Spider-Man 3 review. The black suit was the one thing I wanted and the film wastes it. Venom is weak and the jazz club sequence is indefensible.
-
-
The Lazarus Experiment turns a scientist’s rejuvenation machine into a monster movie, and finally promotes Martha Jones from passenger to companion.
-
Evolution of the Daleks gives Dalek Sec a conscience and his own kind a mutiny, in a Manhattan finale with great ideas and a very messy execution.
-
Daleks in Manhattan drops the Cult of Skaro into Depression-era New York, with pig slaves in the sewers and an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
-
Gridlock returns to New Earth for a traffic jam that has lasted decades, giant crabs in the fumes, and the Face of Boe finally speaking his last words.
-
The Shakespeare Code takes Martha to 1599, where three Carrionite witches plan to use Shakespeare’s lost play as a spell to free their species.
-
Smith and Jones opens Series 3 by dumping a London hospital on the Moon, siccing rhino police on it, and introducing the excellent Martha Jones.
-
The Runaway Bride drops a shouting bride into the TARDIS, unleashes the Empress of the Racnoss, and shows us a grieving Doctor nobody is left to restrain.
-
Doomsday pits Daleks against Cybermen over London and ends on a Norwegian beach, delivering the most devastating farewell Doctor Who has ever filmed.
-
Army of Ghosts pays off a season of hints as Torchwood opens a breach, ghosts fill the world, and Doctor Who springs a jaw-dropping double cliffhanger.
-
Fear Her sends the Doctor and Rose to the 2012 London Olympics, where a lonely girl’s drawings are making children vanish. A gentle, uneven episode.
-
Doctor Who’s naffest monster, the Abzorbaloff, can’t quite sink a surprisingly moving episode about fandom, found family, and Jackie Tyler’s loneliness.
-
The Satan Pit sends the Doctor into the abyss to face the Beast itself, in a Doctor Who two-parter finale about faith, reason, and believing in Rose.
-
The Impossible Planet strands the Doctor and Rose on a base by a black hole, where the Ood turn deadly and something ancient stirs in the dark.
-
The Idiot’s Lantern sends the Doctor and Rose into 1953 Coronation London, where the Wire feeds on TV viewers by stealing their faces.
-
The Age of Steel reveals the Cybermen’s true horror and gives Mickey Smith his hero moment in an emotionally sharp Doctor Who finale.
-
Rise of the Cybermen strands the Doctor on a parallel Earth where Rose’s dad is alive and John Lumic is building an army of steel men from the living.
-
The Girl in the Fireplace sends the Tenth Doctor through time windows into 18th-century France, clockwork monsters and a love story that breaks your heart.
-
Sarah Jane Smith walks back into the Doctor’s life in School Reunion, and it’s the most emotional hour Doctor Who has given me since it came back.
-
Tooth and Claw drops the Tenth Doctor and Rose into 1879 Scotland with a werewolf, Queen Victoria, and the birth of a very familiar institute.
-
New Earth kicks off Series 2 with cat-nuns, a plague farm, and the return of Cassandra as the Tenth Doctor and Rose take their first real trip together.
