100 Years — The Movie You Will Never See imagines what Earth will look like 100 years from now. It is almost unimaginable that no one might go see it. “To ensure that 100 Years remains secure until its official premiere,” according to the press release, 100 Years — The Movie You Will Never See will be “held in a special safe that will open automatically in 100 years when the timing is complete....
With that in mind, here are 13 of the big movies coming our way between mid-September and the end of the year (which means the fascinating-looking 9 just misses the cut), that might just be worth your ticket price (we’ll come back to the Oscar-baiters in due course, as well as Mike Judge’s Extract…)… We’ve actually run the latest trailer for this one today, and we’d have seen the full film already had Sony decided not to shunt it out of summer blockbuster season to give it some more space....
Looking back over the history of the Official Charts Company, the climate has definitely changed, thanks to the dramatic evolution of downloads and streaming and social media changing the way we listen to music. Some artists’ chances of charting are dramatically increased, whereas novelty singles are more like the things you listen to on YouTube or Spotify without investing your hard-earned cash in them. But that isn’t the kind of TV spin-off single we’re looking at in this list....
Jon Voight’s Jonas Hodges manages to do a bit of acting this time out, if only to raise his voice so that we as an audience know that in some sort of deluded way he believes himself to be a patriot, despite supporting the deployment of a biological weapon that will kill many an innocent bystander. “Larry the Arse” does a lot of running around. In the space of an hour he manages to travel back to FBI headquarters, puts Renee into custody since she (as predicted) is helping out Jack....
Morning arrives at the plaza and we learn that Liz needs to fly to Chicago to get out of jury duty. She’ll employ her usual unfailing plan: show up in a Princess Leia costume and be dismissed. Coming in on the tail end of a conversation between Jack and an Olympic champion, Kenneth is appalled at the news that NBC faked lots of events at Beijing 2008 including Olympic tetherball, synchronized running, and octuples tennis, so Americans could win more medals and raise network ratings....
Agents of SHIELD Season 4 Episode 7 It’s quite literally a magical time to be a Marvel fan. Since Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD last aired, fans were introduced to a world of magic in the Doctor Strange movie (hey Marvel, isn’t it time to announce the sequel?). But Marvel TV has its fair share of magic as well, and it’s all on display this week as half the team is lost in a very dark magical dimension thanks to the machinations of Eli Morrow....
Much has been said on the topic of what went wrong, from accusations that it made illogical assumptions made about the target audience to the inability for retailers to actually place and sell the books, but the fact is, Minx got one thing right – the way to get people – any people – into comics is, first and foremost, by telling great stories. The New York Four, by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly....
American Dad Season 15 Episode 3 “Really? You’re not going to sing the census song? Aren’t you excited about the census?” Stan loves his job and his country, but that passion displays itself in both a bold as well as a more reserved manner. This means that Stan’s blind oath to his nation sometimes results in the CIA pulling off a tense, bloody sniper mission and at other times Stan’s gleefully a guinea pig for the newest stage of paperwork....
Smoldering Children When you live next door to a house full of ghosts, it makes it difficult to escape your past. For Constance Lange, whose past includes numerous nefarious deeds, it may be the thing she didn’t do that gets her into trouble for all the things she’s done. In case you missed last week, Constance’s boyfriend Travis has become The Boy Dahlia, and he’s a major story. Looks like Travis got the fame he’s always wanted: it’s just a shame that he has to be in pieces in a ditch in South Central to accomplish it....
2.6 The Origins Of Monstrosity American Horror Story can get a little too heavy-handed with its homages to classic horror, and tonight’s episode was possibly the most heavy handed of episodes to date, thanks the the presence of a creepy little girl named Jenny (Nikki Hahn) who comes straight out of central casting for a remake of The Bad Seed. She’s like a miniature, strange little adult, and always has been, according to her mother, who promptly abandons the girl in Briarcliff even though, as Sister Jude repeatedly says, they don’t have a children’s ward....
2.9 The Coat Hanger Still, it’s a bad time to take some time off, because there are only four more episodes remaining in this season and the show keeps getting crazier and crazier. Even when the twists are ones you see coming (thus making them not twists), they’re so cleverly executed and fun to watch that I don’t think anyone can complain. Well, anyone can complain, since this is the internet, but it’s great to see Dylan McDermott back on American Horror Story where he belongs....
As the success of the The Da Vinci Code and subsequent film adaptation proved, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. And Anonymous relates what is surely the ultimate conspiracy in literature: that the astonishing output of Shakespeare was, in fact, written by someone else. This isn’t, of course, a new notion: since his rediscovery by the literari of the 18th and 19th century, various writers have called the attribution of Shakespeare’s works into question....
1.6 Legacies We start with a bank heist, and I was surprised to learn later that it was a family of four behind it. A mother, father and their two sons are making up for the bad hand they were dealt by the Queen family by robbing banks and, realising that his father was ultimately behind their actions, Oliver sets out to help them. It’s a different way to go since we usually see him hunting down the city’s bad guys and here we see him trying to help, but his offer of a job is immediately shot down by the head of the family....
1.7 Muse of Fire Oliver gets a new partner in crime in this week’s Arrow, as Laurel gets cosy with Tommy, Thea and Moira bond over Oli’s new closed-off persona, and part of the identity of John Barrowman’s ‘well-dressed man’ is finally unveiled. After Oliver witnesses a drive-by shooting that inadvertently involves his mother, he tries to find the shooter and becomes tangled up in dangerous mob business as a result....
Arrow Season 6 Episode 3 We’re still in setup mode on Arrow, but things are starting to get back into the groove as more pieces come onto the board. Tonight’s episode reveals that there are plenty more landmines aside from Anatoli, the mysterious perpetrator of Oliver’s surprisingly accurate frame job, and FBI Agent Watson. Team Arrow may just destroy itself, if given the chance. Oliver Stumbles, but William and Felicity Bond Continuing his trend of questionable parenting advice, Oliver tells William just “relax a little bit more” about his upcoming math test....
So instead of lots of talk about being on the edge of life and death, as well as time travel and psychological profiling, we have Alex settling down into her role and ‘getting on’ with her new position with Gene and co. In polar opposite, we also get introduced to the other side of the development and regeneration argument as Alex is wined and dined by an ex-wide-boy-come-business man whose ‘greed is good’ philosophy has bought him a way out of the East End and a life of penthouses and DeLorean cars....
Despite the talent involved however, the pilot didn’t quite gel. Inconsistent tone, issues of pacing and a lack of focus stopped Babylon from making the impression it should have and dampened expectations somewhat for the full series to follow. There’s something very traditional yet contemporary about Babylon, the latest in a long line of police dramas that have been crowded out of late by TV’s obsession with glossy investigative series and grisly serial killer showcases....
Baskets Season 3 Episode 3 Baskets does an amazing job of expanding its world by fleshing out and gradually humanizing its ancillary characters. The series also isn’t afraid to build upon whatever’s working, even if that means deviating from its original template. As I’ve said before, though we started with Chip, Christine is now more commonly the center of Baskets and that’s perfectly fine because she’s an engaging, multilayered character. “Crash” demonstrates the series’ fondness for its side characters by looping back in two from its past....
