Category: TV

Fear goes through phases; in the fifties it was the bomb, in seventies Britain it was terrorism which in the last decade it has become global terrorism, but

As originally conceived, Doctor Who was as much about the past as it was about the future, but in this year of celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of

Even in the eclectic resume of John Carpenter which runs from the science fiction stoner comedy of his 1974 debut Dark Star through the western influenced police station

With its name taken from the Latin for shadows and darkness and with characters who specifically address the enduring hold the Catholic Church maintains over the country in

While the year 2013 has ostensibly been one of celebration for Doctor Who, there have been as many disappointments and missed opportunities as successes, the stealth with which

There is the wish list of gifts one might wish to receive for a birthday, things which are predictable and anticipated, but often it is the unexpected gift

Through the late sixties and early seventies, horror was a genre in transition. While Britain remained in the comparatively genteel but fading grasp of Hammer and its sibling

Genre has always been looked down upon by the establishment, science fiction a ghetto occupied by fanciful writers of whimsy, horror regarded as lower still, lurid and base,

1966 was an important year for science fiction. In America, Samuel Delaney and Larry Niven released their novels Babel 17 and Neutron Star, Fantastic Voyage was a summer

Like the gathering of the mighty individuals who would make up the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, each stars in their own right, so the launch