Venom (2018): The Critics Were Wrong and the Box Office Knew It
My Venom review: Tom Hardy’s odd-couple routine with the symbiote is what saves a messy origin story, and the box office numbers backed him up.
My Venom review: Tom Hardy’s odd-couple routine with the symbiote is what saves a messy origin story, and the box office numbers backed him up.
The Doctor and the fam get stranded on Desolation in a race across a dead planet, in a handsome, weightless episode that drops the season’s only real clue.
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor falls through a train roof with no TARDIS, no sonic and no memory, in a debut that gets the character right and the plot wrong.
A fresh Avengers Infinity War review: Marvel spent a decade earning your trust, then let the villain win. The boldest ending the studio has ever filmed.
Having lived in Africa for quite a few years, I was a bit torn with this film. Overall it was an enjoyable experience, but it wasn’t perfect in my opinion…
It’s difficult to catch lightning in a bottle twice, and that’s exactly what James Gunn tries to do in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The word “Marvel,” as in…
There’s a lot to be excited about this year movie-wise, what with Infinity War coming out. But, with Marvel and Disney eclipsing any other movie releases happening, let’s talk about…
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate at the same moment, in a slight, gentle Christmas special that exists almost entirely to say goodbye properly.
Another year has flown by and like always, it’s time to reflect back on the stand out films and comics that came out. 2016 was one of the worst years…
A review of Thor: Ragnarok, where Taika Waititi turns the least interesting Avenger into the funniest one and Asgard’s golden age turns out to be a cover story.
My Spider-Man Homecoming review: why Tom Holland nails the teenage Peter Parker better than anyone, plus the acting, growth, and MCU ties.
The Doctor makes his stand on a farm two miles up a colony ship, and finally explains why he does any of it. Capaldi’s finest hour as the Twelfth Doctor.
A colony ship escaping a black hole runs at different speeds on different decks, and Bill spends a decade at the bottom of it while the Doctor loses minutes.
The writer of the last classic serial returns after twenty-eight years with a story about Picts, Romans, a gate between worlds, and a creature that eats light.
NASA finds a message carved under the Martian ice, and Doctor Who delivers a proper old-fashioned romp about the British Empire meeting something older.
Six months into the occupation the Monks have rewritten every human memory, and the Doctor appears to be working for them. The trilogy’s weakest instalment.
A pyramid appears overnight on a disputed border and the Monks offer to save the world, on one condition: somebody has to surrender to them willingly, out of love.
A Vatican text drives every reader to suicide, and the reason is the single best twist Doctor Who has pulled in years. Nothing you are watching is real.
A mining station where the spacesuits have killed their crew and are walking the corpses around, in the most savage and best-argued episode of the season.
Bill and five housemates take a suspiciously cheap house with a suspiciously helpful landlord, and Doctor Who does a straight haunted-house story rather well.
Bill’s first trip into the past goes to the last great Frost Fair, where something enormous is chained under the Thames and being farmed for profit.