The Sixteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books Mark Kermode recommended this after an interview on the film review show when all Richard Dreyfus wanted to talk about was what a sh...

Ebi Obegbuna's Wind Verses Polygamy.

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TV Earl Cameron and a lost play. John Wyver writes extensively about the lost recording of writer Ebi Obegbuna's play Wind Verses Po...

Thandie Newton on everything.

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Film In Conversation: Thandie Newton.    Astonishingly frank interview in which she describes what was tantamount to abuse on the set of C...

Rethinking the Film Canon.

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Film Rethinking the Film Canon . Important essay on how the so-called film canon was originally shaped by white voices.  The canon became...

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.

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Language Watching the above episode of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man I discovered just how offensive to some the term ...

The Juror's Story (Short Trips: Repercussions)

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Prose A clever, funny story even if I'm not completely on-board with the conclusion ( spoiler alert ). A riff on 12 Good Men starrin...

The Time Lord's Story (Short Trips: Repercussions)

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Prose What a pleasure. Set directly after the Big Finish version of Shada, this has the Doctor and K9 investigating genetic skulduggery o...

Repercussions... (Short Trips: Repercussions).

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Prose  Gary Russell's Repercussions sits very badly with me, for some reason. The Doctor is a time/space event with a personality and e...

Lockdown Links #14

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New On Streaming Services: Little Joe which was released theatrically just before the lockdown, is now available on the BFI Player, bot...

The Time Ball (The Many Lives of Doctor Who).

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Comics Published as "issue 0" of a new run of stories about The Thirteenth Doctor by Titan Comics, this pulls together tales abo...

We Can't Stop What's Coming (The Target Storybook).

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Prose Whenever these multi-Doctor anthologies are announced, it's always with the curiosity of how they'll deal with Eighth. For ...

Notre Dame du Temps (Short Trips: Companions)

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Prose Anji! The Seventh Doctor on his way to San Francisco! Amnesiac Eighth Doctor! City of Death! Published in April 2003, around the...

Femme Fatale (BBC More Short Trips)

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Prose Paul Magrs' nostalgic throwback to the 60s has itself, twenty years on, become a bit of a nostalgic throwback.  Published three ...

Forgotten (Short Trips: The Centenarian)

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Prose Here we have the other side of the events in the prologue to this anthology. Having completely misunderstood what was happening in ...

Dear John (Short Trips: The Centenarian)

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Prose One of a tiny group of stories from the "With Gemma and Samson" which the Eight Doctor promptly forgot about, which is som...

Prologue (Short Trips: The Centenarian).

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Prose The aim of The Centenarian is to present the life of someone who constantly meets and aids the Doctor from his chronological or biog...

You Had me at Verify Username and Password (Short Trips: Snapshots)

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Prose The central question I have about this simple whimsy is whether the Doctor himself is running the Nigerian 419 scam or someone who w...

The Sorrows of Vienna (Short Trips: Snapshots).

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Prose Oh, so that's what that is. If nothing else, Steven Savile's story has filled in a blank about the Doctor's attire. Th...

The Kemps: All True.

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Music However much of a classic it's supposed to be, This is Spinal Tap felt unaccountably a bit flat. Perhaps I've seen too m...

NYCHistory:
New York on Film
in Chronological Order.

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Introduction. After ninety days in lockdown, my imagination is naturally trying to focus on other people and places, constantly remindin...