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BRITISH CULT CLASSICS: The Servant - StudioCanal Collection / Blu-Ray Review
'I'd like you to know how moved and impressed I was by your play, A Night Out, this past Sunday. It has an intensity and inner truth both horrifying and purgative. There are few things, if any, I have...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - Cold War / Review
Cold WarBBC One HD13 April 2013, 6.00pmThe review contains spoilers.'Ultravox! I bloody love 'em!' exclaims David Warner's bobble-hatted Professor Grisenko as he bursts in on an extremely tense...
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BRITISH CULT CLASSICS: Accident - Fully Restored Edition / Blu-Ray Review
'You call this a screenplay? I don't know who these people are, I don't know what their background is, I don't know what they're doing, I don't know who's doing what and why, I don't know what they...
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NEW BOOK AVAILABLE TO ORDER / Doctor Who - The Eleventh Hour: A Critical...
Not final artworkComing from publisher I.B. Tauris in September is another publication in the 'Who Watching' project, Doctor Who - The Eleventh Hour: A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - Hide / Review (Spoilers)
HideBBC One HD20 April 2013, 6.45pmThe review contains spoilers.The first of Neil Cross's two scripts for the series, but the second to be transmitted, Hide finds the writer in several familiar...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS / Review (Spoilers)
Journey to the Centre of the TARDISBBC One HD27 April 2013, 6.30pmThe review contains spoilers. The Red Queen of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass probably best sums up the flavour of Steven...
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COMPETITION: Doctor Who books up for grabs! Win BBC Books' latest novels!
Cathode Ray Tube has one set of three Doctor Who books looking for a Time Lord-loving owner. Our latest competition will give away to one lucky winner a copy each of the latest novels from BBC Books...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - The Crimson Horror / Review (Spoilers)
The Crimson HorrorBBC One HD4 May 2013, 6.30pmThis review contains spoilers As Mark Gatiss acutely acknowledges in this month's Doctor Who Magazine, the Paternoster Gang of Silurian detective Madame...
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CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO: The Visitation / Special Edition DVD Review
‘You’re being a very stupid woman’‘That isn’t a very original observation’Enter Eric Saward, if you'll pardon the expression.Christopher Bidmead, the then current script editor of Doctor Who, was on...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - Nightmare in Silver / Review (Spoilers)
Nightmare in SilverBBC One HD11 May 2013, 7.00pmThe review contains spoilers.It has to be said, the expectations for another Neil Gaiman-penned episode of Doctor Who have been exceptionally high. I...
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THE PETER CUSHING SCRAPBOOK / Book Review
Joining the re-publication of Peter Cushing - The Complete Memoirs on book shelves to celebrate the centenary of the much-loved actor's birth this month is the extraordinary collection The Peter...
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WORLD CINEMA CLASSICS: Baron Blood - Mario Bava Deluxe Blu-Ray Edition / Review
Baron Blood (1972) marked the true beginning of Mario Bava's fruitful partnership with producer Alfred Leone. Leone, who was a successful self-made business man through his real estate deals and...
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DOCTOR WHO: Series 7 - The Name of the Doctor / Review (Spoilers)
The Name of the DoctorBBC One HD18 May 2013, 7.00pmThe review contains spoilersThe problem with The Name of the Doctor is that, nostalgia and fan service aside, it feels familiar and comes across as an...
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WORLD CINEMA CLASSICS: Black Sabbath - Mario Bava Deluxe Blu-Ray Edition /...
Mario Bava's first horror film in colour, I tre volti della paura (The Three Faces of Fear aka Black Sabbath, 1963), followed the making of La ragazza che sappeva troppo (aka The Girl Who Knew Too...
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BRITISH CULT CLASSICS: Dr. Who and the Daleks / Blu-Ray Review
To celebrate two anniversaries this year StudioCanal are this month releasing the two 1960s Dalek films - Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. in honour of the centenary of their...
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BRITISH CULT CLASSICS: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. / Blu-Ray Review
Following the review of Dr. Who and the Daleksour celebration of the centenary of Peter Cushing's birth and the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who continues with the second of the 1960s Dalek films being...
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CELEBRATE REGENERATE - A fan-created book celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who
Due for release on 13 July is Celebrate Regenerate, a new book packed with pieces from over 250 fan writers (including my good self) from all over the world that have been brought together by editor...
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TIME & SPACE VISUALISER - The Story and History of Doctor Who as Data...
Time & Space Visualiser, by artist and writer Paul Smith of Wonderful Books, is the first exploration of both the factual and fictional history of Doctor Who through a range of eye-catching...
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BRITISH CULT CLASSICS: Horrors of the Black Museum / DVD Review
By 1959 the British horror boom had started in earnest. The spectacular success of Hammer's colour Gothic cinema, epitomised in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958), confirmed there was...
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER - Digitally Restored Blu-Ray Edition / Review
Roger Corman is quite rightly regarded as something of a legend in independent cinema. He is often attributed with creating the horror-comedy genre with A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of...
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