Resistance Actually, no there isn’t. There is a saying that is similar in many ways, bar the severity of profanity at the end, but the saying in whatever form of swearyness with which it is uttered is a good mantra to live by. I once assumed that the odds of a scrounging, shambling stranger drinking a pint of lager that I’d left on a bar, one that I had publicly, audibly and horrifically vomited into, were remote....
No Ordinary Proposal Before I get on to that revelation, I want to address those who think I’m overly tough on this show. The problem I have with No Ordinary Family isn’t unique. I had it with FlashForward last year. Because, as a viewer, I find it incredibly distracting if the story doesn’t join up, as I wonder if the omission is going to be back-filled at some point. Except what we’ve seen here is that the writers just give up trying to come up with any meaningful reasoning, and assume, as this is ‘comic book’ content, it just doesn’t matter....
Karen Gillan’s first role to be released post-Pond is a pleasant, occasionally laugh-out-loud Scottish rom-com. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, pokes fun at genre clichés while also revelling in them, and employs popcorn logic cheerfully. It isn’t the most funny or romantic film ever made, and occasionally its screwball sensibilities are beyond the reach of its cast’s comic timing, but neither is it a charmless shrew-fest like so many of its kind....
5.11 Swan Song Hook is hell-bent on getting his revenge against the crocodile, even if it means others have to suffer for it to happen. Henry and his extended family (which is actually a lot) are all marked by Carron; Storybrooke’s local ferryman to the Underworld. They’ve all got a one-way ticket and Rumple, ever the optimist, informs them that there is no changing the destination. They will all be in the Underworld by the end of the night....
What’s it about? What does that title even mean? Having sat through all two hours of Planetarium, I’m still none the wiser. French director Rebecca Zlotowski’s film initially hints at a passionate drama, its intimate sound design conjuring an atmosphere of creepy eroticism. The sisters’ seances are all heavy breathing and ecstatic gasps; Andre’s visions of the unnamed figure in the leather jacket simmer with mystery and homoerotic tension. In terms of trajectory and deeper meaning, however, Planetarium’s obscurity soon becomes a nagging frustration....
Preacher Season 3 Episode 8 On no other show but Preacher will you ever find quite the rogue’s gallery assembled for what amounts to an incidental scene. In this case, in the closing moments of “The Tom/Brady,” we’re presented with the Angel of Death, Hitler, the Saint of Killers, a Holy Grail agent, and a man who’s known colloquially as “Arseface.” This motley crew is onscreen together for barely a minute, but it’s a reminder of how absolutely off the wall Preacher can be, especially given what happens in the other 95% of yet another bustling episode that’s more densely packed than the Allfather himself....
Harris Trout (Anthony Michael Hall) returns as SBPD’s top watchdog. Trout has all sorts of problems of his own including dealing with an imaginary friend. Despite being demoted to a regular beat cop, Lassie is still trying to adjust to his new position. Which, by the way, sucks. Ever the professional, Lassie is always one to uphold the law. While he may take a few liberties in this episode as a uniform cop, it all goes out of the window when he realizes he’s gonna be a daddy....
1.3 Twerk So this guy walks into a mutual support group… Tough crowd Mickey, tough crowd. Telling rape jokes is pretty poor form at the best of times; when your audience consists of sexual abuse survivors it smacks of deliberateness. Why not try watching online twerk videos at the public library instead? Whatever you think about Mickey, he’s determined to make himself noticed, even if it means stamping about L....
Since Francis Ford Coppola’s classic (well, two-thirds classic) Godfather trilogy is hitting Blu-ray in an extras-packed 4-disc edition in September (US)/October (UK), why am I therefore asking for another version on top of that? – Coppola’s 1975 edited-for-TV version, in the usual deal with devil/network, cut out some profanity and violence but contained scenes and footage not included in the theatrical release. – The superb Godfather epic added other missing footage in a second ‘chronological’ release in the 1980s....
Much as I like Claire, recently the show has been something of a constant parade of Terrible Things happening to Texas’s bravest little cheerleader, so it was a welcome relief to ease up on her constant angst and crying, and let her dad take centre stage. And centre stage he does indeed take. Mr. Bennet’s back-story is the stuff of tortured anti-hero legend; a man who places what he sees as his duty above all else, including his own family and life....
The episode begins with Buffy walking through her house in the dark, looking at all the sleeping Potentials. She spots a girl huddled, crying, at the end of the hallway, and asks her if she’s okay, before being tackled to the ground by the first Slayer, who tells her “it’s not enough.” Buffy wakes up, freaked out, and the credits roll. At Sunnydale High, all Hell is (almost literally) starting to break loose, as the Hellmouth beneath the school is making all the kids crazy and violent....
2.19 The Emissary Confused but obedient, the Enterprise follows the order. After an unnecessarily long docking and unboxing sequence, it turns out that the probe contains K’Ehleyr, a federation emissary who is a half-human, half-Klingon woman. Riker attempts to smooth talk her, but when she meets the rest of the crew it turns out she’s more interested in her old boyfriend, Worf. Typical. The reason she’s joined them is that a Klingon sleeper ship from the old war – the T’Ong – has popped up on radars, about to awaken its crew so that they can fulfil their stated mission of shooting Federation outposts a lot....
This isn’t a theological or ethical problem; it’s a narrative one. See, Risen bowls along quite agreeably as a sort of police procedural, benefiting from the mystery of whether a man really has risen from the dead or not. But when it makes a decision on this, the intrigue is lost and your interest wanes a bit. Yes, a police procedural. Battle-scarred Roman tribune Clavius (a beefed-up Joseph Fiennes) is busy shoving his sword through people’s heads for praying to the wrong gods, when he’s summoned by Pontius Pilate....
Visually, it was one of Riverdale‘s stand-out moments, and – although gruesome – it was hard to look away. It may be even harder for you to re-watch, though, after the revelation that actor KJ Apa really did break his hand during filming – but he didn’t tell anyone. It appears that Apa had indeed let the cat out of the bag back in April, but only afterward did people start to put two and two together: https://twitter....
2.12 The Wicked And The Divine Featuring music cues ripped from Boogie Nights and Reservoir Dogs, as well as a general Goodfellas-light air to the proceedings, tonight’s episode is a valentine to ’90s cinema, and perhaps the greatest example yet of how Riverdale loves to infuse disparate pop culture elements into its increasingly ridiculous world. (This is, after all, a show that namedrops ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ as the “song from Cruel Intentions” as opposed to referring to it as the Verve’s best-known tune)....
It’s somewhat in the lap of the gods, the entertainment value of any given episode of Robot Wars. If they smile upon the arena, the spinners spin and the crushers crush and we all have a jolly old time of it. Every so often though, things just never quite get going. Drive motors burn out, bots are immobilised after a single collision, and it all ends not with a bang but a whimper....
1.1 Night 1 & 1.2 Night 2 Though debatably unfair, comparisons to Roman Polanski’s classic 1969 film of the same name plague this gratuitous adaptation. Technically, this incarnation is based upon the book by Ira Levin rather than a remake of the original film, but with such a formidable precedent, it’s inevitable that Holland’s version is under the microscope. Zoe Saldana’s take on Rosemary is not without merit, initially bringing a sharp independence to the lead role....
Now, Warren Beatty directs, produces, writes and stars in Rules Don’t Apply, whose convention-busting title reflects the way in which it runs counter to other cinematic treatments by putting the spotlight on two of Hughes’ many employees. Set during the tumultuous years of 1958 to 1964, the film focuses on virginal Virginia beauty queen Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), an actress who’s new to Hollywood, and Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), a chauffeur who drives her around....
Scream: The TV Series, Season 2 Episode 8 It was the annual Lakewood carnival and while the town tried to forget about its new murderous reputation, the Lakewood 5 continued to battle the killer and the pain that was left behind. Truth Veritaserum Even with Eli’s pleas last week wanting Emma to avoid going to police about being inside the burning house, Emma was done with keeping secrets. Well, at least most of them....
