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Before I get to the film in question specifically, The X-Files: Fight The Future (or simply The X-Files, as I remember it being called in cinemas in the UK back in 1998) it’s probably worth giving a quick overview of the TV series it stemmed from up to this point, which I’ve rewatched leading up... Continue Reading →
Ever since The Three Doctors back in 1973 marking the significant anniversaries of the BBC TV stalwart series Doctor Who has been a key part of the show's identity having included such stand out moments as The Five Doctors, Remembrance Of The Daleks and The Day Of The Doctor over the years. These usually feature... Continue Reading →
Back in May 2018 I wrote a piece to mark my 1000th post here and wondered if I would make it to 2000 - well, if you hadn’t guessed, that has now happened so I thought I’d do something similar to what I did back then and look at some of the most viewed posts... Continue Reading →
Every generation British TV seems to conjure up a comedy series that captures the mood of the younger end of the viewing public in a way that turns what came before on its head and makes little sense to the previous generation. From Monty Python to The Inbetweeners via The Fast Show, Father Ted, and... Continue Reading →
When Game Of Thrones ended back in 2019 it’s fair to say that the response to its denouement was less than enthusiastic and, while I wasn’t as negative about it as some, it still felt like it didn’t live up to the show’s earlier heights, so, when prequel series House Of The Dragon launched in... Continue Reading →
The concert film come documentary of the original Woodstock in 1969 has become, almost as much as the festival itself, the stuff of legend so, when I saw Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 pop up on Netflix, I was eager to have a look, with both the title and my general knowledge of the event I was... Continue Reading →
Twenty something years ago, when I first discovered Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic series, it seemed widely believed that, despite the success of the early Batman films along with the likes of Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man, this was one ‘graphic novel’ that was unlikely to ever make it to the screen. While this wasn’t because... Continue Reading →
45 years on from the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth The Second and the release of The Sex Pistols landmark single God Save The Queen, England was again rapt by the celebration for the same monarch’s Platinum Jubilee and so, Disney and Fox decided this would be a good time to release Pistol, a dramatised... Continue Reading →
Over on the film ranking app Letterboxd it’s par for the course to give movies a star rating out of five (something you’ll notice I don’t do here), but when it came to giving a rating for Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back I was left somewhat stumped as it is such a unique viewing... Continue Reading →
Following the seeming glut of ‘true crime’ and serial killer documentaries landing on Netflix over the last couple of years ITV’s drama department looked to get in on the act in 2020 with a dramatised version of the arrest and trial of one of the UK’s most infamous murderers, Dennis Nillsen aka Des. Despite the... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 