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Dot and Bubble Review
Don’t forget to click below to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. Nothing about this should work. Off the bat, it’s sandbagged by being a second Doctor-lite episode in a row. And for...
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Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Furiosa holds the tenuous position of following up Mad Max: Fury Road, the defining moment of the 2020s. It would be hard to hold failure against it, but at the same time, for Furious to be anything...
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Rogue Review
Real power move would be to separately canonize the Hurndall and Bradley First Doctors. It was not what I expected, which remains inherently high praise for Doctor Who. Part of this was deliberate...
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Review: Love Lies Bleeding
It’s about time cis people got their own version of Bound. Some films are carried by their premise. Love Lies Bleeding is about Kristen Stewart as a lesbian who turns her life upside down for a...
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The Legend of Ruby Sunday Review
There. Much better. This is, of course, the easy episode. Since the structure was developed with Bad Wolf, there’s yet to be a bad first half of a season finale. Even the Chibnall era couldn’t fuck it...
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Empire of Death Review
Who needs Sara Griffiths? So here we are, I suppose. It’s a pity (though an ironic one), that I already used “There Never Was a Golden Age” on Army of Ghosts/Doomsday. Because this was always going to...
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You Were Expecting Someone Else: The Good Doctor
On social media, the preview of this crops to just her chest, and I’m terribly amused. For once, then, the spinoff media feel like a plausible hope of quality. Of course, they exited the Moffat era in...
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I Thought It Would Hurt Me, And I Was Right (Spyfall)
It’s a Dapol! It’s January 1st, 2020. Ellie Goulding is at number one with “River,” and the charts are otherwise hilariously unchanged from the last ones we talked about. In the year since Resolution,...
View ArticleThree Minute Record: 004 – Darkness on the Edge of Town
In which James and Kit are joined by drummer (in Kit’s new band, no less) friend of the show and lifelong Bruce fan John Busvine, to discuss The Boss’s seminal 1978 studio album Darkness On The Edge...
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Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey (Orphan 55)
After finding out people were horny for Sutekh I have lost all bearings on Doctor Who monsters. I just look at them all and wonder “is this sexy?” And I don’t know. I simply don’t know. It’s January...
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Not a Trace of the Original (Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror)
I’m on a train. I can’t complain. It’s January 19th, 2020. Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, and Burna Boy are at number one with “Own It,” with Lewis Capaldi, Future featuring Drake, Roddy Rich, and the Weeknd...
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I Had Every Right to Leave (Fugitive of the Judoon)
I took this screenshot myself because I figured hey, if there’s only one decent shot across the entire Chibnall era I may as well include it. It’s January 26th, 2020. Eminem is at number one with...
View ArticlePop Could Never Save Us – S301 – Guess Who’s Back (UK Official Charts 19-25...
Read the following in a descending, increasingly deep bassy vocoder voice, based around a Malcolm McLaren sample: The beloved pop music podcast returns for its intermittent and excellent all new...
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The Power Fantasy Review
. There’s a moment, back in Kieron’s first X-Men run, that has lived in my head for over a decade now. Cyclops has just formed a new team of X-Men, and is addressing it for the first time. He muses on...
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Anti-Plastic (Praxeus)
Space boy you’re plastic now It’s February 2nd, 2020. Peter Capaldi’s second cousin is at number one with “Before You Go.” The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, and Billy Eilish also chart. I, meanwhile, am on a plane...
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The Crushing Boredom of Eternity (Can You Hear Me?)
Fingies It’s February 9th, 2020. The Weeknd is at number one with “Blinding Lights.” Lewis Capaldi, Billie Eilish, and Harry Styles also chart. I’m settling into life back home. My wife recovers from...
View ArticlePop Could Never Save Us and it’s the same but there’s different songs so it’s...
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holly-bo/episodes/Pop-Could-Never-Save-Us-and-its-the-same-but-theres-different-songs-so-its-not-UK-Charts-9-15th-August-2024-e2n7ru6 Holly and James are back...
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All They Want to Do is Turn Everyone Else Into Cybermen (The Haunting of...
Yeah that’s a mood It’s February 16th, 2020. The Weeknd is at number one with “Blinding Lights.” Dua Lipa, Saint Jhn, and Roddy Ricch also chart. It’s a pleasantly dull week—we watch some movies, I...
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If They’re Just Stories, Why Are You So Worried? (Ascension of the...
It’s February 23, 2020. Billie Eilish is at number one with “No Time to Die.” The Weeknd, Lewis Capaldi, and Justin Bieber also chart. In news, Bernie Sanders continues his apparent romp towards the...
View ArticlePop Could Never Save Us BONUS – Shamrock Supernova – On the Kneecap film &...
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holly-bo/episodes/BONUS-Shamrock-Supernova-e2nnkg5/a-abgia33 With the release of the incendiary biopic of the radical Northern Irish hip hop group, Kneecap,...
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