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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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A satisfying finale
Review: Bernice Summerfield - The Dalek Eternity 4
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Bernice Summerfield - The Dalek Eternity 4
The fourth and final release for Big Finish's first lady's latest saga opens with Professor Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) realising to...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The quieter moments stand out - the unproposal, Dustin and Steve and Will's coming out.
Review: Stranger Things Season 5, Part 2
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Stranger Things - Season 5, Part 2
The second chunk of this final run dropped on Boxing Day with three more sizable instalments to tee us up for the feature length finale on N...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Almost there...
Review: X-Men - Book of Revelation #3
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X-Men - Book of Revelation #3
"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 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Save your money
Review: Anaconda (2025)
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Anaconda (2025)
How's this for meta? In this comedy, Paul Rudd and Jack Black play fans of the fun 1997 monster flick Anaconda - most famous for the Jon Voi...
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December 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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This new Nine and Rose series is fab
Review: Doctor Who - Dare You
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Doctor Who - Dare You
The third of Big Finish's trilogy of Ninth Doctor and Rose audio dramas set on the Powell Estate is initially more playful than the others, ...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Beasts and bikinis
Review: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
By 1970, Hammer's Gothic chillers were no longer guaranteed to do the business. This led to the studio revisiting other past glories, When D...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Disappointing follow up.
Review: Wicked - For Good (2025)
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
Last Christmas's Wicked was a delight; alas, this season's sequel is not. You may wonder how the same cast and creative team could fail to r...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Undemanding Xmas tosh
Review: Tinsel Town (2025)
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Tinsel Town (2025)
At Christmas, the normal rules of film viewing go out the window, this reviewer honour bound to watch some absolute tosh that, at any other ...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Review: X-Men - The Undertow
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X-Men - The Undertow #1
Collecting together seven instalments of digital comic X-Men - From the Ashes, The Undertow tells two stories featuring some of the more obs...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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A solid return
Review: Fallout - s2, e1
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Fallout - Season 2, Episode 1
The opener of this second run is an effective return to post-Apocalyptic Earth though the tone is more serious this time around. Vault dwell...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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AKA Avatar 3 - Bladder Control
Review: Avatar - Fire and Ash (2025)
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Avatar - Fire and Ash (2025)
Off we go to Pandora again, as Jim Cameron, his motion capture crew and digital artists bring us the third chapter in the Avatar saga. You'd...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Let's be honest, that wasn't very good, was it?
Review: The Battle Between the Land and the Sea Ep 5
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The War Between the Land and the Sea - Episode 5
After a promising start, the middle section of this Doctor Who spin-off suffered rather from Russell T Davies leaving the writing to Pete Mc...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Jimmy Perez is back!
Review: The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
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The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
I love Jimmy Perez. Of all of the writer's detectives, Jimmy's mix of thoughtfulness, melancholy and compassion reminds me most of the Nordi...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A really strong run of episodes
Review: Star Trek DS9 - Season 2, Part 3
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 2, Part 3
As part of an extended franchise, Deep Space Nine had to do its bit to help launch latest show Voyager. The Next Generation teed up the disp...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Review: The Woman in the Yard (2025)
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The Woman in the Yard (2025)
Based on a much hyped script from Sam Stefanak, directed by the capable Jaume Collet-Serra and with award winning actor Danielle Deadwyler h...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This is no AoA
Review: Amazing X-Men 3, Unbreakable X-Men 3
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Amazing X-Men #3 / Unbreakable X-Men #3
"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 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Christmas time, mistletoe and Daleks
Review: Doctor Who Christmas - It's a Wonderful War and Other Stories
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Doctor Who - Christmas: It's A Wonderful War and Other Stories
The second themed boxset following Halloween a couple of months back, Christmas does what it says on the box, offering four tales from acros...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The last Queen of Hammer makes her debut
Review: The Vampire Lovers (1970)
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The Vampire Lovers (1970)
By the turn of the decade, audiences had tired of the Gothic formula, there being only so many middle-aged blokes in tweed wandering around ...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A dip in the ocean and in form
Review: The War Between the Land and the Sea - ep3&4
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The War Between the Land and the Sea - Episodes 3 & 4
To make the ridiculous work, a writer has to be able to make it somehow feel real to the viewer. Russell T Davies possesses that ability; Pe...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Swim on, swim on, with hope in your heart, and you'll never swim alone! You'll never swim alone!!"
Yes, The Battle Between the Land and the Sea was terrible this week. A shame as the opener showed real ambition.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Clever, playful, thoughtful. Brilliant.
Review: Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
The third Knives Out mystery drops on Netflix in time for Christmas (though it's set at Easter!), Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc and w...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Audacity, the Rory of Big Finish
Review: Doctor Who - Causeway
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Doctor Who - Causeway
The Doctor, Charley and Lady Audacity (Paul McGann, India Fisher and Jaye Griffiths) return for two more adventures that put this TARDIS tea...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Best Trek finale?
Review: Star Trek TNG - Season 7, Part 3
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7, Part 3
It's been a rocky last season but this final batch does tie up some loose ends and offers a sense of closure to the long running show. That ...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Tow icons, one mess
Review: The Oblong Box (1969)
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Originally intended as Michael Stevens's next film for AIP, his mental exhaustion meant a reunion with Witchfinder General lead Vincent Pric...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Boxers, models and Michael Gambon?
Review: The Search for Bond by Robert Sellers
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The Search for Bond by Robert Sellers
Subtitled 'How the 007 Role was Won and Lost', Sellers charts the many, many actors who might have ended up as James Bond but didn't. Us fan...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM