‘Impossible’ review: A great night out at new West End magic show

Londons’s West End has a history of enthralling magic shows which has seen daring performances from the likes of Harry Houdini, Penn & Teller and, erm, Paul Daniels. With CGI making audiences ever more cynical about what’s real, you’d be forgiven for thinking magic shows had become extinct. But this month, magic and illusion have … >

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‘Yonderland’ Season 2 Episode 5 review: ‘Nanny La Roo’

Things take an emotional turn in Yonderland this week as Debbie explores her own history. The prophecy of the second scroll prompts the Elders’ decision to evict Debbie from Yonderland, thus preventing her falling to the influence of her sister, Imperatrix. Debbie’s not ready to give up on Yonderland, though – especially having just learned … >

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4 questions to answer for an interesting book review

A book review can possibly be one of the more hackneyed requirements in your English or Humanities class. After reading a novel or a collection of poems, it is very likely that your teacher will articulate the expected and yet highly dreaded: make a book review. Outside the premises of the school, there is a … >

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‘Agent Carter’ Episode 4 review: ‘The Blitzkrieg Button’

Things are difficult enough for Agent Peggy Carter – a single working woman in 1940s New York keeping her role as secret agent hidden from the world, not to mention keeping her real agenda hidden from the rest of the SSR. So in hindsight it’s perhaps unfortunate that she’s added to her problems by moving … >

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‘Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime’ Episode 2 review: A mixed bag

Much like its heroes Tommy and Tuppence, Partners in Crime gets much right, but also makes niggling errors in its enthusiastic execution of duties. It makes the whole endeavour feel slightly more amateurish than it clearly should be. There’s some dark, engaging stuff in Part 2 of ‘The Secret Adversary’, and at times a tremendous … >

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‘Humans’ Episode 8 review

The finale of a show you love… It’s a bit like having your birthday on a Sunday (all the more so if that show actually airs on a Sunday): all that excitement, attention, and then tomorrow it’s over and – boo, work, chores, The One Show – everything plummets back to normal again and all … >

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‘Ripper Street’ Season 3 Episode 1 review: ‘Whitechapel Terminus’

Regardless of the off-screen traumas, all the principal cast are present and correct for the commencement of the late Victorian crime drama’s third season, which takes place in and around the streets of down-at-heel Whitechapel. Four years have passed since the climatic events which closed the second run and many of the characters find themselves … >

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‘Doctor Who’ book reviews: ‘The History Collection’

Doctor Who‘s relationship with time travel has evolved over her years, from the resolute “You can’t change history, not one line!” of ‘The Aztecs’ to the Eleventh Doctor’s wilful alterations for his own ends in tales like ‘A Christmas Carol’. This collection from the show’s literary back catalogue novels reflect that change, with the first … >

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