Moulin Rouge! - Because you indeed can, can, can… boxd.it/eaF8kx

The Bride of Peladon by: Barnaby Edwards: Another goodbye for a Big Finish companion, this time Erimem not quite falling in love but having a deep friendship with the current prince of Peladon. It’s one of those endings that follows the companion falls in love with a guest star that Edwards uses to

The Emerald City of Oz is meant to be a goodbye and perhaps it should be because it’s all about how you shouldn’t leave fairyland: jacoblickliderreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

A deep dive into the swing revival, the biggest hit song in it and the heinously-named band that fit awkwardly in it

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) - Tilda Swinton is perfect casting. No notes. boxd.it/e9UPb5

Return of the Daleks by: Nicholas Briggs: There isn’t a Terry Nation Dalek story that Nick Briggs doesn’t like. Return of the Daleks is both his big Planet of the Daleks sequel and tie in to spin-off Dalek Empire. Sylvester McCoy is good as are Gareth Thomas and Sarah Mowat but there isn’t quite

The Girl Who Never Was by: Alan Barnes: Cybermen in Singapore that only enter the story at the halfway point and interestingly still feel more like a background element to the story. This is a story about Charley Pollard letting go and saying goodbye. The one last go around the world as the Doctor

Mission of the Viyrans by: Nicholas Briggs: Added at the last minute because The Mind’s Eye was actually compressed to three episodes so Nick Briggs added this little story. It’s fine, it introduces the Viyrans and begins to tie together some little elements that have been in recent audios of the

The Mind’s Eye by: Colin Brake: A three parter that at its core is about what Peri and Erimem desire as they’re influenced by a hallucinogenic plant on a jungle planet full of dangerous animals called Jekylls. For the premise there should be so much more even with the three episode structure but

Injustice (2021) - A painful 78 minutes with little good here. boxd.it/e9a9Jx

Absolution by: Scott Alan Woodward: This is one of those stories that people for some reason dislike which I’ve never actually understood. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a very visual story: the setting is clearly a mix of medieval Europe, Dante’s vision of hell, and a technically futuristic society

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Revenge (4.22) - Perfect finale, something that’s really hard to do. Sam Witwer steals the show but the few scenes that we give to James Arnold-Taylor as Obi-Wan is also fantastic. This also is a finale that’s basically setup for further stories, without ending on a cliffhanger so the story feels

Brothers (4.21) - So Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace really isn’t a whole character, he’s a threat. Resurrecting him for The Clone Wars is a risk that pays off because of this episode giving the character anything really to work with. Sam Witwer is really good at playing Maul as this crazy man

Bounty (4.20) - This one’s got a Boba Fett shaped problem, while he’s used well, I’m sorry I just cannot get into Daniel Logan’s performance. Otherwise great episode, examines Ventress stuck on her own and finding purpose in her life once again. Does the parallels an evil character with a child

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock (1977) - Written quickly and it’s Terrance Dicks’ second best tv story. boxd.it/e886Qd

Zygon Century: Transformation: Overall a marked improvement from the first set. The Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle story is still the strongest of the set, examining the after effects of abuse quite well, while the other two just cannot compare. I feel on relisten in context with the whole

Zygon Century: 1974: The Caldwell Restitution by: Ken Bentley: The set closes with a story that’s a Cold War thriller with the Zygons and actually works better as a sequel to Double Agent. Some of that is Tim Trelor’s Third Doctor just working better than the Second in a Cold War story, some of it

Massacre (4.19) - We’re picking up this plotline and look the Nightsisters are again my vibe so an episode that’s clearly just prologue to put Ventress through her own personal hell a little bit is going to be my thing. It is prologue and full of double cross and an interesting angle for what I

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour (2024) - Sorry these just don’t work if they keep shortening them so much without understanding film vs serial pacing. boxd.it/e79nXX

Brothers is an episode of #StarTrek that's more accurately about fathers and sons. And seeing how far we can push Brent Spiner before he cracks: jacoblickliderreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/brot...

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Crisis on Naboo (4.18) - Cad Bane really does commit the cardinal sin of explaining the plan guaranteeing it will fail. But then you realize you’re only halfway through the episode so things spiral and there’s this tightrope dance of making sure the opening of Revenge of the Sith doesn’t happen

A View to a Kill (1985) - Silly title aside Moore was way too hard on himself for this one. boxd.it/e6Gcef

Zygon Century: 1968: An Incident in Death Valley by: Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle: Love the use of the Master in the first two acts of this as representative of abuse. Mooney and Pringle draw on the rise of cults in the 1960s for this one to examine how Vorvoren has been damaged by being

Zygon Century: 1922: The Black Cadre by: Jonathan Barnes: This second series of Zygon Century is seemingly all sequels to the first one and this opener does improve by not having the plot just happen in the last 10 minutes. Jonathan Rigby as Herbertt Scott is back, narrating this story as it lays

Expulsion: This arc works mostly because it gives Mark Strickson as Turlough some really interesting material with the idea he might still betray the Doctor and be selfish. As a set it feels like the middle arc which will hopefully conclude with the second Sixth Doctor set of the year, because

Curse of the Duergar by: Julian Richards: The box set comes to a close with a great little story riffing on Norse mythology. I’m half convinced Richards came to this story with the idea of what if someone believed the Sixth Doctor was Thor. The plot of this one is a quest to claim birthright of a

A Crucible of Queens by: Lizbeth Myles: Myles’ contribution to the set is a pure historical story set in the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt and it’s a good little historical drama. Myles limits the story to the French court and keeps the Doctor in the role of observer. It feels in a way

The Reckoning by: Nev Fountain: The final conversation between Turlough and Peri is a little bit on the nose but Nev Fountain really knows how to examine a companion. Let’s be honest Turlough is the one 1980s companion Big Finish haven’t really examined and Fountain proposes it was partially his

Never Say Never Again (1983) - It's Thunderball but with less style and more bigotry. boxd.it/e5SQUl

The Box (4.17) - Now we decide to do a test in several challenges and okay the ending is what makes this. Like the ending is Obi-Wan not being able to fall basically to the Dark Side by killing the main conspirator. Also Corey Burton as Dooku is utterly chilling. And somehow it isn’t over. 10/10.

Friends and Enemies (4.16) - Cad Bane really is dramatic isn’t he? I love him for it, don’t get me wrong, and it’s nice we get his hypocrisy of being incognito when he’s a cowboy here. Just as the episode started to lose steam it switches perspectives to Anakin who is not doing well, because the

Deception (4.15) - This one is basically let’s let James Arnold Taylor flex at what he can do as the Jedi Council has a ridiculous plan to infiltrate their own prison to root out a conspiracy to kidnap Palpatine. The plan is the right style of ridiculous and it’s nice to know Obi-Wan isn’t a total

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Sabotage (1936) - Hitchcock really went that far and yet because it’s early people don’t talk about it. boxd.it/e5hevN

A Friend in Need (4.14) - A standalone story here and it’s good, it’s a follow up to a lot of the Mandalore stuff the series had established. Love continuing Ahsoka’s little romance and the episode starts great but I do think after the first act the episode loses steam somewhat. It’s a good

Escape from Kadavo (4.13) - There’s an interesting utilitarian argument proposed here, with the Jedi being selfless should Anakin care more about saving Obi-Wan or the slaves. The utilitarian answer is the slaves and while the episode goes to both I find it interesting the Queen says to save

Blood of Elves by: Andrzej Sapkowski and translated by: Danusia Stock: The switch from short stories to longer novels is an odd transition. As a novelist, Sapkowski has this tendency to just stop instead of having an ending and that can always be just a little bit abrupt. Furthermore the

The Lady Eve (1941) - A completely normal reaction to Henry Fonda’s snake. boxd.it/e4yXDd

The Road to Oz is a long one and L. Frank Baum’s heart isn’t quite in the game anymore but there’s at least hints at his more leftist outlooks on the world: jacoblickliderreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Slaves of the Republic (4.12) - The harshest moment of the episode is the thesis that it is better to commit suicide than go on as a slave, something that I do love is in a show meant for children. It’s a bold way to communicate what slavery is as a concept. This is also Matt Lanter’s episode as

Django Unchained (2012) - In many ways Tarantino pulling the same trick twice and doing it well, but there are more cracks than people realize. boxd.it/e3KLtP

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The Tramp (1915) - A bit primitive but Chaplin has the talent to use early film language. boxd.it/e32G35

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