Spearhead from Space

The TARDIS arrives in a forest in England. The door opens. A strange man walks out and then promptly collapses to the ground. And with that, the Third Doctor's era has begun. While only six months had passed between the airing of the last episode of The War Games and the first episode of Spearhead from Space, a lot had changed. The show was now in color (or colour, if you're nasty) and there was a new face in the opening credits, that of Jon Pertwee. This new era for the show had the Doctor exiled to Earth, unable to use the TARDIS independently, and forced to help UNIT defend the planet from enemies foreign, domestic and extra-terrestrial. In Spearhead from Space, the Doctor butts heads with a race called the Nestenes and their plastic henchmen, the Autons. The Doctor also joins up with a new companion, the brilliant and occasionally abrasive scientist Liz Shaw. Spearhead from Space is a reasonably good serial despite being fairly heavy on exposition. The pace definitely picks up in the second half though, with the Doctor charging in ahead of UNIT to destroy the would-be invaders.

Rating: Only I know that%

New Tale of Zatoichi

This is the third Zatoichi movie and the first one in color. Here our pudgy blind samurai friend returns home to find out his old mentor has turned into a bad guy! Zatoichi considers retiring with the woman he loves and having a nice life where he doesn't slice up evildoers but there are, like, twenty movies left in this series so I'll let you guess what he decides.

RATING: 76%

White

White is a color that we all probably know, and if you've never heard of it before then congratulations pallie, you don't live in America. White is the the most useless crayon, but the most common paint. It is also the most common way the pinkest people refer to themselves all over the planet Earth for some reason. Some people say white represents life, and others say it represents death. Vanilla ice cream is white, and while it is the most boring flavor, it is also the most welcoming to the addition of toppings. The KKK wears white because they are chickens and also racist, and also they say things like "White Power," a phrase I am now incapable of hearing without thinking of Dave Chappelle. One of my students claimed today that white was her favorite color, and since she was white I assumed that to be a race thing. White chocolate is not really chocolate at all, but people like it for some reason or other, I don't, it's gross. White is the color of skeletons and ghosts, but not Halloween cats or witches, they are mostly black and green, respectively. If your hair is white it either means you are old or you got scared real bad. Paper is white, but ink is black, a juxtaposition a lot of undergrads think is poetic, but in actuality is nonsensical. Well, in conclusion white is everywhere, especially on this Corn Flakes box next to my computer so see ya wouldn't want to be ya as Shakespeare said (he was also white).

RATING: 50%