The Man with the Golden Gun is… a hard one to like. It annoyingly has a great lead villain in Christopher Lee’s Scaramanga, but it’s lost in a sea of poorly written and timed gags and martial arts scenes… Welcome to the Roger Moore era proper! Let’s take a closer look, then… because we must.
After what I felt was the first weak story in the Fifth Doctor / Adric / Nyssa / Tegan audios with Ghost Walk, I’m happy to report that Serpent in the Silver Mask is back to being great fun, with plenty of humour and a really fun murder mystery plot. Let’s take a look at this… Doctor Whodunnit! … Sorry (also goes without saying, as I always put a spoiler warning, but as this is a murder mystery it’s best to skip to the “overall thoughts” and see if it sounds good if you haven’t listened to it yourself yet…)
Star Wars Rebels comes to a close in the best way possible: with a cracking set of episodes full of loss, action, interesting new spins on Star Wars themes, and a big, exciting finale that ends with a “what they did afterwards” montage. Honestly couldn’t ask for a better send off… Let’s take a deeper look!
Back when I launched this blog I went back and forth whether to do a “Wrestling Game Rundown” or one based on Dragon Ball games, with the latter appealing due to have comparatively few there are, but in the end I went with the childhood favourite. So here we are in 2018 and my first review of the year is also, at last, the first Dragon Ball game reviewed on the site! A dream team of Dragon Ball and Arc System Works, Dragon Ball FighterZ is eye-wateringly beautiful, but maybe not as perfect as we’d all hoped. Let’s take a deeper look!
My review of My Hero Academia: Season 2 – Part 1 is now up on Anime UK News, and can be found HERE. Goes without saying given the hype surrounding it, but this really is a great show!
I’m guessing the first thing that came into most people’s heads when they saw that the Third Doctor was getting full cast audios was “maybe now we can get a Third Doctor – Cybermen story!”, and it took a couple of boxsets, but here we are! Written by Marc “Spare Parts” Platt, Tyrants of Logic is a good story that while doesn’t touch his enduring classic, still provides us with a good full cast Third Doctor confrontation with the Cybermen, at last. So let’s take a bit more of a detailed look…
Time for my review of the final chunk of Dragon Ball Super episodes over on Anime UK News. It can be found HERE. It was weird and crazy roller coaster ride, but one I definitely enjoyed, and will miss on a Sunday afternoon…
It’s time for another set of two four-part Third Doctor stories from Big Finish! Once again Tim Treloar does an excellent job filling on for the sadly departed Mr. Pertwee and in this first story we have Rufus Hound returning as his incarnation of the meddling Monk. What could go wrong? Not much, thankfully! Let’s take a look…
So another 13-episode chapter in the Netflix “street level” side of the MCU comes to a close, and sadly it’s on the lower end of the quality scale. It had a monster of a task following up on Jessica Jones Season 1 and its lead villain Killgrave, a task it couldn’t beat, though to be fair it goes in a completely different direction with its lead antagonist rather than inevitably fail to try and copy the already successful formula. So let’s have an overall look at Jessica Jones Season 2, because there is plenty to like still… It’s thankfully no Iron Fist!
The next volume of Titan Comics’ 12th Doctor run once again contains two stories (this time a three-part story and a two-part one) but is now set in between Series 9 and 10, meaning The Doctor is companionless. Much like the show itself, being Clara-less helps wonders here, as the titular story is actually really great, and the second story (“Playing House”) isn’t too bad either. So let’s take a look!
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