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Monday, 5 October 2026

Dexter: Finding Freebo

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 "Some people just shouldn't have kids, you know?" Another strong episode here and, following last week's bombshell, there...
Sunday, 4 October 2026

Coraline (2009)

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 "Giraffes don't just fall from the sky, Miriam." Let's quickly deal with the elephant in the room: there's the contro...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Batman: The Animated Series- The Demon's Quest, Part 2

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 "You must understand, beloved. I share my father's vision and seek the same ends, but I do not choose his means to those ends....
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Legends: The War on Drugs

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 "It's because of what happened to me that I know it hasn't happened to them." For Guy, Kate and Bailey the stakes of the ...
Sunday, 27 September 2026

Tales to Astonish #46

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 "Peace! Quiet! How ghastly!" Ah, a short one. Perfect as something to blog after a very, very long drive.  I admit is: my heart s...
Friday, 25 September 2026

Stargate SG-1: Brief Candle

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 "It's a paradise." "Yeah, sure, have an apple. What could happen?"  From the blurb this looks as though it's go...

Monetising My Blog

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This hasn't been an easy decision. I've had this blog for sixteen years plus, and until now I hadn't monetised it. I was worried...
Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Batman: The Animated Series- The Demon's Quest, Part 1

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 "The master gave you no permission to leave." "I didn't ask for any." At long last the Animated Series, having alre...
Monday, 14 September 2026

ParaNorman (2012)

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 "What do you think you're doing firing at civilians? That's for the police to do!" I don't recall having even heard o...
Saturday, 12 September 2026

Legends: This Is Liverpool

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 "That's called importing drugs. It's sort of the opposite of what we do." Things get even more dramatic and dangerous thi...
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Dexter: Our Father

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 "God created pudding. Then He rested." New season, and it's fascinating to see how they handle it. Because, well, from Dexter...
Saturday, 5 September 2026

The Whisper Man (2026)

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 "If you're lonely, sad and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you... This film is, I suppose, a harbinger of the future- no big s...
Friday, 4 September 2026

SPECTRE (2015)

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"Information is all, is it not?""  Ok, perhaps this isn't quite as good as its predecessor, but that's a very high ba...
Thursday, 3 September 2026

Game of Thrones: The Mad King (Dominic Cooke, 2026)

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The play is still (just!) on at the RSC in Stratford, and playgoers are being asked to keep schtum about the plot, the staging and all thing...
Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Journey into Mystery #95

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 "Great Scott! I'm seeing things!" Another fairly throwaway Thor story here, courtesy of the pen of Robert Bernstein; this is ...
Monday, 24 August 2026

Stargate SG-1: The Nox

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 "The young do not always do as they are told..." A rather interesting and different episode, this. A world on which there lives a...
Sunday, 23 August 2026

Personal Update

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 Let's just say it's been a very busy, eventful couple of weeks, but blogging will be back to normal as of tomorrow. There's bee...
Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Update

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 I realise I've not been posting much this month, but you can rest assured that's for a reason (basically, childcare), it's noth...
Thursday, 13 August 2026

Batman: The Animated Series- Blind as a Bat

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 "Your aim appears to be a little off today, Batman..." This is a fairly basic, run of the mill episode, the gimmick being that Ba...
Monday, 10 August 2026

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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This isn't the first time I've read this novel but, well, I was a pre-teen back in the early '90s, and I'm in my late fortie...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Legends: Alliance

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 "You're allowed to enjoy it, Guy." As per the quote... Guy's wife knows him well. He needs the excitement, the risk, all ...
Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Fantastic Four #17

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 "Forgive me for interrupting you by sending my pseudo-image here. But I am still human enough to wish to gloat over your hapless pligh...
Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Stargate SG-1: Cold Lazarus

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 "Your world is a strange place..." Concept-wise, this is pretty simple- the gang explore a world and find some crystals, some of ...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Enola Holmes 3 (2026)

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 "There are two paths you can take, Enola. Yours, or the path others choose for you." This sequel, with the same ensemble cast and...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Update

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I know- July has been a blog-lite month so far, for life reasons. That doesn't mean it'll ever come to a complete halt, and things w...
Monday, 13 July 2026

Batman: The Animated Series- Shadow of the Bat, Part 2

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 "I hate wet shoes!" A solid conclusion here, with the newly coined Batgirl earning her spurs and, in the end, the grudging respec...
Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Legends: Could You Offer More?

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 "Lunch money? What are you, twelve?" 1990. It was a very different time, the early years of rave culture, and Thatcher (just!) ha...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Fantastic Four #16

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 "The fools ! They live in peace! They are contented and happy! But I'll soon put a stop to that !" This issue is, obviously, ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Batman: The Animated Series- Shadow of the Bat, Part 1

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 "This place gives me the willies..." Yes, I know- thirteen straight days without a blog post, something that hasn't happened ...
Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Strange Tales #111

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 "Bah, you are a weakling! Why would you help men when you can rule them?" A rather odd issue this time round. The Doctor Strange ...
Friday, 12 June 2026

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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I've now read both this and Persuasio n, Jane Austen's first and last works, a rather pleasing statistic for me. And it's an int...
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Update

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Bear with me- I've been mad busy this week with work and life admin, and this weekend I'll be in full-on dad mode. I might blog some...
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Sunday, 7 June 2026

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

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 "The old protect the young and the young protect the old. This is the Way." This is the first film I've seen at the pictures ...
Thursday, 4 June 2026

Stargate SG-1: The First Commandment

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 "We're off to see the wizard!" A decent episode this time, based on a concept that was bound to come up at some point- an off...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Children of the Stones: Full Circle

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 "I think you have an exaggerated sense of your own importance..." And so it ends... rather suddenly, but entertainingly. I'm ...
Monday, 1 June 2026

Fantastic Four #15

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 "Good grief! Another power-mad genius for us to contend with!" The quote above says it all- the Mad Thinker is not exactly the gr...
Sunday, 31 May 2026

Update

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I'm back from holiday. No actual blog post tonight as I'm knackered after the long drive, but the blog will go back to normal from t...
Saturday, 23 May 2026

Update

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 This is just to say that I'll be on holiday over half term, and will post little, if at all, until 30th May at the earliest. But I'...
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Tales of Suspense #43

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 "Follow me, puny surface man!" This may, in some ways, be an utterly unremarkable issue. There's still no real supporting cas...
Tuesday, 19 May 2026

The Witches (1966)

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 "I see. What we admit, we believe. And what we believe, I suppose, could destroy us." This is a most odd example of a peak period...
Monday, 18 May 2026

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, at the Swan, Stratford upon Avon

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 "If we could learn to look instead of gawking We'd see the horror in the heart of farce  If only we could act instead of talking W...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Update

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This is just to say that I may be able to blog something tomorrow night, but it's likely I won't be back to a normal-ish blogging s...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

Tales to Astonish #45

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"Wonder what this wire is for? Oh well, it doesn't matter." So, you know how the Ant-Man stories seemed to be on an upswing, w...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Children of the Stones: Squaring the Circle

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 "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

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 "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

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 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

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 "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

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 "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

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 "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

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 "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

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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

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 "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

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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)

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 "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

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 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

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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

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 "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

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