I’ve always had a soft spot for Secret Messages. I’m fairly sure that it was the second ELO album that I ever bought, on compact cassette because it was the late 80s and cassettes were still a thing. I have … Continue reading Hello, My Old Friend: ELO’s Secret Messages Revisited
“Star Wars – An Adaptation for Radio in 13 parts, based on characters and situations created by George Lucas.” That’s how it started. Or at least that was how it started when the BBC broadcast it in 1981. The narration … Continue reading Rogues, Rebels and Robots: The Star Wars Radio Serial Revisited
As impressive as they appear to be, I’m not a religious purchaser of the Panini collections of Doctor Who comic strips. To be brutally frank, none of them after the Seventh Doctor run has really grabbed my attention; I haven’t … Continue reading ‘The Return of the Daleks – The Complete Doctor Who Back-Up Tales Volume 1’ by Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, Steve Moore & Paul Neary: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! I’m a huge fan of Mad Max, which is odd because, on the whole, I’ve no particular interest in either cars or homoeroticism. Yet, there’s something about George Miller’s gloriously off-kilter depiction of post-apocalyptic Australia (and … Continue reading Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: Review
Since the release of their previous album Mirror in 2022, something very significant has happened to SCANDAL. The Japanese all-girl rock group consisting of Haruna Ono (vocals, guitar), Mami Sasazaki (lead guitar, vocals), Tomomi Ogawa (bass guitar, vocals) and Rina … Continue reading SCANDAL – Luminous: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! “It’s Only the End of the World Again” sung Disaster Area, the plutonium rock band in the LP version of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That could be the anthem of Doctor Who in … Continue reading Doctor Who – Empire of Death: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! So, the truncated first series of the Fifteenth Doctor Adventures reaches its conclusion all too soon with what promises to be a spectacular 2-parter. They always promise to be spectacular, these season finales; sometimes they are, sometimes … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Legend of Ruby Sunday: Review
Such a wonderful beast is the Weasel,An artist second to none,When seated alone at his easel,He can paint up a storm with aplomb. He can carve you a statue of granite,Or sculpt you a bust out of clay,And although it’s … Continue reading The Weasel
Warning: Contains Spoilers! In the Doctor Who Unleashed connected with this story, Russell T. Davies opines that Rogue is the ‘episode that everyone will be talking about’. If he means because it is riffing off Bridgerton, I think he has … Continue reading Doctor Who – Rogue: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Dot and Bubble is the second story this season in which Ncuti Gatwa’s presence was limited by his commitments to Sex Education. However, it’s not a Doctor-lite story in the way that 73 Yards was, because the … Continue reading Doctor Who – Dot and Bubble: Review
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