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Good Boy – Film Review Some ideas are so brilliant that they encourage a sort of mental double-take.  The reaction where you are instantly sold by the million-dollar pitch, yet also amazed nobody else had already tried t…

Good Boy, a horror filmed from the perspective of a dog, is an "upsetting, haunting tale about the limits of what unconditional love can achieve".

#GoodBoy #Horror #HorrorFilm

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Time to cross yet another entry off my 2020 list for @setthetape.bsky.social of TV shows you really should be able to stream (but can’t):

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#DoctorWho #SeventhDoctor #SylvesterMcCoy #SophieAldred #AlanRonald #SimonCallow #EkowQuartey #DonQuixote

YouTube video by bigfinishprod Behind the scenes at Doctor Who: Wicked!

Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Simon Callow, Ekow Quartey and more talk Wicked! here. youtu.be/39wiRjxTPAk

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE! 🎬 Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Wicked! is out now! (Watch the full behind the scenes at the Big Finish YouTube channel.)

15 days left to get Issue Four of this magazine fully funded.

In case you need any incentive to back it, I may be writing a piece for this if it goes ahead.

Go on, bung ‘em a few quid. You know it makes sense.

I just so happen to have reviewed this very film for @setthetape.bsky.social:

Thunderbirds – Set The Tape

It’s Thunderbirds’ 60th birthday today, so here’s all of @setthetape.bsky.social’s articles about the hit Supermarionation series:

The Strange World Of Gurney Slade – TV Rewind “I am a walking television show. I can’t get away from them. Big Brother’s watching me. And Big Dad and Big Mum. The whole family’s watching me. I’m like a goldfish in a bowl.” On Thursday October …

And here’s what I had to say about The Strange World Of Gurney Slade for @setthetape.bsky.social:

I wholeheartedly agree. Here’s my review for @setthetape.bsky.social:

Doctor Who: Wicked (Trailer) FIND OUT MORE AT THE BIG FINISH WEBSITE: https://bgfn.sh/337 The Doctor has a new friend. Ace has just joined the TARDIS, and is a long, long way from home. Hunting treasure, solving snow-covered my

PLAY IT LOUD! 🂡 The Seventh Doctor has a new friend. 🂡 She's Ace. 🂡 And their adventures together are going to be... WICKED! 🂡 Click bgfn.sh/norest to pre-order next month's box set.

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The X-Files – Set The Tape

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The X-Files: A Love Letter to Darin Morgan There are some writers that you just give your heart to. Some writers whose work touches you deeply, and stays with you over the years. Before Darin Morgan’s episodes of The X-Files aired, I had ne…

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The X-Files @ 25: Won’t somebody please think of the monsters? Mulder: “Is this really how I want to spend the rest of my days? Chasing after monsters?” Whilst nominally about the paranormal, the strange and unexplained, The X-Files, at its core, is about mons…

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The X-Files – Season Eleven is all a Dream and Here’s Why! The X-Files huh? That was a wild ride. All eleven seasons and two movies of it. But I have a question. Do you remember, back at the end of season ten, when everyone, including Mulder (David Duchovn…

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The X-Files @ 25: The X-Files Effect The X-Files was everywhere in the 1990s. Literally. From magazine covers, to news reports on UFO activity that used Mark Snow’s iconic theme music, to inspiring a whole raft of copycats in both mov…

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The X-Files @ 25: Looking back at the Pilot Episode “The following is inspired by actual documented accounts.” As openings go for a genre television series about aliens, monster of the week storytelling and the search for the elusive tru…

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The X-Files: 5 Things Mulder has in his VHS Collection Fox Mulder loves his aliens and his slide shows. And, it would seem, he also loves his VHS tapes. Even now, after most of us have said a fond farewell to our old tech, Mulder still has a whole bunc…

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The X-Files: A Love Letter to Mulder and Scully I didn’t watch the pilot episode of The X-Files when it aired on 19 September 1994 on BBC Two: the less mainstream of the two BBC (and four overall) terrestrial TV channels available to UK audience…

Happy Birthday to The X-Files!

#XFiles #TheXFiles

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Space: 1999 – Set The Tape

It’s Space: 1999’s 50th birthday today, so here’s all @setthetape.bsky.social’s pieces about the series:

There Used To Be A Me – Audio Drama Review Peter Sellers left us over four decades ago, but in that time his reputation as being one of the greatest British comedy character actors has endured; however, despite all his skill and talent, the…

With The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on BBC Four right now, you might be interested in audio drama There Used To Be A Me, starring Alfred Molina as Peter Sellers.

Here’s my @setthetape.bsky.social review:

HUGELY excited for this release from @bigfinish.bsky.social

And what a cover!

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#DoctorWho #SeventhDoctor

Simon Callow, pictured at the recording of Doctor Who: The Ingenious Gentlemen. He is seated, smiling, with his arms folder and his glasses in hand.

What phantasmagoria is this? 🌟 Simon Callow returns to Doctor Who this October. Click https://bgfn.sh/callow7da to read all about when the Seventh Doctor and Ace met Don Quixote.

Big Banana Feet (1977) – Blu-ray Review Sir William Connolly CBE – better known to us all as Billy – is without doubt a truly established part of our Union’s cultural landscape, and has been for what feels like forever, but i…

Big Banana Feet is currently on BBC Four. Here’s my review of the Blu-Ray release for @setthetape.bsky.social:

Comedy Playhouse audio pilots to be released - British Comedy Guide Audio company Big Finish has announced a six-episode collection of sitcom pilots, to be released to download in November. Purchasers will be able to vote for a favourite to progress to series.

You could influence the next Big Finish comedy production! No joke. 🎭

The cover for Doctor Who: Out of Time - The Collected Series with artwork by Simon Holub. This collage image includes the Fourth, Fifth Sixth and Tenth Doctors along the top. In the centre is a Weeping Angel. To the left is an Invasion-era Cyberman and on the right is a Genesis-era Dalek.

OUT (OF TIME) NOW! ⏲️ Click https://bgfn.sh/clip to get the complete Doctor Who: Out of Time audio adventures starring David Tennant for one bargain download to own price.

ELECTRIC HEAD  [Edinburgh Fringe] - STARBURST Magazine The Electric Head is a long-form improv comedy show, powered by a single comedy duo. Al Ronald and Cy Henty are both genre writers; Henty mostly in horror, and Al has worked on everything from Doctor ...

"Akin to Vic and Bob at the height of their silliness, but with a healthy dose of Inside No 9 style weirdness."

Fantastic 5 star review for Al & Cy of @electricheadcomedy.bsky.social from @edfortune.com at @starburst.bsky.social

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Ten Edinburgh Fringe 2025 Shows To Look Out For There are but three certainties in life: Death, taxes, and the streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town being overrun with people flyering for shows during every Summer holiday. Yes, the Edinburgh Fringe Fe…

Ten great shows to see at this year's #EdFringe.

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Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue

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