curated: David Tennant is narrating anti-stress videos for pets
The actor may be taking this whole “I don’t wanna be typecast as the Doctor” thing a tad too far…
Doctor Who
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie review: infodump, the movie
Relentlessly dull. A tour of a strange world and “characters” little more than their “peculiar” abilities isn’t enough to whip up fantastical excitement.
Ghostbusters movie review: boo yeah!
Kate McKinnon’s gleefully reckless physicist is brainy comic mayhem, unlike any female character we’ve seen before. And there are more reasons to cheer.
Alice Through the Looking Glass movie review: a mirror cracked
Believes six impossible things — like implausible character motivations, or big emotions — because they’re in the script, without bothering to earn them.
open thread: Doctor Who: “The Husbands of River Song”
I am done with getting my heart broken by this show. But here’s an open thread for you all to discuss the most recent episode, if you want to.
Doctor Who blogging: “Hell Bent”
“Nothing’s sad till it’s over.” So Steven Moffat has just told us that nothing can ever be sad on his Doctor Who. Because nothing is ever goddamn over.
Doctor Who blogging: “Heaven Sent”
That mind-blowing moment when the Doctor realizes what’s going on! And the next mind-blowing moment when you realize none of it hangs together!
Doctor Who blogging: “Face the Raven”
The Doctor and Clara go to Diagon Alley, where Clara gets reckless again.
Downtime DVD review: 1995 Doctor Who fan film, on DVD for the first time
Strictly for serious Doctor Who fans who won’t mind the ultra-low-budget ethos, and who’ll love the fan-fiction-y tidbits that are catnip to Whovians.
Doctor Who blogging: “Sleep No More”
Doctor Who does found-footage… and it actually works in a way that most found-footage stories don’t even bother with anymore.
