Tag Archives: Matt Smith

Doctor Who, Asylum Of The Daleks. B.B.C. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillian, Arthur Darvill, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Anamaria Marinca, David Gyasi, Naomi Ryan, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Zac Fox.

It is the stuff that legends are made out of and then there is Doctor Who. The nights are beginning to draw in and what better way for the B.B.C. to showcase the autumn schedules than by the re-materialising of the blue box, two of the great companions of the modern and any era, the Doctor and an introduction to a new companion that might just be the best since Janet Fielding as the Australian flight attendant Tegan Jovanka.

Doctor Who, Asylum Of The Daleks. B.B.C. Television Review. full post

(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship. B.B.C. Television, Review.

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Williams, Rupert Graves, Riann Steele, David Bradley, Sunetra Sarkur, David Mitchell, Robert Webb.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating ****

Cruelty, genocide and wading knee deep in Ankylosaurus and vicious raptors, just your average job for the Doctor but just that little bit beyond the ordinary for viewers of series seven of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship. B.B.C. Television, Review. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Ben Browder, Adrian Scarborough, Dominic Kemp, Rob Cavazos, Joanne McQuinn, Andrew Brooks, Garrick Hogan, Byrd Wilkins, Sean Benedict.

Time is running short for Amy Pond/Williams and her husband Rory, there is a reckoning coming and it seems that time for the Doctor is fraught with perceived future knowledge of Amy’s demise and this knowledge is changing the Doctor in ways not really seen in on television.

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy. Television Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Mike McShane, Rob David, Ozzie Yue, Bentley Kalu.

The hype surrounding the final episode of the mini-like series of the seventh new outing of Doctor Who has had the plethora of fan sites working themselves into frenzy since it was announced that one of the best companions, the red-haired and forthright Amy Pond, was going to leave at some point during the current season. The reason is simple, not every-one leaves the Tardis in good circumstances; sometimes they don’t come back at all.

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan. Television Review. full post

(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Snowmen. B.B.C. Television. Christmas 2012. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Richard E. Grant, Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Tom Ward, Liz White, Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Cadzow, Joseph Dacey-Alden, Ellie Darcey-Alden, Annabelle Dowler.

What do you do when the girl you meet twice keeps dying? It’s enough to make a good man come out of retirement and regain that boyish inquisitiveness once more.

Doctor Who: The Snowmen. B.B.C. Television. Christmas 2012. Television Review. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Bells Of Saint John. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Robert Whitlock, Dan Li, Manpreet Bachu, Sean Knopp, James Greene, Geff Francis, Eve de Leon Allen, Kassius Carey Johnson, Danielle Eames, Fred Pearson, Jade Anouka, Olivia Hill, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Matthew Earley, Antony Edridge.

The new series, or should that be the second part of the previous series or even the build-up to the 50th Anniversary of the longest running science fiction show on British television has returned after its winter sabbatical and it seems it is going to become about obsession.

Doctor Who: The Bells Of Saint John. Television Review. full post

(739 words, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Ewan Mitchell, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Glynn-Carney, Fabian Frankel, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Sonya Mizuno, Matthew Needham, Jefferson Hall, kurt Egyiawan, Eve Best, Paddy Considine, Paul Kennedy, Phil Daniels, Harry Collett, Max Wrottesley, Bethany Antonia, Anthony Flanagan, Phia Saban, Phoebe Campbell, Nicholas Jones, Vincent Regan, Freddie Fox.

It’s never what was is in the presentation, it is always what is excluded that leaves the viewer, the expectant fan aghast at the omission of what could have been, and the counter narrative that suggests a different conclusion to those paid, employed to deliver the freedom of the story in the best way they see fit.

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Emma D’ Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Milly Alcock, Fabian Frankel, Eve Best, Graham McTavish, Bill Paterson, Steve Toussaint, Jefferson Hall, Gavin Spokes, Sonoya Mizurio, Matthew Needham, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, David Horovitch, Kurt Egyiawan, Luke Tittensor, Phil Daniels, Anthony Flanagan, Ewan Mitchell, Ty Tennant, Sian Brooke, Garry Cooper.

Power is not only in hands of those wield it in the moment, but to those who can claim lineage to its formation.

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Morbius. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Zaris-Angel Hator, Joe Ferrara, Charlie Shotwell, Joseph Esson, Michael Keaton, Corey Johnson, Joanna Burnett.

To the casual observer the adaptations of graphic novels to the large screen has become an avalanche that shows no sign of slowing down, to the seasoned watcher, it is near impossible to relay the fact that the studios and directors, the script writers, and the producers, have barely got started yet.

Morbius. Film Review. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Last Night In Soho. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Synnove Karlsen, Michael Ajao, Pauline McLynn, Terrance Stamp, Sam Clafflin, Elizabeth Berrington, Jessie Mei Li, Rebecca Harrod, Kassius Nelson, Aimee Cassettari, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Beth Singh.

It is an old city and there are plenty of ghosts trapped amongst us who cannot rest, even with constant re-invention and new blood lured there in the promise of put their stamp on the world thanks to its influence, London cannot escape its own damaged past, its own cycle of death and mystery, for no matter what part of that mass conglomeration made of bricks and mortar, the ghosts have nowhere else to call home, nowhere else they can finally hope to see justice restored.

Last Night In Soho. Film Review. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)