4.3 Isolation One of the enduring questions posed by The Walking Dead is a pretty simple one, and one we’ve all considered at one point or another. Just what, if anything, would you do to survive? Would you kill an innocent person if it increased your chances of living another day? Would you root through garbage to find food? For vast swaths of the world, these questions aren’t hypothetical, but in most places, these questions are merely flights of fantasy....

5.11 The Distance It’s another tale of two episodes this week, even if there’s no actual division between an A plot and a B plot. There’s just one plot, Aaron the visitor and a promise too good to be true that divides the group quite literally in two. On one hand, Michonne, Carl, and everyone else. On the other hand, Rick, paranoid and crazed by one betrayal after another from groups too good to be true....

6.15 East Carol has escaped the friendly confines of Alexandria, and it appears that she’s run into trouble thanks to the cold opening, which features lots of dripping blood, bloody weapons, broken glass, and sudden eruption of gunfire. The episode then backs up from that point to travel back to Carol making all her escape arrangements, packing up food, writing her goodbye note, gathering weapons, and so forth. While Johnny Cash plays, Carol sneaks out of a heavily-guarded compound, steals one of their security cars, and escapes to the strains of Johnny Cash....

9.1 A New Beginning It’s impossible to escape how painfully paint-by-the-numbers The Walking Dead season nine opener, A New Beginning, feels at times, as if going down a checklist of the show’s most tired tropes. But the premiere commits an even greater sin than that: it’s kind of boring. The extended episode (which The Walking Dead should never do) never really builds any momentum. Only after introducing its version of a redshirt does the episode kind of get going, but even then, the drama feels unearned....

The sun is shining brilliantly and Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson) and Margaret (Amanda Hale) are both brimming with joy, which is a bad sign in England. Word is echoing through the streets that Henry Tudor (Michael Marcus) and the bastard girl Elizabeth (Freya Mavor) are the royal family of the year that can unite all the houses into a neighborhood of semi-attached row homes. Meanwhile King Richard (Aneurin Barnard) seems to be losing to the curse of the White Queen....

At that moment Lester visits Daniels to tell him that they re about to catch Marlo very dirty. Marlo, Chris and another member of the gang sit in a holding cell and compare their charge sheets. The only key figure to have avoided arrest is Snoop. The charge sheets avoid mention of the illegal wire tap by referring to an anonymous source of information and then there’s the matter of Chris and his murder charger....

The series’s central character, Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell), is an unlikely person to undertake such an investigation, preferring to keep his head down. One reason for him to do so is that he’s a chief suspect in the captain’s murder. At night neighbors appear to take revenge by burning down his cabbage barn, and even his father, Judge Woodhull (Kevin R. McNally), considers him the most likely culprit. The last and most dangerous of the investigators is Maj....

So, you want to hear a real-life testament to the drop in quality of V? Well, while I’m still fulfilling my obligation to review the series for Den Of Geek (unlike other shows I dropped early, like Reaper, or shows I flaked out on due to awful time slot, like TSSC), it’s no longer appointment television for me. I was still there on Tuesday night at 10pm, but I wasn’t awake....

Adapted from the long-running French comic book series first published 50 years ago, Valerian marks Besson’s return to the manic space opera territory of The Fifth Element: it’s colourful, fast-moving and screamingly kitsch. Indeed, Valerian is so bizarre in places that it makes The Fifth Element, or any other space opera you could name – Guardians Of The Galaxy, Star Wars – look somewhat conservative. Hundreds of years in the future, when humans have long since branched out to other planets, cocksure space cop Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and his partner and sometime lover Laureline (Cara Delevigne) patrol the galaxy, serving the interests of the human Federation, led by the alarmingly stern Commander Filitt (Clive Owen)....

The Veep office is a cannibalistic workplace. In a lot of offices, people care about each other, sometimes deeply. They work together for years and, even though there might be some backstabbing, for the most part, people want to buy swaddling clothes for baby showers or bring cakes for their co-workers’ birthdays. Okay, bad example. Elaine in Seinfeld drew the line at office birthday cakes. But to the point, the co-workers at the Vice President’s office care shallowly and passionately for each other....

Veep Season 6 Episode 8 In Veep season 6, episode 8, “Judge,” ex-President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) fulfills what she hoped would be a death bed promise and celebrates Gary’s (Tony Hale) birthday at his family’s sweet home in Alabama. She enjoys a downhome barbecue and gets to kibbutz the family game of incest. Kentucky fried Christ, Gary’s family is a grand tapestry of Dixie dysfunction. Selina’s surprised they doen’t have an inbred cousin living on their porch....

Voltron Season 5 Episode 3 Ah, so that’s how Lotor got the bayard. That retroactively makes the last episode a little better, especially since most people will just be viewing these episodes in one long binge. Delivering plot relevant information is one thing (and this challenge to become the new emperor sounds awesome) but having it deeply impact our characters relationships is what really makes this new twist work. Seeing Lance despondent over how Shiro treated him is also a catalyst for development!...

FIRST DOCTOR The first Doctor could have been noted Irish actor Cyril Cusack or Hugh David who directed a couple of Troughton tales or Leslie French who appeared as a mathematician in the McCoy era. William Hartnell was cast after producer Verity Lambert saw him giving a rare character performance as “Dad” Johnson, an ageing sports agent in Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life. Hartnell relished the chance to abandon the Army roles he had become famous for, notably in ITV’s The Army Game and as Sgt Grimshaw in the trailblazing Carry On Sergeant....

So after having a long overdue huge fix of Wii Glee over Christmas thanks to my sister and her fiancé’s console, and having recently, after many weeks of searching (and not getting ripped off), got my own grubby mitts on one, I am now hooked. And I’m on the constant look out for more fun packed party themed goodies to play with. A friend of mine’s partner is from Japan, and when visiting over Christmas, he was raving constantly about playing Wii Fit....

Marginalized groups may be seen on screen more often now, but why do they keep being portrayed as the villains in a blockbuster series? Characters like Iden Versio and Imperial admiral Rae Sloane may be given strong motivations and relatable characterization, but they are villains regardless, and in Star Wars, the heroes win. “As a person who believes in equality, I feel like there should be a wide array of [female characters],” Dawson said....

Prior to his arrival, Disney’s animation division had backed itself into a corner, producing ill-advised direct-to-DVD sequels to many of their past classics, alongside underwhelming theatrical releases that barely registered on the public’s radar. Under Lasseter’s control, Disney Animation has slowly but surely increased the quality of its animated features output with the release of such new movies as Bolt (2008), The Princess And The Frog (2009)and more recently Tangled (2010)....

For those who are unfamiliar with that quote, it is from the lips of Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered at a Prime Minister’s Questions, back in November. The leader of the government, who abolished the UK Film Council, he now looks to encourage the seemingly in limbo film industry to chase after the Hollywood dollar, and seek to make us a subservient satellite blockbuster academy where our promising talent both technically and artistically are essentially hired out for the ‘greater good’, in this case attracting industry, tourists and money to the British economy....

A visit to theblackoutfilm.com will take you to the website for Blackout: The Film where Mr Boll is apparently asking for donations of 33 Euros from punters (or co-producers) in order to achieve the mighty sum of, wait for it… $18,500,000! Yes, that’s eighteen and a half million dollars, folks; just think of the movie Uwe could make with that… To be frank, I’d rather spend 33 Euros on a decent night out, or a colonic irrigation than fund another Boll movie, but at least this project has nothing to do with games, for once, which should please gamers around the globe....

Earlier this year, in spite of struggling a little in the US, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage brought in $346 million at the global box office, and Diesel was hinting around the time of its release that another chapter in the story might be in the offing. The H Collective’s deal to fund the movie gives it all rights excluding television and American theme park rights. If they wanted to do a Vin Diesel xXx-themed bumper car ride, they can’t....

“They come down to Hell and we’re going to bore them? We need something new. Something fresh,” is a line that’s uttered by Gary (Henry Zebrowski) in Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell’s season premiere regarding a new orientation video for Hell, but it also almost seems like a mantra for this latest season of the show. All bets (or deals with the devil) are off this year and it couldn’t be more exciting....