Pages

▼
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Children of the Stones: Squaring the Circle

›
 "There's no way out until the stones release us..." This penultimate episode is the most gripping yet, from start to finish. ...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Dexter: The British Invasion

›
 "Confusion requires fire trucks?" Wow. So this is how it ends. Such magnificent, exciting chaos. Yet it all feels earned in terms...
Friday, 1 May 2026

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

›
 I read this way back in the '90s and, although I remembered very little, I do recall enjoying it. I also watched (and blogged) the film...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Stargate SG-1: The Broca Divide

›
 "You referred to me as Lucy!" It's fascinating seeing these early episodes and seeing what the format's going to be. This...
Monday, 27 April 2026

Dexter: Left Turn Ahead

›
 "Harry gazed into the eyes of his creation and saw evil, pure and simple..."  Wow. Yet again we have an extraordinary clever, gle...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

Journey into Mystery #94

›
 "Out of my way, you flunky!" Oh dear. This may well be the most terrible issue I've read in the Order so far. It's clear ...
Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Children of the Stones- Charmed Circle

›
 "Perceptive and formidable..." An extraordinary gripping episode, this, with a pleasingly earned bit of exposition and the sinist...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

Strange Tales #110

›
The Human Torch vs. The Wizard and Paste Pot Pete "Wait a minute! I'm a partner- not a servant, you know!" The team-up we were...
Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Gen V: Trojan

›
 "Thanks for the level up, asshole." Wow. That's how you do a finale. Just ramping up the tension, with Godolkin's murdero...
Monday, 6 April 2026

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

›
No actual spoilers to follow, fear ye not.  I read a rather large number of Agatha Christie novels in my pre-teens and teens, but stopped we...
Sunday, 5 April 2026

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

›
 "And blood-black nothingness begins to spin.,," Some films are entertainment. Some are much more of an immersive cultural experie...
Saturday, 4 April 2026

Update

›
 Just a quick update with a couple of things...  Firstly, I'm sufficiently recovered from my surgery to be back at work, working full ti...
Friday, 3 April 2026

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan (Revisited) Episodes 1, 2 and 3

›
Yep, the two recently rediscovered episodes just dropped on to iPlayer this morning, and you probably knew this blog post was coming. Before...
Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Tales of Suspense #42

›
 "By Lenin's beard! What a fairy tale!" Yep, it's Russian communists. Again. Three stories in and no sign of any supportin...
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Stargate SG-1: Emancipation

›
 "What is an Oprah?" A fairly straightforward episode, this, as the gang enter a stargate and find a human civilisation once depos...
Monday, 30 March 2026

Dexter: There's Something About Harry

›
 "Amazing how easy it is to hide your true self from people, huh?" Before I get into this episode, yet another roller coaster of e...
1 comment:
Sunday, 29 March 2026

Tales to Astonish #40

›
 "Mister, even when that guy fails, he wins." I'm writing this having just read and blogged Tales to Astonish #44. It seems I...
Saturday, 28 March 2026

Tales to Astonish #44

›
 "Go to the ants, thou sluggard!" A new writer, a new beginning, a bit of a retcon.. and a new sidekick-cum-love interest- could A...
Friday, 27 March 2026

Strange Tales #109

›
 "Are you mad , Sorcerer? The box is only a Greek myth!" It's amusingly ironic to see Johnny Storm muse about quitting school ...

A Question of Attribution

›
 "If something is not what it claims to be, what is it?" This is a 1991 television adaptation of Alan Bennett's stage play fro...
Thursday, 26 March 2026

The Amazing Spider-Man #3

›
 "Is this the end of Spider-Man?" Once again we see why The Amazing Spider-Man is absolutely the flagship title in these early ye...

Children of the Stones- Narrowing Circle

›
 "And then there were six..." The halfway point and the mystery, and the mood, continue to deepen. Theories are made about how peo...
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Journey into Mystery #93

›
 "The penalty for failure is death! Am I understood?" This issue is, I supposed, best known for introducing Radioactive Man, a so-...

Gen V: Hell Week

›
 "It may be time for a very big sacrifice...." Before I turn to any of the many bombshells in this extraordinarily gripping and ev...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Tales of Suspense #41

›
 "Above all else I crave my daughter's love and affection! I must make up for all the years I've neglected her while I devoted ...

Stargate SG-1: The Enemy Within

›
 "That's right, Dorothy. It was all a dream." This may, perhaps, have been a bit of a breather, an episode to slow down a bit ...
Monday, 23 March 2026

Tales to Astonish #43

›
 "Old-timers like yourself no longer fit the bill! Your ideas are unimaginative and out-dated!" This issue is, like all the others...

Dexter: Resistance Is Futile

›
 "Nice, my subconscious isn't even bothering with symbolism..." Wow. This is a truly impressive piece of television, a real ma...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

Fantastic Four #14

›
 "Why don't you go get a job as a food tester in a poison factory!" Another strong issue here, and fascinating in many ways. B...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Journey into Mystery #92

›
 "Dr. Blake is very experienced in using a mallet!" Another uneven Thor story here. The cover, for one thing, is misleading- the ...
Friday, 20 March 2026

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

›
 "A toast. To us, to our last summer of immature, adolescent decadence. I hadn't seen this film since uni, until now, and that'...

Tales of Suspense #40

›
 "Any girl who'd stand you up, darling, would have to be stark raving ma-a-ad !" Only the second outing for Iron Man here, an...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Children of the Stones, Part 3- Serpent in the Circle

›
 "I feel things..." The intrigue very much continues here. It's 1977, times were different then, and I very much like how no b...

Tales to Astonish #42

›
 "We don't even have a dog, but we can eat it ourselves!" For an Ant-Man tale, despite the odd bit of silliness... this one wa...
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Gen V: Cooking Lessons

›
 "They tell me Mark Zuckerberg has a lesser version..." Wow. Where to start with this rather eventful bit of telly? Probably by ad...

Update with focus on Batman: The Animated Series

›
 I had to stop watching and blogging Batman: The Animated Series as it left Netflix... but I've just realised it's now on Amazon! I...

Fantastic Four #13

›
 "Stop tryin' to worry us, you blasted animated rubber band!" The premise of this issue seems to contain a large quantity of b...
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Hedda Gabler (BBC TV Play, 1972)

›
 "Do it... beautifully." This is my first experience of this particular Ibsen play, certainly one of his most admired, in any medi...

The Ten Doctors: Chapter 10

›
 Me? A stranger? Can you imagine me as a stranger, Miss Brown?" Ah, I love the way all these little Easter eggs in the dialogue keep co...
10 comments:

Dexter: Morning Comes

›
 "Trust me, when you meet the monster, you'll know..." I was going to blog this last night, but, well, the title...  Anyway, i...
Monday, 16 March 2026

The Amazing Spider-Man #2

›
 "Take a bonus and go out and buy yourself some twist records!" While not as exceptionally good, or as groundbreaking, as its pred...
Saturday, 14 March 2026

Strange Tales #108

›
 "Before I'm through crime, not justice , will prevail on Earth... and I'll be the king of crime !" This is Saturday morni...

The Ten Doctors: Chapter 9

›
 "Blinovitch had nothing on these guys!" Wow. I was wondering where on Earth the story was going to go next, with two instalments ...
4 comments:
Friday, 13 March 2026

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

›
 "Many have said that. But you are the first I believe could do it." Yes, I know. After a few months of not blogging much, then of...

Journey into Mystery #91

›
 "That brainless mortal!" And so, alas, we come to another early Journey into Mystery from the pen of Larry "nepotism" L...