Firstly, there’s the small matter of the return of a bona fide Doctor Who classic monster. The Sontarans, the fierce, honourable warriors, were in decent shape here. Those who watched The Young Ones in the early 80s would have had little trouble recognising the dulcet tones of Christopher Ryan behind the make-up (even if they hadn’t picked up their Radio Times in advance), but nonetheless, they felt like proper, classic Who foes (even if you can beat them, it seems, with a handily placed tennis racquet and ball)....

Not for the first time in this series of Doctor Who, The Lodger has a feel of two different episodes about it. Arguably the most interesting was found in the last scene or two, an unrelated epilogue to the 40 or so minutes that had gone before. It’s perhaps with that in mind that The Lodger took its foot off the accelerator slightly, delivering a less ambitious episode of Who than we’ve seen these past few weeks (and arguably the least ambitious of the series – no criticism, more an observation)....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 30 “There’s a guy even stronger than Goku?” Really, Dragon Ball Super? That’s how you’re going to do us? You’re going to get us all pumped up and excited over a new story arc and then you dare throw a clip show at us? What is this, one of the stages of Frieza’s Hell or something? An episode like this is a whole lot easier to forgive when Dragon Ball Super was originally airing in Japan....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 62 “So what if I’m a sinner? I will still protect this world!” However, destiny has slowly become a growing presence in this latest story arc. Zamasu certainly feels like he’s receiving some divine right and doing important work with his Zero Mortality Plan. Future Trunks is also a character that really connects to this concept though. Back in Dragon Ball Z’s Cell Saga he was an agent of destiny that helped prevent the destruction of the world in a way that was uniquely specific to him....

And it was for a good reason – Faintheart, which was having two world premieres at the same time in two separate screening rooms at the cinema (I guess that’s possible), was a pretty fine way to end the festival. The film, the feature debut by director Vito Rocco, follows overgrown manchild Richard (Eddie Marsan) as he tries to get back with his separated wife Cath (Spaced’s Jessica Hynes, forever the British geek ideal) while battling… as a Viking....

Featuring Game of Thrones‘ Rose Leslie and Penny Dreadful‘s Harry Treadaway as a young American married couple, Honeymoon really takes its time to invest in their relationship. The first half an hour is dedicated to showing how in love they are, and while this may seem excessive there is merit to this approach. There’s a lot of subtle storytelling going on, although initially the slow pace and non-horrific scenes of happy, young, highly sexed people being in love might try the patience of people wanting dreadful, uncanny things to happen....

3.13 Hemlock Somebody is trying to poison Watson. Unwittingly taking the blow for the attempted assassination was Andrew, Watson’s soon-to-be-ex (in more ways than one, depending on the efficacy of that toxin). Getting dumped is bad enough, but getting your latte spiked with poison at the same time? That’s tough. Gladly though, Clyde has more character in his paint harness than Andrew had in his whole body. Who’s going to grieve a character who couldn’t even put enough effort in to be a secret Moriarty plant (unless they’ve kept this one geologically buried)?...

3.1 Ride Ride begins in summer 1967, a year after the events of series two. It’s a relief to find Thursday alive and back on duty, although suffering from lingering discomfort caused by the bullet lodged in his lung. Morse is a free man, but he’s giving his former colleagues a wide berth. It transpires that the conspiracy brought out into the open in that dramatic finale has been thwarted, though the hideous abuse perpetrated against the children resident in the Blenheim Vale Boys’ Home has, predictably, been classified for fifty years....

Clapton was rejected by his mum, a military half-family, a Beatle’s wife and Jimi Hendrix. When the voodoo child with the gypsy eyes ended his experience, Clapton cried all day. He didn’t cry because he was going to miss his friend and jam-mate, he cried that he’d been abandoned to drown his blues alone. Hendrix died shortly after Clapton’s classic album Derek and the Dominoes Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs failed....

Christian Bale plays a macho Moses who’s nevertheless markedly different from Charlton Heston’s incarnation in 1956’s The Ten Commandments. Raised as Egyptian royalty under the wing of King Seti (John Turturro), Moses fights alongside his adopted brother Ramses II (Joel Edgerton) in battle, and proves to be both a shrewd tactician and master swordsman. When it emerges that Moses is a Hebrew, however, he’s cast out of Egypt and left for dead....

The Armoury One of the few exclusives on offer at the recent and surprisingly good Kapow! Comic Con (a round-up of which is currently featured in our Comics section) was the opening episode of Falling Skies, the new sci-fi television series, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, which will be heading to FX in July. In what immediately casts the series in a very post-Walking Dead light, Falling Skies deals with survival after apocalypse, only instead of the currently trendy zombies, we have the evergreen antagonist of alien invaders....

3.7 The Pickett Line Director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan has put together another fine-looking episode. He has a great ability to handle outdoor scenes; when he shoots forests, or people riding horses through a forest, it always looks wonderful. When it comes to the action sequences, he makes good use of shaky hand-held cameras to provide some tension to a really well-done home invasion by Clan Mason, and he continues to use interesting shots throughout the episode....

Yet, my mind goes back to Hardy, an apparently E L James-approved scribe that created Bathsheba Everdene, the complex heroine who also had an older man leering after her to physically dangerous ends. Would Bathsheba in a modern context likewise find the greatest romantic dilemma of her life to be the fine print around a weekend sex slave contract? But here we are. She’s doe-eyed, bookish, naïve and purely virginal; he’s dark, mysterious, obscenely wealthy, and considers sweet nothings to include “I don’t make love: I fuck....

Based on the book of the same name by Irvine Welsh, Jon S Baird’s second feature film (after 2008’s Cass) is a very Scottish beast, though not the side of the country the tourist board choose to dwell on. In a duality that Edinburgh doesn’t want to shake off, it comes out the week before the (apparently pretty good) Proclaimers jukebox musical Sunshine On Leith hits cinemas. Baird’s script, while taking some deviations from the deviations of Welsh’s novel, teases you with both its irreverence and the possibility of change in its characters....

This review contains spoilers. If you’ve not seen Fringe then don’t read this, as I’m going to talk about crucial plot points in a revealing way. What an excellent story, as the weirdness of Dr Jones’ experiments impacts both dimensions, and as such causes Walter to go on an inter-dimensional trip, rather than the usual medicated variety. But going back to shapeshifters for a moment, what happened to the one that came over to the good guys last week?...

4.5 Novation Fringe can do one of two things: it can either tell a story, or it can progress a greater story arc while indulging in some character development, and it was the latter that we got this week. Peter’s return posed many questions, almost none of which were answered by Novation, as entertaining as it was. What worked for me was that Peter, who is generally pretty smart, worked out that he was somehow a temporal anomaly pretty quickly, and that got over the “Why don’t you know me” parts quicker....

5.6 Through The Looking Glass And What Walter Found There Though a reference to Alice is thrown in, when Walter explains that in the pocket left is right and up is down. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland it’s Humpty Dumpty who states “…up is down, down is up, whatever suits its agenda…” Navigating the pocket isn’t easy, especially when they’ve no real idea what they’re in there to find, or why....

In our interview below, Morris explains why his character hits a little too close to home and Bunbury theorizes why audiences might relate to the pair: “This couple feels very familiar, I think, to people,” she says. “They’re really funny and sweet though, as well.” Meanwhile, Billy Magnussen (Ingrid Goes West) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) discuss their own characters in the film, with Horgan playing the “slighty cynical but also open to whatever the night might hold” Sarah, who accompanies Magnussen’s not-especially-bright Ryan to game night and ends up being a bit smarter than everyone else in the room....

3.9 The Rains of Castamere At times, this season has felt like moving pieces around on a chess board, without any real action. It was all set-up, no punchline. This week, we got the punchline, and it definitely delivered on all the building up the show has done with its scattered collective of characters across the continent of Westeros. All season we’ve seen Jon Snow and his wildlings head south while Bran and Rickon and their frog-eating retainers angle north....

6.2 Home Once upon a time, during the War of Five Kings, Balon Greyjoy (Patrick Malahyde) was considered an actual king. Sure, he only ruled the Iron Islands, and through them the northern seas, but still, that’s a kingdom, albeit a nautically-based one. Now, the three Baratheon combatants are dead, and the King in the North is just a head on a pike somewhere. Balon Greyjoy remains, though his ambitious campaign to take the north was actually horribly unsuccessful....