Dr. Who – Last Christmas (S8 Christmas Special)
It’s a long story … well no, not really, its actually not that long at all so stick with me. Santa Claus is real – well you already knew that…
It’s a long story … well no, not really, its actually not that long at all so stick with me. Santa Claus is real – well you already knew that…
One good thing about Agents of SHIELD is that it isn’t afraid to change. In the next to last episode before the winter break (and start of Marvel’s Agent Carter), Ye…
Opening: Last episode was one of revelations. We found out what the map is to (sort of) and we get a hint of fugitive Ward’s next move (with his brother). …
Opening: The last two episodes of SHIELD have slid a little bit from the opening pair, a little too formulaic, a little heavy in the foreshadowing, and trying a little…
Opening: Spy vs. spy escapades between HYDRA and Shield appears to be what will be driving this season. The question I have is – are we going to be delivered…
The first two episodes of Season 2 have shown how far Agents of Shield had come over since the start of Season 1. They offered up a well told complete…
Marvel Studios’ new superhero movie Guardians of the Galaxy is a smart, funny, self-aware bubblegum movie, like the recent X-Men film Days of Future Past, it features a retro playlist…
My The Matrix Revolutions review: amazing action, a bleak mood, weak Smith CGI and an ending that left me with questions. Closure, but no first-film magic. 2.5 to 3.
My The Matrix Reloaded review: great freeway action, but the rave, the Architect and the twins left me cold. Not the continuation I wanted. 3 out of 5.
My The Matrix 1999 review: the cryptic ads, five trips back to the cinema, the dojo, the subway and the rooftop. Everything about it worked. 5 out of 5.
My Return of the Jedi review: the Ewoks put people off, but I loved it. Great fights from Han’s rescue to Endor to Vader and the Emperor. Better than Empire for me.
My The Empire Strikes Back review: the Hoth battle, Luke and the wampa, Yoda, Cloud City and Vader’s reveal. One of the darkest endings ever. 10 out of 5.
A review of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which puts both casts on screen at once, adapts the most iconic X-Men story, and quietly repairs the timeline.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 crams in three villains and one devastating ending. Garfield and Stone are great. The film around them is doing too much.
A review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where HYDRA turns out to have been inside S.H.I.E.L.D. from the beginning and Marvel makes a political thriller.
The Doctor spends nine hundred years defending a town called Christmas, runs out of regenerations, and Matt Smith gets one of the great goodbyes.
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
The Doctor is dragged to his own grave on Trenzalore, Clara’s impossible existence is finally explained, and a stranger is standing at the end of his own timeline.
Neil Gaiman rebuilds the Cybermen as something genuinely frightening, gives Matt Smith a chess game against himself, and buries both under a derelict theme park.
A model village in Victorian Yorkshire is dipping people in prehistoric venom, and Diana Rigg is having the time of her life running it.
A salvage crew drags the TARDIS aboard and the show finally explores its own ship, then undoes every consequence with a magic reset button in the last minute.