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12 for Twelve: The Best of the Twelfth Doctor
Series 10 may well be the best DOCTOR WHO series finale of the revived series. It’s certainly one of the darkest stories in the show’s history and a high point for writer Steven Moffat. Now Peter Capaldi’s time as the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature, Television
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Alex Kingston, BBC, Ben Miller, David Suchet, David Tennant, Deep Breath, Doctor Who, Empress of Mars, Errol Flynn, Frank Skinner, Groundhog Day, Heaven Sent, Jenna Coleman, John Simm, Julian Bleach, Knock Knock, Mark Gatiss, Matt Lucas, Michael Gambon, Michelle Gomez, Mummy on the Orient Express, Pearl Mackie, Peter Capaldi, Robot of Sherwood, Robots of Death, Sci-fi, Scooby Doo, Steven Moffat, The Day of the Doctor, The Doctor Falls, The Husbands of River Song, The Magician's Apprentice, The Pilot, The Thick of It, The Waters of Mars, The Zygon Invasion, Tom Baker, Tom Riley, TV, World Enough and TIme, Zulu
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Review: Dad’s Army (2016)
Just in case you’re reading this in a country the BBC doesn’t directly beam its content to, DAD’S ARMY was a British sitcom that broadcast from the late 1960s to the late 1970s that followed an incompetent platoon of WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Alison Steadman, Arthur Lowe, BBC, Bill Nighy, Comedy, Dad's Army, Felicity Montagu, John Le Mesurier, Sarah Lancashire, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay, TV
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Review: High-Rise (2015/16)
Like all of Brit Wunderkind Ben Wheatley’s films, HIGH RISE is a fascinating concoction. Bold in tone and extremely stylish, it also ends up being his most inconsistent work to date. In a dystopian 1975, Dr Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Jump, BBC, Ben Wheatley, Clint Mansell, David Cameron, Film, High-Rise, Jeremy Irons, JG Ballard, Louis Suc, Luke Evans, Margaret Thatcher, Movies, Reece Shearsmith, Sci-fi, Space Station 76, The Frost Report, The Raid, Tom Hiddleston
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Review: An Inspector Calls (2015)
This review contains spoilers for JB Priestley’s 1945 play, as well as subsequent film and TV adaptations. For the most part, the BBC’s TV adaptation of JB Priestley’s classic AN INSPECTOR CALLS, broadcast last weekend, is polished, if conventional. The … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Television, Theatre
Tagged Aisling Walsh, Alistair Sim, An Inspector Calls, BBC, David Thewlis, Film, Guy Hamilton, Helen Edmundson, JB Priestley, Ken Stott, Miranda Richardson, Movies, Sophie Rundall, Stephen Daldry, Theatre, TV
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Radio 1 Rescores Drive: Spoiling Through Experimentation
DRIVE is, at this moment in time, my favourite film of the last ten years. Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir completely and utterly blew me away, and its superlative, moody electro soundtrack was a big part of why it worked so … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature, Film Review, Music
Tagged Bastille, BBC, Carey Mulligan, Chvrches, Cliff Martinez, College, Desire, Drive, Electric Youth, Eric Prydz, Film, Kavinsky, Laura Mvula, Lovefoxx, Movies, Music, Neo-noir, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar Isaac, Radio 1 Rescores Drive, Radio1, Ryan Gosling, The 1975, TV, Zane Lowe
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SSP Thinks Film 
HBO Max, Scuttling Content and the Waste of the Streaming War
This week the completely dumbfounding news emerged that HBO Max has cancelled two upcoming films that had already been completed; Adil and Bilall’s BATGIRL and animated sequel SCOOB: HOLIDAY HAUNT. It’s not unheard of for studios to pull the plug … Continue reading →