Collected JokerSeries

Joining the Dots…

Draw the connections with these collected Jokerside serials, marking landmark anniversaries or unavoidable parallels across music, film and television. From Time Lords to super spies to Dark Knights to dystopia – long reads for long topics.

1966

50 year’s on, essays picking out diverse cultural landmarks in film, music and television on their golden anniversary.

1966 The Beatles' Revolver at 50 — Revolver at 50

1966 Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 at 50 — Movie Daleks at 50

1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly turns 50 — 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 50

Jokerside’s Year of Dystopia! (2015 – 2016)

As Dystopia roars back to American cinema, Jokerside delves into four major Hollywood blockbusters built from a bleak future. From Mad Max‘s long road to Tinsel Town to rocket powered escape back to the Planet of the Apes. Before a trip to the damp, short-lived future of Waterworld and a glimpse at the horror behind The Terminator.

Mad Max - The Essential Max Factor — Mad Max

Mad Max Even further beyond the Thunderdome — Mad Max

The Terminator Timelines — Terminator Horror I

Terminator twisting time lines — Terminator Horror II

The Mariner sinks - Waterworld at 20 — Waterworld at 20

Planet of the Apes Part One — Planet of the Apes I

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes 2001 — Planet of the Apes II

Escape back to the Planet of the Apes — Planet of the Apes III

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Planet of the Apes IV

Battle, Dawn and War of the Apes — Planet of the Apes V

David Bowie (Posts from 2013 – )

Time obsessed: From forgotten trilogies, 1970s classics and The Next Day.

David Bowie Station to Station at 40 — The Man who Fell to Earth

David Bowie and the Lost Trilogy — Bowie’s Forgotten Trilogy

Marvel: The Cinematic Universe and beyond (ongoing)

The new behemouth of Hollywood marches on at Disney Marvel, Fox and Sony…

Laughing Wolverine Cavalier — X-Men on screen – 1970s

X-Man Wolverine Monalisa — X-Men on screen – 1960s

Oron Man The Winter Soldier — Marvel Phase II

Disney Age of Marvel — Disney’s Age of Marvel

Avengers Age of Ultron and the end of Marvel Phase 2 — Marvel Phase II

Whatever happened to the Amazing Spiderman? — Amazing Spider-Man I

What went wrong with the Amazing Spiderman? — Amazing Spider-Man II

Spider-Man and Marvel's New York — Spider-Man Homecoming

Daredevil and Ant-Man — Daredevil & Ant-Man

Ant-Man - ants and helmet — Ant-Man & Daredevil

Icons of Cinematic Horror (every Halloween..)

An occasional series looking at the greatest franchises of horror cinema…

Hellraiser Pinhead and the Lament Configuration — The Hellraiser Saga

The Scarlet Gospels Hellraiser Revelations — Pinhead’s Scarlet endgames

Freddy Krueger and A Nightmare on Elm Street — Krueger origins

Freddy Kreuger Nightmare on Elm Street — Krueger endgame

Freddy Krueger Pied Piper — Post-modern Krueger

John Carpenter Halloween — Halloween origins

Halloween Season of the Witch and the Return of Michael Myers — Halloween’s middle years

Halloween III Season of the Witch - the Difficult Middle Child — Closing Halloween

Halloween H2O Michael Myers — Rebooting Halloween

Halloween V: Re-carving the Pumpkin - Michael Myer Zombie-style — Rebooting the Reboot

Icons of Modern Gothic Horror (2014 – 2016)

The great icons of Gothic literature lasting well into the 21st century…

Penny Dreadful Frankenstein Puppet — Frankenstein AD 2014 Film

Frankenstein AD 2014 Fresh Material — Frankenstein AD 2014 TV

Victor Frankenstein 2016 AD — Frankenstein AD 2016

Dracula AD2014 on television and film — Dracula AD 2014 TV

Dracula Untold - The Puppet Master Vampire — Dracula AD 2014 Film

Jekyll and Hyde 2015 2016 — Jekyll and Hyde AD 2016

Star Wars (2016)

Yes, THAT space opera… Let the retrospective begin…

Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope — A New Hope

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back — The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars VI - Return of the Jedi — Return of the Jedi

Doctor Who Series 9 – The Essays (2015)

An essay for every story, from Skaro to beyond…

Doctor Who Series 9 The Magician's Apprentice — Series 9: I

Doctor Who Series 9 Under the Lake and Before the Flood — Series 9: II

Doctor Who Season Nine The Girl Who Died — Series 9: III

The Woman who lived Series Nine Doctor Who — Series 9: IV

Invasion of the Zygons Doctor Who — Series 9: V

Doctor Who Face the Raven — Series 9: VII

Heaven Sent Doctor Who Series 9 — Series 9: VIII

Doctor Who Hell Bent Rassilon — Series 9: IX

Doctor Who: The Classic Whovember Retrospective (2013)

A Doctor by Doctor retrospective of the show’s Classic Series for 2013’s 50th anniversary…

First Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The First

Second Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Second

Third Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Third

Fourth Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Fourth

Fifth Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Fifth

Sixth Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Sixth

Seventh Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Seventh

Eighth Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Eighth

Radiophonic Workshop Whovember — Radiophonic Workshop

Whovember - classic Doctor Who retrospective — The Collected Classics

Doctor Who: The New Whovember Retrospective (2014 – 2015)

Crashing like a TARDIS into the 21st Century… A Doctor by Doctor retrospective of the New Series…

Ninth Doctor Whovember Jokertoon — The Ninth

Tenth Doctor and his Zygon — The Tenth I

Tenth Doctor and his future — The Tenth II

The Eleventh Doctor and the Silence that must fall — The Eleventh I

Doctor Who and the Silence — The Eleventh II

Eleventh Doctor and Handles #Whovember — The Eleventh III

Doctor Who and his Fiendish Enemies! (2015 – 16)

Salute the golden age of the Cybermen in the 1960s, the lament the ruination of the Ice Warriors and the revenge of the Angels!

Golden age of Cybermen The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase — Cybermen’s Golden Age I

Golden age of Cybermen 2 - Tomb of the Cybermen — Cybermen’s Golden Age II

Doctor Who and the Twilight of the Ponds — Twilight of the Ponds

Return of the Ice Warriors and end of an era — Defrosting Ice Warriors

Keeping an Eye on the Master (2015 – 16)

If there was one nemesis who couldn’t let the Doctor get away with his Whovember… it was the Master. Find him, and her, here with a glimpse at their insidious sartorial elegance to gender-reversed homicidal mania across four decades of Doctor Who…