Oh dear. Having turned in one of the best, scariest horror films in ages, James Wan is back for another bash at the haunted house genre – but this time, it’s kind of a disaster. Insidious: Chapter 2 suffers from the inevitable comparisons that’ll come from being released so soon after The Conjuring, but it’s hard to imagine a time when this film would’ve seemed okay. It’s dire. The thing is, because of how the last movie ended, we know who murdered Elise, and it’s not hard to figure out why....

“My goal is to play the character while honoring the original performance of [Mayhew], and that that is the only way I’m ever gonna play this character,” Suotamo told Den of Geek at the press day for Solo: A Star Wars Story. “He gave Chewbacca the uniqueness and heart that we know him for, and for that I am forever thankful for him. If it wasn’t for Peter, probably this character would not be as loved; he would just be a man in a suit....

Jack took it pretty well, retiring to the local Econo Lodge with a bottle o’ booze. But Anderson’s death may have pushed Gary over the edge. Unfortunately, he was almost there anyway. Remember that squirrely look Gary had when he was standing alone, in the dated building that Amy owns? Yeah, that was the trademark look of a wackadoodle. Turns out Gary was fired from his law firm several months back....

Here’s the kicker: after eight seasons of following around the waitress, another woman has stolen Charlie’s heart. When Charlie and Dee leave the waitress’s house, they get into a fender bender with handsome Trevor Taft and his beautiful sister Ruby. When Dennis and Mac see the date is going so well they become skeptical of the Tafts’ motives. Dennis believes rich people have a plot to embarrass the lower class and impress all their rich friends and it proves to be true....

The documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond is a must see for die-hard Beatles fans. While you’ve heard most of the stories before, there are still a few personal nuggets that never made the billions of pages and miles of footage written on the band. It’s taking me everything I have not to print them and spoil them for you, so I’ll share one that didn’t make the film....

And so it was last night that I spent and hour and a half watching the station’s modern ‘reworking’ of the Frankenstein tale. Replacing Dr Victor Frankenstein with Victoria (how very clever), the one-off drama updated the story by making the titular doctor a genetic scientist. So instead of gathering body parts and sticking them together in a Mr Potato-head fashion, she manages to grow a monster from human DNA....

There’s a good reason for that, too. Johnny English was not very good. Stretching out a character from a credit card commercial to feature length film met with inevitable critical results. Yet the film actually turned into a reasonably sizeable hit. Perhaps the only surprise should be that the sequel didn’t come sooner. Furthermore, one or two players in the supporting cast, Dominic West in particular, are up for a bit of fun too....

Sorry to ask the boring, obvious question to start with. But the first Descent movie is considered to be one of the very best British horror movies in a long time and I can think of few more intimidating acts to take for your directorial debut. So how did it come about? Why that project in particular? Now, that desire was there, but they also nobody wanted to do a cheap cash-in....

I’m actually finding it difficult to find the words to describe just how much I loved Kick-Ass, so let me fill you in on a few facts about myself first. I love comic books, but am out of touch, having kicked my habit over a decade ago (give or take a few graphic novels a year), so I’ve yet to read Mark Millar’s original Kick-Ass source material (an issue about to addressed), but have always been fanatical about comic book movies and TV....

Knightfall Episode 7 “It is possible to hear God’s call and ignore it.” The jarring opening establishes not only that Catalonia and Queen Elena have attacked Navarre, but also the brutality possessed by Joan’s cousin as she sends a strong message to France after Isabella’s engagement fiasco. Though Knightfall has had its share of violent action sequences, the delivery of a sack of severed hands to Navarre’s noblemen while Joan is there to pledge France’s support takes the graphic nature of the the show’s visual language to a different level....

Forced into a loveless marriage with a man twice her age in order to pay off a family debt, Katherine (Florence Pugh) is reluctantly under the domineering keep of her impotent husband (Paul Hilton) and equally acrimonious father-in-law (Christopher Fairbank). Limited to the soulless confines of their stately yet draughty manor, Katherine is practically forbade any semblance of freedom, and the young bride’s daily interactions are restricted to that of her passive and unsympathetic housemaid Anna (Naomi Ackie)....

Life Itself is billed as a multigenerational story of love and loss that, for the most part, centers in on a young couple, Will (Isaac) and Abby (Olivia Wilde). If told chronologically, the film would essentially follow the pair from their college courtship and its rocky continuation through marriage, children, and the many experiences that such a life implies. But like one of the This Is Us series premiere’s most famous twists, Will and Abby’s story is not a told sequentially....

Hands up who, if you were watching this on DVD rather than in weekly instalments, would currently be ignoring the washing up and neglecting the dog’s last walk of the day in favour of pressing play on episode three? He should be. Series two is proving every bit as compelling viewing as its predecessor, with the added extra of Keeley Hawes’ captivating inscrutability as DI Denton. Denton proved herself a cut above series one’s Tony Gates this week, by resisting Kate’s charms, outing her as a mole, and turning the tables on AC12 in that tremendous, lengthy final interview....

With the Wonder Woman solo film approaching, delve into the making of the first major female superhero and “stop feeling uncomfortable with the circumstances of her creation,” which has a polyamorous history. Throughout the decades, Wonder Woman’s look has changed. CompleteSet highlighted five action figures that are “particularly interesting and occasionally odd.” And just in case you missed it, make sure you check out the first footage of the Wonder Woman film slated for 2017....

In last week’s episode, we saw Sawyer asking Kate what can only be described as a really good question. Given that she’s a fugitive from the law, what, exactly, does she think being rescued will get her except for jail time? This episode brings us another of those wonderful flash-forwards explaining just what does happen when Kate makes it home. Kate’s trial seems to have been mainly shoe-horned in to give her desire to be rescued some credibility in the eyes of the audience....

Admittedly, Lost has precedent for this, and it’s not quite as ruthless with the truth as Alias was, but it’s still far too close for comfort. I wasn’t surprised by the reveal that Sun was having a flash-forward and Jin was having a flash-back so much as I was left rolling my eyes. Having now tricked us into thinking we’re on the island, or not on the island, or in the future or past, or time-travelling to one place or the other, Lost has exhausted almost every variation on its format, except for one....

So much of Mad Men is about the conversation going on beneath the dialogue that Don and Peggy’s rare, honest exchange towards the end of The Strategy verged on the epiphanic. After seasons of resentment, hostility, disgust and power-play between the two, that My Way scene was water in the desert. Subtext-free Mad Men. Who’d have thought it could be so gratifying? Don revealed that he worried that he never did anything, that he doesn’t have anyone....

Hmmm. The brightest spots of last week’s Marchlands opener were Dean Andrews and Alex Kingston, seemingly having a whale of time being stuck in the 1980s. Yet, the show knocked them down to earth in double quick time this week, by introducing the potential of a tumour for the daughter. The tone for this more sombre episode was soon set. However, some of the criticisms of last week have tempered....

But this pair can also wallow in the predictable, the cliché, and the needlessly sentimental, with Mile 22 exhibiting all of their worst characteristics. This is a stock There Are Secret Operations The Government Doesn’t Want You To Know About programmer, complete with a generic, vaguely menacing fictional Southeast Asian setting, lots of running and screaming, “Go, go, go!”, a knot of betrayals and double-crosses, brutal violence and gunplay that would bring any human in real life to their knees (if not a funeral parlor), and characters as thinly drawn as a sketch on tracing paper....

Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore) are childhood friends who have always shared everything. When Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer, she seems to struggle more with the emotional rigours of being around her loved ones than the course of chemotherapy which she must undergo. The script for Miss You Already, penned by Morwenna Banks, steers well clear of either extreme of movies about cancer, both inoffensive and unsentimental in its portrayal of its central relationships....