It’s 50 years since the release of Sean Connery’s fourth appearance as James Bond in 1965’s Thunderball! 001. The story A Vulcan bomber has gone off radar with a couple of nuclear bombs on board. Oops. To make matters worse, a man with a cat and his eye-patched pal want a lot of dosh … >
It’s 20 years since the release of Pierce Brosnan’s debut appearance as James Bond in 1995’s GoldenEye! 001. The story At a secret space testing centre in Siberia, the titular nuclear EMP weapon is set off, destroying the base and almost everyone inside. With the help of the only survivor, Bond is sent to … >
The socially challenged underdogs of the lucrative world of tech start-ups are finally uncovered in first season of the painfully funny Silicon Valley, released on Blu-ray and DVD from 23 March, courtesy of HBO. To celebrate the release, we’ve got Blu-rays to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, … >
We all like a laugh. It’s what separates us humans from the lobsters. Yet when it comes to comedy your TV suddenly betrays you and transforms into a one-armed bandit of mirth; sometimes paying out the giggles, but often spitting lemons at you with a merry jangle, the cheeky electric bastard. Yes, you can camp … >
With Dark Eyes 4, Big Finish brings a set of award winning Eighth Doctor stories to a close. Each of the Dark Eyes releases consists of four CDs of audio drama, and this final set was jointly written by Matt Fitton (who wrote Dark Eyes 3) and John Dorney (recently seen on Only Connect and … >
Nearly a decade on from its release, and with Daniel Craig’s fourth 007 adventure currently filming across the globe, we take a look back at the movie that relaunched the James Bond franchise in 2006, Casino Royale. 001. The story In his twenty-first – and paradoxically, his first – mission, Craig’s James Bond earns … >
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle is undeniably one of the best loved figures in Britain’s literary history. ITV’s new three-part series Arthur and George has a lot to live up to. Spanning more than a century and spread across many different adaptions, the fanbase for Conan Doyle’s famous detective has arguably never been greater than … >
When a man on trial is shot dead in his locked prison cell, between two other locked doors, it sets of an interesting course of events that provide the backdrop to Death in Paradise’s character-based season finale. This week’s murder mystery plot takes a back seat as we focus on the dramas of the key … >
BBC One returns to the idyllic Caribbean island of Saint Marie for a fourth season of sun-soaked crime drama Death in Paradise. Kris Marshall is back as DI Humphrey Goodman, alongside Sara Martins as DS Camille Bordey and Danny John-Jules as Officer Dwayne Myers. > Buy the Season 1-2 boxset on Amazon. Episode 1 … >
Being invited in to a world conjured up by the literary superstar J.K. Rowling was always going to be an event and we’ve been anticipating Sarah Phelps’ adaptation of The Casual Vacancy with excitement and gusto. And so we delved down the rabbit hole into the quaint English town of Pagford, where not everything was … >