Wizards Vs Aliens 1.03-4 “Grazlax Attacks Parts 1 and 2” TV REVIEW Episodes 1.03-4 Writer: Phil Ford Director: Daniel O’Hara THE ONE WHERE The Nekross send an alien monster called a Grazlax to kill Tom, who then finds himself trapped in Benny’s house with the creature as it starts to …
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Haven 3.06 “Real Estate” TV REVIEW Episode 3.06 Writer: Brian Millikin Director: Jason Priestley THE ONE WHERE A haunted house decides to wreak revenge on Audrey, believing her to be Lucy (who had pretty much condemned the house previously). VERDICT Well… er… um… Not really got much to say about …
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Misfits 4.02 TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Misfits 4.02 Writer: Howard Overman Director: Nirpal Bhogal THE ONE WHERE We discover why Finn has a girl tied up in his bedroom, Rudy teaches a blind, racist sculptor a lesson (sort of) and Jess has boy trouble. VERDICT So Finn isn’t …
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The Walking Dead: The Road To Woodbury review: The growth of Lilly. Surprising your readers when most of them know in advance who will live and who will die is a tricky business. The first prequel to the comics, Rise Of The Governor , managed it by pulling off a …
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Misfits book review : More fun than a triple The highest complement you can pay to this hardback Misfits annual-in-all-but-name is that it feels like a book the gang might have created. Not in the way it captures their voices (it doesn’t), but in the bafflingly random nature of the …
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666 Park Avenue 1.02 “Murmurations” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 1.02 Writer: David Wilcox Director: Robert Duncan McNeill THE ONE WHERE wW find that the Drake has thousands of starlings living in its walls, and that history has a way of repeating itself. VERDICT Another decent – if …
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Mary Gentle isn’t one of the genre’s most prolific authors – Black Opera is her first novel in six years – but a book with her name on the cover is an event worth looking forward to. She always goes the extra mile to create rich, unusual alternative-history worlds for …
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Arrow 1.02 “Honor Thy Father” TV REVIEW Episode 1.02 Writers: Marc Guggenheim, Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg Director: David Barrett THE ONE WHERE: Oliver targets tycoon Martin Somers, whose role in a drug deal with the Chinese Triads leads to the murder of a dockside worker. There’s increased pressure on …
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Fringe 5.01 “Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 5.01 Writer: JH Wyman Directors: Jeannot Szwarc, Miguel Sapochnik THE ONE WHERE We return to the Observer-run 2036 established in season four episode “ Letters Of Transit ”. With Peter, Walter and Astrid rescued from the amber …
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Continuum 1.01 “A Stitch In Time” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 1.01 Writer: Simon Barry Director: Jon Cassar THE ONE WHERE A cop from 2077 is thrown back in time to 2012 with a bunch of terrorists. She teams up with a modern-day Vancouver detective to hunt them …
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