11.4 The Explosion Implosion So why have Bernadette become pregnant again, rather than Amy or Penny? Well this time they’re having a boy, and boys present a lot more challenges for the couple. For one, there’s Howard’s long-standing insecurities about how much of ‘a real man’ he is, possibly the strongest of the group besides Leonard. Of the four, Howard is the one who always overcompensated with lewd humour and – frankly – sexual harassment of friends and strangers alike, but now he’s a happily married father those issues are felt in a different way....

Examples? We saw it on Criminal Intent with D’Onofrio (though, regrettably, not with Goldblum though the Fly can hardly be blamed) and we’re seeing it again on The Blacklist with Spader. I guess I should, all things being equal, call it the D’Onofrio factor, but I had recurring nightmares after watching Men In Black (though weirdly, not Full Metal Jacket) when I saw it in high school, and also I feel like D’Onofrio would be considerably less fun to hang out with than Spader....

Just a quick recap of my minimal criteria for a good Blacklist episode. I’m a rather forgiving audience, so all I really expect each week is a high-quality villain and maximum Red Reddington screen time. I’ve now added a third variable: minimal relationship time with Tom and Elizabeth. So, let’s get our first spoiler out of the way: “The Cyprus Agency” fulfills NONE of these, and even has the temerity to open with some adorable home-life nonsense with Tom and Elizabeth cooing over their impending adoption of a yet-to-be-born baby....

But Krysten Ritter with dissociative identity disorder might! Okay, okay, Ritter playing not just a set of twins, but an evil twin and a good twin ON top of dissociative identity disorder?! That doesn’t really solve the problem of Berlin and his lack-of-hand coming for Red, but it does make for a brilliant kick-off to the season. Spader continues to nonchalantly demolish the scenery surrounding him with is pursed lips and blasé delivery....

The Borgias In Love Well, on the basis of this week’s episode, the answer is possibly. Like The Tudors, The Borgias mixes historical and political intrigue with soap opera subplots, and this was never more noticeable this week than with the humorously titled episode, The Borgias In Love. Lucrezia’s new marriage to Giovanni Sforza is not going well. If he’s not forcing himself upon her at every opportunity, it seems he is beating her....

3.3 Siblings It’s Lucrezia’s wedding. Mazel tov! Well, not exactly, what with it being Catholic but you know what I mean. Everyone’s there. Seriously, everyone. Even Caterina Sforza came out of her castle in Forli for the event and managed to both kneel before Pope Alexander and kiss his ring with more sass than Joan Rivers surrounded by bad outfits. It was kind of glorious. Then there was the wedding and all the unpleasant allies of Caterina came out and Lucrezia actually married Alfonso and it should’ve been sunshine and roses for the two of them....

Abraham admits that their involvement in the Syfy series which adapted their novels is deeper than that of most authors and maintains that that’s how it should be. “It’s generally speaking a genuinely terrible idea to have writers in the writers room,” he says, “because we come and say, ‘Well, but I wrote it like this; it should stay like that,’ and that’s absolutely not what the process looks like when you’re adapting something....

The Flash Season 2 Episode 18 While I often bemoan the obvious filler episodes, The Flash has always, without fail, delivered on its promises when it comes to big episodes. I’ve never been let down when it’s time for them to throw in a big twist or offer some kind of massive reveal. Until tonight. “Versus Zoom” was entirely anticlimactic, awkwardly paced, and it confirmed something I’ve feared all along: The Flash never really had a solid plan for the whole Jay/Zolomon/Zoom thing....

2.22 Invincible “Invincible” was so poorly written as to be completely baffling. What in the world was the point of “healing” Barry in “The Runaway Dinosaur” only to take everything away from him again an episode later? I was certain that Barry’s bizarre, almost zen-like overconfidence was a mask for something deeper. When other characters started commenting on it, I figured it had to be a “Barry knows something we don’t” situation....

3.6 Reunion One of the things the show has been missing in the absence of Joe Carroll is a bad guy with some charisma. Not that Clark Gregg doesn’t have some impressive sleaziness in his mannerisms, but he’s not exactly a commanding presence by himself. That’s why casting Michael Ealy as Theo, Strauss’s star pupil, is a great idea. He’s a great-looking guy, and he’s very charismatic, particularly in a role that’s a little bit more dangerous than as a friendly robot cop....

At first, it looks as though we’re in for an intimate little chamber piece about a demure handmaiden, her wealthy young Japanese mistress and the latter’s suitor, a handsome nobleman who teaches her how to draw and paint. A passionate love triangle develops between them; Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) and Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) are engaged to marry, yet a frisson of sexual chemistry grows between the wealthy woman and her maid, Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri)....

Den of Geek was part of a group of reporters who visited the impressive set of The Inhumans TV show back in Hawaii in April. While there, we had a chance to talk with actor Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) about what it was like to bring Black Bolt — the King of the Inhumans, a man whose voice can destroy entire citites — to the screen. Here’s what he told us… I’ve always wanted someone to say that to me, “Anson, when you speak, shit happens....

As a contrast, take a look at 2011’s Season Of The Witch as an example of how badly an effects-heavy fantasy movie can go wrong; Nicolas Cage looked glum underneath his lank Cher wig, Ron Perlman was given little to do and the numerous sword fights and the screaming necromancer of a plot failed to add up to a hill of beans. Kaulder’s an old soul who’s embraced modernity. His expensive flat overlooking Central Park is full of priceless objects he’s collected on his witch hunting exploits down the ages, all arranged tastefully around a sleekly-designed pool table....

Since Unalaq has got his troops guarding the spirit portal at the South Pole, Korra’s going to have to shut it from the inside, which means heading into the Spirit World, for which she will need a guide. Tenzin is the obvious choice, but it turns out being heir to the mantle of master airbender and son of the Avatar doesn’t guarantee anything. Apparently, while a very spiritual man, Tenzin just never had the connection to the Spirit World his father did....

But that’s not entirely accurate. Whether you’ve sat through Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse-embracing Planet Terror, the inherently slow pace of late-70s horror in Ti West’s The House Of The Devil, the Trost Brothers’ vision of 80s gang dystopia in their little-seen 2011 effort The FP, or even the B movie action-comedy short Kung Fury, chances are that in one respect you’ve seen a film exactly like The Love Witch in recent years....

Turn on the TV, though, wait a while, and you might just catch one advertising The Next Three Days. It’s filled with the usual people. Smiley, happy people. Shouldn’t you be worried about VAT and jobs and potholes, like the rest of us? I guess not. You’ve got films to watch, cameras to talk to. The thing about this latest advert, however, is that it’s scarily on the money. The Next Three Days is just a good as those pod people proclaim....

2.6 Wheel Inside The Wheel As a result of this character dump, Wheel Inside The Wheel was a bit of a filler episode in a show that doesn’t do well with filler. The people on The Originals don’t function like normal characters, only talking in grand speeches and interacting with veiled ulterior motives, and so when we have an episode like this where all anyone does is talk, it can get a little wearing....

In the interests of maintaining suspense for those planning to watch it, I shall keep this review brief and spoiler light, as I don’t want to ruin it for anyone but, hopefully, you’ll be able to glean a sense of what this is all about. After a quick introduction sequence for each man, including Leckie’s enlisting and promises to write a girl, and Sledge’s frustrated attempts to join up, the action shifts to the Pacific arena, and the battle for the island of Guadalcanal....

Adapting the novel of the same name by author Adam Nevill, screenwriter Joe Barton (not the hyper-aggro footballer, as far as we can tell) and director David Bruckner have an interesting story and some solid ideas and characters to work with here in The Ritual, but they also have a bit of a problem. How do you make a horror film about a group of people getting lost in the woods and encountering spooky business feel new when we’ve already seen it hundreds of times before?...