Proving her usefulness, Anna revealed (as she leapt through time and space back home to get her nuptial swag on) that Gold had known about her and her sister from the beginning. This was enough to send Emma and her familia running to stop Gold and the plot he was, doubtlessly, brewing. It was reassuring to see Emma saving Killian; I am in staunch support of Emma saving any and every dude that there is....
Tony Hawk Ride is Robomodo’s first game. What was it like taking on the Tony Hawk franchise from Neversoft? So, were you approached by Activision with the peripheral idea already part of it? It was more of an approach like, ‘how are you guys going to refresh the series, and make the franchise Robomodo’s?’ The idea of a peripheral for skateboarding is not new, it’s been around forever. So we went over what our gameplay goals were – appealing to the mass market, having an intuitive control scheme, short bursts of gameplay that appeal to the party atmosphere, and having visuals that make it fun to watch – so from that, games that seem to nail that seem to be peripheral games....
As I was watching Penny Dreadful I found myself hoping that I’d found the place where all the old Universal monsters came to die. I’m partly right, they’re all showing up, Dr. Frankenstein and his creature is doing a Robert Louis Stevenson turn, there is a vampire named Mina, there’s even a gunslinger straight out of the Wild Bill traveling troupe. But they didn’t come to die. They came for a 90s makeover and that’s good enough for me....
4.8 The Guilty Girl’s Handbook Hanna’s storyline, which has been the standout all season, understandably dominated the episode, but Spencer was still on her detective kick – eventually connecting the death of Toby’s mother with Detective Wilden and Radley. Maybe there’s only been one huge, tangled mystery to solve all of this time, and every single thing about Rosewood that hasn’t added up is part of the same conspiracy? We can only hope, but it at least looks as though uncovering whoever paid Wilden off to lie about the ‘suicide’ will lead Toby to the truth about the ‘blonde girl’....
After Zola heads back to the circus, Shawn waits at the Psych offices as Gus, Rachael and Max return from a play date of sorts. Rachael has to go and is going to leave Max alone with the guys for the first time and that has her maternal instinct revving into full gear. I guess it is a big step in a new relationship, especially for Gus. Before we get back to the circus, Lassiter’s felonious love Marlowe (Kristy Swanson) is finally being released from the joint after a stretch behind bars from last season....
Yet, as season two finally hits its stride following an extended two-episode preamble, it seems nothing in the land of Rectify is quite the same. As in previous episodes, the ever more dysfunctional Holden-Talbot family drama is front and center as Daniel shuffles in an out of the plot, seemingly relegated to the status of secondary character. Still bruised and aching, he quietly washes windows, clears tree branches and revs car engines as family ties continue to fray and unravel around him....
In the last scene of the season two premiere, when Agent Bellamy’s body is wheeled into its drawer in the morgue, his toe tag reads “Returned.” This was a flashback scene, before Bellamy turns up back in Arcadia. Does this mean, if Bellamy was pre-tagged to “Return,” that this government entity has some way of knowing who will come back and who won’t? Moving on to “Echoes,” Jacob takes to collecting dead crows that fall from the sky and, later on, cremates them at the behest of his grandmother, Margaret (Michelle Fairley)....
The episode opens where Touched‘s cliffhanger left off – with the bomb exploding into a massive CGI ball of fire, with Potential Slayers flying out of it. Oh dear. The girls, regrettably, are all lying in a pile of rubble; most of them are injured, some of them, including Faith, look dead. There are loads of Potentials in this scene I don’t remember even seeing before, but there were a lot of them so perhaps I just forgot about them....
A lot of TNG season one was bland to the point of being completely forgettable. Say what you will about Conspiracy, but at least it was memorable. Not necessarily for good reasons, but after the previous instalment, we’ll take character where we can find it. At the start of the episode, Picard receives a secret priority message from Captain Keel, an old friend. We know this because the computer starts blaring “SECRET PRIORITY MESSAGE INCOMING!...
3.2 The Ensigns Of Command It transpires that the Sheliak, a non-humanoid race with a low opinion of humans, have discovered some humans on one of their planets and want the Enterprise to remove them before they settle the place in a few days. The planet is saturated with radiation that’s fatal to humans and blocks their sensors and transporter, so they send the radiation-immune Data down to the surface in a shuttle to investigate....
2.23 Declaration Of Independence So, having suffered forty-two episodes of this remarkably inconsistent show, the conclusion never materialised, it just ended with all the straws in the wind. And, in many respects, those that are still watching probably deserve that. That the final images of the zombified populous heading to Bradbury, Idaho, and the laughing clown summed up the show rather perfectly. If I’d not had to write +30,000 words on this god-awful show, I’d be laughing too....
This episode might be starting to paint a picture of Morty’s family life that implies his relationship with his parents is much more messed up than all the insane crap Rick gets him involved in. Morty’s parents’ storylines have mostly been to do with each other and we haven’t really seen them do much parenting. We know they’re in a borderline loveless marriage, so it follows that the badness of that would not likely translate to a caring upbringing for their kids....
It was a sci-fi western about a cop out for revenge. It was a satire of 80s politics and corporate ruthlessness. It was a meditation on the nature of existence, like a retelling of Frankenstein. It was a black comedy that took precise shots at contemporary American media. RoboCop’s opening, backed by a welcome revival of Basil Poledouris’ strident theme, is a strong one. It’s about 15 years hence, and America’s still embroiled in wars in the Middle-East....
Peter Morgan’s script is finely balanced, introducing first Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and then Lauda (Daniel Bruhl), and carefully digging through the layers of their respective bravado and arrogance to find the deeper flaws and vulnerabilities lying beneath; Lauda is a technical genius both in the garage and the track, but his cold demeanour and less-than rockstar looks set him apart from the animal magnetism of Hunt, who seduces with nurses with a flutter of his eyelashes and charges around the racing circuit with kamikaze fury....
It goes about telling the story in two different time periods. We thus spend a good chunk of the film at the start of the 20th century, as we get a glimpse into Travers’ childhood, particularly the complicated relationship she had with her father (Colin Farrell) and mother (Ruth Wilson). That’s then paired with the 1960s story of the grown-up Travers, in the guise of the outstanding Emma Thompson, as the film explores how Disney, played by Tom Hanks, brought to an end his 20 year quest to bring Mary Poppins to the big screen....
Scandal Season 6 Episode 6 Shonda Rhimes went to a whole new level with Eli Pope, showing him for the first time with a love interest. However, to others wanting Eli to follow their orders, she was just another weakness. When Eli is contacted by his old university colleague, Sandra, for help on a project, Eli immediately wants to take part. It was delightful to see Eli so enthusiastic about dinosaur fossils and engaging with Sandra and their fellow researches as if he was a professor with his students....
Scandal Season 7 Episode 9 I don’t know anymore. Two weeks ago I thought Rowan had murdered Quinn after she birthed baby Robin. Last week, a charred body in the trunk of an abandoned car was thought to have been Quinn’s corpse. The flashbacks in tonight’s episode have once again changed my mind. Olivia, his pouty, inexperienced-as-villainess daughter, got in over her head a few seasons ago when she gorged herself on the addictive White House ambrosia....
That opening establishes Cho as a protective father of his teenage daughter, the pair of them in different ways struggling to process the death of their wife/mother a year or two previous. Things then take a turn – it’s the premise of the movie, not a spoiler – when said daughter disappears. That leaves Father Cho (as nobody calls him) with a succession of technological devices, an overflowing bin in his kitchen, and a whole lot of social media accounts to explore, as he hunts for his missing daughter....
It’s the second feature from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh, but go in expecting a sequel to his modern-day classic, and you’re going to come home short changed. Whereas In Bruges was a tight, focussed three-hander, Seven Psychopaths has characters drift in and out, with a narrative that feels free to take detours as and when McDonagh desires. He desires this often. This works brilliantly later on in the film, when the dependably-brilliant Sam Rockwell gets the spotlight firmly shined in his face....
