If, as the rumours suggest over the past few days, the episode of Not Going Out we’ve just seen is the last, then it’s hard to argue that the show has gone out on a high note. It’s also left it on the kind of cliffhanger that’s crying out to be resolved, and that’s coming from someone who usually couldn’t give two hoots about romances in sitcoms. Mimicking the car accident that sent Sam Tyler back to the 70s, here, Lee is sent into his personal dream....

It’s one of the many eccentric touches in Bong Joon Ho’s beautifully bizarre fantasy about the food industry, capitalism, and the connection between a child and an animal who is more than a pet… it’s a dear loved one. Our Matt Schuchman recently had the opportunity to sit down with the three actors who make up the main faces of Okja’s ALF: Paul Dano, Steve Yeun, and Lily Collins. While talking with all three of them, we discuss what is the appeal of the ALF and why such a formal and politically motivated group could so quickly and enthusiastically get behind young Ahn Seo-hyun’s main character of Mija in the film....

Let’s start with the crazy person in question, the fright wig haired Helena. Helena spent the episode making new friends. Last week, Sarah was shocked to find her clone sister, whom she believed she killed, alive and not so well, but Helena did save her life and Sarah is nothing if she is not loyal to those that have helped her, particularly when that someone is family. Felix pawned Helena off on good old Art, a cop who is no stranger to partnering with and helping clones....

Ouija: Origin Of Evil is in UK cinemas from October 21st.

Well, that was bleak. The reason? Because its opening episode gave few concessions, choosing to keep the mood bleak, the tone downbeat, and the conversations long. It’s presumably done this with a strong eye on the seven episodes that follow, but it’s asking the audience to take a bit of a leap of faith to go with it. Hopefully, they’ll do so, as grown-up science fiction drama on British television is hardly in bountiful supply....

But 2012 was a very different time, when musicals were still in the zeitgeist both on the big and small screen, and the question of whether an appetite for another Pitch Perfect really exists three years later tentatively hangs over this sequel. Based on the final product, the answer’s probably no, because it feels as if even those involved have fallen out of love with the concept. Now this is a film that can admittedly exist on the flimsiest of premises, so the competition is as good a reason as any for them to work towards the familiar make or break finale....

Preacher Season 3 Episode 9 Well, I never thought I’d write the following, but such is Preacher: The vial containing the missing bit of Jesse Custer’s soul slithers its way out of The Allfather’s disemboweled sphincter. Which is quickly followed by Jesse trying to strangle Starr with the Allfather’s entrails as “Joy to the World” blares on the soundtrack. Yes, on paper it seems impossible that we’d ever witness such gruesome moments on a TV show, and yet here we are—sacrilege in hourly installments, courtesy of AMC....

“Why don’t they just come out?” asks tabloid editor Duncan Allen in new BBC One drama Press. He’s in the morning editorial meeting, bemoaning the suicide of a talented young footballer blackmailed over his sexuality. It’s easy to tell that I already hate Allen—played here with supreme flair by Ben Chaplin—which means that Mike Bartlett’s new drama Press is working. It’s especially working because I don’t just hate Allen, I’m also begrudgingly impressed and entertained by him....

4.5 Gamma Zeta Die Let’s hope this week’s episode marks the end of the slightly ridiculous Tippy storyline, as Spencer has now tracked the parrot’s sung phone number to a sorority house at Cicero College. It’s senior year for the Liars, so we had to expect the obligatory college-visit episode to emerge during season four, but Spencer’s current out-of-character disregard for her future continues as she shuns the Ivy Leagues for a fact-finding mission with Emily....

5.13 How The ‘A’ Stole Christmas This year, we didn’t get our annual Halloween episode, but Santa brought us How The ‘A’ Stole Christmas instead. And Pretty Little Liars certainly made the most of the change in holiday. This is pretty much everything you’d expect a Christmas with the Liars to look like, with evil snow globes, elaborate winter formals and absolutely no parents to speak of. It’s the good and the bad of the show all wrapped up with a bow....

6.6 No Stone Unturned & 6.7 O, Brother Where Art Thou? Season six of Pretty Little Liars – the #summerofAnswers – started off with a really interesting exploration of trauma and PTSD. These episodes, No Stone Unturned and O Brother, Where Art Thou, feature two set-pieces involving an evil racoon and gummy bears laced with marijuana. Never say this show doesn’t deliver. For a lot of Pretty Little Liars fans, these episodes are the show at its best and most fun....

Project X, then, also turned out to be one of the films that pretty much any studio wished it had released. Made, we’re told, for not much more than $10m, the film went on to be a solid hit, creeping over $100m at the worldwide box office, and all-but-guaranteeing a sequel. That’s before the cash from the disc release and such like get factored in. Project X, though, is a really hard film to like....

11.1 Twentica The shift from Red Dwarf X to Red Dwarf XI echoes the biggest (and still the most divisive) of these regenerations – that of Red Dwarf II to Red Dwarf III. When Red Dwarf X premiered in 2012, much was written – not least by us – about how it represented a ‘back to basics’ approach for the sitcom; for the most part the stories were character-driven, insular pieces with little location filming, and seemed closer in tone to Series I and II than anything that came afterwards....

And in episode four he does, kind of, with a business trip to Helsinki designed to thrust Groomtech into the global marketplace. It’s understandable why he should be attracted to her. She’s smart, beautiful and, more importantly, an escape route from the banality of life. Of course Reggie should be able to unwind with wife Nicola. He’s got so much steam to let off he could turn the living room into a sauna....

In it are all the classic Tarantino touches, like non-linear chronologies, unexpected extreme violence, super-long shots and interesting blends of contemporary music and narrative. If you don’t follow flash-backs easily or handle mutilation well, then this isn’t the movie for you; but then neither are the majority of those created by Tarantino. What does the blu-ray format contribute to the Reservoir Dogs experience? It ranges from relatively little to absolutely nothing depending what aspect precisely you’re talking about....

A painstaking amount of time is spent getting to know our heroes and villains, which is great, but it simply doesn’t have a pay-off because we never really get to see them in any form of danger, and so there’s never a time when we’re in fear of their lives or caring for their safety. Given that episode twelve ended with the promise that “some will live, and some will die,” there’s also a great sense of injustice that the series failed to follow up on that promise, because nobody dies, everybody lives and leaves the hospital sunny-faced and care-free....

Two orderlies at the hospital with Down Syndrome, suggestively called Christa and Abel (Jennifer Cunningham and Brandon Bauer), tell Peter Rickman that Mary’s doll is just like him – she can’t speak, but she has secrets inside of her. He unbuttons the doll’s dress and finds old newspaper clippings inside, detailing the mill fire over a hundred years ago. The paper has a list of the names of the children who died or went missing, including Mary’s full name....

4.2 Some Conscience Lost It’s an episode exploring all kinds of displacement, from Reid’s inability to fit in well with the new operations of Lehman Street, the wanderings of Leda Starling, Susan’s hideaway, Rose’s tricksy relationship with adopted son Connor, through to the missing boys of the Union Workhouse. Each strand of the story follows a similar path as the person in question struggles in their present situation through a specific trial, before they find some kind of acceptance by the end....

In truth, it’s probably a little bit of all of them. Crucially, however, the film also happens to be one of the more accomplished, albeit slightly cynical blockbusters to land in multiplexes this summer. That said, none of this fancy franchise repositioning would matter a jot if the rationale underpinning the film weren’t rock solid. Luckily for Fox, it’s in this area that Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes is at its strongest....

While I have vowed not to give away any spoilers for the first hour of Fox’s high-concept slasher/comedy/soap opera/mystery thriller, I can definitely say that at least as a proof of concept, the pilot delivers one satisfying slice of fun right after the next. Not only does Murphy have the most legendary Scream Queen herself in his series, the aforementioned Jamie Lee Curtis—who is wonderful here as a university dean just as driven to end the terror of sororities as Laurie Strode was to stop her brother in the similar campus setting of Halloween: H20—but he also has out-and-out callbacks to the creepy stalking of Michael Myers from the original Halloween film....