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12 Monkeys Season 2, Episode 13 12 Monkeys season 2 has delivered top notch episodes every week, and the finale entitled “Memory of Tomorrow” is a fitting capper to an unbelievably complex but expertly woven story arc. The fulfillment of many fan wishes came to pass, whether it was seeing Cole and Cassie have a life together, discovering the identity of the Witness, or perhaps even experiencing a time jump to the future rather than to the past....

Frank Sinatra – Goodfellas This Express piece quotes an Empire Magazine interview with Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker in which she relates how the original plan was to have Frank Sinatra’s original recording of “My Way” play over the end credits of modern gangster classic Goodfellas instead of the Sid Vicious cover that was eventually used. Johnny Mathis – The X-Files Singer-songwriter Johnny Mathis refused to let The X-Files use his original recording of the song “Wonderful Wonderful” in the season four story “Home,” necessitating a Mathis-alike cover version to be recorded for the episode....

I learned a lot about London from watching the third episode of 24: Live Another Day. I’m not a Londoner, although end up visiting the place fairly regularly, and there are some elements of London life I’ve clearly overlooked. Perhaps of more use is what 24: Live Another Day teaches us about the London transportation system. Foolishly, I’d assumed that the quickest way to get from one underground station to another was on an underground train....

Day 8: 11:00pm-12:00am We’re all too familiar with Jack’s ability to turn a rotten situation into gold, though, and from the very off it was clear that Jack’s interrogator was dead meat. He may as well have been wearing a red shirt. And so, as suspected, but no less enjoyable, Jack managed to escape by, in a show of nimbleness, forcing his foe to electrocute himself and then breaking his way trough the metal pipe he’s attached to, before finally breaking his interrogator’s neck, all while still reeling from a stab wound (freshly poked and prodded at after his ordeal) and electrocution....

You’ve got to hand it to the people behind 30 Rock. They really do know their television. This week’s reality TV parody did such a brilliant impression of being mindless, stilted and dumb, it was almost hard to tell it apart from the real thing. For anyone unfamiliar with the franchise, Real Housewives is an orgy of confrontation, collagen and consumerism so stagy it makes my niece’s primary school nativity plays seem nuanced and profound....

It starts promisingly, with a tease that A Good Day To Die Hard will be far more respectful of the series than its immediate predecessor. The screen is black. Michael Kamen’s take on the music starts to play. This is Die Hard, you think. Excellent. Because once it’s established that John McClane’s son (Jack, played well by Jai Courtney) is in Russia, and in trouble, A Good Day To Die Hard sets about spending most of its surprisingly brief running time making loud noises, and little coherent sense....

Stallone spoke about his way into the acting world, performing in Death Of A Salesman while teaching physical education at a boarding school in Switzerland. Sly even sang a short duet with Jonathon Ross from the main theme of Paradise Alley, written by brother Frank Stallone, and impressed the audience with a quotation from Shakespeare’s Comedy Of Errors. Discussing one of his most famous characters portrayed on the screen, Vietnam veteran John Rambo, Sly revealed that Kirk Douglas was originally set to play Colonel Trautman in 1982’s First Blood, but when arriving on set, Mr Douglas had re-written the part where he would kill Rambo at the end of the film....

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 12 I really didn’t like the way this week’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. begins but I certainly like where it lands. We open this week with Phil Coulson entering into a partnership with Glenn Talbot. At first, the whole thing seems weak sauce. The show has featured Talbot a few times as comic relief, but for this week’s opening to work, the viewer really has to buy into the tension between Talbot and Coulson....

Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 20 The Infinity War comes to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (sort of) as Graviton finds that with great power comes great madness Anywho, we now know where on the timeline the current episodes of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD takes place. According to Qovas, Thanos and his invasion is taking place concurrently with the events on Agents of SHIELD. Of course, Coulson and his crew are removed from these events because half of SHIELD is underground in the Lighthouse while the other half are in outer space, but the happenings of Infinity War do have an impact on the SHIELD proceedings....

2.13 God’s Eye The idea of having Rosen guided by the ghost of his daughter works well, as he stumbles around New York bleeding to death from the gunshot he received at the closing scene of episode twelve. Switching back to the Alphas office, there’s enough friction to light a small campfire, and the pressure of stopping Parish is telling on the team, who aren’t even actually that cohesive. This all builds up the tension nicely, and then we have our first really dumb scene, the one where the electrical engineers set off the first device accidentally by hitting it with a hammer!...

In the 90s, this approach reached critical mass and the abundance of crossover “event” comics was considered one of the major contributing factors in the industry’s implosion. When Joe Quesada took over as Editor in Chief at Marvel – one of the (real-world) events that mark the beginning of the comics industry’s climb out of the 90s mire, one of his initial reforms was that each Marvel series would largely keep to itself – no more crossovers....

This American Dad Review contains spoilers. American Dad is back, you guys! With its first TBS-produced season, no less! Remember when we thought that the show moving to TBS was all craziness? And now look at things! Forty-four more episodes (at least) are happening on the network, and while some definite growing pains might have been felt on the show’s first-year migration from FOX, by the end of last season they had found reasonably solid footing....

3.4 Fearful Pranks Ensue One of the few horror genres we haven’t really seen the show take on is zombies. (They also haven’t done vampires, and I’m holding on hope that next season Evan Peters will play some sort of sexy mummy while Denis O’Hare plays a wisecracking werewolf.) That lack of zombies comes to an end this week, as Fearful Pranks Ensue opens with an early display of awesome zombie action and gore so brutal that The Walking Dead is jealous—it looked like a nod to Day of the Dead‘s climactic “I hope you choke” scene—and closes with a brilliant scene of zombies menacing Madame Robichaux’s in a shot that reminded me a whole lot of the homecoming dance scene in Night of the Creeps....

Poor Asda must have thought they were scraping the barrel of unconvincing celebrity endorsements with their roll call of everymen to be fake staff members. While Paul Whitehouse would arse about with a little truck of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Alphabites, the real staff looked on in a mix of awkward awe and nervousness that their boss would come and yell at them for not working hard enough. Ian Wright broke several basic health and safety rules in the fish department (I used to do that same job, you get told off if you yell at customers)....

Of course you don’t. You haven’t seen any of your friends outside of Facebook since mid-June 2007. Even before the Zuckerman Takeover, anyone who did the things listed above would make your friends, in order: liable for manslaughter charges for reckless use of carpeting in public areas; made to sit in the corner by their parents when they get home; production assistants on Art Attack. The ‘let’s work together’ vibe is hardly new in advertising – I, too, would like to buy the world a Coke, and unite my colours of Benetton – but at least people in ads used to work together on something useful....

Obviously, not having much experience with people who are homosexual, Daniel is very wary of Henry and reluctant to spend any time with him. But, like we’ve seen in previous episodes, Daniel has another side to him that isn’t so laddish and crude. Sadly, this episode only has this one thing to keep me interested, as the other two main characters used are S.Mouse (groan) and Jen (sigh), the two weakest characters of the series....

Den of Geek spoke with Johann Urb, the actor who brings Vigilante/Vincent Sobel to life, about what sets Arrow apart from other superhero properties, what him forget to act, and whether Vigilante will cross a line he can’t come back from. Vince and Dinah have had one of the more interesting and tumultuous relationship’s this season, zigzagging back and forth between tentative trust and outright anger. Even though we hadn’t spent much time with Vince before he was revealed as Vigilante, his connection to Dinah is so strong and thoughtfully evoked on screen that we easily see the years they spent together, and the mark it leaves every time Vince lets Dinah down....

Alex is not the only one on edge, as Gene is beginning to see his empire crashing down around him, as the newspapers and police superiors are hounding him for a ‘result’ after last week’s climactic confrontation with ‘Supermac’ and the dire headlines of corruption it bought. This general feeing of unease has also spread though other parts of the department too as Ray is in a dilemma as to whether to quit the force and join the Army, and Chris is trying to give up smoking, taking to binge eating crisps instead....

1.3 The Boy Must Die Their fate actually involves learning to bull fight – or, just leap over bulls in a way that would make Spelbound cringe – and surviving the attack of the bull. Only if the rag-tag group of our three heroes and a bunch of slaves survive will they be set free. The odds are against them as this group of thrown-together misfits can’t get on for reasons that are never really explained....