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A very good run of stories – and a few hundred years of wizard history – culminate in ‘Twilight Falls’, the final story of Wizards Vs Aliens’ third season. I will always be delighted by the sight of Dan Starkey’s actual face, and what a treat it was to see it make an appearance sans … >
This week’s Wizards Vs Aliens story, ‘The Key of Bones’, is Season 3’s penultimate adventure and very much feels like it. It seems like most of this story exists to set up what’s to come in next week’s two-part finale; indeed, the real action of this story doesn’t come until Part 2. It’s a complex, … >
Doctor Who’s recent two-part finale saw the untimely demise of two beloved characters – former soldier turned maths (not PE) teacher Danny Pink, and UNIT’s sweetheart, the queen of workplace-appropriate cosplay, Osgood. It also saw the unexpected rescue of second-generation UNIT officer Kate Stewart by none other than her father, the late Brigadier. (I guess … >
We’ve now had some distance from the end of Peter Capaldi’s debut Doctor Who season, and some distance remains before we see the Christmas special in all its festive glory. This is, of course, time best spent speculating on what questions seem to have been left unanswered at the end of Season 8, and what … >
Oh Wizards vs Aliens, you arch manipulators of emotion. I can honestly say, when I set about to watch ‘The Daughters of Stone’, I did not expect to find myself uttering the above sentiment, but here we are. What drives this adventure of witches and deceptions and haunting are a series of overlapping stories about … >
Well, we probably could have seen it coming that it wasn’t going to end well. Our heroes meet at last, and oh irony of ironies, they find themselves duking it out, each delivering a fatal blow to the other just as the war’s end is announced. It doesn’t get much more senseless a death than … >
On a cold Tuesday evening in Cardiff, a screening was hosted at the National Museum of Wales for this weekend’s Doctor Who finale, ‘Death in Heaven’. CultBox were in attendance, and without giving too much away (or the Cybermen will find us), here are some of the things viewers have to look forward to: … >
Our heroes sit, exhausted and broken, saying nothing. The years have not worn well on them, and it shows. Thomas works at a rain-soaked drawing, shakily attempting the same line over and over again, not out of the joy of creating, but of the need to think about something other than the mud and the … >
It’s 1916, and Michael and Thomas sit in opposite trenches, trying not to get their hopes up about whether or not the war is actually drawing to a close. (And you’re really getting frustrated by seeing them get their hopes up, because you know that there’s a good two episodes’ worth of war yet to … >
And just like that, between the end of the first episode of The Passing Bells to the beginning of the second, things have gone from sweet and sad to unsettlingly gruesome, from idealistic and innocent youth to the grim realities of armed combat. The quiet horror of the mustard gas attack, and its aftermath, is … >