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DOCTOR WHO – DOOMSDAY
This second season of DOCTOR WHO has been a bold, wild ride. It s been exhilarating, exciting, experimental and once or twice a little bit underwhelming. At its best it s been absolutely astonishing with at least three episodes Girl in the Fireplace, The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters taking their place in the pantheon…
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DOCTOR WHO ?THE SATAN PIT
I?l get this off my chest from the start; ?he Satan Pit?may be the best single episode of DOCTOR WHO ever made. That doesn? necessarily mean it? the best story in the show? long and tangled history; it just means that, visually and technically, for me at least, this was something very very special indeed.…
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DOCTOR WHO ?THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET
Reviewed by Paul Mount The TARDIS materialises aboard a Sanctuary Base, an exploration encampment on a planet far out in space. The Doctor and Rose are immediately baffled by a series of incomprehensible hieroglyphs and, no sooner have they encountered the bizarre alien Ood and their masters, the humans working on the base, than the…
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DOCTOR WHO ?THE BEGINNING
Best DOCTOR WHO DVD release ever? Undoubtedly. Best archive TV DVD release ever? Very probably. If the worlds of ?lassic?DOCTOR WHO and modern DOCTOR WHO are ever going to collide, this is where the collision is likely to occur. New converts to the adventures of the apparently-indestructible Time Lord may well have been entranced by…
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Joss Whedon Talks Serenity and more
. Serenity Trailer: click here Q: How did you know that Firefly was something that needed to be translated into the big screen, that it had that pedigree? A: Pedigree is a good word just because of the body of the people who make it up. I felt like, yeah, there are lot of perfectly…
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SIN CITY
“Hell of a way to end a partnership” If SIN CITY is anything to go by, then black and white is the new colour. Robert Rodriguez, alongside comic book master Frank Miller has crafted an extraordinary piece of modern cinema that really does have to be seen to be believed. Based on three of the…
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON SIX BOXSET
Review By Paul Mount, 4.5 out of 5 (Released in the UK on 12th May 2003) Season Six was a difficult, turbulent time for Buffy the TV character and for BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, the iconoclastic American fantasy TV series. For many hardcore fans it was the best of times, it was the worst of…
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PREDATOR
Review By Liam O Brien, 4 out of 5 ?f it bleeds, we can kill it? Great news! The Aliens Vs Predator picture is not far off now! Finally, the Predator can return (we hope) and spawn some more violent but damn cool movies. Predator III anyone? A vs P will have to be damn…
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DOCTOR WHO: THE THREE DOCTORS
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 As this remarkable 40th Anniversary year of DOCTOR WHO draws to a close, what better way to round off the celebrations than with a trip back in time thirty years, to a more innocent era when DOCTOR WHO rarely acknowledged its own history and when the idea…