I didn’t see this or the previous two episodes on broadcast, and in fact didn’t watch them until about two years ago. I knew who River was since I’d already seen her later episodes, but I knew absolutely nothing about Midnight other than it was supposed to be really good. Well it is really good, in fact I would say it’s probably RTD2’s best. As…[Read more]

Sorry it’s taken so long for me to comment, I’ve only just got around to watching it. It wasn’t as enjoyable or well paced as the first episode, but it was far from bad. Love the bit where he shows them the TARDIS to prove he’s a time lord.
Realistically this is how the conversation should have gone:

The Doctor: This proves that I am who I say I…[Read more]

I’ve just found out legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter has passed away. Here’s him performing a cover of Jumping Jack Flash on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

This was banned by the BBC for including the lyrics “authentic queers and phony virgins”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBkK3RhN73g

Also here’s the original French version

Here’s the song Rio by ex-Monkee Mike Nesmith, which was accompanied by one of the first ever music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tpkxKZS4fc

@purofilion We’ve only got a couple here in Newcastle as well. The one I went to was The Tyneside Cinema. I’ve seen several other classic films there like Jaws, Alien, Hitchcock’s The Lodger, Nosferatu, Psycho and even Dalek Invasion Earth 2150ad.

I hope they show Help! for it’s 50th anniversary next year as…[Read more]

I saw A Hard Day’s Night on the big screen last night, so I was inspired to post this.

Here’s WatchMojo’s top 10 Doctors list.
It’s pretty bad, so I thought I would post it so we could all give it a good kicking.

I’ve never seen this one before and I actually really enjoyed it. I really wasn’t expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised. So far, even though it’s about the same length as a Nu-Who episode, it seems to be better paced. Nyssa seems to be an important part of the story, what with her double and that and Tegan isn’t irritating, in fact I don’t…[Read more]

@Craig I agree that the bits with The Doctor and Donna are funny and very Girl Friday-ish. I also agree that the Adipose story is naff, weren’t they the aliens that RTD2 said would be bigger than the Daleks?

@purofilion I agree about film scores being crap nowadays. Aside from a couple, they are so unmemorable. I think that the problem is that pretty much all the great film composers are no longer with us, except for John Williams and Ennio Morricone. But Williams has just been repeating himself for the past few years, and neither of them is going to…[Read more]

Here’s Neil from the Young Ones performing Hole in my Shoe on TOTP. Heavy.

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

Speaking of Morricone, here’s the theme from The Mission. I didn’t think much of the film but it’s probably his best score. How he didn’t the Oscar for this I’ll never know.

@fosterferris I completely agree, well except for the bit about preferring the new series. Not that there’s anything wrong with that mind you, at least you’ve bothered to give the older stuff a watch which is more than I can say for some so-called fans.
Tennant can be a bit of an overactor some times, but most of the time he’s really good, like in…[Read more]

@Whisht Love Edge of Darkness, although I do think that some of the environmental themes are a bit dated. I’ve not seen the remake either but I am glad it exists otherwise I might not have heard of the original. I saw the DVD in ASDA around the same time as the remake came out (I remember because it had a sticker on it that said “now a major…[Read more]

As I’ve said before I don’t really like the Christmas specials, and this one is probably the worst.

This is probably the only time in the shows history where the day is saved by a punch to the face.