30 Days of Fright: May 2012 horror DVD roundup
Surely it’s now time to call an end to the seemingly interminable onslaught that is the horror genre’s fascination with the ‘found-footage’ style of camcorder film-making.
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Surely it’s now time to call an end to the seemingly interminable onslaught that is the horror genre’s fascination with the ‘found-footage’ style of camcorder film-making.
Whoa. We need a minute. Partly to catch our breath but mostly to let the last couple of hours of relentless, riveting television sink in.
Series 4 was always going to be tricky, with the loss of three principal cast members, but surprisingly it’s not the replacement characters that are the problem.
One Doctor Who story that has deserved rather more acclaim than it has been accustomed to getting is 1988’s The Happiness Patrol.
Well, that was ballsy, wasn’t it? Not just the death of would-be King Renly Baratheon, but the decision to place such a shocking and unexpected event at the very opening of this fifth episode.
Fear not though, viewers! Lord Sugar and his eager entrepreneurs are here to kick-start the economy with… fake tan and clockwork insects?
Crunched skulls, blood splatters and dirty jokes abound in Cuba’s first ever zom-com.
Glee has been coasting on camp and lightly entertaining for a while now, so it’s a pleasant surprise to see the show’s return to poignancy.
We think we’re closer to solving one major mystery of this series, namely, why we’re not enjoying it nearly as much as we think we should be.
Ironically, given its foundation in numerical sequences, Touch leads with the heart rather than the head.