We finally reach the end of the Roger Moore era of Bond with A View to a Kill. Many people cite it as a bad Bond movie, but beyond Roger looking like he’s… well, his age, it’s actually a fun film. Close your eyes any time Bond is in bed and you’ve got a fun (and zany) plot with a great villain and so many set pieces that the film never feels like slows down. Let’s take a closer look and wave goodbye to the longest serving Bond while we’re at it…
Thomas Brewster is an odd companion, in that his two stints in the TARDIS are less Doctor-Companion and more “person forcing himself on The Doctor for a while”. It’s an interesting concept, but Brewster can be on the obnoxious side… As for his debut story? It’s good, full of atmosphere and some fun characters, though the music lets in down, especially when it’s played by itself for 20 seconds… Anyway, let’s take a look!
My latest review in the … endless reviews of Naruto Shippuden is now up on Anime UK News and can be read HERE. So much filler… with so much more to come…
The Audio/Comic companion debut marathon arrives at the only new companion for the Fourth Doctor (currently, a new one is set to debut for Big Finish next year!) in the form of Sharon, who also has the distinction of being the first black companion full stop. Plus as a bonus, we have Timeslip, which… well, is a short story that doesn’t do much, but I try to double up the comic strips to avoid over-cluttering the Doctor pages! Let’s have a look at these slices of 70s comic Who!
I loved the Tick cartoon back in the day, so I wasn’t convinced a live-action version would particularly work, so I put off watching it for a while. Well, I finally put episode 1 on a week or so ago and enjoyed it, and the show kept getting better as it went along! The humour was pitched perfectly, lampooning the superhero genre during a time where it’s all over the place. Let’s take a closer look!
Kicking off the “Audio and comic companion debut marathon” is the only black and white era new companion to be introduced (unless you include the very old comics from TV Action, but I don’t have access to that stuff, so… sorry!), that being Oliver Harper. Creating a new companion for the First Doctor was met with wide raising of eyebrows, but it’s pulled off well in this trilogy (the other two parts of which I’ll get to down the line…) So let’s have a look at The Perpetual Bond, not only the first in this marathon, but the first Companion Chronicle I’ve reviewed!
Ready Player One has the personal distinction of being the first film I’ve ever watched where I had read the book first (well, listened to the unabridged audiobook…) Due to this I did find myself thinking back to the original and how so much was cut and rearranged, something I’m sure many more people have done to many more films in the past, but overall I really enjoyed myself. It may not be as detailed (obviously) or as… 80s as the book, but it was certainly a fun celebration of the crazy amount of pop culture we’ve amassed over the past 50 years, and in general a fun story to follow. Let’s take a closer look then!
Hi all, just thought I’d post about two new marathons that will be starting on my blog soon. Both will be like the Bond marathon, where they’re not daily and may have long gaps in between, but will be finished in the end!
We now reach “uncharted territory” for me as I never played past Mega Man 2 back in the day, and while it’s weird not to have a “Thoughts Then” section on a NES game, that’s just how it is! MM3 introduces both Mega Man’s dog Rush and the ground slide, which comes in handy all the damn time… Let’s have a look!
Cloak & Dagger feels much more in line with the Netflix side of the MCU than any other, and I don’t just mean the few name drops in the show itself! It’s down to Earth and on street level, not afraid to show violence but also very much a super hero show. Let’s take a closer look at what was a pleasant surprise to watch…
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