The latest Doctor Who Short Trips from Big Finish sees the welcome return of Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, reading Andrew Smith’s short story Flashpoint. It’s a clever story with a clever title – not just a crisis point, but also a good description of an alien world Cerberin, famous for its violent storms, visible … >
Our spoiler-filled Trust Me episode one review.
In The Movellan Grave, writer Andrew Smith makes light work of fitting an entire four-part 1970s style story into a single disc release for the Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures range. Starring Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor, and Lalla Ward as the second Romana, this time our heroes are up against the Movellans. If … >
With the sixth four-disc boxset of Survivors stories, Big Finish has moved the timeline for the range into the same frame as the early part of the third TV series. This hasn’t stopped them finding stories for all three central characters – Abby Grant (Caroline Seymour), Greg Preston (Ian McCulloch) and Jenny (Lucy Fleming). Along … >
After two weeks of pretty standard British crime fare, In the Dark has veered way off course for its second half. No longer are we dealing with a standard whodunit, a dead school girl and an historic sexual abuse case handed instead a lazy gender-flipped fridging for Helen’s boyfriend and a tacked on look at … >
Internet piracy comes with consequences in the new Torchwood adventure. Here’s our review… Scott Handcock, regular director of the Big Finish Torchwood range wrote the latest release, Cascade, or to give it its full name, Torchwood_Cascade_Rip.tor. It’s another tale for Naoko Mori, reprising Toshiko Santo and takes its title from the murky world of internet … >
In the Dark episode 1 & 2 review There’s a certain comfort to crime dramas – a predictable structure that, while allowing us to theorise and wonder about the ‘whodunnit’ aspect, ensures we know a few things going in. There will be several convincing red herrings, personal drama of the detectives dragged in, and the … >
Big Finish’ Short Trip supplements the world of Doctor Who this month by featuring the meddling Time Lord known as The Monk, played here by Rufus Hound.
The seemingly contradictory nature of deep religion versus personal responsibility has always fascinated me. If everything happens for a reason then why do so many things cause us anger and pain? Is it simply a test from God to rise above these feelings, or – as posited in this episode – an invitation to target … >
Released by Bafflegab 30th June 2017 Returning after an extended gap, The Scarifyers are back in action, this time dealing with an infestation of malevolent garden ornamentation. For the uninitiated, The Scarifyers follows the 1930s exploits of ghost-story writer Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy, Davros in 1980’s Doctor Who), and former Police Officer Harry “Thumper” Crow … >