Things are back to normal for the second episode of this year’s Apprentice. No longer am I sat in a posh screening room this time around, and no longer am I without a beverage, either. Instead, I’m sat in a house in Dudley, with the bottle of white wine I never drank at Christmas. And I understand why I didn’t drink it now. It’s genuinely unpleasant, but it does the job....
This review contains spoilers. Sheldon’s feeling a bit long in the tooth – he can no longer play online video games as well as teenagers, he doesn’t understand emojis and he finds himself spending time wondering what’s for lunch. Age has always been a kind of nebulous concept on The Big Bang Theory, with Sheldon often appearing to be significantly younger than his real-life counterpart Jim Parsons, 44, but the rest of the gang existing in a vague 30-40 range....
But he’s more than that – he has a long association with Whovian fandom, and is a producer/director for Big Finish Productions, responsible for creating a successful series of audio books extending the adventures of some ex-Doctors, some of which he has penned himself. How do you find ways, as an actor, to bring the deeper ’emotions’ you’re being asked to portray to an essentially monotonal voice like the Daleks?...
The Exorcist Episode 9 When we last left off on our Rance adventure, Casey had just been freed from the grip of Captain Howdy who found a new home inside the one that got away, Regan/Angela. Just before The Exorcist cut out for hiatus, Angela/Regan/Captain Howdy snapped Chris’ neck and sent her flying down the stairs. The main chunk of this episode follows the now-possessed Angela. We learn that the transfer from Casey to Angela happened back at the convent when the demon was about to snap Casey’s neck and Angela held her daughter’s head and begged the demon to take her instead....
1.14 Fallout While we were all looking the other way, The Flash may have quietly dropped the villain of the week structure, replacing it with a parade of recurring heroes and villains that we’ve gotten to know or, in the case of Ronnie and Stein in Fallout, at least heard about since the beginning of the series. This improves the show considerably, because it suddenly feels like we’re being carried through from week to week on something more than just the characters....
The Flash Season 4, Episode 13 While the major villain of The Flash Season 4 has undoubtedly been Devoe, the bus metas, as Team Flash has taken to calling them, have formed a sort of minor villain team to keep the good guys busy. Along with Amunet, who continues to gloriously recur in Season 4, The Flash has done a good job of not putting all of its eggs in one villain basket, as it has in previous season to lackluster results....
1.1 A World Without God Sean. Bean. *Other retailers are available. Bringing his intense brand of perma-frowning working-class regular Joe-ness to 19th century river cop John Marlott, Bean’s got lots to frown about with this guy. In 1827 London, a corpse looking suspiciously like Helena Bonham-Carter in minute 86 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has washed up on the bank of the Thames, and Marlott is tasked with figuring out who’s been taking their cross-stitching hobby too far....
Like a virus, FriendFace creeps up on everyone in this episode, first of all infecting Jen and then taking Moss and Roy in its addictive networking claws, eating away at their time like some rabid digital locust. Yes, this is really how much I don’t like the Facebook crowd and all the junk that goes with it, and for Graham Lineham to base an episode purely around this is my own private hell....
Though I have The Joker’s pencil-trick from The Dark Knight imprinted in my memory and similarly can’t forget the shocking sight of Jet Li peeing on Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, the most mind-shatteringly astounding moment in film 2008 is to be found in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Finding himself in a mock-up plastic town that – uh oh – turns out to be a nuclear test site, Dr....
I have a film pitch for you and it goes straight on the list of ‘Films You Never Thought You’d See or Thought You’d Ever Want To See’. It’s a mash-up of concepts in the style of old composite monster flicks (Frankenstein Meets The Wolf-Man, Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, etc.) featuring stunning Alaskan country scenery, terrifying hairdos, jarring ambient sound effects and astounding wildlife. It’s called ‘Grizzly Man Meets Eraserhead’ and it’s the love story of an excitable eco-warrior and a tormented young fellow confronted by carnivorous mammals and subconscious dread....
This review contains spoilers. One of the complaints I’ve seen levelled against this show is that the new Avatar is too brash and impulsive. I can certainly understand that – after Aang’s spirituality, Korra’s boldness is a lot to take in. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming. But what this episode did so well was use Korra’s fear of Amon to show us that she has a vulnerable side, too. This is a girl who doesn’t fear much, and yet the idea of Amon taking her bending away leaves her unable to sleep through the night....
1.1 & 1.2 Chosen From the opening two-parter Chosen, it’s clear that The Shannara Chronicles will follow the plot of The Elfstones Of Shannara with reasonable accuracy, however as you might imagine, MTV has opted for a markedly different tone to that of the books. Whilst Terry Brooks’ works are certainly aimed at a teenage audience, they are comparable to a less-detailed Lord Of The Rings or a Game Of Thrones without the politics, nudity and beheading....
The Simpsons: Season 29 Episode 3 The Simpsons season 29, episode 3, “Whistler’s Father,” puts its lips together and blows. Actually, neither part of that statement is entirely true. The episode, while not as classic as the painting it is named after, is filled to almost overflow with one-liners and sight gags. And, if you really follow Lauren Bacall’s instructions to Humphrey Bogart on how to whistle in To Have and Have Not you would actually produce a Bronx cheer....
1.6 Sorry For Your Loss Unfortunately, from the cold opening onward, it’s pretty clear that Russell isn’t going to get anything other than yet another stereotypical horror story for a childhood. Granted, it’s a pretty well-executed stereotypical tale of a father living his dreams through his son, but it’s still something we’ve seen before and it’s still something that feels a bit racist. You see, Russell is the son of a domineering immigrant father who drove him too hard....
We’ve already looked at PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One exclusives, so now we turn our attention to the mutliplatform release coming to our screens in the next year or so. As to be expected, there’s quite a collection of these, and no doubt some of your favourites won’t make our list, but we have to narrow things down somehow, so here are our top 25 upcoming multiplatform titles following E3....
5.13 Total Eclipse Of The Heart The only problem to deal with in Total Eclipse of the Heart is the fallout from her rejection of Damon last week, and he certainly lives down to expectations. As Stefan tells him early in the episode – could he be any more predictable? It’s disappointing for the audience, too, as all of the wonderful character development we’ve been able to enjoy, especially this year after his unrequited affections were finally requited, seems to have gone entirely out of the window in the pursuit of slightly rejigged dynamics....
5.7 Death And The Maiden I’m getting ahead of myself. Before we get to any suicides at all, we pick up with Silas as he waits for a bus, and there’s nothing about Silas waiting for a bus that isn’t hilarious. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – witches really are the most useless supernatural beings on this show. I’d rather be a vampire or a werewolf any day, at least they can run fast....
7.5 Live Through This Which is necessary because, despite the abundance of new characters and new twists, everything’s a bit same old, same old this season. I’m still not on board with the Heretics, even as Valerie edges nearer and nearer to being a part of our gang of heroes, and the Caroline/Stefan romance was a lot more fun in theory than it is in practice. So it’s up to Bonnie, with no tedious relationship with a much younger man or crappy friends demanding weekly magic to hold her back, to save the day....
The Venture Bros. Season 7 Episode 3 “Can someone tell me what the fuck just happened?” The opening two minutes of “Arrears in Science” is a dazzling sequence of events that takes seven seasons of Venture Bros. backstory and has it play out in twisted Rube Goldbergian fashion. Everything from the first two installments of this “Morphic Trilogy” comes together, but so does everything that’s been in motion over the past season and beyond....
