Maybe it’s me. But I’ve had a relationship where we kept saying to each other ‘we must talk’, and it ended very badly, indeed. Therefore, when the characters in Chuck say that to each other, and they do in almost every scene, I get a sinking feeling like I’d left a large value banknote in the pocket of some laundry item which is now at maximum spin speed. Early on we’re introduced to the nemesis who is none other than British hard man Vinnie Jones, playing the Bond villain copied named Karl Stromberg....

He has brought clarity and meaning to films such as All The President’s Men, A Bridge Too Far, Marathon Man, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. In life, he has approached these projects with a well-planned method, and the determination to see them through to completion. And in writing this book about those screenplays he has given us one of the most ordered and understandable books ever written about how screenplays work....

Feeling the need for a break from the butt-insulting, basketball-themed shenanigans that so occupy the boys, Shirley, Annie and Britta decide to take a women’s studies class, and leave the boys to their symbolic balls. Abed, never quite as male as the rest of the group, girls included, and in desperate need of some female knowledge joins them, and despite their reservations, the women wholeheartedly embrace him when he turns out to be a bigger bitch than anyone could ever have guessed....

Contrary to its title, Advanced Gay has little to do with enjoying the company of men. In fact sexual preference of any kind was pretty low down the list; the issue of the day was daddy. Daddy as in father, as opposed to “Who’s your…” Ivory-coiffed centenarians aside, Advanced Gay gave the older, more disturbed male members of the group a chance to work out some of that edible complex Britta keeps harping on about....

The Oscar-winning Simmons plays Howard Silk, a “lowly cog” in the massive and enigmatic bureaucracy at a United Nations intelligence agency based in Berlin. Silk is not exactly sure what his job is — certain aspects are classified — but he’s been doing it for 30 years. But when circumstances demand it, Silk learns that his agency is built over — and charged with guarding — a portal to a parallel dimension, where everyone has a double, including Silk himself....

7.8 The Fall From Heaven With Piero Da Vinci and one of King Ferrante’s own close advisers kidnapped by scenery-chewing French pirates, it’s up to Lorenzo to save the day. Well, it’s actually up to Ippolita to save the day. Lorenzo goes to negotiate with the pirates, attempting to buy them off – when they figure out just who Piero Da Vinci’s son is, the price mysteriously goes up since the famous artiste has killed some relatives of various pirates who happened to be heavies for the Pope....

While the artists on the series change regularly – what with it being a Marvel book and all – Scott Koblish is always on tap for the flashback issues and that’s a great thing. When they did the ’60s-based issue, it was an excuse for him to pay homage to Jack Kirby, something Koblish does regularly and is pretty damn good at. Deadpool #34 has Koblish play chameleon to the Rob Liefeld style and it’s done perfectly....

In a movie featuring the likes of Shatterstar and Firefist, that’s the same reaction I can’t help but have for the Juggernaut. Like, I know X-Men: The Last Stand was a garbage movie that almost killed the franchise, but come on! It’s the Juggernaut! He’s both one of the most well-known X-Men villains and one of the top brute force Marvel characters! I’m not complaining. Just surprised is all. It’s like when Bill Murray showed up in Space Jam....

I’m glad to see that Charles Soule and Steve McNiven are able to get their own shot at this. By the first issue of Death of Wolverine, we understand that the character isn’t defined by his search for answers, but by his nature as a man who fights. Logan is a guy who has had tons of tragic backstory and mental trauma thrown at him to offset how awesome his powers are....

There’s also the fact that these episodes are comfortable. I know them, and I like them. The whole concept of Doctor Who has become a bit on the comfortable side, to the point where the Time Lord faces a challenge to make us believe any threat. The great strength of Doctor Who is that the character can regenerate – but it’s also a weakness. He can regenerate. What could possibly threaten him, particularly if new regenerations are simply going to be bestowed upon him when they are needed, and if he can overcome death itself?...

I don’t know what nutritious breakfast writer Tim Schlattmann has but I’d put hard money that it’s sprinkled with the sort of neural stimulants they try out on people who’ve been comatosed for 25 years! There isn’t any other way to say it. The tenth episode in this season, Go Your Own Way, is a total mind job. Early on in the proceedings Dexter outlined the possibilities mentally as he exchanged pleasantries with Miguel and his wife over dinner....

Needs starts with Paul Ballard having a nightmare about Caroline (Echo) coming to him for help, which turns into sex, and then Mellie appears and Echo dies. It’s a weird dream, but it represents his personal need to save Caroline from something he doesn’t actually understand. But back at the Dollhouse they’re well aware of the issues they have with their actives having recollections of the past, but unsure how best to deal with it....

I’ve said previously that the Dollhouse concept – that they’ve spent millions of dollars developing this amazing brain-modifying technology only to use it to produce custom hookers – is plain stupid. So it came as something of a shock that cyber-hookers weren’t daft enough for this story, and in the first five minutes of Instinct we realise that they’ve used it to make Echo lactate so she can breastfeed the baby of a rich executive....

Picking up where Grange Hill left off, Downton Abbey’s fourth run has been the series of Big Social Themes. First there was rape, then there was race, and now comes abortion (not that, in keeping with the English tradition of linguistic whitewashing, any of those three words have yet been uttered on screen). This week saw the return of Anna’s attacker, Lady Rose snogging Jack Ross on the Thames, and Lady Edith pull a Juno by fleeing the abortion clinic and deciding to continue with her socially unacceptable pregnancy....

DuckTales Episode 12 “No we need to SUPPORT Scrooge. Not everything is a life lesson.” Although of course the new DuckTales gives it that extra edge. The Murder Ponies were easily my favorite part of the episode. They’re just quick side gags but their commitment to trying to kill our team was adorably deadly. I’m delighted just how much kids TV can get away with these days. The dark humor DuckTales employs on a regular basis is a consistent source of hilarity....

Tom goes from naught to 60 upon learning that a) Alexis and Anne have been kidnapped and b) Alexis is an alien baby. He goes all, “I’m gonna get them!” And since this seems to fit right into Evil Hal’s plan, Hal goes, “yeah!” But then Col. Weaver talks Tom into waiting 24 hours. Which doesn’t reaaallly suit Evil Hal at all. So, the brilliant alien bug/Karen game plan is to kidnap Tom and force him to give th info on the Volm superstructure being built by offering to trade Alexis and Anne....

5.5. Non-Essential Personnel I am a vocal non-fan of the shaky cinema verite/too cheap to buy a Steadicam rig style of action scenes. Anyone who knows anything knows that, and my many complaints about that particular aspect of modern film making litter my history here at Den of Geek. However, sometimes it can work, and the infiltration of Pope’s new armed camp (at the hilariously named Lois Lanes) by a desperate Tom Mason works much better than it should....

Perhaps ‘remade’ is too strong a term. In contrast with the other shows referred to above, Fargo removes the original characters and plot and instead offers a new set of people to follow through their own set of bad decisions. While there are some similarities -Martin Freeman’s Lester Nygaard is not a million miles from William H. Macy’s Jerry Lundegaard- the chief transposition is the film’s pitch-black humour and quirky worldview....

I’ll admit to being so tantalised by the ideas behind FlashForward that I’d watched the first 17 minutes of the show as released online. Created by David Goyer (Threshold, Blade, Blade II, Blade: The Series) and Brannon Braga (Enterprise, Threshold, 24) it presents the idea of a global event where everyone is given a two minutes and seventeen second glimpse of their future six months ahead. It’s based on Robert J....

If I took a closer look at that reflection, it would be of a man who has accepted rudimentary accomplishments of stage and screen, like an innocent hookup everyone saw coming or a menial plot twist that merely opens up new wounds without closing the old ones first. More programming means more mediocrity, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to give up just yet. It was a minuet interaction but it snapped me out of the coma the episode’s “case of the week” put me in....