What do you get when you put two bounty hunters, an assassin, a space pirate and a vengeful maniac in the same space ship and have them work together as a team? You get Marvel Studios' biggest risk so far: a riotous space adventure based on a relatively unknown comic property, with a cast as ragtag … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan – Dork Review
After four episodes of build-up, it’s time for Amy and Rory Pond to leave Doctor Who. Much like Billie Piper or David Tennant, they leave after a lengthy run, just need a good departure for us to remember them fondly. So, did The Angels Take Manhattan deliver? Obviously, there will be spoilers, … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Power Of Three – Dork Review
Despite this Doctor Who series being the well-advertised Last Days Of The Ponds, we haven’t seen them that front and centre. In the last episode, they barely did anything. Well, all that changes in The Power Of Three, as the merry band face... an onslaught of cuboid alien droppings? The Doctor … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy – Dork Review
Last time: dinosaurs. This week, Doctor Who hits another trope: the Western. And with “Mercy” writ large in the title, it’s no surprise the Doctor’s here to wrestle with thorny issues of justice, ethics and clemency. Obviously, aliens, horses and shootouts too. Watch it on iPlayer before … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship – Dork Review
For the second week running, Doctor Who serves up an episode where the pitch is contained within the title (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship). But unlike Asylum of the Daleks, this one really does stick to the confines of that one-liner. There’s these dinosaurs, right, and they’re on a spaceship. So it’s … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Asylum of The Daleks – Dork Review
Doctor Who returns! After a year away (give or take the occasional Christmas special), they’re back with a five-episode run devoted to finally getting rid of the Ponds. Yes, they retired into a blue house last series, but that wasn’t dramatic enough, so they’re being yanked back for a proper … [Read more...]
Doctor Who – New Series 7 Trailer!
The latest Doctor Who trailer has just appeared! With just over three weeks until the likely air date of August 25th, it was about time we saw some promo, and sure enough, here's a full 90 seconds of footage from the new episodes. Especially since we already had a trailer for Merlin, and that … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Good As Gold – Dork Review
Just as I’d resigned myself to no more Doctor Who until autumn, the BBC have produced the latest winner of their Script To Screen competition: Good As Gold, the Olympic tie-in edition. So, this mini-episode was written by Britain’s school-children - does this mean I hold back on the critical … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe – Dork Review
It's Christmas, and that means another festive-themed outing for Doctor Who. And after swiping A Christmas Carol last year, this time writer Steven Moffat is borrowing from less obvious source material. And he plagiarised Dickens so utterly that he had to acknowledge it in the script, so maybe it's … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song – Dork Review
The finale of Doctor Who has aired. The climax to a convoluted (if not complex) year long arc regarding the Doctor’s own death, not to mention the point where we get answers to all those fiddly River Song questions. So... did it deliver on all of that? And aside from the pressure to resolve … [Read more...]
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