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DOCTOR WHO, 15.3 –‘The Well’
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda (Varada Sethu) arrive 500,000 years in the future, literally dropping out of a spaceship orbiting a mining planet with a team of hardened space marines. It’s not...
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DOCTOR WHO, 15.4 –‘Lucky Day’
It’s not often we catch up with a previous companion of The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), as the show is usually focused on making audiences fall in love with the latest dynamic in the TARDIS, rather than...
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THUNDERBOLTS* (2025)
The Marvel Studios logo drains of colour as its famous fanfare fades into silence. It feels like an apt self-critique of the brand, as even the most hardened fans know the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
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DOCTOR WHO, 15.5 –‘The Story and the Engine’
Ncuti Gatwa’s African heritage has not been a major part of any Doctor Who story, until now, so it’s great to finally have an episode that leans into the fact the Fifteenth Doctor is a Black man. In...
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DOCTOR WHO, 15.6 –‘The Interstellar Song Contest’
It’s surprising this episode wasn’t written by Russell T. Davies himself, as it’s exactly the sort of silliness one expected of his first year running the show. I’m not a fan of Doctor Who episodes...
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DOCTOR WHO, 15.7 –‘Wish World’
The two-part finale to Series 15 of Doctor Who is upon us, and everyone’s braced for disappointment given how the last series wrapped up with a mix of unsatisfying explanations and loose ends. Russell...
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DOCTOR WHO, 15.8 –‘The Reality War’
After a typically hectic setup in “Wish World”, where copious ideas were thrown together with little to no cohesion and logic, the Series 15 finale has arrived. “The Reality War” was a better half of...
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Frame Rated Turns 10
Frame Rated officially hit its 10th anniversary in June 2025. I launched the website partly because my previous blog, Dan’s Media Digest (started on Blogger in 2005), was becoming difficult to update...
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PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS (2025)
Following the success of Prey (2022), his prequel to Predator (1987), pitting 18th-century Native Americans against the extra-terrestrial hunter, director Dan Trachtenberg is back (aided by animation...
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LETHAL WEAPON (1987)
A cornerstone action cop film of the 1980s —alongside 48 Hrs. (1982) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984) —Richard Donner’s Lethal Weapon distinguished itself by toning down the humour and emphasising the...
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