3.18 Bloodline Does putting that news into the context of this week’s episode add anything? Not really, because when this was being shot, Fringe was most decidedly bubble material, and as such, a plan presumably existed to wrap as many threads as possible within season 3. Now they’ve got the luxury of more, then perhaps the last two episodes might reflect that. Who knows? Leaving that pivotal choice aside, was Bloodline a positive or negative exercise?...

5.3 The Recordist The episode was full of many things that really had no bearing on the bigger story, even if the entire purpose of everyone entering the woods was to find the next clue. Where it fell down was the skewed logic that allowed people to live in the woods with amazing archiving technology but the Observers to remain totally unaware of them. That also served to make Walter’s choice to put his clues on easily damageable video tapes seem even dumber, and watching them drop out when they start to make any sense was just plain annoying....

5.8 The Human Kind Olivia’s mission where she goes to retrieve a giant electromagnet annoyed me in places, because it presented the idea that when people act oddly around you, then it’s probably you who’s the paranoid one. I’m also intensely irritated by people who knowingly smile in a superior way because they have ‘faith’ where others don’t actually feel they need it. I was therefore rather relived that Olivia puts the condescending Simone right by pointing out that there isn’t a great plan to the universe, and the Observers are just better at maths than us....

This week, I want to talk about crying. In particular, I’d like to sound – as loud as the internet will let me – the bullshit klaxon on this peculiar idea that crying is some form of weakness. This bizarre human expectation that we’re supposed to bottle everything up, no matter what crap is going on around us, and constantly walk around with our game face on. I don’t have a huge problem with the idea of sometimes putting on a front to get through stuff....

This week, we’re looking at something that some trivialise: the loss of a pet. Several commentators on Geeks Vs Loneliness last December mentioned how hard the loss of a pet had struck them, including myself. We lost our beautiful old mutt early December. Sally, a collie cross mix-up of brains, brawn and willful determination, came into our lives in 2003, a former stray, skinny, wary of strangers and an instant lover of fish and chips....

And then I stopped, and realised I had a great big grin on my face (bolstered still further by the excellent, unmissable end credits). I think that’s something to easily lose sight of. That this is – for all the noise that’s followed the project for the last year – ultimately supposed to be a big, broad summer comedy blockbuster. Its aim is to entertain. In that respect, I think Ghostbusters is mission accomplished....

The scene was not only just fun to watch (Taylor, as always, is a delight as Oswald), but was a big emotional moment for Ed, who admits that “killing you killed a part of me.” For fans of the comic, it also saw Oswald wearing the traditional Penguin outfit for the very first time. Taylor talked about the big moment at a Gotham press event earlier this month, saying: Another fun fact about the Winehouse scene?...

4.20 You Don’t Know Jack The last couple of weeks we’ve been left wondering when Grimm will finally decide to shift up a gear before the season’s finale in a couple of weeks. It turns out it is this episode. However this episode provided a couple of genuine ‘what the hell?’ moments that could signal big changes for the course of the show. Conversely, it was also one of the funniest episodes in a while, with Adalind taking the lion’s share of pithy one-liners....

6.12 Zerstorer Shrugged The writers threw a lot at us, including a returning favourite, the death of others (maybe), a showdown with the Zerstorer, and a potential explanation as to the Stick of Destiny’s powers. First things first – Diana pulled Nick and Eve back through the portal without realising the Zerstorer planned to hitch a lift back to Portland too. It appears that his plan was to target Eve, knowing Nick would follow, and eventually lead them to potential child-bride Diana....

Indeed, details have emerged from the Halloween trailer that played at CinemaCon, which reveal that when Green and McBride said this would be a direct sequel to only 1978’s Halloween, they weren’t kidding. For starters, they’re doing away with what has been the crux of all the Halloween sequels since 1981: that Michael Myers is stalking Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode because she is his little sister. further reading: Halloween Ending Explained But no, Curtis’ Laurie appears in the trailer still living in Haddonfield and says, “I pray every night that he would escape… so I could kill him....

But before we get to that, what happened at the end of Episode 7 when we heard the gunshot? Did Lexie really shoot Nathan? Which leads them to … William, being held hostage. He doesn’t remember anything. Dwight tries to interrogate the little weird guy, who won’t give up the goods. He mentions Chief Hendrickson, who may be responsible for the recent killings. Lexie tries to talk Will into finding his true self, which he did for her in the beginning of the season....

So, sitting down to watch episode three is not the usual rush-to-the-sofa-can’t-wait affair. It’s currently Tuesday morning and I’m writing this before flicking the recording on. I’m quite apprehensive and have been for the last week; is my love affair ending? Is familiarity breeding contempt? And even more worryingly, can this next instalment actually push the story somewhere interesting? Peter’s been roped into an armed robbery by the Irish boys....

Absolution is to Blood Money what the sun is to the moon. The graphics are spectacularly improved, the controls are both intuitive and easy to learn and the gameplay is superb as well. Add to that a fantastic story and you have to color me impressed as well as blown away. The story brings us in some time after Blood Money and the first mission is both essential to the story as well as the tutorial of how the new interface and controls work, so I’ll try to be vague on storyline....

The thing about the first season of Homeland is that in addition to being a white-knuckled rollercoaster that left you gasping for air, it also felt plausible enough to suspend disbelief. The narrative of how a POW was turned into a weapon of war in the U.S. may have been melodramatic, but the verisimilitude brought it very close to home: Claire Danes’ Emmy winning performance, as well as Damien Lewis’ as Nicholas Brody, was imbued with a striking authenticity that overcame the fact that she was able to hide her extensive history with bipolar disorder from Langley, or that he would be able to actually sneak a suicide vest into Foggy Bottom....

Actually, Rhona Christie MP, as played by Kate Fleetwood, is quite horrible in all the self-obsessed ways that the very worst of the political elite can be. They possibly went too far with her, and the parody becomes so great that, on at least a couple of occasions, I thought it might be Ronni Ancona playing her. Now that would have been funny, but, alas, it wasn’t. Their first job is to get more information on how her scams work, so they deploy Sean to replace her recently fired researcher and get an inside line on what she’s up to....

Whether it intends to or not, Infini, written and directed by Australia’s Shaun Abbess, revives the spirit of those B-grade shockers. Like a lot of genre films of modest means, it shakes up familiar elements like a cup of dice and casts them for our amusement; the simplest way to describe Infini is as Solaris on magic mushrooms. A less simple way to describe it would be as a noisy collision of Alien, The Thing, Event Horizon and The Quatermass Experiment....

Next came the radio interpretation by a then unknown actor Orson Wells, which was aired on the dark night of 30 October 1938 as a Halloween special, acted out as sporadic news bulletins spread out over 60 minutes. These were so authentic that many of the American public listening in actually believed that a Martian invasion was happening. So, who better to ask when the Martians are due to arrive at Heathrow Airport then Jeff Wayne himself, the man behind the musical version of The War Of The Worlds, now available live on stage!...

2.1 Grumpy Old Liv Of course, that wouldn’t be a show we’d all want to watch, so it’s up to the case of the week to teach Liv that she’s better off keeping the people she loves around, even if they’re not too fond of her right now. Cutting herself off and hardening herself wouldn’t be better than living with the moves she’s made and the secrets she’s kept, even if it might seem easier for a time....