Praxeus: The Message Arrives Before the Story Does
A bacteria that feeds on microplastics spreads across three continents, in an episode so keen to deliver its point that it forgets to build a threat.
A bacteria that feeds on microplastics spreads across three continents, in an episode so keen to deliver its point that it forgets to build a threat.
A Judoon squad lands in Gloucester hunting a fugitive, and the Doctor finds a version of herself she has no memory of ever being. The season’s best hour.
The fam meet Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls and find a scavenger queen wearing stolen technology, in a warm historical with a thin monster at the centre.
Spyfall Part Two strands the Doctor across three centuries, gives Sacha Dhawan the season’s best performance, and lets its own spy thriller evaporate.
I know if you’re on this site you be as shocked as I am that I’ve not watched the original Watchmen movie or even read the original Watchmen comic. Sadly…
The Boys is a brand-new superhero drama on Amazon. It is dark and gritty, and ultraviolent. It’s difficult to reject that we live in an age controlled by the superhero.…
My Spider-Man Far From Home review: Tom Holland grieving Tony Stark, Zendaya’s brilliant MJ, and Mysterio’s con on a European class trip.
Endgame provides a glorious end to the Avengers saga and Marvel’s phase 3 initiative. With some amazing battles and a reasonably tight story it is a winner.
The original Aladdin was a great animated movie. I loved it as a kid. This is not a rant about Aladdin, but rather repetition and boredom.
When it comes to TELEVISION, normally I’m not much of a binge-watcher. But last week I was stuck at home for two days straight, and my only options were Spend…
Amazon Prime’s Hanna: reintroduces the visitor to the story-line of the original film in direct style, foregoing the flash-backs used in the source material. Though this story-telling choice alleviates the…
A Dalek mutant buried under Sheffield builds itself a casing out of scrap, in a New Year special that finally remembers how to make a monster frightening.
Series 11 ends with Tim Shaw as a false god and Graham deciding whether to avenge Grace, in a finale with no scale, no stakes and no season to resolve.
A cabin in Norway hides a mirror world that offers back the dead, in the strangest and most divisive episode of Series 11, and the one Graham needed.
The fam land in Pendle during a witch hunt, and the Doctor discovers how little her authority counts now, in an episode with a great idea and a mud monster.
A help message in a Kerblam! delivery sends the fam undercover in a galactic warehouse, in the season’s most conventional and most argued-about episode.
Yaz travels to 1947 Punjab to find out about her grandmother’s first husband, in the season’s best-judged hour and its smartest use of a monster.
A creature that eats energy gets loose on a medical transport, in the season’s flimsiest hour, redeemed slightly by a genuinely good monster design.
If you were to casually scroll through sci-fi forums or Twitter this week, you’d be forgiven for thinking Doctor Who Series 11 just parked the TARDIS right on top of…
Giant spiders overrun a Sheffield hotel built on a landfill, in an episode that wants to be about corporate greed and forgets to be about spiders.
Rosa puts the fam in Montgomery in 1955 and asks them to protect a fixed point, in an episode whose historical drama is far better than its science fiction.