Season 8 Directed by Barry Letts Written by Robert Holmes I really wasn’t intending to follow-up the last review soon or possibly ever, but then I took a look at the premise of the next episode and well… it was … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S08E01 “Terror of the Autons”
Series 12 Directed by Lee Haven Jones Written by Ed Hime Depending on where you looked, last week’s episode was either a bold step forward for the franchise or some major misguided steps to relive the past. I was very … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S12EP3 “Orphan 55”
Series 12 Directed by Lee Haven Jones Written by Chris Chibnall Last Wednesday’s episode started the series off messily, but I will give the show credit for trying to go big. For better or worse, the episode was a deliberate … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S12EP2 “Spyfall, Part 2”
Series 12 Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone Written by Chris Chibnall Welcome back to another season of Doctor Who. Last we checked in was a year ago with the New Year’s special, “Resolution”. It was the wrap up to a … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S12EP1 “Spyfall, Part 1”
Season 7 Directed by Douglas Camfield and Barry Letts Written by Don Houghton Hilariously, my half-finished draft of this review started with me commenting on how fast we had blown through this season and… whoops. I won’t go into why … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E04 “Inferno”
Greetings boils and ghouls and welcome to the third annual edition of The Pits! As a support to Kappa’s main portion of The Pits, for the last two years we have had our own set of media categories. The Pits … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Media 2019 Home Page
Today’s review is another prerelease one, but this time out, we are going to be looking at an upcoming documentary. It’s one that deals with an important and yet deep rooted issue, Islamophobia. At the center of the doc is … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Free Trip to Egypt (2019)
Part 1 – Enter the Wu-Tang Part 2 – The First Batch of Solo Albums Part 3 – Wu-Tang Forever Part 4 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums (Part 1) Part 5 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Wu-Tang Clan (Part 7 – Iron Flag)
Season 7 Directed by Timothy Combe Written by Malcolm Hulke After last week’s standout serial, we head into the back half of this season with another seven-episode story. It was also a serial that ended in a way that would typically … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E03 “The Ambassadors of Death”
“Tomorrow is Yesterday” Season 1 Production Order #22 Airing Order #19 Directed by Joseph Pevney Written by D.C. Fontana Story by Michael O’Herlihy We had quite the range in quality last time with the episodes “Arena” and “The Alternative Factor” (which honestly … Continue reading Star Trek: TOS – S01E22/23 “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and “The Return of the Archons”
Part 1 – Enter the Wu-Tang Part 2 – The First Batch of Solo Albums Part 3 – Wu-Tang Forever Part 4 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums (Part 1) Part 5 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums … Continue reading Movie Reviews: How High (2001)
Season 7 Directed by Timothy Combe Written by Malcolm Hulke Last time, Doctor Who took its first steps into reinventing itself in colour and more relevantly to the plot as an Earthbound show. It was an effective serial both on its … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E02 “Doctor Who and the Silurians”
Sorry I’ve been away from the wheel for a while when it comes to reviewing films. It’s not that I haven’t been watching films in theaters, it’s just that I couldn’t be arsed. However, we here at The Avocado were … Continue reading Movie Reviews: 79 Parts (2019)
“Arena” Season 1 Production Order #20 Airing Order #18 Directed by Joseph Pevney Written by Gene L. Coon Story by Fredric Brown Now here’s a blast from the past. It’s been just over two years since I last wrote one … Continue reading Star Trek: TOS – S01E20/21 “Arena” and “The Alternative Factor”
These days, No Limit Records largely exists as a curiosity, largely kept alive in the memory thanks to their record covers made by Pen & Pixel. Those covers are the deserving stuff of derision. Gaudy, ugly, over-designed and all unintentionally … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Silkk the Shocker – Charge It 2 da Game
Season 7 Directed by Derek Martinus Written by Robert Holmes The show had been avoiding proper story ending cliffhangers for a while, but “The War Games” left us on a heck of a doozy. The Doctor was mid-regeneration, a punishment for … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E01 “Spearhead from Space”
I mentioned earlier in the week that despite being the higher profile horror release, Us wasn’t even my most anticipated of the week. It may have had the great prereviews coming in and more importantly its creator Jordan Peele was … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Us (2019)
Us comes out this weekend and sure enough I’ll be there Thursday night to see it, but despite the fact that Jordan Peele is coming off of one great horror film and the early reviews are excellent, it has not … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Climax (2018)
We have a special treat for all you regular readers of these reviews (and for those just dropping in). I’ve mentioned before that the general process for picking films to cover here simply involves writing up reviews for whichever films … Continue reading Movie Reviews: When I Last Saw Jesse (2019)
Fifty years on, there are still few human achievements that can measure alongside sending humans to the moon and returning them back alive. Yet, we live in a time were many still do not believe it is something that ever … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Apollo 11 (2019)
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke Last time out we wrapped up one important era when we finished with the missing episodes, but that was more of a retroactively relevant serial. Quality wise … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E07 “The War Games”
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