Back in 1976 record producer Jeff Wayne (best known at the time for his work with teen idol David Essex) was given a copy of HG Wells?seminal ?ar of the Worlds?by his father Jerry with a view to reinterpreting the timeless story of alien invasion as a musical. Wayne Junior was captivated by the story …
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Review By Liam O Brien, 5 out of 5 THE OSCARS MAY HAVE BEEN AND GONE, THE BAFTAS MAY BE A DISTANT MEMORY, BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR AWARD NOT YET GIVEN OUT?T? THE FIRST ANNUAL SCIFIND AWARDS 2004! GRAB YOUR TUX, HAUL OUT THAT DRESS, AND GET READY FOR THE MOST GLAMOROUS ARTICLE OF …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 Me, contrary? I?e been grizzling for months about the BBC? peculiar choice of titles for their impressive range of DOCTOR WHO DVD releases. I mean, come on??esurrection of the Daleks? ?he Two Doctors?? ?he Curse of Fenric????Too much of this detritus from DOCTOR WHO? dying days has …
Review By Liam O Brien, 5 out of 5 With the release of KILL BILL VOL. II a few months back, opinion of this first half has changed several times over to bring into line what people thought of its second, more plot lead, half. To begin with, VOL. I was hailed as a marvellous …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 The one with the maggots. Even those with only the most cursory knowledge or memory of DOCTOR WHO in its glory days in the 1970s will feel a little thrill of recognition when they remember the maggots – in much the same way as they remember shop …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 Ok, so FUTURAMA was never going to scale the giddy height of Matt Groening’s other animated series ?a little yellow-skinned family you may have heard of known as THE SIMPSONS. But the warped and wicked adventures of the crew of the Planet Express delivery service deserved far …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 1981 saw DOCTOR WHO riding on a bit of a crest of wave. Having successfully overcome two massive traumas – the loss of longest-running Doc Tom Baker and the loss of the show’s perennial Saturday night slot – a remarkable 9 million plus viewers were regularly tuning …
Review By Paul Mount, 4.5 out of 5 > Directed by Robert Wise Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricial Neal, Sam Jaffe Reviewed by Paul Mount RATING: 4.5 out of 5 Some science-fiction films just don’t show their age. Some are dated by the time they reached home video. INDEPENDENCE DAY, for example, the huge rabble-rousing blockbuster …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 That rat. That damned, damned rat. Many fondly-remembered DOCTOR WHO yarns are defined by abiding memories ?the maggots, the spiders, the shopwindow dummiesond that rat; that damned, damned rat. There’s no doubting that ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’, hailing from DOCTOR WHO’s 1976-7 high point both in terms …
Review By Paul Mount, 4.5 out of 5 “One day I shall come backT Reviewed by Paul Mount The old doc’s fortieth anniversary is shaping up quite well so far. Whilst the Beeb smile patronisingly and mutter platitudes about how they’d really like to make a new series if only they could get those pesky …
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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Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 So here we go again. BUFFY fans have just about managed to get over the trauma of the end of this very special show and then Fox go and hit us around the head again with this latest (and last) lavish DVD boxset of the adventures of …