Tag: Matt Smith

Morbius

Morbius

dir. Daniel Espinosa (2022)

Film poster: “Morbius” dir. Daniel Espinosa (2022)

Jared Leto and Matt Smith do rather well in the Jekyll-side of their performances. Unfortunately, the Hyde-sides are beyond preposterous. Simplistic as it is, the film doesn’t even bother with closure, merely tailing off into some unfathomable prelude to interconnected Marvel bollocks.

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

by Steven Moffat; dir. Toby Haynes (BBC, 2010)

DVD cover: Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol

A successful transplanting of Dickens’s novella into the Doctor Who universe, using science fiction to clever effect and adding a twist to the tale. Moffat captures both the Doctor’s exuberant childlike aspect and the seriousness beneath. Matt Smith is in top form.

 

 

Jackaby

Jackaby

by William Ritter (Algonquin Young Readers, 2014)

Ritter_Jackaby

A supernatural detective story that doesn’t overplay its hand, relying on clever but sensible plot progression and the charisma of the eponymous Jackaby – a cross between Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock and Matt Smith’s Doctor Who, narrated by a Victorian Clara Oswald John Watson.

 

 

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons

by J. T. Colgan (BBC, 2012)

Colgan_Dark Horizons

While writing in a style evoking the tv show’s snapshot paciness, Colgan nevertheless crafts a solid historical setting — a Scottish island under both Viking and alien incursion — and adds depth to the mercurial flitting about of Matt Smith’s otherworldly (yet unworldly) Doctor.

 

Doctor Who: The Jade Pyramid

Doctor Who: The Jade Pyramid

by Martin Day (BBC Audio, 2010)

Day_Jade Pyramid

More a straightforward short story than novel, and with a production crackle marring Matt Smith’s suitably Doctor-esque flittering consciousness narration, this audiobook nevertheless stands out for its atypical Who setting (mediaeval Japan) and the uncommon, almost poetic refinement of Martin Day’s prose.

 

Derelict Space Sheep