TV TV Reviews

Doctor Who – Boom Review

Well, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. We got a treatise on the horrors of unchecked capitalism (timely, as always), a quick swipe toward militant religiosity (although having the military consist of various Anglican clerics of differing ranks didn’t really have enough time to gel into a statement of sorts – although, you […]

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The Big Cigar Review

About midway through the second episode of The Big Cigar, the latest AppleTV+ series, I found myself wondering just why this particular story hadn’t been made into a movie instead of an over-long and wholly unnecessary six-episode limited series. And when I dug a little bit, I discovered that in fact, it was originally optioned […]

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IF Review

IF is a family film that shows a young girl navigating the hidden world of Imaginary Friends in New York City. Bea (Cailey Fleming) is a 12-year-old girl who moves into her grandmother’s (Fiona Shaw) apartment as her father (John Krasinski) is taken into hospital. Whilst living at her grandmother’s, Bea comes across some strange creatures […]

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Tarot Review

The world of Tarot card reading and fortune telling serves as the subject matter for Tarot, an adaptation of the horror novel Horrorscope. A group of college friends spend a weekend in the mansion in the Catskill Mountains to celebrate Elise’s (Larsen Thompson) birthday. Whilst up there the group discovers a special deck of hand-drawn tarot cards […]

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The Fall Guy Review

The Fall Guy is a big-screen adaptation of the 1980s TV show of the same name. A top-tier cast and action director have been hired to make an action-comedy that celebrates stunt performers and coordinators. Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) works as the stunt double for the biggest star in Hollywood, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). After an […]

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Doctor Who Season 14 Review

If my glowing review of the Doctor Who Christmas special back in December was any indication, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the official start of the latest season of Who for a couple of months now. I’ve been a fan of Ncuti Gatwa’s for a bit  now, and his take on the Fifteenth Doctor has, so […]

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Dark Matter Review

Dark Matter, the new AppleTV+ series adapted from Blake Crouch’s novel of the same name (largely by the author, who holds writing or joint writing credits on most of the season’s episodes), is a story about the multiverse – something I wanted to get out there at the top of this review, because I know […]