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Archive for 2007

By Jim Smith on 23 December 2007 Comments Off

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

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By Jim Smith on 19 December 2007 Comments Off

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

By Jim Smith on 14 December 2007 Comments Off

‘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.

By Lance Parkin on 07 December 2007 Comments Off

Can you see the Northern Lights still?

By Jim Smith on 07 December 2007 Comments Off

‘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.

By Mags L Halliday on 26 November 2007 Comments Off

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

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By Mark Clapham on 22 November 2007 Comments Off

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

By Mark Clapham on 10 November 2007 Comments Off

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

By Stephen Lavington on 31 October 2007 Comments Off

Frequently studios will let films die for want of promotion…

By Stephen Lavington on 28 October 2007 Comments Off

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…