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  • Thoughts on the Previews: October 1, 2015

    Joy (David O. Russell, USA 2015) I’m tired of Bradley Cooper. I’m tired of Robert De Niro. (I think he actually retired about twenty years ago without anybody noticing. He’s just showing up now and saying, “I’m great, because I’m De Niro.”) I rather liked Three Kings (though admittedly I remember very little of it,…

  • TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Under the Lake” (09.03, 2015)

    Written by Toby Whithouse Directed by Daniel O’Hara Okay, let’s get the inevitable sonic discussion out of the way . . . The Sonic Screwdriver has been a part of Doctor Who since at least very near the beginning back in 1963. However, it began life as a piece of alien technology that nonetheless actually…

  • TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “The Witch’s Familiar” (09.02, 2015)

    Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Hettie Macdonald We open this episode with Missy and Clara. Missy tells a story of how the Doctor escaped from robots programmed to kill him by using the energy of their attacks to recharge a teleport. While I enjoy Missy, there’s something very wrong about the way she tells…