Dragon Ball Super Episode 51 “What happened to my future self?” Bulma continues her assessment of Cell’s old time machine, but now she’s ready to begin her extensive repairs to get it back in working order. Unfortunately, it looks like a drastic maneuver that’s at least going to take a few episodes until there’s any progress. On this front, Dragon Ball Super takes another solid opportunity to offer up a flashback to Dragon Ball Z’s Cell Saga, if only to illustrate how far along the animation (and Bulma’s haircut) has come along....

From early doors this morning (5th Sept), the Last Stop Ltd petrol station near Finsbury Park in London was ‘hijacked’ by EA PR drones clad in combat gear, and the entire forecourt was decked out like a postcard from downtown Beirut.”Why?”, you may ask. To give away £20,000 of free petrol. of course! To promote the release of Mercs 2 on PC, 360 and PS3, EA are giving every customer who makes it to the station before the £20,000 coffers run dry, £40 worth of petrol, totally free – an act that has, predictably, caused a right old ruckus on the early morning streets of London....

It was this mentality that got me in for a 9am screening of Mary And Max, the feature-length debut of Adam Elliott, the man behind Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet (you can find it here on YouTube if you wish to watch it). Elliott’s film is lovingly animated, and the claymation detail is something that will probably be underappreciated on the first viewing, probably because Elliott consistently makes it look so easy....

Excision is not that kind of movie. It’s dark, and bloody, and painful, and it isn’t at all interested in making you feel comfortable. But it’s definitely going to make you feel something. Pauline dreams of becoming a surgeon… and she also dreams about sex. The two things seem to be linked in her mind, as her elaborately staged masturbatory fantasies are full of blood, gore, and corpses. Considering herself too intelligent for school, she teaches herself the skills she thinks she’ll need while annoying her teachers and disgusting her peers....

So post-Rebirth, adding Ted in as a supporting character and acknowledging the history of the scarab and the mantle have been fantastic additions to Jaime’s story. And damn, that costume is awesome. Also, not for nothing, but Jaime’s character mechanic in Injusticewhere he switches back and forth between blades and regular hands is like having two characters in one. Injustice 2is maybe my favorite fighting game of all time: impeccably balanced, packed with stuff to do, and with the standard, incredible Netherrealm fighting game story mode....

The episode started well with a proper dressing down of Lexi, who wants to rejoin the human race but realizes on some level that it’s too late for reconciliation. It’s not that I wanted Lexi to die, but I appreciate that Pope at least tried to assassinate her, even if Tom and the others wanted him to back off. She did, after all, cause the deaths of a huge percentage of the 2nd Mass....

Yes, Malvo is far worse than those three. He’s not morally gray; he’s morally pitch black. He shares more in common with Christopher Nolan’s Joker because he really just wants to watch the world. He’s even got the impishness and quirky black comedy that Heath Ledger’s interpretation embraced. His motives for doing anything that he does are unclear, except for the fact that he looks like he’s enjoying himself. Billy Bob Thornton seems to be enjoying himself as well....

It’s mildly apt for Helen McCrory, who’s played lawyer Cherie Booth twice on screen, to be the lead in a series haunted by the ghost of her husband, Tony Blair. As “unreconstructed leftie” Emma Banville in Fearless, McCrory plays a legal mind with a very different stance on the decision to go to war in Iraq. It was a time of lies, says Banville in episode five. Dodgy dossiers, sexed-up intelligence, arrogant men who thought they could get away with anything… including framing an innocent (RIP Kevin Russell) for the murder of a schoolgirl....

There are some movies that come out with a bang and rapidly fade from memory; there are others that appear to sneak in and out of cinemas with barely a whisper, but are still talked about years after the fact. Colossal, at least when compared to the big hitters of 2017, is, we suspect, one of those latter movies. It didn’t exactly tear up the box office, but it’s the kind of quirky, deceptively smart film we’ll be thinking and enthusing about in pubs for a long time to come....

Director Gareth Carrivick, fresh from BBC series Beautiful People, does a commendable job of getting Ray (Chris O’Dowd), Toby (Marc Wooton) and Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) into place, albeit predominantly in one beer-soaked setting. Meanwhile, time travelling ‘bloke’s babe’ Cassie (Anna Faris) holds enough grace and integrity in her role as the time travelling lust-after to provide an occasional, but refreshing aside to the semi-humourous goings on. That you might not always see its funny side, nor be particularly blown away by its tidy climax, should be weighed against a coming of age of a group of mostly British actors, the spying of a debut screenwriter and a ‘you know who your mates are’ impact in the tying up by the time the credits roll....

5.5 An Origin Story We know that Peter has a rather wilful streak, and he has previously exhibited this sort of behaviour in respect of the shape-shifters, but something about that final scene just didn’t ring true, though I’m slightly at a loss to say precisely why.Perhaps my problem was that a number of things happened in the story I just didn’t follow, leaving me with the overriding sensation that I wasn’t seeing the bigger picture....

1.11 Rogues’ Gallery One intention was surely to draw parallels between Jim and the character of Prospero (evicted from his former life and trapped in a hopeless nowhere-land with a collection of strange characters), but the introduction of Christopher Heyerdahl’s villainous Jack Gruber was equally important. We had pathetic fallacy, some brilliantly awful costumes and a set-up that refused to reveal who the week’s baddie was going to be. Well, other than dressing him up as Prospero....

5.11 Key Move And so Grimm’s Black Forest adventure steps up a gear, with Nick and Monroe swapping the Oregon woods for the German equivalent in their quest to discover hidden treasure. Last summer, the show’s executive producers hinted that they had big plans for the show’s 100th episode, coming up next week. “We’re going to explain the damn keys,” Grimm co-creator David Greenwalt told a Comic-Con audience, before adding: “We’ still don’t know what they do but by god we’re going to explain it....

1.12 Relevés But first, a moment of silence for Abigail Hobbs… I am quite sad to see Abigail go. It’s unusual on American television to see a girl of her age exhibit such intelligence and depth, let alone have her played as well as Kacey Rohl has done. The young actress again proves her skill in the scene between Abigail and Freddie Lounds where it is made clear that the difference between the two women is simply that of stages of development....

1.5 Coquilles A couple of weeks ago, in my review of Hannibal‘s second episode, I commented on the way the show prioritised the psychological strands among its crime fighters over that of the criminals, an odd but potentially interesting choice in a series that revolves around criminal profilers: their job is to get into the heads of the evil-doers, while we’re getting into their own. As a result, the actual crimes and the criminals themselves receive minimal attention....

In an endearing moment between husband and wife, Naomi tends to Cullen’s cuts and bruises from the sneak attack in episode three. For all her intent, she might not ever be able to heal the darker reaches of her spouse’s soul. Her youth and inexperience make her emotionally and mentally ill-equipped to handle all that Cullen has become. Her touch is too light and loving to pierce Cullen’s hardened core....

So, there’s a lot of children, a whole film full, in fact. Some are better than others, granted, but tolerance of a child’s more unattractive side is a minimum requirement before entering the cinema to see this one. Unless you’re under 10 years old, of course. The Horrid Henry books have sold over 16 million copies in the UK alone, and Henry is now the most popular literary character after a certain boy wizard....

Now in the upcoming third film, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, the family takes a break from the hotel business and heads out on a vacation of their own — on a monsters-only cruise ship pointed, of course, at the Bermuda Triangle. Drac hopes to find romance on the big boat, but is not prepared for the captain and cruise director, Erika (Kathryn Hahn), to be the great-granddaughter of his old nemesis, Abraham Van Helsing....

Despite being Mitchell’s first film since the somber Rabbit Hole, How to Talk to Girls is really a kissing cousin with his directorial debut, Hedwig and the Angry Itch. Like that cult classic of camp cinema, Girls is a gonzo delirium, albeit a much more frivolous one that imagines the kind of pre-Thatcher, post-Beatlemania Britain that now only exists in the hearts of middle-aged, one-time hell-raisers like Gaiman. It is a story involving music, hair gel, aliens, and sexually fluid threesomes between a former candidate for toxic masculinity turned extraterrestrial’s concubine....

Since Hugh Grant quoted David Cassidy at a bemused Andi MacDowell in 1994, UK wedding comedies have become an institution to rival marriage itself. Aptly, in a week that’s seen marriage conventions on their way to a long-overdue update, along comes a film to shake up the rom-com in turn. Instead of watching Josh (Rafe Spall) and Nat (Rose Byrne) follow a twisty, misunderstanding and obstacle-strewn path to their eventual union, we’re there to witness their relationship fall apart....