The Avengers: Marvel’s Insane Gamble Just Paid Off
A fresh Avengers 2012 review: the shared-universe gamble nobody thought could work just delivered the best time at the movies all year.
A fresh Avengers 2012 review: the shared-universe gamble nobody thought could work just delivered the best time at the movies all year.
Bah Humbug It’s extremely sad when a dream is shattered and left on the ground in pieces. Unfortunately that is exactly what happened with this years Christmas edition of Doctor…
One great thing I’ve noticed in the first season of this show is that the writers seem to have mapped out the whole series in advance and while they’ve made…
River refuses to kill the Doctor and time collapses into a single afternoon, in a finale with superb imagery, a beautiful tribute, and an escape hatch.
The Doctor spends his last free days babysitting with Craig Owens, in a warm, funny episode with a farewell running under every scene and a lazy resolution.
A hotel with a room for everyone’s worst fear turns out to be feeding on something else entirely, and the Doctor has to break Amy’s faith in him to save her.
Amy is stranded in a faster time stream and survives alone for thirty-six years, and Rory is made to choose which version of his wife gets to live.
Night Terrors answers a child’s cry for help and finds a cupboard full of monsters, in a small, warm horror story about a father learning what his son is.
Let’s Kill Hitler shoves Hitler in a cupboard, regenerates Amy’s childhood friend into River Song, and explains why she can’t regenerate in the library.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
The Almost People gives the Doctor a duplicate of himself, asks whether a copy is a person, and ends on the most brutal cliffhanger of the Matt Smith era.
The Doctor’s Wife puts the TARDIS in a woman’s body and lets her talk back, and the show finally tells the love story it has been telling since 1963.
The Curse of the Black Spot strands the Doctor on a becalmed pirate ship where a singing woman in the reflections takes anyone who cuts a finger.
After the amazing, outstanding and superlative previous episode of Doctor Who – The Doctors Wife – it would be very difficult for anything that followed to measure up. Thankfully, The…
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 by killing the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes and introducing a monster you forget the moment you look away.
A Christmas Carol turns Dickens into time travel, letting the Doctor rewrite a cruel man’s childhood while a starliner falls out of the sky above him.
The Lodger strands the Doctor in a Colchester house share with a terrible flatmate act, a football match, and something upstairs that shouldn’t exist.
Not with a bang but a whimper … While I know that it would have been very difficult for Moffat to exceed the thrills and spills of last week’s episode,…
Vincent and the Doctor takes Van Gogh to see his own exhibition, and then refuses to let that fix anything. The finest hour Series 5 has produced.
OK what else can I say but WOW! This is a series finale that definitely lives up to the hype – I’ll tell you now do not read any…