All of the ingredients for greatness are implicit in the material and present in the translation of the material to the screen by Scott, especially in the final, glorious, camp-grotesque half-hour, but they don't quite cohere - again, the third season of the Hannibal television series improves on almost every beat of this with perfect precision. The simple decision to place Will Graham inside this narrative makes all the difference, plus that crucial chemistry between Mads Mikkelsen and everyone else…
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Doctor Who: The Star Beast 2023
I did watch this upon its release and didn't realise it would be loggable on Letterboxd in this form. At first, I strongly felt that this played like a cynical nostalgia grab, not unlike many other franchise revivals over the last decade. Once it gets all the heavy lifting plot stuff out the way and clears out its necessary deus ex machina structure it turns back into a pretty classic adventure, though, albeit a fairly average episode of television. Looking…
