I’m afraid that the cracks are beginning to show in ‘The Edge of Mystery’, this week’s episode of Agent Carter. I don’t just mean the eerie zero matter split across the face of Whitney Frost, but in the nuts and bolts of the storytelling as the season moves towards its climax. Unusually it’s an episode … >
With barely time to catch our breath since December’s epic Only the Monstrous, this second box set presents three further adventures for John Hurt’s missing incarnation of our favourite Time Lord. Surrounded by terrific, thumping version of the theme, these stories ostensibly deal with attempts to employ super-weapons in the struggle against the Daleks. In … >
With Doom Coalition 2, Big Finish continues their series of Eighth Doctor stories as the Doctor (Pail McGann) and his companions Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) take on rogue time lord forces with aid from an unexpected quarter. Unexpected that is unless you spotted Alex Kingston reprising the part of River … >
In her introduction to Busman’s Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers makes the point that although for the reader it may seem like a detective novel interrupted by a love story, to the characters involved it is the other way around. Something of the same could be said for Grantchester, which continues to juggle Sidney’s detective adventures … >
Happy Valley is one of the best television programmes ever made. We always knew that following up the first season of Sally Wainwright’s impeccable series was going to be a tall order, but over the last six weeks we have been pushed through a gamut of emotions that has equalled anything the first year could … >
It seems there is no such thing as a quiet month for Big Finish! After the excitement of January’s River Song and Churchill audio debuts, February saw the return their impossibly glamorous home-grown heroine Vienna Salvatori, as well as Eve Myles back as Gwen Cooper to round out Torchwood’s first audio season with ‘More Than … >
Featuring the impressive vocal talents of sometime Sontaran and Hobgoblin Dan Starkey, the latest from the Big Finish Classics range features the Edwardian supernatural investigator, Thomas Carnacki. While the company has tackled grander and rather more well-known titles like Frankenstein and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, William Hope Hodgson’s ghostly tales are more contained affairs. … >
I’m shocked. And angry. And trying to find a way to compute exactly what it is that I just watched and how it fits into my feelings about this year’s X-Files mini-series as a whole. Writer/creator Chris Carter has now had a third opportunity to provide some closure to The X-Files, after the original series … >
The Walking Dead’s impressive hot streak of episodes continued this week with a taut, compelling bottle episode with a pared-down cast and an impressive thematic focus. ‘The Same Boat’ very much feels like the second half of a thematic exploration begun by ‘Not Tomorrow Yet’ – in the way it flips the perspective to the … >
Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the film’s release, we had the pleasure of attending Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark Live at London’s Royal Albert Hall this Saturday. As part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Films with Live Orchestra series, the special screening of the film was accompanied by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra, … >