The Doctor is trying to convince Clara to break her date with Danny and travel with him. The TARDIS phone rings and as soon as The Doctor answers he and …
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In Doctor Who Listen, The Doctor hypothesizes that no-one in the universe is ever alone. He travels to Clara’s flat to share his theory, and finds her home from a …
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Telling Clara to ‘take a punt’, The Doctor lands the TARDIS in a forest in medieval Nottingham where she hopes she can meet Robin Hood, despite The Doctor telling her …
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While getting coffee for Clara, The Doctor uses the TARDIS to rescue Journey Blue, a soldier fighting the Daleks, from her exploding spaceship. Returning her to command ship Aristotle, he …
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I’m a bit behind the 8ball with regards to my Doctor Who reviews (and blog updates in general to be honest) so many apologies for that, but unfortunately – life …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Doctor spends nine hundred years defending a town called Christmas, runs out of regenerations, and Matt Smith gets one of the great goodbyes.
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Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
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In a rather ironic twist, I am writing a book review on a website about a book that was initially serialized on a blog! John Scalzi is the owner of …
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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.
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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.
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A model village in Victorian Yorkshire is dipping people in prehistoric venom, and Diana Rigg is having the time of her life running it.
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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.
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A ghost hunt in 1974 turns out to be a rescue, and the monster in the pocket universe turns out to be looking for someone. The season’s best-shot episode.
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A Soviet submarine thaws an Ice Warrior out of the Arctic ice in 1983, and Doctor Who produces the tightest, tensest bottle episode it has managed in years.
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Clara’s first proper trip is an alien market, a girl who must sing to keep a god asleep, and a resolution built entirely out of a life that never got …
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People are being uploaded out of their own heads through the Wi-Fi, and the Doctor finally meets the modern Clara — the third version of a woman he has twice …
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The Doctor has retired to a cloud above Victorian London to sulk, and a barmaid who is also a governess drags him back out and then dies in front of …