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Terry Warner
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English, History and Politics teacher. Husband, father and dog owner. Blogs about TV, films and the like. Has never really grown up.
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This range could have legs.
Review: Doctor Who - Halloween
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Doctor Who - Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories
Now here's a good idea. Big Finish have released two boxsets themed around holidays, Halloween followed up by Christmas. With stories involv...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Clooney, Sandler and Dern shine
Review: Jay Kelly (2025)
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Jay Kelly (2025)
Your enjoyment of Noah Baumbach's latest will depend on whether you find filmmakers making movies about filmmaking charming and insightful o...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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AKA Jess Franco's Dracula
Review: Count Dracula (1970)
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Count Dracula (1970)
For someone supposedly sick of playing the famous bloodsucker, Christopher Lee appeared as Dracula four times in 1970, including this Europe...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Great cast, dull movie
Review: Black Bag (2025)
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Review: Black Bag (2025)
Director Steven Soderbergh bemoaned the state of cinema that his mid-budget, starry spy thriller didn't find an audience. With a cast that i...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The beginnings of a legendary double act...
Review: Doctor Who - Wicked!
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Doctor Who - Wicked!
On TV, Sophie Aldred's Ace joined the Doctor in the last story of Season 24 in 1987 and when the show returned for its 25th run in 1988, Ace...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The Age of Revelation continues...
Review: The Last Wolverine #2, Expatriate X-Men #2
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The Last Wolverine #2 / Expatriate X-Men #2
"X years ago, the X-Virus swept the US after the detonation of a gene bomb. Millions died; those who survived became mutants. The afflicted ...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Still great TV but we have seen this tooo many times before
Review: Stranger Things Season 5, Part 1
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Stranger Things - Season 5, Volume 1
With three years passing since Season 4 and 10since the show started, the kids of Hawkins looking very, very adult - Millie Bobby Brown is n...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The weakest run so far.
Review: Shetland Series 9
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Shetland - Series 9
Ashley Jensen and Alison O'Donnell return to investigate a typically baffling crime on Shetland. Now both officially DIs at the station, Rut...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Beautiful melancholy.
Review: Train Dream (2025)
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Train Dreams (2025)
I didn't want to write a review of Train Dreams. Usually this feeling occurs when what I've watched has been so ploddingly average that I do...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Age of Revelation continues...
Review: Unbreakable X-Men #2, X-Men: Book of Revelation #2
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Unbreakable X-Men #2 / X-Men: Book of Revelation #2
"X years ago, the X-Virus swept the US after the detonation of a gene bomb. Millions died; those who survived became mutants. The afflicted ...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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An attempt at a reboot that doesn't stick
Review: The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
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The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Jimmy Sangster comes back from sub-giallo exile to the character he helped launch for Hammer, this time directing as well as rewriting the s...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Stepford Wives for Gen Z
Review: Companion (2025)
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Companion (2025)
I loved this. Drew Hancock's film is a witty update of The Stepford Wives for the iPhone generation that features the ultimate in male gasli...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A Spanish Western suits Daryl to a tee
Review: TWD Daryl Dixon - s2, e2&3
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 3, Episodes 2 & 3
After the opener spent most of the time on the high seas with Stephen Merchant, this is where the season's plot started properly, the newly ...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A show slowly finding its rhythm
Review: Star Trek DS9 - Season 2, Part 2
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 2, Part 2
Season 2's middle batch of episodes are pretty variable in quality. This is still a show that is settling into itself, trying on a number of...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Count vs Minder
Review: Scars of Dracula (1970)
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Count Dracula has faced many adversaries, notably Dr. Van Helsing, but nothing could have prepared the formidable vampire for... Terry McCan...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Good fun, but Arnie will always be my Running Man
Review: The Running Man (2025)
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The Running Man (2025)
A dumb, fun actioner for Arnie in the 1980s, Edgar Wright's version cleaves closer to the source novel Stephen King wrote back in the 1970s....
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November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Happy Doctor Who Day!
Review: Doctor Who - Lionesses in Winter
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Doctor Who - Lionesses in Winter
Lisa McMullin writes this enjoyable if disappointingly lightweight pseudo-historical for Big Finish's new Thirteenth Doctor Adventures. The ...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Three big horror names, one very odd horror movie
Review: Scream and Scream Again (1970)
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Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Up there with the likes of Drink the Blood of Dracula and Die, Die, My Darling! for most hyperbolic horror title of this era, Scream and Scr...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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The first meeting, again
Review: Batman the Brave and the Bold - The Winning Card
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Batman The Brave and the Bold - The Winning Card
Having had various incarnations over the decades, the latest iteration of The Brave and the Bold is an anthology series, with a focus on Bat...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Solid and well made, but also underwhelming
Review: Nuremberg (2025)
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Nuremberg (2025)
You know it's Oscar season when the musician biopics start dropping, Timmy C is in something or we get a weighty wartime historical story. N...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The end of an audio era
Review: Blake's 7 - Restoration 2
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Blake's 7 - Restoration 3
With Paul Darrow having died after recording the second part of this trilogy of boxsets, Trevor Baxendale and his writers have had to do som...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Messy, but done with great love
Review: Doctor Who - Operation Vengeance
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Doctor Who - Operation: Vengeance
Tim Treloar has been playing the Third Doctor on audio for Big Finish for over a decade now, the actor having done a fine job of capturing J...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Flawed but many of the predictions came true
Review: Looker (1981)
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Looker (1981)
Michael Crichton was always decades ahead in his view of where technology was headed, this 1980s sci-fi a lot less sci-fi now. Looker is a f...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A brilliant police procedural!
Review: Dept. Q - Season 1
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Dept. Q - Season 1
This Matthew Goode led police procedural boasts an impressive cast, excellent production values, smart scripts and a healthy dose of mordant...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Exciting, clever, fresh.
Review: Predator Badlands (2025)
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Predator: Badlands (2025)
Seems there is life in old monster properties after all. With Alien having a creative renaissance on TV under Noah Hawley, the Predator is a...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM