Tag Archives: Music

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Last week we looked at Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, not strictly speaking a Studio Ghibli film, but made by a lot of the same people before the founding of the studio.  In 1985 the studio was founded … Continue reading →

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City of Death

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Roger Pocock

The appreciation of art can easily be extended to film and television.  It is not a giant leap to interpret Doctor Who as art, and more than once a story has actually taken a work of art as the starting … Continue reading →

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Asylum of the Daleks

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Roger Pocock

This is the oddest of oddities.  Never has there been an episode of Doctor Who that traded more on knowledge external to what we see on screen.  Without that knowledge it is distinctly average while being bizarrely frenetic.  With the … Continue reading →

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