Back for the seventh instalment in this superb series, Burning House Of Love is an episode of firsts for many of the Bon Temps residents. Sookie’s first time over with, it’s time for Jason Stackhouse to try a few new things, starting with a trip to Fangtasia on a yellow brick quest for some V. After Lafayette scored a first of his own by refusing to sell Jason any more blood, the boy’s arrival at the club could well have been his first and last trip anywhere if the vamps had figured what the hell he was talking about....

The Set-Up The secret menace SHADO fought against was a dying race of liquid-breathing aliens intent on harvesting usable organs from the earth-people that it abducted during sneak forays into our atmosphere in discreet centrifugal spacecraft. The defence fleet consisted of S.I.D. (Space Intruder Detector), a sentient satellite that would make initial sitings; three missile-carrying Interceptors on a lunar base comprising the first line of defence; a roving, bipartite submarine called Skydiver, the nozzle of which was a fighter jet that could detach from the sub and counter-attack UFOs that got through into the Earth’s atmosphere; and the all-terrain SHADO-mobiles, armoured and laser-bearing trucks to hunt down landed aliens where co-ordinates were available....

The Blooms are back, and this time they’re trying to find a Pakistani scientist specialising in micro-explosives and other top secret government stuff. So, of course, this means the very attractive husband and wife team must jet around the world to track down the scientist that has been kidnapped by a group of mercenaries. Cue gratuitous shots of Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a bikini and Boris Kodjoe in an open shirt....

The charming puzzle-platformer Unravel has been capturing our hearts ever since its big reveal at last year’s E3, thanks to the game’s serene naturalistic visuals and folksy soundtrack. You play as the loveable Yarny, a pointy little red creature who spills out from Grandma’s basket of yarn at the start of the game. Grandma’s quiet country house acts as a hub for the game’s dozen or so levels, which are housed in faded photographs on the mantles and dressers....

4.7 The Profit And The Loss For example, if you had asked me, in the hiatus between this season and the last, to describe both Ragnar and Ecbert’s attitudes towards the belief systems of their people, I would have sworn up and down that they were almost purely sociological: that is, they saw them as serving the purpose of binding the community together, but at their basest level, that their cultures’ religions are mostly hokum meant to pacify the masses....

Thank goodness What Remains finishes next week. Whose opinion of humanity could withstand many more lashings of the kind episode three gave us? If Tony Basgallop had a wider canvas on which to paint his portrait of human failings, we’d all need some time away. As it is, I’m crossing my fingers that next week’s just a quick summary of what happened to Melissa followed by a fifty minute slideshow of yawning puppies and winsome infants being delighted by butterflies....

So in true Deadpool fashion, Deadpool 2 plays with expectations with its villains. There isn’t really any one big baddie, although we once again get a reference to Nathaniel Essex, Mr. Sinister, who was teased at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse, and who was nearly included in the upcoming New Mutants movie. Black Tom Cassidy, introduced in X-Men #99 (June 1976), is a powerful mutant who possesses the ability to manipulate energy, typically channeling thermokinetic blasts through his signature weapon, a wooden Irish shillelagh....

While Constantine has finally found a home on Legends of Tomorrow there’s only so far they can take the character. If you read the original Hellblazer comics Constantine starred in they are filled with horrific imagery. The pits of hell, bugs crawling out of people, and even ballistics testing on corpses. Without the restrictions of having to film it in live action, the animation can be just as twisted and fantastical as the comics....

43 films later, he’s back on a high with the success of Midnight In Paris, which has grossed more than any other Allen flick to date, and has garnered the bespectacled auteur yet another Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (his third, and fourth overall). With that in mind, there’s no better time for an all-inclusive documentary. And, with its mixture of classic clips, new interviews with a comprehensive list of collaborators and critics, and unprecedented access to the man himself, Weide’s film does a great job of summing up Allen’s career, and providing a compelling glimpse at the films that have built his reputation....

Wynonna Earp Season 3 Episode 9 Oh, that Bulshar is good. You’ve got to appreciate a man with a plan and the focus to pull it off. While Team Earp continues to be one step behind The Demon Clootie, he never appears to be even a little bit out of control. In “Undo It,” we see him enact the next step in his plan: torturing Wynonna into giving up Peacemaker, which is apparently the key to him entering Purgatory’s Garden of Eden....

Part of what gives Z Nation such a comfortably creepy but undeniably entertaining feel is its soundtrack, written skillfully by composer Jason Gallagher. Z Nation, which returns for season 3 in the coming week, has carved out its own space in the zombie film and TV lexicon with its self-referential humor and its ability to be dark and scary without taking itself too seriously, and Gallagher’s music reflects the apocalyptic but campy feel to the show....

Shouldn’t we have street festivals, a parade, a big scary float, skull lanterns in the trees and mayhem? It might be too American for some in the UK, but Halloween is the one night of the year I wouldn’t mind being blown up to supersize proportions. The Simpsons Tree House Of Horror IV Kicking off your spook-tacular evening is not a film, but an essential part of any Halloween. The Simpsons Halloween specials are as integral to this night as Christmas trees are to December 25th....

At the White House, Bob Gunton’s Ethan Kanin does some superb silent acting, realising he may well be to blame for the leak relating to Senator Meyers’s murder. And with that he quits gracefully. The President obviously puts up a fight, but quickly relents and he’s off. Jon Voight is being a little more active, and gets to interact in a boardroom meeting with his company. So we see his motives coming to the surface more....

24 Season 8 – 4:00-5:00pm After the EMP strike on CTU last week, it’s no surprise that the major crux of this episode featured the team trying to make the best of a bad situation, and after Jack’s plea to his NSA buddy for help, even the usually dull offices of CTU got a bit of excitement, thanks mainly to Chloe and her rather unique way of getting people to cooperate, but also, shock horror, thanks to Dana, whose plot takes a rather dark (and plain silly) turn, indeed....

There’s something a bit unfair about the writers of 30 Rock taking a swipe at reality TV. Like dumb fish bobbing around the proverbial barrel, reality TV shows are such easy prey for anyone with a well-aimed satirical streak, you could almost feel sorry for them. Almost. In truth, this week’s glorious double barrelled attack on the genre was even funnier than watching the entire cast of Jersey Shore actually being shot in a barrel....

Tina Fey hates women. She must do. Why else would she persist in portraying them as ditzy, shallow and child-like if not because of her thoroughgoing hatred of womankind? Even Fey’s callous mockery of Alaskan beauty, Sarah Palin, must come from nothing more than a bitter desire to destroy strong, successful women, because deep down Fey believes we’re all hysterical messes who can’t be trusted with power. As a symbol of all women everywhere, it is Fey’s responsibility to refute harmful stereotypes which portray women as neurotic, oversensitive or hypersexualised....

Because arguably, the universe that most of the films Curtis has written and directed are based in is as distinctive as the Marvel framework, or anything of that ilk. It’s a removed slice of Britishness, where generally decent people stumble through slightly unreal situations, that nonetheless feel linked just loosely enough to everyday life. Curtis, almost defiantly, tackles the subject of love, and hiding feelings, and loss. And whilst it’d be disingenuous to say that About Time is a compilation album of Curtis-isms, there’s a sense of the familiar about it, in terms of some of its themes at least....

Original Sin I knew there was a reason why I was watching and reviewing this show, despite some exceptionally clunky episodes in this opening season. It was obvious from the build-up that Original Sin was given that it would be a game changer for the show, but I hadn’t anticipated how different season two is likely to be, coming from where the show originally started. The story combines a couple of running threads that early shows introduced, namely the Red Flag plotline and an exceptionally old man who goes by the name of Stanton Parish....

American Dad Season 12 Episode 18 “Is salt valuable?” If this episode of American Dad leaves you with any message, it’s that lawns are the glue that hold together America. Who’d have thought that such simple pastures could be sanctuaries for all of the best memories a family could experience? American Dad has explored so many topics at this point that an episode that sees the Smith family arguing over ownership of a salt mine seems just as plausible as any....

American Dad! Season 14, Episode 2 “Francine, there are no conspiracies. They’re just fake junk!” One of the constants that’s been present over the last few seasons of American Dad! is the inclusion of the peppy morning show within the show, “Morning Mimosa.” This is typically a fun non sequitur that the show can cut to when necessary and it also helps fill in the void that’s been present since Greg and Terry left the scene....