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Tuesday, 26 November 2013

An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)

A film that's both a kind of biopic of the late William Hartnell's later years and a docudrama about the events surrounding the birth of the Dr Who series at the BBC in 1963. Don’t be put off by the ‘docudrama’ tag, it does both things exceptionally well.
While it'll obviously appeal to fans of the sci-fi show the most, David Bradley, who plays the crotchety old Hartnell, does such an astonishing job that people who don't care for the series will still find something to latch onto, especially his truly heartbreaking performance in the second half.

3½ cups of piss and vinegar out of 5

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