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We are now very nearly at the end of this season of Doctor Who; a 12-episode run that has split viewers as divisively as a politically-motivated calypso number. It feels like we have hardly gotten to know Peter Capaldi’s Doctor yet, but soon we’ll be at the two-part finale, having hardly gotten past the waspish … >
For a while now, the writing’s been on the wall for The Doctor and Clara’s relationship, and this episode draws a very clear line in that story arc. Sometimes literally. We’re back to present day Earth, but due to a mix of a malfunctioning TARDIS and plot contrivance, several miles away from Danny, still at … >
We give it four years, tops. Maybe even just two. That’s how long it’ll be before a major brace of films snap up Sheridan Smith and makes her this decade’s Kate Winslet or Helen Bonham Carter: in other words, the go-to Brit actress to give your project a bit of class. Smith is remarkable in … >
Watching a nostalgia-fest with plenty of popular tunes and cobbled streets is, frankly, about as ITV as you can get. And so it is with Cilla, a three-part biopic all about – Surprise, Surprise (come on, it’s best we get that joke out of the way sooner rather than later) – Cilla Black, starring Sheridan … >
Nothing about Fargo should work. Martin Freeman is playing a character that absolutely isn’t William H Macy (but kinda is). Allison Tolman is playing a character that is Frances McDormand (but kinda is). And Billy Bob Thornton is playing a character that isn’t Peter Stormare (you can see where we’re going with this) Despite the seeming … >
Classic episodes of Doctor Who begin airing on the Horror Channel today, launching with the very first story, ‘An Unearthly Child’, followed by one story from each of the first seven Doctors over the Easter weekend. Double-bills of classic Doctor Who will then air in daytime and evening slots each day in chronological order starting … >
Be careful what you wish for. Ever since the first episode of Inside No. 9, the latest comedy series from one half of The League Of Gentlemen, there has been an unholy chorus of voices demanding a return to the darker, more gothic tones that were scattered across Royston Vasey. You know, the early, scary … >
It can be a risky business, actors making up plays about actors. There’s every chance of so-called “civilians” being left cold by all the in-jokes and references to uniquely theatrical devices in the pursuit of a self-pleasuring gag. Thankfully, that doesn’t happen in tonight’s episode, although it could have been a very close call: this … >
Sharing something in common with the Joe Hill short story Last Breath, this is arguably the first episode of this series that can be judged on its own merits, on storytelling alone.
So this week, Ian Fleming runs around spending money that isn’t his, sleeping with women he shouldn’t, drinking too much and generally getting whatever he wants. In quieter moments, he sets up a covert ops team, writes up plans for the original CIA, and confuses the Nazi war machine by chucking corpses into the sea with fake ID papers.