Rewind: ‘The Prisoner’ revisited
50% spy show. 50% social satire. 100% great telly. Exactly fifty years since the series began filming, we take a look back at the bonkers masterpiece that was The Prisoner. No. 1: What is it about? A...
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James Bond retrospective 008: ‘Live and Let Die’ (1973)
We bid farewell to Sean Connery and welcome Roger Moore to the fold in 1973’s Live and Let Die. Moore had been on the Broccoli’s radar for years but his commitments to The Saint and the availability of...
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Rewind: ‘The Green Hornet’ (1966-1967) revisited
While the 1960s Batman TV series has gone down as an icon of pop culture, its spin-off show has been lost in time. Fifty years to the month since the show first aired, we take a look back at The Green...
View ArticleJames Bond retrospective 009: ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974)
Barely had Live and Let Die been allowed to breathe and The Man with the Golden Gun was already in production; released, for the first time since the early Sean Connery years, only one year after its...
View ArticleHarry Potter Year 5 revisited: ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’
2007 brought with it Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in movie form. Harry’s fifth year marks something of a change in the franchise; a turn for the darker, in terms of both plot and style....
View ArticleJames Bond retrospective 010: ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (1977)
The rushed Man with the Golden Gun was a financial and critical disappointment upon its release in 1974, so much so that production on the next adventure was delayed to ensure the team got the next one...
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Rewind: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s ‘Psychoville’ revisited
A third season of Inside No. 9 arrives on our TV screens this month, so let’s take a look back at its creators’ previous comedy venture, Psychoville. Psychoville was broadcast on BBC Two from 2009 to...
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James Bond retrospective 011: ‘Moonraker’ (1979)
There’s no way to hide from the fact that Moonraker is properly bonkers. From concept to execution, the decisions that must have been made are largely inexplicable, and yet, somehow, it all just about...
View ArticleHarry Potter Year 6 revisited: ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’
The film adaptation of Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts arrived on cinema screens in 2009. Things are changing at Hogwarts. Voldemort’s power is rising beyond the school walls, and nobody is truly...
View ArticleHarry Potter Year 7 revisited: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part One’
When it was announced that the final book in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series was to be split into two films, it was met with a mixed reaction. Some were sceptical as to the necessity of it, some were...
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James Bond retrospective 012: ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981)
After the sheer bonkers excess of Moonraker there really was only one thing for Bond to do – go back to Earth. So we have a Moore-era Bond that could just about have starred Connery in the ’60s, and...
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‘Being Human’ (2009-2013): A retrospective
One of the British sci-fi/fantasy success stories of the 2010s, Being Human ran on BBC Three for five seasons between 2009 and 2013, gaining a large and devoted fanbase in the process. Its cast ranged...
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James Bond retrospective 013: ‘Octopussy’ (1983)
There’s a tradition of James Bond films switching styles and generally trying to horn in on the zeitgeist, as seen in Live and Let Die’s ‘Blaxploitation’ and Moonraker’s ‘Space Opera’. There’s also a...
View ArticleDoctor Who Alternate History: Born in the Who-S-A!
Doctor Who is a show that has always traded on parallel worlds and alternate timelines. Here, we imagine how different things could have been, had the series begun in America. Doctor Who is a British...
View ArticleHow 70s Japanese Spider-Man helped create the Power Rangers
A 70s collaboration between Marvel and Japanese studio Toei was central to creating the Power Rangers concept. Here’s how… It may be a great time to be a Spider-Man fan right now, but the budgets...
View ArticleThe Day Today: standout moments from a classic TV comedy show
Arguably the high watermark of spoof/satire television in the UK, The Day Today is unquestionably an important slice of British comedy history. Spawning from the similarly genius radio show On The...
View ArticleRed Dwarf: revisiting the first series
My love of Red Dwarf was at its peak around ten years ago. I bought each series on DVD and watched them over and over again, before eventually getting a bit fatigued and moving on to something else....
View ArticleRed Dwarf: revisiting the second series
Before its twelfth series lands on Dave in October, I’m rewatching all of Red Dwarf from the beginning. This week it’s time to tackle rebellious androids, virtual reality and false memories in Red...
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James Bond retrospective 012: ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981)
After the sheer bonkers excess of Moonraker there really was only one thing for Bond to do – go back to Earth. So we have a Moore-era Bond that could just about have starred Connery in the ’60s, and...
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James Bond retrospective 013: ‘Octopussy’ (1983)
There’s a tradition of James Bond films switching styles and generally trying to horn in on the zeitgeist, as seen in Live and Let Die’s ‘Blaxploitation’ and Moonraker’s ‘Space Opera’. There’s also a...
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