon are on the hunt for someone on the run. Who is this fugitive? And why are these alien mercenaries after them?