Every weekend I hear those words in the theme song and every weekend I think about how the Turtles are going to save the day. There are setbacks, but in the end, the Turtles always win. The entertainment comes from seeing the relationships between the characters (and Mikey saying dumb things). The main focus of “The Lonely Transformation of Baxter Stockman” is a contrast of good guys and bad guys using Donatello and Baxter Stockman....

Temple of the Dog — which recorded a one-off album in 1990 (recently reissued) as a tribute to late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood — played eight shows last fall to an ecstatic fan response, and Cornell mused that the band might not necessarily go back into mothballs. Cornell and Cameron are on the road with Soundgarden this month, and will be back at work on a new album with that outfit later this year as well....

Last week’s episode ended with Jasper getting struck down by a spear. Clarke and company don’t stick around long enough to find out who threw the spear in the first place. As they flee back through the forest they stumble across a skeleton with a mutated skull. Before they can fully process this discovery, they hear Jasper’s pained cries in the distance. Which basically means they left the poor kid for dead (is there a Hallmark card for this sort of major faux pas?...

1.3 Earth Kills For there were not one, but two deaths during the hour – one brought about by some toxic fog (by way of Clarke) and the other by one of their own. This grimness and sinister atmosphere is what most of us tuned in for, of course, and the ‘kids killing kids’ criticism that met the first Hunger Games movie can now also apply to The 100. We were told that no one in the group would be safe and, given that the number of Earth residents still stands at 94, there’s plenty of cannon fodder left to meet and discard....

The 100 Season 4 Episode 6 “We Will Rise” brings back a narrative that the show has put aside for a while, directly comparing the lifestyles of Grounders and Arkadians. So much of the first two seasons were spent teasing out that while the 100 was horrified by these mysterious new people, life on the Ark was nasty, brutish, and short, too. It’s nice to come back to that, particularly now that the tables have turned and we have the Ark in power over a loan prisoner in Elias....

Talking cars are awesome when you’re six, but Knight Rider just doesn’t work well in a generation where we do have talking cars (GPS units, Microsoft’s Sync system, etc.) and any number of gizmos from the pages of science fiction. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) is the best at what he does, and what he does is solve problems. As Cpt. Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel) says, they specialize in the ridiculous....

“I have lived this entire story before and it doesn’t end well.” Now this is how you do an episode of The Affair episode. I went from absolutely hating this episode to quickly thinking it’s my favourite the show has ever done. This is the prototypical, perfect way to incorporate The Affair’s bifurcated perspective structure and it’s all the more bittersweet that it comes as a send off to Alison....

So does The BFG live up to all those anticipation-inciting elements? Well, yes and no. One big positive is that there’s certainly a hefty heart here, as you’d expect from the writer/director duo that had audiences sobbing over a puppet alien back in 1982. There are plenty of reasons to get emotionally invested in this film, and you’ll find yourself rooting for these characters as they journey through worlds both spectacular (certain sections of Giant Country look stunning) and mundane (the BFG hiding in plain sight within the streets of London is a great sequence)....

This review contains spoilers. Even by its own standards for strangeness, The Emotion Detection was a very weird episode of The Big Bang Theory. In a lot of ways it was business as usual, with Penny and Leonard (and even, for a while there, Raj) having their stories invaded by Sheldon, and in others it felt like a recalibration of some of the ways the show has been dealing with certain storylines this season and beyond....

Marvel wasn’t having much luck getting their properties adapted at the time. Howard the Duck was a disaster (which we love), the 1988 Punisher movie starring Dolph Lundgren went straight to video (although we love that, too), the 1990 Captain America movie was not only pulled from its planned Spring 1990 theatrical release, but it didn’t even get a video release for a few more years (although I also have a soft spot for that flick)....

Let’s start with the obvious. The first part of “Anslo Garrick” was handily the most action-packed episode of the entire series thus far. Directed masterfully by Joe Carnahan, The Blacklist turned into a Hollywood action film for a solid hour, with more gunfights, explosions, and gruesome gunshot wounds than we’ve seen in the previous episodes combined. As headquarters were infiltrated by Anslo Garrick and his gang, we were treated to the entire team really acting as a unit in close quarters for the first time all season, with Harry Lennix’s Harold Cooper keeping his cool the entire time…even with a gun pointed at his head....

Sports movies are typically niche affairs. I mean, a group of athletes or single athlete triumphs over adversity and achieves greatness in his or her sport, becomes accepted by the team, and earns the respect of their rival thanks to a gutty performance. That description covers every sports film from Rocky to 1940’s Knute Rockne: All American. In a sense, The Blind Side is exactly as I described the stereotypical sports film....

The ringleaders of the unlikely crime gang are Katie Chang’s Rebecca and Israel Broussard’s Marc, backed up by Emma Watson’s Nicki, amongst others. The young ensemble all turn in good performances, and Watson can add another interesting choice to her post-Harry Potter film career (check out the bumpy but interesting The Perks Of Being A Wallflower for a further example). Yet that seems to be a conscious decision here. Coppola doesn’t pick sides in her script, and that allows us as the audience to marvel at the riches that people keep behind closed (but bizarrely rarely locked) doors, and then watch as people help themselves to the kind of instant opulence that the likes of reality TV seem to offer us....

4.8 The General Krell only wants to get the job done, taking the capital of the planet Umbara, and is quite happy to dispense with pleasantries, not to mention actual Clones, causing much unrest in the ranks. The General hinges on the relationship between the Clones who see themselves very much as brothers, a notion broached in previous excellent episodes like season three’s Clone Cadets and ARC Troopers. Aside from getting the brain box thinking about the very nature of the Clones and the purpose they serve (a purpose that will change, don’t forget), The General is also a wonderful treat on the eye balls....

The fact of the matter is I just wasn’t very happy with my “I Almost Met Johnny Ramone” piece no matter how many edits or changes I made, so I asked for its removal. I apologize if this upset or angered any of youse, my regular reader-types. I plan on rewriting the whole thing and submitting it again at a later date, possibly combining it with the several other Ramones-related stories I have yet to tell to form one giant, Voltron-esque Ramones remembrance piece....

Appreciating that we couldn’t accommodate everyone who wanted to come, and appreciating that not everyone in the world could get to London on a Tuesday night anyway, we’re – as promised – bringing you the online version of the quiz. What You Can Win The prizes have been provided with thanks by the fine folks at Argos and Mega Bloks. More runners-up, courtesy of Argos, will be getting a Dead Rising 2 poker set, and a copy of the Dead Rising 2 videogame on Xbox 360....

It’s a crowded market for legal dramas. The same goes for crime shows tipping female corpses into TV’s charnel house by the wheelbarrowful. You can barely flick between Eastenders and Bake-Off without meeting a serial killer. Why then, should we bother with The Escape Artist? Isn’t it another depressing chapter in the same murdered-woman-motivates-man-to-revenge story that we’ve been watching for years? Perhaps, but it’s certainly much more besides. David Wolstencroft’s somewhat schlocky premise – a barrister gets a murder suspect off only for his wife to become the killer’s next victim – is seeded with questions about the ethics of a legal profession that prioritises case wins over justice and careerism over morality....

The Exorcist Season 1 Episode 2 After watching The Exorcist premiere, I couldn’t help but feel like a part of me was being torn to shreds by terrible television out to ruin all that is sacred. The thing is, though, I’m used to it. Since the 1973 Exorcist, there have been plenty of follow-ups that have completely soiled the original’s good name. With that in mind, I decided to treat the television series as something new, try to see the potential in it, and cut it some slack....

3.9 The Present At this point, I don’t know what else to say about The Flash Season 3. I was so thoroughly disillusioned by the back half of season two and not particularly thrilled about the use of Flashpoint as a major story driver early on that I was perfectly ready to be kinda psyched for this show to just be okay this year, and I would have probably been cool with that....