August 2013 horror movie DVD round-up
You can usually tell a horror film reviewer from the slightly wretched, overwhelmingly weary look they carry off.
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You can usually tell a horror film reviewer from the slightly wretched, overwhelmingly weary look they carry off.
With battles lines drawn last season, Ellen Parsons is back in the legal ring with her one time mentor Patty Hewes for a final round. With reputations at stake, the theme tune lyrics never seemed more appropriate: “When I get through with you, there won’t be anything left.”
Representing the Davision era in this anniversary collection of Doctor Who novel reissues, ‘Fear of the Dark’ brings the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan to a barren moon orbiting the dead word of Akoshemon in the year 2382.
You might expect a Mad Men soundtrack to be a collection of martini-smooth but mundane notes – something you can put on and forget about when you run out of Harry Belafonte vinyls but still require a musical backdrop to smoke and romance a dame to in your Manhattan bachelor pad. But Mad Men: On the Rocks turns out to be anything but ’60s make-out noise.
You’ve been here before. The Great War, fast approaching its centenary, has inspired many hundreds of stories, novels, plays, films and – yes – poems.
The last time we saw the manic-hedonistic James Cook in Skins, he was seconds away from killing or being killed in one of the most intense cliffhangers in the show’s history. Cut forward three years, and the alive-and-well Cook works for a drug dealer in bleak suburban Manchester.
Red 2 sees reluctant hero Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) thrown back into the world of espionage when an attempt is made on his life in connection to a top secret project called Nightshade.
The Hour. A show praised as much for its ability to make operating a typewriter while smoking and wearing houndstooth look cool as for the talent of the actors who were actually doing it. But what of its music?
Many of you will have been expecting answers from The Returned‘s finale. Some of you will have surmised in advance that the show is too inscrutable to give up its secrets.
Do you remember Varnax? Or the Doctor’s best friend Gonjii? How about the battle with Scratchman or the time he stopped Mandrake’s audacious plan to gain a new regeneration cycle? What about the genocidal androids of Krikkit or the time that Amelia Earhart travelled in the TARDIS?