@TheKrynoidMan     If you’d played me that Drake Bell song without the video and told me it was recorded in around 1979, I would have believed you. A very classic pop sound.

Here’s my favourite song tod…[Read more]

Great track. Bowie produced some incredible material in the 70s and early 80s. I’m one of those people who thought he became a little less interesting as he retreated from characters in music and took up acting (which appeared to fill that need thereafter).

I don’t think we heard back from you on the showing of Tommy you were…[Read more]

Thanks also to @TheKrynoidMan – loving your Beach Boys posts. Great band

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I thought the scene where he rides in on a tank with an electric Guitar was too silly and a bit cringe worthy to be honest.

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I now can’t see past the fact t…

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Also interesting that the Doctor seems content to leave Clara in Missy’s hands – as if he knows she won’t hurt her… hmmn…

Agreeing with @blenkinsopthebrave I get the feeling that more than one person is being referenced. The old friend who is the enemy, and the old enemy who could be a friend.

Nice to see Karn again. Claire Higgins reprising her role from Night of the Doctor…[Read more]

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@JimTheFish    Yes, I had posted something similar before the massacre. Davison really shone in this. I liked him best when he was quietly intense, taking verbal shots at hi…[Read more]

This is probably one of the single best episodes of the BG show in my opinion. Doesn’t put a foot wrong at all and I think it’s Davison’s finest hour. From his ‘small beautiful moments’ speech to the race against time in the TARDIS, to the look on his face as…[Read more]

I watched this in the run up to Christmas for the first time in a Marathon of Chrimble episodes. For the first time I counted this one in the Christmas specials. It isn’t one, but it is. Watching it, I couldn’t help thinking that the early rushes of this may have…[Read more]

I actually resisted seeing the first Burton Batman film for quite a while. It was possibly the most aggressive advertising campaign that Warner ever launched and it just put me off.

I generally like Burtons work (the Dark Goth Fairytale stuff works for me) but I can’t help thinking the first film showed signs of “engineering for suc…[Read more]

Ledger’s Joker is probably overrated these days but I’d still prefer it to the rather baroque but ultimately style over substance performance that Nicholson gave. I also quite like the first Burton too but the extended bit of nonsense with the carnival floats in the middle just seemed to kill the film’s momentum stone…[Read more]

Ah… Batman. One of my favourite subjects.

Me, I grew up on Batman as a really young kid. I wanted to be Batman (or Clint Eastwood). My parents’ sofa had arm covers that, when put on my head, gave me little points like Batman’s ears, and a very tiny cape. It was all my imagination needed.

But as I got a…[Read more]

@fowl   Thanks for the Rush! I hold Geddy Lee in some esteem. Here is my pong to your ping:

@TheKrynoidMan  @Whisht   I had lots of love for your tunes and comments rega…[Read more]

A good point, and I agree with your assessment of 60’s and 80’s Cybermen . In fact, it raises the question of when and why the Cybermen stopped speaking in their current incarnation. Or have I got that wrong? I can recall talking Cybermen in “The Next Doctor”, but do they talk under Moffat?

By and large, I tend to agree with @TheKrynoidMan that this story provides a welcome focus on the Doctor, as opposed to his assistants, delivers in terms of its political thriller aspects, and…[Read more]

A blog on the show’s top cliffhangers? Now that’s a capital…[Read more]

While my memory of the original screening is just a memory, at least I have that memory. I suppose that is one of the few benefits of decrepitude!

And while the…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan   Congratulations, enjoy your s…[Read more]

And as for your music listening skills.. pleasepleasepleaseplease never defer to me (or anyone)!!
I’m a…[Read more]

Also, sorry if my posts come off as “sound bite criticisms” as you call them, when it comes to writing about things I like or dislike, I can write a lot about them, but I’m always worried that I’ll ramble on incoherently and bore people so I try to limit myself.

Just to say if there’s somewhere you can ramble on, it’s here. I…[Read more]

I fully agree with others who have said that the scenes in the Matrix are the weak part of the story. I imagine that they were thrown in to placate those who might find the lack of action in the first two episodes a bit pokey. 

Yes – one of them was probably me on the first showing. To put this into context this final episode was sh…[Read more]

Iggy Pop, to his immense credit, didn’t care and admitted he basically stole it from The Supremes.

I am a massive fan of Bugsy Malone and am now seriously late for stuff after listening to other choons from it (bit naughty of you going with the finale!).

So, in keeping (a bit) with this week’s theme…

(I may not be able to put…[Read more]

And agree with the various posters that #3 is the weakest episode – the downside to multi-part stories, especially the 6-parters. Mostly this rattles along nicely. Troughton is great (and thanks @Craig for @HTPBDET‘s old avatar as the ID…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan It wasn’t budget constraints that made the Doctor v. Salamander so short; it was a technical problem with the split screen (the film jammed). I entirely agree that the only reason this story had such a bad rep was the surviving episode (until the rediscovery) was the worst one of the lot. The rest of the story…[Read more]

thanks for posting.

It is indeed sad news. I remember being resentful when Star Trek took over Dr Who’s slot in the summer break in UK (especially cos Who used to run all year round – no concept as a small viewer of what that actually meant re the production schedules!) but I grew to love it and Spock was always my fave…[Read more]

Gregory’s Girl. A brilliant, warm little film about adolescence, growing up and the essential absurdity of school. Very true and very funny.

Comfort & Joy. For me, Forsyth’s best film. Starring the mighty Bill Paterson as a radio DJ whose life and career goes on the slide at…[Read more]

Is also, for some reason, one of Metallica’s favourites. They play it as their intro at every show now.

But this is my favourite version – Ennio Morricone live (saw him a few…[Read more]

Pierce Brosnan has cheerfully admitted that he didn’t go beyond ‘it’s filming on a Greek Island and Meryl Streep’s in it’ when deciding to accept the role in Mama Mia.

Some things you just have to say ‘yes’ to, and damn the torpedoes. 😀

Damn. I must be losing my touch 😉

Keep voicing opinions – it is after all what everyone else is doing.

On a separate but related note generally, it struck me that only the trolls that come here occasionally, ever use…[Read more]

I’m just not a fan of the way Joss Whedon always has his characters have something clever or witty to say

@TheKrynoidMan — I know it can sometimes seem like that but the humour is not the point, I think. It’s about injecting character into even the innocuous line. Otherwise what you get, especially in genre shows, is just flat exposition. Old W…[Read more]

That’s OK, as noted all are entitled to their view.

This is going to sound awfully patronising but I have been around the block too many times to really give that much of a toss.

You are in that age group when you Know Everything – not in any way a barb – it is an unavoidable part of growing up that between (roughly) 18 and…[Read more]

Yeah, I’d go for that.

Although having looked an @TheKrynoidman‘s reference to Buffy, its snark does make it appear he is suffering a loss entirely of his own making (as @purofilion will attest). Youngsters, eh?

Now, let’s get back to pointing at the troll and laughing.

Or discussing Doctor Who, if you want to be blue boringer about it.

Cherish this moment, my young friend. Your casual (but honestly expressed) thoughts on this episode have enraged a passing verifiable idiot to the extent he just had to sign in to challenge you in the most inept way possible. I get three a month now, but it did take me a large amount of time to accrue the first.

Consider his…[Read more]