ReviewScifi
Moonbase 3 – The Complete Series (DVD series review).
With all the talk of man going back to the Moon, I thought it would be interesting to see the 1973 TV series…
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TV
Television shows.
September 2022
ReviewFantasy
Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power, episode three, season one (review).
Each week, we analyse and discuss the latest episode of the Amazon Prime Video series The Rings of Power. There’s a lot of…
August 2022
ReviewFantasy
House of the Dragon: fantasy TV series (first review).
House of the Dragon is the Game of Thrones prequel TV series. But are the fans still interested and is it a patch…
ReviewHorror
South Of Hell: The Complete Series (TV series DVD review).
I tend to have a slightly disruptive way of buying things from time to time, mostly driven by that looks interesting and ignore…
ReviewBooks
The Making Of The Umbrella Academy (book review).
Don’t buy ‘The Making Of The Umbrella Academy’ expecting it to be like typical ‘making of’ TV or film books. This volume is…
July 2022
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #21 July 2022 (magazine review).
Scott Shaw! rolls off this issue of ‘Retro Fan’ looking at his time when he was involved in the advertising campaign for Pebbles…
ReviewScifi
The Umbrella Academy, Season Two (blu-ray series review).
To escape the nuclear holocaust, Five transports the himself and members of the Umbrella Academy back into the past. It’s not an exact…
ReviewScifi
Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV play review)
Most people’s knowledge of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece ‘Nineteen Eighty Four will be the phrase ‘Big Brother Is Watching You!’ and that’s…
June 2022
ReviewScifi
The Orville: New Horizons (TV series review).
The Orville: New Horizons has at last hit the small screen. But has this rather interesting slice of TV scifi outgrown its Star…
ReviewScifi
Cuckoo, Cuckoo: The Midwich Cuckoos, Mark Kermode’s take (TV review).
Mark Kermode reviews David Farr’s science fiction and horror television drama The Midwich Cuckoos, which is based on the novel of the same…
May 2022
ReviewBooks
American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s To The Printed Page by Peter Bosch (book review).
With a lengthy title of ‘American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s To The Printed Page’, you would think Peter Bosch’s book would be purely…
April 2022
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils by Ella Road and Chris Chibnall (TV review).
It feels like a slow countdown to the next regeneration but this story is the one from last for the Jodi Whittaker incarnation…