‘The Mystery of Charles Dickens’ review
The script is a dazzling theatrical mosaic that requires Simon Callow to play no less than 49 separate characters.
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The script is a dazzling theatrical mosaic that requires Simon Callow to play no less than 49 separate characters.
The dialogue blisters and blusters at a furious pace and it’s admirably unclear if there’s an easy solution to the problem.
It’s a bold attempt at viewing the roles of the characters from a different angle, but it’s one that comes too late in the lives of Amy and Rory.
Mathew Horne is a lot of fun in all of his scenes and it is a shame the writers did not capitalise on his casting by writing more scenes for him.
It’s appropriate that A Town Called Mercy is a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. Unfortunately, the latter two outweigh the former.
Originally due for publication in September 2009, and set to star the Tenth Doctor, The Dalek Project was held back due to apparent similarities to Series 5’s WWII set Victory of the Daleks.
Who’d have thought watching Benedict Cumberbatch shouting about horses and fire extinguishers would be so compelling?
What really attracts here is the excellent rendition of the three central characters.
You’re thinking twisty-faced Asian dead girls creeping towards the camera as incongruous sound-effects grind your mind into little bits, right?
Looper stands out as one of the year’s smartest, slickest , most WTF-inducing sci-fi films.