Doctor Who:
“The Husbands of River Song”
This is the first time since “The Five Doctors” back in 1983 that my first viewing of a Doctor Who episode took place in a […]
Reviews
Doctor Who:
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 422: Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! Spoilers!
The Christmas Bonanza: All the spoilers we can dish for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Recorded LIVE at Silicon Valley’s preeminent Star Wars Bar, 7 Stars Bar and Grill. Featuring guest stars Sal Pizarro and Drew Campbell.
Review: ‘Attack the Block’
originally posted in 2011 Night falls over the city, and if you look up, you can see a shooting star and make a wish. But […]
Doctor Who: “Hell Bent”
Even though “Hell Bent” is as unrepentantly sci-fi and literal as “Heaven Sent” is allegorical and rich with subtext, even though it’s as chaotic and […]
Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent”
The Doctor has lost his best friend. His best friend has forbidden him to take out his anger and grief on anyone else. But he […]
Doctor Who: “Face the Raven”
One way to gauge the sturdiness of a work of fiction might be: if you know the big spoiler, can you still enjoy it? The […]
Doctor Who: “Sleep No More”
Imagine, if you can, a monster that uses your time asleep to attack you…yes, a bit like Freddy Krueger. Imagine that this monster is so […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Inversion”
Imagine you’ve been forced to move to another country, one where you don’t speak the language and the customs aren’t your own. You probably still […]
Cheap Game Review: Ghost Cleaner
Back in 200X, my mom was obsessed with a game. That game haunted me…not because I was so bad at it, but because my mother […]
Danny Elfman Halloween at the Hollywood Bowl
All hail the Pumpkin King. Anyplace other than the Hollywood Bowl on Halloween weekend, that cry would be a cause for alarm. For two nights […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Invasion”
And just like that we’re back in a classic mode, in this case the Earth invasion stories that introduced UNIT in 1970 and continued through […]
Cheap Game Review: Albert and Otto
You will fail at Albert and Otto. But you will still find yourself strangely compelled to play more…
Doctor Who, “The Woman Who Lived”
For a moment in this season’s opening two-parter I got the ghastly fear that by the end of this year we’d have a definitive, boring […]
Cheap Game Review: Murder
I came across Murder in the Steam Store and was instantly drawn to its graphics, theme, and the premise of a tight 30-minute point-and-click adventure. My […]
Cheap Game Review: Awe
The first of an ongoing series of casual reviews of smaller independent games. Up first, a game reminiscent of Katamari Damacy now available on Steam.
Doctor Who: “The Girl Who Died”
Series 9 continues our tour of the classic series in general and the Tom Baker era in specific with a season 16/17 smorgasbord. Those two […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 415: King Kong V. Godzilla V. Fanboys!
The Fanboys fawn over Hollywood stars, Death Note, Sex Criminals, new comics, Marvel movie shake-up, zombie heroes, lady Mummies, King Kong V. Godzilla, Crimson Peak, Flash of Two Worlds, Y the Last Man, Jessica Jones, Moon Knight, Star Wars: Battlefront, Superhero girl action figures, and so much more!
Review: ‘Crimson Peak’
Crimson Peak may be the closest we’ll get to seeing inside auteur Guillermo Del Toro’s mind. Like his inspirational home away from home Bleak House, […]
Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”
It’s all about paradoxes this season so far. In the opening two-parter, we got the Grandfather Paradox: if you go back in time and kill […]
Review: Supermansion
Well played, Zeb Wells and Matt Senreich. Within two episodes, their new stop motion puppet series Supermansion manages to skewer the Justice League, S.H.I.E.L.D., The […]