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Jekyll s1:6 review

Jekyll
Mark Pickavance Review Jul 30, 2007

Spoilers aplenty here, as Mark reviews the final episode of the first season of Jekyll.

Jekyll s1:5 review

Jekyll
Mark Pickavance Review Jul 24, 2007

Spoilers lie ahead, as Mark dissects the fifth episode of the increasingly intriguing Jekyll. It's the best yet, but with all sorts of problems...

What's this Jekyll malarkey?

Jekyll
Mark Pickavance News Jul 19, 2007

Everyone loves Steven Moffat's Doctor Who episodes. So should we be getting excited about Jekyll?

Star Trek XI: the rebirth?

Star Trek: heading back to the big screen
Mark Pickavance News Jul 13, 2007

Forget Star Trek: Nemesis. Forget Enterprise. JJ Abrams' Star Trek XI may just be the jolt the franchise needs...

Dying to see Dexter?

Dexter. An undersold gem?
Mark Pickavance News Jul 9, 2007

Hidden on the FX channel is one of the television highlights of the moment. Ladies and gentlemen: meet Dexter...

The Nicolas Cage Ready Reckoner

Nicolas Cage. Hunting down Mark Pickavance, we'd wager
Mark Pickavance News Jul 5, 2007

The career of Nicolas Cage has had lots of ups and downs. And, according our ready reckoner, more downs than ups...

Airwolf vs Blue Thunder

Is Airwolf the best chopper?
Mark Pickavance News Jul 4, 2007

Put Airwolf and Blue Thunder head to head against one another in a scrap, and who would win? We have the answer...

Are soaps pointless TV?

Neighbours
Mark Pickavance News Jun 14, 2007

Millions watch them, and follow the characters avidly, but have soaps got a purpose?

Conan The Barbarian: Underappreciated movies

Arnie as Conan
Mark Pickavance News Jun 1, 2007

Conan The Barbarian tends to get forgotten among the Arnie back catalogue. But for a young Mark Pickavance, it was a cinematic highlight...

My top ten all-time movie mistakes

Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor
Mark Pickavance News May 16, 2007

Not everything in the movies goes quite to plan, and many errors make it to the final cut. And these are ten particular favourites...

Comic book films I've nearly walked out of

Catwoman
Mark Pickavance News May 14, 2007

Comic book movies might be in vogue now, but some of them are just monumentally shit. Like the following...

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