The inclusion of a Target Books novelisation in BBC Books’ 50th anniversary collection seems most appropriate. With the scarcity of repeats during the show’s original run, before the advent of home video, many fans will have experienced older stories and earlier Doctors through the pages of just such a book.
We get used to waiting as Doctor Who fans, don’t we? This past year especially has tried the collective patience of millions of us, as we’ve waited for the news of the new: new episodes, new specials, new Doctors. And also – almost as exciting – a new soundtrack. So, has the wait for 2 … >
Reliably gritty and gruesome, it is time for another slice of serial killer action on the mean streets of Whitechapel.
After two series, each which followed on a single story, last year’s run settled into a more digestible two-part format with each pair of episodes focussing on a new case.
Top of the Lake: the BBC’s latest drama event this summer – although perhaps smothered by the return of Luther and the never-ending The White Queen – is an altogether beautiful creature.
Channel 4’s Southcliffe was a muted, extremely tense show, but that didn’t stop it from going out with a bang. Nothing revelatory happened, the massive showdown wasn’t there – but it wasn’t needed. It was exactly this unsettling, seething atmosphere that made Southcliffe such a triumph.
The latest in this summer’s supersized cinematic offerings is Elysium, a mind-boggling, politically-charged blockbuster fronted by a depilated Matt Damon that encourages its audience to ponder some interesting questions.
For the Sixth Doctor adventure in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary collection, BBC Books have chosen to reprint a novel by the biggest name in Who prose, Terrance Dicks. A writer and script editor of the show, Dicks went on to pen over 60 novelisations as well as a host of novels and spin off books.
2 Guns is that rarest of things in the cinemas of late; a film without super-heroes; without the threat of global destruction; without the mass-marketing behemoth behind it and without a thousand trailers ruining all the good bits.
Kick-Ass 2 is, above all else, a frustrating film. It’s one that at times captures the frenetic, jaw-dropping one-two punch of comedy and violence that the first delivered, but one that all too often falls victim to its own attempts at shock.
The Stuff of Nightmares starts with a bang. Quite literally. The latest in a spate of bombings to hit London narrowly misses Doctor Watson and throws the reader like a rag doll into James Lovegrove’s adventure.