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DAREDEVIL

"I want a bloody costume!" The generally lacklustre early cinema schedules were given a boost this year, thanks to a film that made a quiet ...
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DAREDEVIL

I'm always wary of big-budget, high-profile Hollywood blockbusters which come out in February or March. Aren't they good enough to be trusted in t...
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DARK ANGEL – SEASON ONE BOXSET

"Sometimes it seems like it happened to someone else. Like maybe it was a story I heard… The hardest part is not knowing…if any of them made it...
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DARKNESS FALLS

"What I took before in kindness, I will take forever in revenge."Director Jonathan Liebesman's first full-length feature film won't win any awards...
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DEAD END

DEAD END appears to be just the latest in a long line of modern horror flicks about people lost in the great American outdoors being terrorised...
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DEATHWATCH

Ok so after Dog Soldiers and 28 Days Later the British horror industry is being revived. This offering sees a band of World War 1 soldier...
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DECOYS

Available to rent from the 16th August 2004 Ok - for a start - this film bills itself as SPECIES meets AMERICAN PIE not a promising start. The plo...
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DER GOLEM

"The Golem! The Golem!"Its nice to see the odd curio released on the shiny disc to add some substance to the dvd shelves at your local Virgin once i...
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DIE ANOTHER DAY

It's beginning to look as if I'm not that much of a James Bond film after all. I got bored and frustrated with Roger Moore's one-eyebrow performa...
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DOCTOR WHO AND THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG

That rat. That damned, damned rat. Many fondly-remembered DOCTOR WHO yarns are defined by abiding memories – the maggots, the spiders, the shopwindow...
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DOCTOR WHO EARTHSHOCK

1981 saw DOCTOR WHO riding on a bit of a crest of wave. Having successfully overcome two massive traumas - the loss of longest-running Doc Tom Baker...
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DOCTOR WHO LOST IN TIME

I’m not sure I really altogether approve of the idea of LOST IN TIME, a handy three-disc boxset of assorted DOCTOR WHO odds’n’sods scrubbed up an...
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DOCTOR WHO: PYRAMIDS OF MARS

Me, contrary? I’ve been grizzling for months about the BBC’s peculiar choice of titles for their impressive range of DOCTOR WHO DVD releases....
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DOCTOR WHO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS

"My men just put 3 high explosive grenades into a confined area, nothing even remotely human could survive that!" "That's the point group captai...
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DOCTOR WHO: RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS

Hottish on the heels of the recent DVD release of ‘The Aztecs’, another tale of derring-do from TV’s legendary death-defying Time Lord. ‘Resurrec...
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DOCTOR WHO: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE

"An alien who travels through time and space- in a police box?" DOCTOR WHO is all about (for most people) the abiding memories- everyone remembers...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE VISITATION

Quick rant. With nearly thirty years worth of television DOCTOR WHO adventures to chose from - classic Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker yarns especially...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE CURSE OF FENRIC

"We hoped to return to the North Way, but the dark curse follows our dragon ship... The Wolves of Fenric shall return for their treasure, and then s...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH

"One day I shall come back…"Reviewed by Paul MountThe old doc's fortieth anniversary is shaping up quite well so far. Whilst the Beeb smile patronis...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE LEISURE HIVE

The tenure of John Nathan-Turner as producer on DOCTOR WHO from 1980 to 1989 is a bone of contention here at SciFind. On one hand I love...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE SEEDS OF DEATH

He's back – and it's about thirty-four years old. There are two great tragedies in DOCTOR WHO; firstly, it's not being made any more (boo hoo) and ...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE THREE DOCTORS

As this remarkable 40th Anniversary year of DOCTOR WHO draws to a close, what better way to round off the celebrations than with a trip back in time...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE TV MOVIE

"It's not often one has a Time-Lord in one's living room Doctor!"He's back, and its about time! howled the BBC, press and any one else who cared in ...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE TWO DOCTORS

1985. DOCTOR WHO is in trouble. But this time he's not just bedevilled by Daleks and surrounded by Cybermen. No, he's up against two terrible enemie...
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DOG SOLDIERS

A group of squaddies in the Scottish Highlands trapped by a group of werewolves that had already devoured a group of Special Forces... Wow. A Br...
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DOG SOLDIERS

At last! The film which gave the moribund British film industry a much needed punt up the posterior finally arrives on R2 disc, months after it's a...
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THE DALEK TIN

THE DALEK TIN CD Set “We are your servants” Oh those poor misguided fools at the Beeb. In the early 70’s, whilst DOCTOR WHO was still J...
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

>Directed by Robert WiseStarring: Michael Rennie, Patricial Neal, Sam JaffeReviewed by Paul MountRATING: 4.5 out of 5Some science-fiction films ju...
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DARK SEASON

At last, a long-overdue DVD release for DARK SEASON, first full-length TV drama for Russell T Davies, BAFTA winning executive producer of the hugely...
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DAVROS

The body of Davros is recovered and on revival the galaxy's leading Multi-national Corporation employs the (evil) scientist as scientific advisor. ...
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DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

My favourite book of all time has hit the screen twice. The first attempt was a fumbled feature film from the early 1960s which, despite the liberti...
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DEAD SCARED

Billed as 'The Evil Dead' meets 'Scream' this is an amusing if a bit dry horror comedy. No real new ground is covered - frat initiation, American te...
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DEATH TRAP

Death Trap starts with the commemoration of the end of the NECROPOLIS. The historian Dr Nigella Gaiman is interviewed along with Jake Black as ...
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DOCTOR WHO - GRIDLOCK

Sometimes it’s the little things in DOCTOR WHO that make you realise what a gift this series is and how lucky we are to have it back on our screens, f...
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DOCTOR WHO - CHILDREN IN NEED SPECIAL SEQUENCE

DOCTOR WHO’s association with the BBC’s annual fund-raising telethon CHILDREN IN NEED goes way back, encompassing the first UK broadcast of the 1983 t...
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DOCTOR WHO - CITY OF DEATH

With a 1979 vintage - a sort of a table-wine - ‘City of Death’ is one of the few classic DOCTOR WHO stories you could show fans of the new series w...
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DOCTOR WHO - DOOMSDAY

This second season of DOCTOR WHO has been a bold, wild ride. It’s been exhilarating, exciting, experimental and once or twice a little bit underwh...
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DOCTOR WHO - SERIES ONE BOXSET

If you managed to resist the BBC’s quick-buck vanilla DVD releases of the first new season of DOCTOR WHO, here’s where you dig out your credit card an...
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DOCTOR WHO - THE EMPTY CHILD

Rating: 10 out of 5...oh, all right….5 out of 5 “Are you my Mummy?” Absolutely extraordinary. Let’s think about this series of DOCTOR WHO for a ...
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DOCTOR WHO - THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS A derelict spaceship from the 51st century drifting aimlessly through the void. The Royal Court at Versailles in 17th ce...
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DOCTOR WHO - THE MIND ROBBER

It’s a bit of a mind-bender watching cheesy old black-and-white DOCTOR WHO episodes one minute and then turning on the TV and watching the new all-sig...
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DOCTOR WHO - VOLUME ONE

To buy or not to buy, that is the question for DOCTOR WHO fans. Fork out on these extras-free three-episode compilations of the triumphant new series ...
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DOCTOR WHO EPISODE 6 DALEK

WARNING SPOILERS "You would make a good Dalek." It seems to be generally agreed that the long-awaited new series of DOCTOR WHO has been a bit of a...
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DOCTOR WHO NEW BEGINNINGS

One of the greatest disservices shiny 21st century DOCTOR WHO has done to what’s broadly known as “classic” DOCTOR WHO is to have made much of it unco...
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DOCTOR WHO SERIES 4 EPISODES 1+2

So the second episode of series 4 of Doctor Who has just finished. I missed a review of last weeks episode (slap wrist) so we can consider this a catc...
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DOCTOR WHO – ARMY OF GHOSTS

So here it is. Season’s end rushes towards us and Hell is about to descend upon the Earth. The TARDIS appears in London as the Doctor and Rose pay a l...
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DOCTOR WHO – FEAR HER

From the awesome high-concept sci-fi of ‘The Satan Pit’ and the mould-breaking experimental drama of ‘Love & Monsters’, it’s down to Earth with a b...
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DOCTOR WHO – GENESIS OF THE DALEKS

‘Genesis of the Daleks’ is the most-repeated DOCTOR WHO TV serial in terrestrial TV history – oh, look, there is it again! – and its reputation as...
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DOCTOR WHO – LOVE AND MONSTERS

There’s nothing better than a TV show which dares to think outside its box, a show which breaks all its own rules to tell a story unlike anything it...
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DOCTOR WHO – NEW EARTH

One of the few valid criticisms of last year's stunningly-successful BBC reinvention of the venerable DOCTOR WHO was that Russell T Davies's vision ...
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DOCTOR WHO – REVELATION OF THE DALEKS

One of the unfortunate side-effects of the recent glossy new DOCTOR WHO series has been that it makes watching even the very best episodes of the old ...
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DOCTOR WHO – RISE OF THE CYBERMEN

When the BBC announced, way back in September 2003, that a new series of DOCTOR WHO was on the way, I made a mental checklist of all the boxes I hoped...
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DOCTOR WHO – SMITH AND JONES

Rhinos in spacesuits. A blood-sucking alien disguised as a little old lady. Men made of leather. Rain falling upwards. A hospital transported to t...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE AGE OF STEEL

Previously on DOCTOR WHO… So here we are, the Doctor and Rose and co are trapped, surrounded by a gleaming squad of deletion-happy Cybermen. How...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE BEGINNING

Best DOCTOR WHO DVD release ever? Undoubtedly. Best archive TV DVD release ever? Very probably. If the worlds of ‘classic’ DOCTOR WHO and modern DOCT...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE HAND OF FEAR

No-one in their right mind would ever call ‘The Hand of Fear’ a DOCTOR WHO classic; it’s about as workmanlike and adequate as the series was ever ab...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE IDIOT’S LANTERN

Forever to be remembered by a nation of kiddies as ‘the one with the scary TV’, Mark Gatiss’ second script for new DOCTOR WHO, ‘The Idiot’s Lantern’, ...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET

Reviewed by Paul Mount The TARDIS materialises aboard a Sanctuary Base, an exploration encampment on a planet far out in space. The Doctor an...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE SATAN PIT

I’ll get this off my chest from the start; ‘The Satan Pit’ may be the best single episode of DOCTOR WHO ever made. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE SHAKESPEARE CODE

Three years in and the so-called ‘celebrity’ historical has become something of an annual tradition in new DOCTOR WHO. In 2005 we saw the Doctor a...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT

Hailing from early 1975, just as fourth Doctor Tom Baker begins to establish himself in the title role, ‘The Sontaran Experiment’ is a pacey, undema...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE WEB PLANET

Russell T Davies, the architect of the recent triumphant DOCTOR WHO revival, was quite adamant that his new version of the venerated show always had t...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 1 ROSE - FIRST OPINION

The first episode was a mix of an introduction to the alien and 'immortal' nature of the Doctor, an introduction to his new companion Rose and an at...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 10: THE DOCTOR DANCES

"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!" NOTE: Episode spoilers First impressions can be so important. They can also be quite, quit...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 11 - BOOM TOWN

"Two words, following us. Bad Wolf..." Given the epic pace and scale of DOCTOR WHO over the last few weeks, you would be forgiven for thinki...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 12 - BAD WOLF

WARNING SPOILERS “You Are The Weakest Link” I’ll admit it - I was a little bit worried about ‘Bad Wolf’. I was worried about the resolution of the...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 2 - THE END OF THE WORLD

After last weeks well handled introduction, THE END OF THE WORLD is where the new series really begins. Last week was great, but it had a lot it had t...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 4: ALIENS OF LONDON

“Would you mind not farting while I’m saving the world?” The prospects for this one weren’t good. Internet scuttlebutt suggesting that this first t...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 5 - WORLD WAR THREE

“Oh, bol-” ‘World War Three’, the second instalment of the first two-part DOCTOR WHO adventure of the rebooted Saturday night perennial, was exac...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 7 - THE LONG GAME

"We all know what happens to non-entities. They get promoted."The history and legend of the original BBC DOCTOR WHO series - and I really hate to brin...
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DOCTOR WHO: EPISODE 8 - FATHER’S DAY

"Don't touch the baby!" One of Russell T Davies' stated aims, in putting together the 'format' for this sparkling new series of DOCTOR WHO, was t...
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DOCTOR WHO: SCHOOL REUNION

‘School Reunion’, where the wider mythology of the old DOCTOR WHO series collides headlong with the bright, shiny world of the new, could have been a ...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE

It’s a measure of the remarkable success of the 21st century reboot of DOCTOR WHO that the show’s special 60-minute Christmas episode has, after onl...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE UNQUIET DEAD REVIEW 1

“Fantastic!” Three episodes in and twenty-first century DOCTOR WHO is starting to settle quite nicely into its new forty-five minute house-style. I...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE UNQUIET DEAD REVIEW 2

Believe it or not, a few years back I wrote an outline for my perfect DOCTOR WHO story. It was set around Christmas in the 1860’s, and involved (among...
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DOCTOR WHO: TOOTH AND CLAW

One of the great strengths of DOCTOR WHO – and one of the reasons why it’s always been the most appealing TV fantasy show ever made - is that no two e...
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DOCTOR WHO:EPISODE 13: PARTING OF THE WAYS

WARNING SPOILERS”Before I go I just want to tell you you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I!” ‘Parting of the Ways’ ...
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DOOM

Apparently based on ID software’s “genre-defining” shoot-em-up computer game, DOOM is…well, what can I say? It’s a film we’ve all seen far too many ti...
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DOWN TO EARTH

Bounty Hunters are a popular affair, probably spawned by the Fetts of Star Wars, but it is good to see the transfer of 2000ADs Strontium Dog to Au...
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DR WHO SERIES 4 - THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM / THE POISON SKY

The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky Series Four of Doctor Who continues to conjure memories of the Classic Series as this thrilling first doubl...
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DREDDLINE

"No, see Dredd I'm supposed to be in there, with the hostages, not out here with you and the armed terrorists." The idea is one that, in my th...
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DROID LIFE

Droid Life is a light little paperback and is a compilation of the Droid Life cartoon strips from the master of all comic books 2000AD. P14 is a dr...
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DVD REVIEW CHILDREN OF MEN

Who’d have thought that a rather turgid dystopian science-fiction novel by PD James would turn out to be not only the best film of 2006 but also ver...
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THE DEADLIEST SPECIES

If the sleevenotes themselves don't give the game away, it's clear that these audios are the work of fans of the series in general and lead head bo...
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THE DESCENT

Potholing. Can there be a more pointless past-time known to Man – other than watching BIG BROTHER or listening to the second Lighthouse Family album?...
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