New Reviews (updated 12/8/10)


TV: SHERLOCK

However many modern elements intrude -and some of them like constant assumptions that the two are a couple or how useless the police are seem a tad old fashioned – nothing shifts the dynamic too far from the heritage of the character. full story...


MUSIC: ARCADE FIRE - THE SUBURBS

There’s a suggestion of amazing things beyond the ordinary and the tone is restrained yet fascinating. It’s a clever trick to pull off not least for over an hour but there is not a single filler here. full story...


EVENT: THE DOCTOR WHO PROM

Thank goodness then they didn’t have Doctor Who Proms in the 1980s! Can you imagine the attempt by Kamelion to do a walk on? full story...


FILM: INCEPTION

Inception is as fantastic as the trailers suggested, yet even more so. full story...


BOOK: UNDER THE IVY-THE LIFE & MUSIC OF KATE BUSH

She has taken on characters as bizarre as a donkey and as ordinary as a woman hanging out washing, she has even sung along with birds. full story...


DR WHO: THE BIG BANG

The Big Bang is clever (too clever for me), wordy, busy and suitably epic and yet…and yet rather like Rory when he became a Roman, I found it very distracting. full story...


DR WHO: THE PANDORICA OPENS

All the stops are certainly being pulled out here- who’d have thought that anything could make The End of Time look reasonable and modest? full story...


DR WHO: THE LODGER

Here’s Matt Smith playing football and judging from his performance, England could have done with his help! full story...


DR WHO: VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR

As with `Amy’s Choice` it shows the benefit of writers who we might say are outside the Doctor Who circle. full story...


DR WHO: COLD BLOOD

How can there be rivers of lava so relatively close to the surface in Wales and if there are how can people walk across bridges over them without frying? full story...


DR WHO: THE HUNGRY EARTH

Using the familiar `community under siege` scenario,` The Hungry Earth` is a busy though not especially exciting episode. full story...


DR WHO: AMY'S CHOICE

Amy’s Choice is Doctor Who at its best- unpredictably the best episode this year so far. Who’d have thought it? full story...


FILM: ROBIN HOOD

Scott’s filmic style is well suited to the tale; his love of light, fluttering flags, bone crunching action and natural locations brings immediacy to the screen that is actually far more effective in transporting us there than some 3D films have been. full story...


THE GENERAL ELECTION

Did David Dimbleby really stay in the same chair for about 18 hours? full story...


DR WHO: VAMPIRES OF VENICE

So brisk it looks like a few scenes were edited out, this episode is tremendously entertaining and quite lavishly staged. full story...


ASH: A-Z Vol. 1

Recently they’ve been releasing a single a month and this collects some of them. Technically of course that makes it an album! full story...


DR WHO: FLESH AND STONE

Absolutely riveting as a result, even when watched after midnight on the iPlayer. In fact the occasional technical hitch can obviously be blamed on that crack in time – and not your Broadband! full story...


DR WHO: THE TIME OF ANGELS

Each period of Doctor Who seems to find a couple of talismanic directors who best capture the intent and mood of that particular time and in Adam Smith, it seems as if the Moffat era may have found it’s first. full story...


FILM: CEMETERY JUNCTION

Cemetery Junction is about life choices and what influences our decisions, hardly new ground you might say but delivered with considerable success. full story...


DR WHO: VICTORY OF THE DALEKS

Winston Churchill and the Daleks? It’s easy enough to come up with a striking idea like that but translating it into a good story is another matter. full story...



TWU Advert

Subscribe to our RSS feed to be alerted to site updates.


Welcome to Live From Mars, the website of Fringeworld, producers of fine fanzines since 1992. Here, you’ll find an abundance of articles and features about tv, films, music and events some of them new, a lot previously published in our zines. Plus there’s lots of information on our current zine `This Way Up`.

To contact us: hello@livefrommars.co.uk Zine queries: zine@livefrommars.co.uk



Update 12/8/10


It's a new look

Yes, it's out with the salmon pink and in with shades of blue! And a nifty new logo as well. Still the same old content though! Hope you like it.

P.S. In keeping with the retro B-movie look of the logo, and as we're trying to work out how to add sound effects to the site, may we suggest you make theremin noises whenever you open a new page? Ta.


Update 12/7/10


Here's Oliver Wake to tell you about a brand new fanzine…


I’m delighted to announce that the debut issue of Doctor Who fanzine Panic Moon is available now in good old fashioned paper and ink format. It’s small (A6 format and 28 pages) but perfectly formed. Just right for reading on the bus. Inside you will find:

Reviews of each of the series five stories; explorations of the characters of the eleventh Doctor and Amy; a review of the K9 series; a look at the redesign of the Daleks; a roundup of other recent paper zines in 2010’s fanzine renaissance; a review of Big Finish’s recent output; thoughts on the work of Chris Chibnall, on the use of death in Steven Moffat’s episodes, and on madness, monsters and metaphor in Vincent and the Doctor. Plus some stunning illustrations.

Prices, including P&P:

UK: £1.10

Europe (airmail): £2.00

Elsewhere (airmail): £2.50

Please pay using paypal (www.paypal.co.uk) to panicmoonfanzine@googlemail.com. I’d be terribly grateful if, when making payment, you would use the ‘gift’ rather than ‘goods’ option, as this avoids a fee being taken and therefore helps minimise our losses - this is a non-profit making publication after all. Please add the address for the fanzine to be sent to in the comments section. If you’d prefer to pay by an alternative method, please contact us at the same email address and we’ll sort something out.

Next issue there’ll be a lot more old series stuff, but let’s wait for a few of you to get this issue before we worry about that. We'd also be delighted to receive any comments on the zine at the above email address.

Many thanks.

Ollie


Even better than Fish Custard!



Yes, it’s issue 27 of This Way Up, available now from the little click thing underneath these words.Contents include reviews of the first seven episodes of the 2010 Doctor Who season, Fish People malarkey in The Underwater Menace, how old Doctor Who episodes are re-coloured plus Live at Pebble Mill and a look at the end of both Lost and Ashes To Ashes.

This Way Up Issue 27 (PDF 1,689 kB)

You’ll need Adobe Acrobat to view This Way Up. Download it for free here.

Click here to read back issues