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You wait 19 years for a replacement to the much-loved black comedy series The Real McCoy (last broadcast in 1996) then, a bit like waiting for a bus, they all come along at once! That was the situation TV viewers had at the beginning of November as ITV2 broadcast not one but four brand new … >
BBC One’s Our Girl started life as a 90-minute TV movie that struck a chord with viewers in the UK and drew in over 6 million viewers. The army drama was popular enough to ensure that a full season was commissioned, gaining new fans in the US, Canada and Australia. What was it about Molly … >
The Zygons return to Doctor Who this weekend in ‘The Zygon Invasion’. Here guest writer Alwyn Ash picks out five of TV’s best alien invasions to get your tentacles wrapped around… The War of the Worlds And so we begin with this classic tale of Martians and their attempts to colonise Earth. If any … >
In the middle of my interview with Alan Carr, a very loud police siren starts wailing in the background. Quick as a flash, the comedian jokes that, “I’m so in demand, even the police want me,” before adding with a laugh: “Or maybe they’ve seen my act and want to arrest me!” This is typical … >
You’ll have heard of Avenue Q before, of course; the delinquent boozy stepchild of Sesame Street from the co-creator of Book of Mormon. Following five years in London’s West End, this supremely confident production (in Brighton all this week) absolutely nails the energetic perkiness and gawsh-darned American-ness that’s required to make Avenue Q work. One … >
BBC One’s ‘kinda true’ biographical comedy drama based on the young life of Lenny Henry opens with cute nostalgia. A young Danny Fearon (Kascion Franklin) dancing in gold heels to ‘My Boy Lollipop’ cuts to an older Danny having the shit kicked out of him by Dudley’s cohort of oddly baby-faced teenage fascists. What’s expected … >
Since the departure of Matt Smith in 2013, Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has appeared keen to establish the stories of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor as a new era. Although the Paternoster Gang appeared in ‘Deep Breath’ and the new UNIT gang introduced in the Eleventh Doctor’s era returned in ‘Death in Heaven’, fandom seems divided … >
At CultBox, we are usually preoccupied with TV personalities who have flown on board the TARDIS or the Liberator, or who keep a Synth or a book of English magic for personal use. But occasionally there are figures so mainstream, so ubiquitous, that they cut through narrow definitions of cult and seem to embody the … >
Four years after the last adventure and 19 years after its big-screen debut, the Mission: Impossible franchise returns for a fifth outing. A new Mission: Impossible movie always feels like a bit of a surprise, not least because they are released at such sporadic intervals that the franchise never seems to gain any sense of … >
In the annals of horror, only one film series is almost too disgusting to describe! Now the unthinkable has become all too real! The final chapter to the most notorious movie franchise ever made has arrived. The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is out on Blu-ray, DVD & VOD on Monday 20 July. To celebrate … >