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Sunday, 19 October 2014

Grimm: Once We Were Gods

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"But we were gods once...!" This isn't the first time we've seen Egyptian mythology in Grimm, but it is the first time i...

Grimm: Mommy Dearest

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"This could be anything that climbs trees; bigger than a squirrel, obviously." It seems that Woo's first name is, er, Drew.....

Grimm: Revelation

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"I don't even know who you are any more!" The story continues. The programme continues to use Wesen as a metaphor, with Monr...

Grimm: A Dish Best Served Cold

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"I just watched a friend of mine die in a tree..." So far this season has been very arc-based, with no stories of the week. This...
Saturday, 18 October 2014

Doctor Who: Flatline

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"Could you not just let me enjoy the moment of not knowing something? I mean it happens so rarely." Hmm. This episode wasn...
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Grimm: The Wild Hunt

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"Will you marry me?" Aww! Ain't it cute? Monroe asked Rosalie to marry him! And he did it with, er, a cuckoo clock...! This ep...

Beaches (1988)

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"I just want to get rid of us  before us  gets bad." Yes, I know; this is a chick flick. I watched it because my lovely wife w...
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Grimm: The Good Soldier

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"I don't deserve what they did to me. I was a good soldier." A rather good whodunit for once, this one, and concerning the ser...

Grimm: Eyes of the Beholder

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"Get out of my house!" This isn't the first time that Grimm  has tackled domestic abuse, but it's a topic that works well ...

Grimm: Red Menace

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"Koschei are Russian, which means they're Greek to me." Interesting start; a jogging woman in the forest, like the first episo...
Friday, 17 October 2014

Forrest Gump (1994)

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"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." I didn't want to like this film. I assum...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Sharknado (2013 TV Movie)

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"We can't just wait here for sharks to rain down on us!" I couldn't resist watching this and, yes, I had to blog it...

Grimm: Twelve Days of Krampus

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"Hey, guys- shouldn't we be spreading out closer together?" Well, well- a Christmas episode, no less! And a rather good one, t...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tough Love

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"They'll take you away from me..." Something of a somber episode, this, with the consequences of both adulthood and bereavemen...

Grimm: Cold Blooded

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"You ask me, it's an alligator." Fiddlesticks. This seems to be some sort of two-parter. I'm not sure what's happening...

Grimm: Stories We Tell Our Young

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" So, I guess it's time for the "Birds and the whole Bienen-Wesen" talk. Okay..." On the same day as I review an epi...

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 6 (What Death Can Join Together)

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"You must risk rejection!" This one is a far more typical episode, albeit with Vanessa now a lot less mysterious. It's one of ...

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 5 (Closer Than Sisters)

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"I tried to pray that night. God wouldn't answer- but another did..." Well, this is unexpected; an episode, told entirely in f...
Saturday, 11 October 2014

Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express

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"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose." What a brilliant episode. This script from n...

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 4 (Demi-Monde)

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"Is it poisonous?" "Like all beautiful things, I hope so." We begin with a mise-en-scene, Grand Guignol style, w...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 3 (Resurrection)

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"You have not known horror unless I show it to you." So it turns out that Proteus wasn't the first life created by young Mr. F...

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 2 (Seance)

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"Your first-born has returned, father!" Nice cliffhanger. The monster we saw Frankenstein creating last episode, a nice chap, was ...

Penny Dreadful: Season One, Episode 1 (Night Work)

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"That is my mountain. There I will ant my flag." Yes, I know, I'm late to the party. But I'm rather enjoying Sky and S...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Detectorists, Part 1

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"Ring pull. '83. Tizer." This is a nice, gentle little comedy drama from BBC 4 starting the rather good Mackenzie Crook (who a...
Saturday, 4 October 2014

Doctor Who: Kill the Moon

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"That's what you do with aliens, isn't it? Blow them up?" Hmm. I didn't much like this one, and yet it got all th...
Friday, 3 October 2014

Grimm: El Cucuy

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"Did she like me?" "For someone who was in a coma, yeah." This episode is both steeped in "Hispanic" (is using...

Grimm: One Night Stand

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"Not easy being a parent!" Back to the story of the week, then (aww!) and it's time for The Little Mermaid . This one's qu...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Grimm: PTZD

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"I wish I could do that!" I've just thought; David Giuntoli hasn't had any lines so far this season, And his performance...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Grimm: The Ungrateful Dead

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"This ain't over yet!" The zombie flick continues with the first episode of Season Three, and Nick begins the new season as ...

The Runaways (2010)

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"This isn't about women's lib, kitties- this is about women's libido." We're all guilty of seeing rock history ...

Cilla, Part 3

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"Fellas don't actually have sex together, do they?" And so we reach the end of this quietly brilliant miniseries, using firs...
Sunday, 28 September 2014

Grimm: Goodnight, Sweet Grimm

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"To be continued. Oh, come on- you knew this was coming!" At last the season finale. For once it feels as though things are in flu...

Grimm: The Waking Dead

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"How did they come up with the name, do you suppose? They have a port. They have land. Really put a lot of thought into that one......

Grimm: Kiss of the Muse

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"What did I miss?" "The usual- the Devil, a couple of space aliens..." Hank is back from Hawaii, on crutches; one suspec...
Saturday, 27 September 2014

Doctor Who: The Caretaker

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"Human beings have incredibly short lifespans. Frankly, you should all be in a permanent state of panic." I'm sure this ep...
Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Cilla, Part 2

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"Come and give me a cuddle. And stop sulking." Once again this is a bit of Feelgood fun and not exactly high art, but for what it ...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Grimm: Endangered

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"You get your blues, your greys, and your reptilians from Andromeda." This one'a quite sweet, really; a destitute young expect...

Grimm: Volcanalis

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"Do you have a lot of these books, by the way?" Hmm. I think we have the end of our sustained run of quality here. This episode is...

Grimm: One Angry Fuchsbau

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"Well, he dropped a toad. In the men's room." That's weird; a courtroom drama, in Grimm , based on 12 Angry Men . Naturall...

Grimm: Nameless

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"Maybe we got lucky this time- we're just dealing with a simple, ordinary psychopath." This one'a obviously Rumpelstiltski...

Grimm: Mr. Sandman

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"The red worms may have actually done you some good!" This one is apparently based on The Sand-Man  by Ernst Hoffman. And yes, a c...

Grimm: Natural Born Wesen

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"If we can overcome our differences, you will make history." So, apparently Wesen bars play Rammstein. Nice; they are possibly the...

Grimm: Face Off

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"Nick knows it's you!" This time the quote is from Ferdinand Foch, the famous French WWI whose surname has to be pronounce...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

Doctor Who: Time Heist

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"Still don't understand why you're in charge...?" "Basically, it's the eyebrows." My heart sank when...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Grimm: Season of the Hexenbeist

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"To be continued... sorry." Oh my word. It's all kicking off. Nick finally learns all and seems all poised to have it out wi...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Cilla, Part 1

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""'Ey, Cilla, no pressure. It's only your whole future depends on it!" Yes, I know: this sort of thing is general...
Saturday, 13 September 2014

Grimm: To Protect and Serve Man

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"Do you like the taste of human flesh, Johnny?" This is an episode that could only have been done shortly after Hank first learned...

Doctor Who: Listen

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"Fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly..." Nice little tribute to Terrance Dicks there. Hmm. Bit of a curate...
Sunday, 7 September 2014

Grimm: The Hour of Death

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"Did you say testicles?" Clever, this one; it was the intern, seeded a couple of episodes ago, whodunit. I don't want to boast...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood

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"Old-fashioned heroes only exist in old-fashioned story books, Clara!" It's only been a few hours and I've already see...
Sunday, 31 August 2014

A Chat with Mike Tucker

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My friend Nick and I are interviewing Mike Tucker, special effects guru best known for Doctor Who and Red Dwarf, novelist, and all round mus...

Hook (1991)

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"When are you going to learn to stop acting like a child?" "I am a child!" It's rather obvious that the reas...
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Saturday, 30 August 2014

Doctor Who: Into the Dalek

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"Fantastic idea for a movie. Terrible idea for a proctologist." Peter Capaldi's tenure can now claim two excellent episode...