*****SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** When I was a kid, there was a cool little sci-fi/horror flick I used to catch on TV all the time. The movie, known here in the States as “Five Million Years to Earth,” concerned London subway excavators who stumble upon a five million year-old Martian spaceship, unwittingly unleashing a deadly alien…
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BBC’s haunting comedy “Ghosts” successfully raised my spirits…
****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!!**** On the advice of a British expat friend of mine, I decided to take a break from heavy sci-fi offerings of late, and take a look at the 2019 BBC series, “Ghosts,” which is currently on HBOMax, and which has (of course) already spawned a US remake. At 30 minutes each, with short…
Doctor Who: “Eve of the Daleks” gets back to basics…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Doctor Who’s New Year’s Day episode, “Eve of the Daleks”, directed by Annetta Laufer and written by current producer/showrunner Chris Chibnall, has aired. While the current run of Doctor Who will be the last under Chris Chibnall before the return of Russell T. Davies in 2023, I’m pleased to write that “Eve of…
Doctor Who: “The Halloween Apocalypse” kicks off the “Flux” event…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Something Old, Someone New. Fresh off the news that former producer/writer/showrunner Russell T. Davies is returning to the “Doctor Who” franchise, current producer/writer/showrunner Chris Chibnall returns for a six-episode event called “The Flux,” which began on Halloween night with Episode 1, titled (appropriately enough) “The Halloween Apocalypse.” This was our first look at…
“Doctor Who: The TV Movie” (1996): Bridging the classic and modern eras…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Left My Hearts in San Francisco… In May of 1996, after a 7 year drought of Doctor Who (which was last broadcast in the US on PBS), I was set to enjoy an all-new Doctor Who adventure. This would be a single TV-movie, acting as a pilot episode, which would air in the…