Reviews

30 Days of Fright: May 2012 horror DVD roundup

Surely it’s now time to call an end to the seemingly interminable onslaught that is the horror genre’s fascination with the ‘found-footage’ style of camcorder film-making.

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Andrew Lane: 'Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm' book review

If you're one of the many languishing in limbo waiting for Series 3 of Sherlock then Andrew Lane's fourth Young Sherlock Holmes novel, Fire Storm, may help make that wait a little less interminable.

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'Being Human': Series 4 DVD review

Series 4 was always going to be tricky, with the loss of three principal cast members, but surprisingly it’s not the replacement characters that are the problem.

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'Doctor Who': 'Shada' book review

Shada is unique among Doctor Who stories in existing in its own time-space bubble.

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'Doctor Who': 'The Happiness Patrol' DVD review

One Doctor Who story that has deserved rather more acclaim than it has been accustomed to getting is 1988’s The Happiness Patrol.

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'Sherlock': Series 2 soundtrack album review

As Sherlock became more ambitious and complex in its second series, so David Arnold and Michael Price's score rose to the challenge of matching the drama of the Great Detective.

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'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' review

Director Adrian Grunberg’s darkly comic How I Spent My Summer Vacation sees troubled star Mel Gibson outshone in a claustrophobic action flick about a man lost in translation.

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'Suits': Season 1 DVD review

Set in the world of corporate law, Suits is a smart and stylish American import that has been doing the numbers for Dave.

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'Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography' book review

For the Doctor Who fan, no events were more saddening last year than the twin losses of Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen - the latter’s passing made all the more incomprehensible by those eternally youthful looks.

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'The Apprentice': Series 8 Week 9 review

Week 9 and The Apprentice slugs on...blimey, we could all do with a pick-me-up, couldn't we? How about a refreshing glass of English fizz?

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