Review: The Time of the Doctor
We bade Matt Smith a maudlin and schmaltzy goodbye on Christmas day with ‘The Time of the Doctor,’ the long-awaited Christmas special where we finally got to meet the Doctor’s next incarnation,...
Category: Fantasy
Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Towards the end of their arduous journey to the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo and the Dwarves happen across the burnt out husk of Dale a prosperous town once inhabited by men. Smaug the Magnificent, the...
The Two Worst Shows of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close and the media are filled with retrospectives on the best of, the worst of, and those between, I find myself reflecting on the television I gave up on in 2013 due to complete...
Hard Science Fiction Makes a Comeback in Fox’s Almost Human
Irritatingly, I find myself deeply enjoying yet another police drama. This whole thing is starting to make me highly suspicious about my supposedly anti-establishment leanings—perhaps pop culture...
‘The Day of the Doctor,’ or ‘The Day That Changed Everything’?
For the first time in Steven Moffat’s run on Doctor Who, I found myself actually enjoying one of his episodes, even if it was marked by his usual tendency to radically rewrite history, canon, and...
Review: NBC’s Dracula
Last week brought us the premiere of NBC’s Dracula, in which the title character arrives in 19th century London under the guise of an American industrialist, but if you’re expecting a...
The mesmerising existential crisis of “Suzanne”
Have you ever imagined just how powerful your name is? Both with and without it you are everything and nothing. It can mask and reveal as much about your parents as it can about your own soul....
Review: Sleepy Hollow pilot
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...
Review: Pain & Gain
Daniel Lugo deserves better. He wants a big fat slice of the American Dream yesterday. Daniel’s ripped and pumped, a personal trainer to the body beautiful and the ugly rich of Miami. He may look...
Fall TV Preview
Autumn is rapidly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means my favourite season is almost upon me. It's not just the relief from the relentless heat and humidity that I'm looking...