Into the library…
Fictionside
FICTIONSIDE 101: Five types of Hollywood Reboot
FICTIONSIDE 102: Jokerside’s 10 Rules of Engagement
FICTIONSIDE 103: Who needs a shared cinematic universe?
FICTIONSIDE 104: Heroes & Villains
FICTIONSIDE 105: When Franchises Head to Space!
Film
Back to the Future – When the Future Zoomed Past
Batman Beyond: The Devil and Ben Affleck
Batman at 75: The Ultimate Festive Favourite – Batman Returns
The Dark Knight at 10: 10 ways it Introduced a Little Anarchy
“Words that stay” – Celebrating The Dark Crystal
“Closer than you think” – Celebrating Labyrinth
1966: Invasion Earth 2150 – Movie Daleks at 50
(I) Die Hard: The 12 Rules of Dying Hard and the Mantle of the Hat
(II) Die Hard: Essential Die Hard Moments and a Mission to Moscow
Hammer: Dracula Prince of Darkness at 50 – Dead and just not putting up with it
Highlander at 30: Part 1 – The Threat of the Future
(I) Escape back to the Planet of the Apes: Page to Screen
(II) Escape Back to the Planet of the Apes: Tim Burton’s Missing Link
(III) Escape Back to the Planet of the Apes: Enter Paradox
(IV) Reboot to the future: The Rise and Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(V) Reboot to the future: Losing the Battle but Winning the War of the Planet of the Apes
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 50
Horror Films: Which Horror Icon Are You?
Horror Films: ‘What’s your pleasure, sir?’ Archive Hellraiser Review
Horror Films: Pleasure and Pain Indivisible – The Hellraiser Saga
Hellraiser: Scarlet Endgames – The recent deaths of Pinhead reviewed
(I) Halloween Horror: A Nightmare on Elm Street – “The Undiscovered Country…”
(II) Halloween Horror: Nightmare on Elm Street – “In that Sleep of Death…”
(III) Nightmare before Christmas: A Nightmare on Elm Street: “The rest is silence…”
(I) Halloween I: Michael Myers’ First Blood
(II) Halloween II: New Masks Please
(III) Halloween III: Difficult Middle Children
(IV) Halloween IV: Watering Down the Franchise (H20 and Resurrection under the knife)
(V) Halloween V: Re-carving the Pumpkin – Michael Myers Zombie-style
James Bond: “Choose your next witticism carefully…” Goldfinger turns 50
(I) James Bond: Man Talk – Connery #Bondathon
(II) James Bond: The Other Fella – Lazenby #Bondathon
(III) James Bond: The Tedious Inevitability of an Unloved Season: Moore #Bondathon
(IV) James Bond: You Should Have Brought Lilies: Dalton #Bondathon
(V) James Bond: Just a Professional doing a Job – Brosnan #Bondathon
(VI) James Bond: Everyone Needs a Hobby – Craig #Bondathon
(VII) James Bond: Microfilm A – Bonding Time
James Bond: All The Time in the World – Bond reviews from the archive
James Bond: ‘Moneypennny, let me tell you the secret of the world…’ – Ultimate Bond Guides
(I) Mad Max: “That other George Franchise” and its Essential Max Factors
(II) Mad Max: “The Long Road to Hollywood”
(I) Marvel: That Extra Limb… Where did it all go wrong for the Amazing Spider-Man?
(II) Marvel: Are Franchises Electric… Where did it all go Wrong for the Amazing Spider-Man?
(III) Marvel: Back in the Fold… Where can it all go right for the new Spider-Man?
Marvel: Minimising Daredevil and Maximising Ant-Man
Marvel: “Go to Hell Castle” – The Punisher on Film
The Mummy Unwrapped: Original Shifting Sand from Universal to Hammer
Star Trek: The Number 2 and Just Who the Hell is John Harrison?
Star Trek: “It is a reminder to me that all things end” RIP Spock
Star Trek: The Needs of the Two
Star Trek: Which Crew member of the Enterprise are You?
Star Trek: What’s your Inner Star Trek Alien?
Star Wars: From the Empire to an Ankle Far, Far Away
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – A Canon Divided
Desert Clothing: A Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Snow Boots: Star Wars Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Jungle Garb: Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Terminator: Twisted Timelines and the Horror Within! 1964 – 2004
Terminator: Twisted Timelines and the Horror Within! 2007 – 2032 (and beyond…)
The Hobbit: The Phantom Menace – The Desolation of Prequels
The Hobbit: Which Hobbit Character Are You
(I) Lord of the Rings: “A Wizard is Never Late” – The Fellowship of the Ring
(II) Lord of the Rings: “Let’s Hunt Some Orc” – The Two Towers
(III) Lord of the Rings: “The Taste of Strawberries” – The Return of The King
Waterworld at 20: We need to Parley about Mariner
Radio
The History Years: Simon Mayo’s 2001 departure from Radio 1
Chris Moyles Exits Stage Left in 2012: ‘Some weird victory’
Art & Comics
#Batman: Which Villain Are You?
Batman at 75: The Joker – Anonymous Clown
(I) Batman at 75: Gotham City on Film – Ill Met By Moonlight in the 20th Century
(II) Batman at 75: Gotham City on Film – Cracked Actor in the 21st Century
Batman: Hot off the Press – The Freshly Minted Batman#1 (1940) Reviewed
Batman at 75: Ra’s al Ghul…The Dark Knight Villain to Beat
Batman: Rebooting Batmen – The Brave and the Bold
Batman: The Lite Knight (The Dark Knight Rises part one)
Batman at 75: Dark Knights, Lite Knights & the Time of the Bat
Constantine: The Endless War of the Roses
HR Giger: Airbrushing the Horror of Hollywood
Man of Steel: Which Superman Character Are You?
(I) Man of Steel: “Some time ago a friend asked me a question…”
(II) Man of Steel II: “Dark and Heavy Skies Hung over the City…”
(II) Man of Steel III: “The Rising Price of Kryptonite”
Marvel: Phase 2 – One of our Tanks is Missing
Marvel: Phase 2 – Look to the Stars
Marvel: Disney and the Age of Marvel
The Wolverine: What’s your X-Man power?
Music
Personas: Letting the Evening Go with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles Other Egos
Chopping Down A Dolls House: What if The White Album was a single album?
(I) Britpop: 20 Years since Parklife Escaped the Traps (With Lyrics!)
(II) Britpop: Blur’s Great Britpop Escape
Blur: 12 of the best post-Britpop
Britpop: Supergrass and I Should Coco at 20
David Bowie: The Forgotten Trilogy
David Bowie: Can’t Get Enough of that Doomsday Song: Bowie & The Next Day
David Bowie: Persona and Personae – Which Bowie are you?
David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth – Station to Station at 40
David Bowie: Enter the Duke – Station to Station at 40
Personas: Chasing Major Tom – David Bowie’s Other Egos
Personas: Running from Valentine – David Bowie’s Other Egos
“Oh no, don’t say it’s true” David Bowie 1947 – 2016
Doctor Who: When the Radiophonic Workshop went to Shoreditch (#Whovember)
Glastonbury: Memory of a Wet Festival
Rock ‘n’ Roll: 60 years of Rocking Around the Clock
Television
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay I: Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Skaro and the End of the Acid Reign
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 2: A Change of Bootstraps
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 3: Are Historical Adventures Important again?
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 4: The Knightmare of Immortality
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 5: Have companions become more important than the Doctor?
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 6: Too Soon for a Siege?
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 7: Companion Closure – What’s in a Series?
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 8: Influences leave a Score to Settle
Doctor Who Series 9 Essay 9: The Return to Gallifrey and Chekov’s Hybrid
Doctor Who: Ranking the Hiatuses!
Doctor Who: Which Doctor Are You?
Doctor Who at 10 year’s old: Classic versus New
Doctor Who: Moff v RTD – When Steven Moffat made History (New Who special)
Doctor Who: Change for a Time – ‘Deep Breath’ Reviewed #DoctorWho
Doctor Who and the Halfway Point of Series 8
(I) Doctor Who: The Early 1970s, The Third Doctor and Velvet Aspirations
(II) Doctor Who: The Late 1970s, The Fourth Doctor and Stitches in Time
(III) Doctor Who: Five ways that Steven Moffat has remade the Fifth Doctor
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors and the End of an Ice Age
Doctor Who: In the Thrilling Adventure of the Twilight of the Ponds
(I) Doctor Who: Dawn of the Impossible Girl
(II) Doctor Who: Dawn of the Impossible Girl
Doctor Who: 999 “You need a Doctor…” – Nine of the Ninth
Doctor Who: Legacy – “We’re trying to defeat the Daleks, not start a jumble sale” (Whovember #1)
Doctor Who: Multiplicity – “He can wear whatever face he likes!” (Whovember #2)
Doctor Who: End of the Daleks – “Ghosts from the future” (Whovember #3)
Doctor Who: A Fresh Scarf – “Harry Sullivan is an imbecile” (Whovember #4)
Doctor Who: Companions’ Snakes on a Brain – “…Dreams are important” (Whovember #5)
Doctor Who: Reputation – “He’s dangling on the edge of oblivion!” (Whovember #6)
Doctor Who: Ace – “…I always leave these things to the last moment” (Whovember #7)
Doctor Who: The 17 Year Itch – “In the fight for survival, there are no rules” (Whovember #8)
(IX) Doctor Who: Slitheen – The Green, the Good and the Ugly (Whovember #9)
(X.i) Doctor Who: Celebrity Histories – “Stepped through in either direction” (Whovember #10 Alpha)
(X.ii) Doctor Who: Celebrity Histories – “I’m Going to be King. Run!” (Whovember #10 Omega)
(XI.i) Doctor Who: Silence – “Fooling you twice the same way” (Whovember #11 Alpha)
(XI.ii) Doctor Who: Silents – “You should kill us all on sight” (Whovember #11 Sigma)
(XI.iii) Doctor Who: Silents – “Back to back on the fields” (Whovember #11 Omega)
Doctor Who: The New Series Whovember Recap!
Doctor Who: Countdown to New-Whovember – The Classic Who Recap!
(I) Doctor Who: Arrival of the “Unimaginative Plodder” – The 1970s (Marchster #1)
(II) Doctor Who: “Somewhat Reduced Circumstances” – The 1980s (Marchster #2)
Doctor Who: “Dear me, how tiresome” – A Tale of Two Jacobis (Marchster #3)
Doctor Who: “No beard this time… Well, a Wife” – The 2000s (Marchster #4)
Doctor Who: “I need my friend back” – The 2010s (Marchster #5)
Doctor Who: “I’m glad one of us is amused” – The 1990s (MaRCHster #6)
Doctor Who: The Master through the Decades – The Classic Series Compression Eliminated
Doctor Who: The Master through the decades – The New Series Compression Eliminated
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the BBC and the Unstoppable Leaks
Doctor Who The Trial of Morbius!
The Golden Age of Cybermen Part 1: From The Tenth Planet to The Moonbase
The Golden Age of Cybermen Part 2: From The Tombs to The Invasion
Constantine: The Original Sins of Adaptation
(I) Dracula: “Vlad About Town” – AD 2015
(II) Dracula: “Learning from Mis-Stakes” – AD 2015
The Flash: The Fastest Show on TV Returns
(I) Frankenstein: “We Will Need New Material” – AD 2014
(II) Frankenstein: “We Will Need New Material” – AD 2014
(III) “The Frankenstein Murders” – Frankenstein on TV and Film AD 2016
Game of Thrones: The Dog and the Wolf – A Clash of Comfort
“You fool Hyde, you can never defeat us” – Jekyll and Hyde AD 2016
The Leftovers: the First Season Left Behind
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Surprise Return of the Spaceship Show
Marvel’s Inhumans: Partial Eclipse of the Big Screen?
Merlin: Swords and Sorcery Part I – For the Love of Camelot!
(II) Merlin: Swords and Sorcery – For the Hate of Camlann!
Penny Dreadful and Hannibal: Fall of the Witches, Rise of the Dragon
Penny Dreadful: The Last Rites.
Space: A lap of loneliness – Voyager I goes interstellar
(I) Star Trek: The Next Generation – Replicated Comfort Food
Year of Hell? Star Trek: Voyager – The First Year under the Microscope
Star Trek: Phasers set to Nobody Won. What Star Trek Voyager taught us about coalition
Star Trek Discovery Series 1: Our review of Trek’s new Wagon Train to the Stars
Thunderbirds: Are… Really… Early… Go!
Gaming
Nintendo and Satoru Iwata: Dream Brothers
Super Mario Bros. the Movie! Dystopia hits the Mushroom Kingdom
