By popular demand – seriously, we had two people ask – we’ve done it again, too! So your quest is simple: you just need to check out the reviews of each mystery film, and from those, work out what they are. We’ve not thrown obscure movies into the mix, although there are one or two tricky ones. And – yes! – to save you the trouble of cheating, you can click for the answers at the bottom!...
The other project manager, Sara, fared little better. She’s a strong personality – we know this, because she, er, kept telling us – who also got infected with the curse of the pep talk. She too sat her down and told them how she was going to run things, how she’s a strong personality, and they subsequently looked at her as if she’d just tried to convince them that Howard The Duck was the best film ever....
The Kingmaker (played by Linus Roach, you may know him as Doctor Thomas Wayne from Batman Begins) is a proper Blacklist villain, if a bit mustache-twirly at times. He’s got a distinctive look, a very particular M.O., and some typically villainous personality quirks (he’s a germophobe with a seemingly hyperactive olfactory sense). He’s the guy you bring in when you have a political career to kickstart. While generally, anything involving the backroom wheelings and dealings of political spin is evil enough, the Kingmaker takes it to that very special next level....
The Poisoned Chalice2. Assassin The Borgias’ powerful reign is said to have influenced the major crime families throughout history, and, as a result, in film. In fact, think of them as a 15th century Corleone family, but with less of the Sicilian honour and horse heads in beds. Impressively, the opening episodes premiere feels like a feature film, with its 90 minutes running time, prominent stars and lavish sets. Considering Showtime’s success with The Tudors, it’s clear they’re not straying far from the formula, and its influence is notable from the opening credits to the political back-stabbing and the sex scene in the first five minutes....
Endgame The answer is no. No to everything. The Cape ends its run on an almost entirely pedestrian episode, although cancellation did appear to have spurred them into action on at least one front. After all, they remembered to make something actually happen in this one, as Vince’s friend, corrupt Police Chief Marty, takes a bullet for The Cape and dies. It does beg the question of why, when faced with a gunman, Faraday’s reflexes were so dull that his friend could jump in front of a bullet before Faraday could wrap his bullet-proof cape around them both, particularly given that he performed precisely that feat to save Marty’s life no less than 30 minutes earlier....
It’s this pain that led me to create the following form. Now all us dumb-ass kids can at least sound like we witnessed the rise and fall of Westerberg and pals firsthand. Choose the answers you like the best, memorize the whole thing, and reel it off on anyone too young to do the math correctly: The first time I saw the Replacements was at ______________ (the 7th Street Entry / CBBGs / Crazy Earl’s Shit Factory)....
The latest issue of Total Film features an interview with the actress, and in the build up to it, it lets slip that Temple will be playing Holly Robinson. When asked about the film, Temple told Total Film that “I can’t talk about that”, as you might expect. She did add that she thought Christopher Nolan is “awesome”, saying that “There’s something really gentlemanly about him. He’s got an insane, incredible vision going on....
Perhaps with that in mind, though, the filmmakers have put a few little Easter eggs and nods to other Disney movies in there. Take, for instance, the brief nod to Pinocchio in the pub scene. Or the homage to The Little Mermaid. You might even see something not a million miles away from the rose in Beauty And The Beast, too. “Well, besides that Pinoochio is hidden in the pub,” revealed Nathan Greno, “in the town in the kingdom, there’s this book at the bookstore, where they’re looking at a book together?...
Writer/director Luc Besson has had a longstanding fascination with tough, self-reliant female protagonists, from the cool assassin of La Femme Nikita to The Fifth Element‘s flame-haired enigma, Leeloo. The titular heroine of The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec, an Edwardian fantasy based on the comics of Jacques Tardi, follows in Besson’s tradition, and is inarguably the most engaging and funny character he’s brought to the screen in years. Adèle is the focal point of an insane story that swirls around her for a dizzying, riotous 107 minutes, taking in killer pterodactyls, an unusually erudite army of the undead, psychic scientists and greedy policemen....
Thus, we’ve got the list for the 2011 Razzies, which don’t make very good reading if your name is M Night Shyamalan, if you’re involved in The Twilight Saga, or if you acted in Valentine’s Day… The Bounty HunterThe Last AirbenderSex & The City 2Twilight Saga: EclipseVampires Suck WORST ACTOR WORST ACTRESS Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter, The Switch)Mylie Cyrus (The Last Song)Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon (Sex & The City 2)Megan Fox (Jonah Hex)Kristen Stewart (Twilight Saga: Eclipse) Jessica Alba (The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers and Valentine’s Day)Cher (Burlesque)Liza Minnelli (Sex & The City 2)Nicola Peltz (The Last Airbender)Barbra Streisand (Little Fockers) WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Billy Ray Cyrus (The Spy Next Door)George Lopez (Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine’s Day)Dev Patel (The Last Airbender)Jackson Rathbone (The Last Airbender and Twilight Saga: Eclipse)Rob Schneider (Grown Ups) WORST EYE-GOUGING MIS-USE Of 3-D (Special Category for 2010!...
It’s good news then that in Zombieland Harrelson gets to play violent hick without having to first fight off every moviemaking technique that’s been mashed into the frame as part of a vague directorial desire to comment on media-saturated culture. With Oliver Stone and politics out of the picture (they’re probably rotting by the side of the road having been savaged by the living dead), Harrelson’s action man – named Tallahassee – has space to breathe and bring the violence without detracting distractions....
The Last Man on Earth: Season 2, Episode 18 Last Man on Earth is truly a show that is trying its absolute hardest to buck convention and surprise and impress their audience. It’s crazy to look back on the first half of this season in terms of just how much has gone on, but even crazier when reflecting back to season one (remember when Tandy had a perm!). In two seasons this show has managed to pack in so much absurdity and I’m so happy that a third season is a certainty and that this finale doesn’t have to hang with the haunting fear that the show may not return....
The premise Agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris of NTAC (the Department of Homeland Security in season one) are tasked with finding out why the 4400 were taken and, more importantly, why they were brought back. Main characters Diana Skouris and the X-Files‘ Dana Scully share more than similar names. They also have the same dress sense, a dry sense of humour, endemic scepticism and a medical background. And like Dana, Diana is very much the second fiddle to the male lead....
The Magicians Season 1 Episode 3 At one point in the most recent episode of The Magicians, Dean Fogg tells Penny, “You’ve been a thin layer of insouciance over an open pit of self-pity your entire life,” perfectly capturing the mood of almost every magic user in the show and quite possibly the wannabes in the audience as well. In “Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting,” viewers can feel the hunger for meaning and the addictiveness of magic to the point where it no longer matters how dangerous Alice, Quentin, or Julia are being, as long as they’re learning a new spell....
The Magicians Season 1, Episode 11 Several recent episodes of The Magicians have somehow managed to cram in a ton of plot without bogging down the overall story. “Remedial Battle Magic” gave viewers a seemingly impossible quest for a blade, a reunion of sorts with Kady, a new connection for Julia, a painful intrusion into Penny’s mind, more evidence of Eliot’s deterioration, and the beginnings of some really cool offensive spell training....
Is it a great movie? No, of course it isn’t! But is it everything you hoped for and more? Absolutely! Decades later and The Meg is more Snakes On A Plane than Jurassic Park, though that’s not to the movie’s detriment. In an era where nobody needs any more bad news, during a summer where an eco disaster feels a bit too close to home, The Meg is a dumb, schlocky joy, that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is packed with zingers like “That living fossil ate my friend!...
After Election Night, Part I, I had little hope The Newsroom would come up with a strong final effort to show why it deserves viewers attention for a third season. For an episode that was supposed to chronicle the rest of election night, the second act was a surprising departure from the messy first entry. With petitions calling for Will and Charlie to resign and the rising sentiment in the newsroom that ACN has lost the trust of its viewers, the episode was set to resolve the Genoa fallout once and for all....
Watching The Orville is a novel experience because it is unlike any other show. MacFarlane is famous for his comedic adult animation programs, so it is no surprise his venture into science fiction would be funny. The thing is, it is more than just amusing. It is also dramatic at times, even poignant, and with great visual effects, a wide array of elaborate aliens and high-end production overall it is also good science fiction....
Anyone who was disappointed that Malcolm Tucker seemed subdued in his first appearance of series four might like to join me in letting out a hearty fuckity-yes! Because this week saw the scary Morrissey back at maximum levels of machinating heartlessness. So confident was Tucker that Murray would be gone by teatime, he’d ordered the consolation flowers at breakfast. That doomed train was an apt symbol of her powerlessness, as once Malcolm had Murray on the rails, there was no changing direction....
There was a certain element of stalling for time during The Tunnel this week. After the Truth Terrorist seemingly wrapped up his final loose end with the execution of Danny Hillier at the conclusion to last week’s instalment, we’d have expected The Tunnel to be all business from now on, rather than trying to wrong foot us with red herrings that wouldn’t fool anyone. Despite tying in Alain Joubert – the guy who got pushed under a train in episode two, remember that?...
