If you speak to anyone born in the early 70s, they’ll always have a soft spot for Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds. That’s because there was a copy in almost every house in Great Britain; … Continue reading Love & Terror: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds
This is not the book I intended to review. Over the Christmas holidays, I started reading The Knight, the Fool and the Dead by Steve Cole, the first book in the multi-platform, multi-Doctor Time Lord Victorious extravaganza, but the chill … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Christmas Invasion’ by Jenny T. Colgan
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers We are used to superhero movies being BIG. The action is BIG, the army of bad guys our heroes face off against is BIG and the amount of collateral damage caused in their inevitable CGI punch-up … Continue reading The New Mutants: Review
Script books are a curious beast; neither prose nor reference work, yet somehow a little bit of both. When badly written, they can come across like the transcription of a board meeting and make for very dull reading indeed. This … Continue reading ‘Inside No.9 – The Scripts Series 1-3’ by Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith: Review
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS It’s been 9 months since the last new episode of Doctor Who on BBC1. At one time that would have been considered a long wait, but it’s surprisingly swift by the standards of the post-2005 series – … Continue reading Doctor Who – Revolution of the Daleks
I never realised it at the time, but looking back, it seems to me that there was a lot in 1980s cinema that was new. From the ground-breaking motion-controlled models of Return of the Jedi to the far-ahead-of-its-time computer generated … Continue reading The Dark Crystal: Now and Ages Past
Link to spoken word version of this story at the bottom of the page. Towards the end of the day, Miss Coleridge turned from the blackboard to face the class; her lipstick was faded from two coffees and a bacon … Continue reading ‘The Costume Party’ by Paul Ferry
If you’re reading this on the day it was posted (and why should you?) it has been exactly 57 years since Doctor Who was first broadcast. 57 years! That’s two generations! So, in celebration of this milestone, I’ll be taking … Continue reading An Unearthly Child: Unaired Pilot vs. Broadcast Version
After the enormous success of Star Wars in 1977, publishers were desperate to cash-in with any kind of spin-off novel that was available and sci-fi author Brian Daley’s trilogy of novels featuring Han Solo and Chewbacca were a big hit. … Continue reading ‘Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu’ by L. Neil Smith: Review
In the mid-1970s, following the box office success of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there was a short resurgence of public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, more commonly known as UFOs. Not since their 1950s heyday had … Continue reading Pyramid Power: Marvel’s UFO Connection!
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