Doctor Who S02E06: "The Interstellar Song Contest" starts as a campy pop satire before becoming a dark parable with surprises thick and fast.
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Doctor Who S02E04: "Lucky Day" may look like RTD playing his "greatest hits," but that's merely a front for when the big swings start.
Doctor Who S02E05: "The Story and the Engine" is one of the best and most unique scripts of the Disney era; a defining story for Ncuti Gatwa.
Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 3: "The Well" returns to classic Sci-Fi horror with clear homages to genre movies such as Alien that inspired it.
Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux" is the most gleefully nuts episode to date; an exhilarating and profound defining story for the Disney+ era.
Though a bit familiar, Doctor Who S02E01: "The Robot Revolution" is a stronger season opener than season one's: funny, camp, and serious.
The arrogance of early Victorian colonial settlement seems lost to amnesia. Maps of the time show the world as if diseased by a sprawling red virus – the British Empire. With the reach of the red went a blind and over-weening attitude of entitlement, a dictation of what would and would not be. Indigenous people Continue reading »
Towards the end of his book, after referring to the NACC initial decision not to investigate alleged misbehaviour and to the completion of the APSC’s code of conduct investigation, Rick Morton states: ‘a large group of the senior management of the Australian Public Service … would like that to be the end of things, as Continue reading »
Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who) shines in Gatsby in Harlem, BBC Radio 3's socially-charged adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Dr Steinbock’s new book The Fall of Israel is a stunning look at the longstanding forces undermining the state of Israel and the lives of Palestinians, while fostering genocidal atrocities and regional escalation. His interview offers revealing insights about the ongoing catastrophe. The path to the obliteration of Gaza was paved by a confluence of Continue reading »