The fan-produced ‘Star Trek’ webisode ‘World Enough and Time’ far exceeds any expectations that could reasonably be placed upon it.

The BBC’s new adaptation of ‘Oliver Twist’ offers high production values and a cast stuffed with ‘names’.

‘The Mighty Boosh’ has shifted location, from Vince and Howard’s flat to Naboo’s shop, the wonderfully monikered Nabootique, this season. Of more consequence is a shift in tone.

Can you see the Northern Lights still?

‘Blade Runner’ is easy. It’s faux complex. It’s a film which wears its supposed seriousness on its sleeve, a pouting, grunting adolescent of a motion picture, a movie for people who think that things are inherently more serious when it rains in the dark.

It’s hard to avoid Kenneth Clark’s 1969 landmark ‘Civilisation’ documentary series if you are doing a series on the history of civilisation…

‘Doctor Who’ has a long history with the BBC’s ‘Children in Need’ charity telethon…

Dark Horse has collected Nicholas Gurewitch’s ‘Perry Bible Fellowship’ strips into this gorgeous hardcover…

Frequently studios will let films die for want of promotion…

In the US the fourth installment in this bombs and bullets franchise is known as ‘Live Free or Die Hard’, a title which much more aptly sums up its gung-ho bombast and over-the-top exuberance…

That don’t impress me, Much.

This is the show that deserves to make Peter Serafinowicz into a household name. And rather helpfully for those households, there’s finally a definitive pronunciation of ‘Serafinowicz’.

In the first three episodes of this teatime ‘Who’ spin-off the Slitheen return, the Gorgon rises, and the Sontarans get a namecheck…

Ignore the ‘C’ word, this is actually good…

I was recently moved to get down on my knees and thank a God I don’t believe in (doesn’t matter which one it was, I disbelieve in them all equally) at the announcement that the two features of ‘Grindhouse’ would be released separately in the UK.

Check it out dude, it’s the Mighty Thor.

All the news that counts.

There used to be a television clip series called ‘Best of British’. ‘British Film Forever’ is a modern, arch version of my old wet bank holiday friend. And that just makes it worse.

After the narrow cult appeal of ‘Battlestar Galactica’, have Sci-Fi got themselves a mainstream hit with ‘Flash Gordon’?

Proper boring.

Concorde was the great Anglo-French aviation project. It promised, nay delivered, supersonic travel for civilians and took its name from a word meaning ‘agreement’ (albeit with an unnecessary vowel appended to it to make it sound more French).

The Monty Python and South Park movies demonstrated that a cult television comedy could not only distill and enhance what made the series so great, but go on to transcend that.

A new ‘Transformers’ comic is available from British newsstands, with a lead strip written by Simon Furman and drawn by Geoff Senior. All is right with the world…

Oddly – and, in fact, much to my delight – I found very little to get nostalgic about in this film, but thought it was terrific anyway…

‘Timelash’ is bad. In fact, it’s quite difficult to appreciate just how jaw-droppingly bad it is unless one is in the process of actually watching the thing.

Over the last few years Doctor Who has built a tradition of ending each season with a multi-part epic where the Doctor confronts a major enemy from his past. For the conclusion of the current season it was the turn of the Doctor’s old nemesis the Master.

Prepared to accept that not one but both the machines used to dig the Channel Tunnel could be purchased, exported and set up underneath Las Vegas in the course of a few weeks? This may be the film for you.

‘Utopia’ is low on plot, but high on major developments…

I have to admit that I didn’t see the first ‘Fantastic Four’ movie, mainly because when I saw the trailer it looked like the most generic superhero film ever…

Following ‘The Empty Child’, ‘The Doctor Dances’ and ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’, writer Steven Moffat continues his faultless run of ‘Doctor Who’ stories with ‘Blink’…

Rated Arrrr.

All credit to Karen Taylor for spotting an opportunity and trying to grab it…

‘Human Nature’ is one of the best bits of television ever broadcast under the label ‘Doctor Who’.

The history of modern Britain is a tale we think we already know…

We don’t often review comics we’ve covered in single issues again when they come out in collections, but then neither do I normally buy a hardcover edition of something I’ve already bought…

Fun in the sun…

It’s clear from the opening of ‘The Toybox’, in which bits of East Anglian folklore are re-enacted in Flash animation, that this is a film which is willingly to be defiantly regional…

‘Spider-Man 3’ does not reach the giddying heights achieved by it immediate predecessor, but nor does it crash and burn it any appreciable sense.

‘Doctor Who’ newcomer Stephen Greenhorn peppers his first script for the show with allusions;

The release of ‘Spider-Man 3’ a film described by one of Shiny’s writers as ‘an argument against unlimited free speech as compelling as ‘shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre’, has provoked a lot of silly comments about second sequels.

Take your seats for the greatest show in comics…

The 1930s are inescapably associated with a certain kind of straightforward adventure story…

If you’ve spent any time in the last two years in the festering cesspool that is ‘Doctor Who’ fandom, then you’ll know there have been two distinct reactions to Russell T Davies’ reinvention…

The second episode of the new series of ‘Doctor Who’ takes the Doctor and Martha Jones into an immaculately staged 1590s London and a meeting with the man the Doctor describes as both ‘the genius’ and ‘the most human human’ of all; William Shakespeare.

It’s odd that new films directed by Danny Boyle aren’t bigger events in Britain…

To have lost both of your original leads by the third season of a series may be considered careless, but on balance it doesn’t seem to have done ‘Doctor Who’ any real harm…

As macho as drop kicking a tank to the moon, and about as believable, ‘300′ is a beautifully stupid live-action cartoon for adults…

As ‘Primeval’ demonstrates, ITV can copy the format of successful shows and this is clearly their intention here.

When a supposedly mainstream channel like ITV1 has been getting viewing figures so low a digital channel would be proud of them, they have had no option but to use the ultimate weapon: Jane Austen…

As long time readers of this site will no doubt remember, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ was one of Shiny Shelf’s favourite TV shows. Now it’s back – albeit as a comic rather than a TV show…