Tell It To The Frogs After last week’s narrow escape from the confines of the zombie-overrun department store in the middle of zombie-overrun Atlanta, Rick, Glenn, and the rest of the gang have successfully escapes from danger, minus one crazy drugged-up white supremacist. Of course, nobody would miss that dangerous lunatic, right? Of course not, except for one person. Namely Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Merle’s brother and the group’s most accomplished squirrel hunter....

“Poison and Malmsey Wine,” the seventh episode of The White Queen, has become a parlor comedy without any laughs (they even blew an opportunity for a stock mother-in-law joke) as all the royal dysfunctional families continue to live under one tower. The claustrophobia causing a kind of castle fever as accusations of witchcraft, curses and the evil eye are thrown around in a deepening brew of inbred insanity. Poison is what everyone believes is in their future and Malmsey Wine is Queen Elizabeth’s favorite wine, given to her by the King of France....

Having picked up the pace considerably last week, True Blood hit warp speed this week with Release Me. With revelations left, right and centre, and a rather shocking reversal of fortune for a certain man-whore, episode seven is easily the best show of the season so far. Reluctant to let him go, Maryann pursues Sam – bull’s head, claws and all – but he handily shifts into an owl and disappears into the night....

We begin this week’s episode of Under the Dome with Barbie returning to Chester’s Mill after last week’s finding of the red door and the escape from his father in neighboring Zenith. Lyle is still missing, Sam is back at his Unabomber cabin praying that Junior doesn’t find out he murdered Angie, and Pauline is back at home, reunited with Jim. Let’s begin there. “Big” Jim does not like to lose control....

This Vinyl review contains spoilers. Former Moondog John Lennon is the rock star of the week. In the midst of his lost weekend with May Pang, Devon (Olivia Wilde) and Ingrid (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) aim a camera as a fun weapon of near seduction on him while he’s grooving on the reggae of the legendary Bob Marley. Again, Vinyl is playing into rock and roll fantasies. What would be the most fun time to run into an ex-Beatle?...

Wallace and Gromit are a comedy equivalent of Usain Bolt’s 100 meters, you know the result before they start and it’s all over rather too quickly. In this story Wallace’s nemesis is ‘Piella’, the Bake Lite Girl, given some Northern England grit by the voice of Sally Lindsay. Yes, she who played Shelley Unwin in Coronation Street until 2006. She’s a psychopath with intentions to complete her ‘Baker’s Dozen’ (13), after bumping off twelve local bakers....

A montage of movie timepieces, The Clock is a bizarrely hypnotic ode to cinema and time, which impresses just by its sheer scale. Fitting together over 3,000 films, it’s spectacular but simple in its concept. You watch time pass on the big screen while it flies by in the real world. It makes Channel 4’s Countdown look like child’s play. So, at 7pm, you witness Daniel Craig and Eva Green getting ready for evening poker in Casino Royale and then Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman dressing up for a night out on the Kubrickian town....

What If, which requires him to be just that, is a weird film for him to be doing if not just for the choices he’s made over the last few years – he’s done everything in his power to escape that decade-long role, and this is far and away the most conventional part of his career. Once that strangeness wears off, however, it becomes clear that he’s actually a very good fit for this sort of thing....

Despite the diversity of his many projects, it’s Jericho’s work between the ropes that earned him the most fame. Before he was Y2J or the Ayatollah of Rock ‘N’ Rolla, he was one-half of the Thrillseekers with fellow Canadian Lance Storm. Though he had wrestled throughout Canada and in Mexico and Germany, it was his teaming with Storm that first brought him some–albeit small–recognition in the U.S. during their 1995 stint in the southern-based Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotion....

Lots of people who don’t otherwise enjoy horror films, who shudder at the prospect of sitting through a Saw movie, will happily hand over their cash at the box office to see a Final Destination sequel. And you don’t need to concentrate especially hard on a Final Destination film; it’s all pretty lightweight and silly. Anything pointy, wet, slippery, flammable, or heavy is suddenly the enemy. People die easily in Final Destination movies; if anything falls on a Final Destination character, from any height, it’s pretty much guaranteed to kill them, and messily, but somehow that just serves to emphasise our own mortality....

The version I’ve seen isn’t great quality, and is missing the finishing effects that would make it broadcast-ready, but in essence, it’s complete. There was a very cheesy aspect to the seventies TV show, which never really took itself seriously, which is where this pilot diverts almost immediately. Oddly, in this incarnation one mild mannered alter ego isn’t enough. She’s got two. Other than being Wonder Woman, she’s also the CEO of a non-profit organisation, cutely called Themyscira (her real name, Diana of Themyscira), that, among other things, makes money selling Wonder Woman dolls, and she’s also the lonely Diana Price....

Wynonna Earp Season 3, Episode 7 In many ways, it is a more helpful metric to judge a TV show not by its most important episodes, but, rather, by its filler episodes. “I Fall to Pieces” is essentially a filler episode. It is an excuse to get some oddball character pairings together while we wait for the truthbomb that is Doc’s vampirism to hit. Ultimately, Nicole and Wynonna endure Revenant drinking contests, handcuffs, and marriage-obsessed gnomes to save Bunny from an irreversible fate....

Seven years later, Jenko and Schmidt meet again, this time while standing in line at the police academy, in your standard buddy comedy meet-up. As they both soon find out, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Jenko is still a great athlete; Schmidt is still incredibly smart. The two decide that they should work together. Jenko gets Schmidt in passable shape while Schmidt gets Jenko to become a below-average (but not failing) student....

The greatest and most successful songs belong to the power ballad genre, and are as emotionally charged and forceful as the gods of epic balladry such as Journey, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Meat Loaf. As the 90s became the 00s and the charts became increasingly irrelevant, the movie ballad became almost defunct, with even the song-dominant film soundtrack being usurped by the re-emergence of traditional scores. Until the likes of Adele, Katy Perry and company are recruited to help promote blockbusters that aren’t James Bond, we’ll have to make do with the enduring appeal of these essential power ballad classics....

Spoiler minefields ahead… Jack’s back. And he’s primed for a fight. We get dueling deep voices at (close to) dawn when Jack confronts Devon at the NBC offices. Devon’s phoney fiancée, Kathy, has replaced her comatose dad as CEO of General Electric, allowing Devon to take Jack’s place at NBC and run TGS with Tracy Jordan while Kathy watches soap operas, surrounded by cuddly toys, at Jack’s old desk. Jack spots cracks in Devon’s veneer and decides it’s worth restarting at the bottom of the network, in the mailroom, working his way back up to executive heights – a master plan he hopes to accomplish in nine years time....

Indeed, the legacy of these two peaks has proven so long-standing, that the box office failure Blindness has been all but forgotten, and his latest film, 360, takes pride of place as the opener for this year’s London Film Festival. Heralded as the new work from an international artist, the film bears more than a passing resemblance to the work of an uninspired hack. While this approach is in one sense ambitious, tackling universal themes by exploring small moments that have major consequences, it is also insultingly shallow, as Peter Morgan’s script moves from one instance to another, giving only rudimentary depth to each sequence, and merely focusing on how the characters fit together in the film’s smug over-arching structure....

However, there a rip-roaring exception to the rule, and that’s Superman II. It’s up for debate whether it’s better or worse than the first film – although it’s great either way – but there’s no doubt whatsoever that it had the best villains. And accompanied by Sarah Douglas’ Ursu and Jack O’Halloran’s Non, it was Terence Stamp as General Zod who stood out. By some distance. Because General Zod had menace....

Set against the backdrop of the 1910 Parisian floods, A Monster in Paris boasts a number of charms, though none so consistently as to make it a truly satisfying or exciting feature. Almost as soon as it’s established though, Émile and Maud’s story is sidelined by a multi-stranded plot involving the accidental creation of a musically talented mega-flea, a brand new romance between a forward-thinking inventor and a nightclub singer, and a megalomaniac politician seeking mayoral election....

Agent Carter Season 2 Episode 1 “The Lady in the Lake” Agent Carter Season 2 Episode 2 “A View in the Dark” It has been a very long year, but the Agent Carter season 2 premiere doesn’t disappoint. The action, intrigue, and refined humor of the first season is all in place in place. The Agent Carter brain trust didn’t have it easy, as there are plenty of new characters, a new threat, a new setting, and a new mission to get off the ground in short order....

So that was a slow day from Marvel, huh? I’m sure we are all caught up in the future of Marvel at the moment but let us not overlook the present as we had a pretty darn good episode of Agents of SHIELD to enjoy, and yes, believe me, my head is spinning too (Black Panther? Carol Danvers? Inhumans? Infinity War? Ragnarok? Civil War? What the heck, man?). But, right here right now, the central conflict in the cinematic Marvel Universe is HYDRA versus SHIELD and the latest salvo had huge repercussions for Agent Ward....