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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Adventureland (2009)

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"You don't want 'virgin' to be your signifier." "He takes one semiotics class..." Ah, the nostalgi...
Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Humans: Episode 7

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"Oh, David. What did you do?" Things get more and more intense this episode until the climax, which promises to lead to an emotion...
Monday, 27 July 2015

Freaky Friday (2003)

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"I look like Stevie Nicks!" "Who's he?" Another remake by Disney, then, and yet again this is a rare case ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Humans: Episode 6

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"If you power me down now, I will be unable to penetrate your wife." It had to be that quote. There were plenty of potentials ...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Humans: Episode 5

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"She saved our son's life. And you're calling her a sex toy!" Lots of revelations this week, some of them dramatic. It...
Sunday, 12 July 2015

The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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"Down with tsarism!" Obviously, this is a much-admired film, largely because of the inspiring and extraordinary effective use...

Penny Dreadful: Verbis Diablo

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"Is this what it's like to go mad? Your darkest fears made manifest before your eyes?" More of the same superbly stylish horro...

Humans: Episode 4

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"I'm an analogue man in a digital world..." The usual excellence continues in terms of script, execution and performances, but...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Humans: Episode 3

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"Dr. Millican! This is highly unsafe!" Humans  just keeps getting better and better. And that Kraftwerk -inspired theme tune is re...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Any Requests?

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Any requests for what you'd like me to cover on the blog? Obviously, I'm limited in the access I have to stuff, but I've a fairl...

The Doctor Who Pubcast

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Here be the latest of Nick's and my Doctor Who Pubcasts. Previous instalments are also available... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry...

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

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"Are you gay?" Before I say anything else, I should praise the way this film is shot by Sam Taylor-Wood. I'm not sure a...
Monday, 29 June 2015

Grimm: Cry Havoc

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"If it's any consolation, Kenneth is dead..." ... And now so is Juliette. Who saw that coming? It's quite a twist, as is h...

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: The Education of a Magician

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"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" "I suppose a magician might. But a gentleman never could." And on we go. More crea...

Humans: Episode 2

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"The synths steal their job; they steal the synth." Well, it seems as though the second episode is no less superlative than the fi...

Grimm: Headache

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"Well, this should be a jolly good romp!" Eh? Jelly Burkhart dies this episode. The cliffhanger is even Nick receiving her head in...
Thursday, 25 June 2015

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: How Is Lady Pole?

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Something different today: a guest post from MrVortexOfDoom, whose YouTube channel you would be wise to have a look at, particularly if you ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: The Friends of English Magic

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"All magicians lie, that one more than most..." I've been looking forward to this dries for ages; I loved the novel. Susanna C...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Humans: Episode 1

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"Those robots are the Singularity!" It's prime time hard sci-if on Channel 4 courtesy of this remake of the Swedish original, ...
Monday, 22 June 2015

Daredevil: In the Blood

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"If he had an iron suit, or a magic hammer, maybe that would explain how you get your asses handed to you." It's early days, I...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: S.O.S, Part 2

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"Yeah, and I thought my mom was bad when she started watching Fox News." This is it, then. No more Agents of SHIELD for an awfully...

Grimm: You Don't Know Jack

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"It's not that easy being pregnant, cutting up your mom, and waiting for someone to kill you!" Looks as though the season is g...
Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: S.O.S, Part 1

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"I am capable of finishing my own..." "Sentences." Here we go, then. War. It's all very confused at the star...

Grimm: Iron Hans

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"So will you be a pawn, or will you be a queen?" This time the story of the week isn't quite as high quality as we've rece...
Saturday, 13 June 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Scars

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"I was expecting a raised eyebrow, but ok..." I trust you've all seen Avengers: Age of Ultron  in between blog posts? We begin...
Friday, 12 June 2015

Grimm: Mishipeshu

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 "Most crime everywhere is Wesen-related..." I'm British and therefore know sod all about Native Americans; we mostly still th...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: The Dirty Half Dozen

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"I thought her gift was spinning really fast to collect gold rings..." Things speed up for the finale as the opening moments stron...
Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Grimm: Hibernaculum

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"Sort of like an animal heat orgy!" Wow. A car chase on Grimm . A pretty damn good one too, and a strong opening to yet another in...
Thursday, 4 June 2015

Grimm: Heartbreaker

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"It happened!" A tragic fairytale, this; a beautiful girl who can never know love because, if a bloke fancies her, he dies. Horrib...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Penny Dreadful: Fresh Hell

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"What would Dr Frankenstein be without his creature?" So, at last the second season starts on Sky Atlantic. It looks as though...

Grimm: Double Date

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"Olive or Twist? I love that place. Prices will scare the Dickens out of you though." Oh, Monroe. You are awful. There's a tre...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Doctor Who Pubcast

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Nick and I have recorded another of our splendid wittering sessions... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-31T08_16_25-07_00
Saturday, 30 May 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: The Frenemy of My Enemy

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"Daisy Johnson. Huh." Oh, such a complex web of allegiances: we have two competing visions of what SHIELD should be, Skye'...
Saturday, 23 May 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Melinda

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"I moved a mountain!" At last we get the backstory to all this "Cavalry" stuff that Agent May did in Bahrain. The truth ...

Cinderella (1950)

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"Bibbidi bobbidi boo!" Hmm. This film is ok, but, well, it seems to drag out s very short fairy tale to film length with a lot...
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Friday, 22 May 2015

The Parent Trap (1998)

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"I have class and you don't!" This isn't exactly the greatest film ever made or anything. Nor is it a particular favou...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

The C Word

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"I'll tell you what, mate, right. You stand up, and I'll rummage around in your nuts." Let's get all the superlati...