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).
[usr 3.5] A considerable number of theories were spun about how Sherlock writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss would transplant their very postmodern take...
[usr 3.0] If there’s one thing that Steven Moffat’s “Hell Bent” achieves, it’s certainly not clarity. Picking up from The Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) arrival...
[usr 3.5] Every song must end. Clara Oswald’s (Jenna Coleman) comes to an end so matter-of-factly when Rigsy (Joivan Wade), last encountered in “Flatline“,...
[usr 4.0] As many have commented, the opening scenes of this week’s Doctor Who uncomfortably mirror the suspected terrorist bombing of Russian passenger Metrojet 9268, which...
[usr 3.0] Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical...
[usr 3.0] Maisie Williams isn’t playing Susan, Romana, The Rani, Jenny, or any other returning female time-traveller. There, that’s my review written. Really, that’s...