2021 looks set to be a good year for the music documentary, what with Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers and the Beatles documentary Get Back waiting in the wings, so it seems like as good a time as any to … Continue reading Six Favourite Music Documentaries
“I stepped from the TARDIS onto a bleak planet; all around the ground was ravaged, no vegetation, banks of chilling fog swirling through the air – why had I been brought here?” Anyone of a certain age will certainly recognise … Continue reading Genesis of the Daleks (Also Available on Cassette)
Yellow Submarine (1968), the animated feature film based around the music of the Beatles, was a fixture on British TV when I was growing up in the 70s. I must have seen it half a dozen times before I became … Continue reading Nothing is Real: One More Trip in the Yellow Submarine
The Witchfinders arrives in the latest wave of ‘Target Books’ style releases – alongside Dalek, The Crimson Horror and re-releases of The Pirate Planet, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and the TV Movie – and for some … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Witchfinders’ by Joy Wilkinson Review
I don’t often feel the need to explain my poetry, but this is an exception. This is not so much a poem about John Lennon as a poem about people’s tendency to push their own political and ethical agendas through … Continue reading Don’t Put Words in my Mouth
My home is narrow but stretches far,Beyond the reach of my black eye,Through mountain pass and clovered vale,The jewelled traveller am I. The night sky is my silvern blanket,A waterfall my cooling shower,A million steps recount my lifetime,As wooden wheels … Continue reading Gypsy
The name of Hammer Films is now inseparably attached to classic horror, but this occurred more by financial necessity than artistic choice. Throughout their 60s heyday, the studio were trying to get all manner of projects off the ground, their … Continue reading Return to the Lost Continent!
Patrick Troughton’s first year as the star of Doctor Who is a season of extremes; on the one hand you’ve solid gold classics like Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders and The Moonbase and on the other, you’ve got The … Continue reading Something Fishy This Way Comes: The Underwater Menace Revisited
An American Story is a novel that revolves around the events of 9/11, but it is explicitly not a novel about conspiracy theories. Christopher Priest goes to great lengths to have his protagonist express his disdain for conspiracy theories and … Continue reading ‘An American Story’ by Christopher Priest: Review
Warning: contains spoilers! Disney+ have followed up their successful first MCU television series with something very different. Well, it had to be, didn’t it? WandaVision was so unique that there was no way they were going to follow it up … Continue reading The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Review
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