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DOCTOR WHO, 10.3 – ‘Thin Ice’
I was half expecting Stevie Wonder to show up in “Thin Ice”, writer Sarah Dollard’s contribution to this year’s series of Doctor Who. Why? Well, as fans recall, the setting of Dollard’s episode, the Frost Fair of 1814, was previously mentioned as the place where River Song and The Doctor celebrated her birthday in “A…
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GUERRILLA (2017, miniseries)
A politically active couple in 1970s London liberate a prisoner and form a radical underground cell…
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017)
The Guardians of the Galaxy’s adventures continue as they investigate the mysterious parentage of their leader Peter Quill…
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WE ARE THE FLESH / TENEMOS LA CARNE (2016)
After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who makes them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.3 — ‘Sunk Costs’
This is a show with a very leisurely pace, so you can often summarise a whole episode’s content in mere sentences, but it’s nevertheless a very enjoyable experience. It’s never in a rush, delighted by detail (we get a shot-by-shot of Kim Wexler’s morning routine, because why the hell not?), Better Call Saul is unchallenged…
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THE LEFTOVERS, 3.2 – ‘Don’t Be Ridiculous’
This was another terrific episode, not to mention a wonderful Emmy-worthy showcase for Carrie Coon as Nora ‘Cursed’ Durst. There were a few questions hanging like a cloud over Nora last week (why was her forearm in a plaster cast, and where has her adopted baby Lily gone?), and while you expect “mystery shows” like…
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BROADCHURCH – Series Three
After a disappointing second series, which caused debates over whether creator Chris Chibnall would bring more credible crime and grief from the Wessex community of Broadchurch next time, rather than delve into private lives of the coastal town’s inhabitants, series 3 returned to the crime procedural formula that made it the best crime drama ever…
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.2 – ‘Smile’
If the theme of robots becoming sentient seems familiar in “Smile”, the second episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who, then look no further than the previous explorations of artificial intelligence in Steven Moffat’s work for the show. Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce, returning after the lukewarm reception to his last effort, “In the Forest of…
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PHANTASM I-V (1979-2016)
Phantasm is low in the pecking order of horror franchises, but it became one of the genre’s most enduring sagas. Five instalments were released sporadically, between 1979 and 2016, so anything so determined to complete its story over nearly 40 years must have been offering something of merit… right? As someone with only a passing knowledge of…
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DRUNKEN MASTER (1978)
An undisciplined young man must learn “drunken fist” Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin…
