Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 8 If there’s going to be any episode of Ash vs Evil Dead that I will ever feel conflicted about, it will most likely be “Ashy Slashy.” I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to watch it, especially since last week’s installment was more evidence that the writers are stretching out a simplistic storyline. And who can blame them? It’s hard to think up new and entertaining stories that involve such a huge horror icon as Ash Williams, a character who used to be good only in concentrated doses....

Kicking off with a brilliant, brilliant opening line that pretty much sums up how many of us felt after the denouement to series two and the cliffhanger it left behind, the episode spends the first 15 minutes or so dealing with the ramifications of Gene Hunt shooting Alex, and Alex waking up in the present day. It’s no great surprise that the action subsequently moves to 1983, and that a plot device soon gets Alex Drake back there, but the manner in which it’s done leaves a little ambiguity around it, and left us with a question or two....

The bow-and-arrow-wielding Avenger has been invisible in all the promotion for Marvel’s epic superhero team-up — he has not shown up in any trailers or posters, and the name of the actor who has played him in four previous movies, Jeremy Renner, isn’t even listed in the credits on the posters, stand-up displays and assorted other pieces of promotional art. Infinity War and Avengers 4 screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (who also wrote Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier) acknowledged as much when we spoke with them....

But in recent years he’s become the lone light in the comedy output undergrowth of ITV. He took the run down You’ve Been Framed, a programme that came to epitomise the contempt that the channel increasingly showed for its viewers by getting bum-chinned doorpost Jonathan Wilkes to front it. Drafting in Harry Hill meant a return to showing clips, without introducing even more awkward format changes to get viewers to vote on ‘classic clips’....

4.5 A Little Late To Grow A Pair Look, it’s not like this is a steep descent into shark-jumping territory. So much of what makes Banshee special is still in play, but it can’t mask the fact that not very much is happening, or at least not very much that is seeming to be of consequence. The pace is languid and there’s no real sense of urgency or high stakes....

That is mercifully not the case with the Razor flashbacks, which instead largely use material from Razor itself. Still, it would be fair to expect something half between preview scenes and trailers. But here’s the really surprising fact – the material works far better as a webisode than in the show itself. After landing, the surprisingly good young Adama finds a House of a 1000 Corpses style testing lab of human prisoners....

This review contains spoilers. I like to think I’m pretty good at figuring out the “twist endings” of things. I knew it really was God all along in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, I knew Harry Potter was a Horcrux, and I knew River Song was Melody Pond. I studied writing in school, so I know the rules. And as much as I love all three of those things, if you know the rules, they’re fairly easy to deconstruct....

3.4 I’m So Lonesome I Could Die Take Josh and Nora, for instance, and their teenage werewolf ward, Erin. Taking care of Erin isn’t exactly a breeze, but it’s just so fun to watch the two of them navigate their pseudo-parenthood. They joke about how they haven’t adopted her and aren’t ready for children, but Nora’s constant need to make sure Erin is supervised and okay is very motherly, and Josh going to the metaphorical bat for Erin towards the end of the episode is straight-up protective dad....

4.5 Hold the Front Page Quite possibly the best line of the episode delivered by quite possibly the finest addition to the Being Human universe. Cutler, a captivating and mesmeric screen presence, illuminates this series like John Mitchell has done before, and it was fitting that it was left to him to drive forward the series’ key story arc while our newfound heroes dealt with a rather excellent self-contained sideshow....

First broadcast in late 2011, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror trilogy of suspense dramas – loosely connected by their satirical humour and concerns about current and future technology – were refreshingly sharp, concise and well-made. Those expecting the dark humour of The National Anthem or the harsh jabs at televised singing contests in Fifteen Million Merits may be somewhat taken aback by the relatively naturalistic air of Be Right Back – this is Brooker working from a more muted palette, and perhaps even growing in confidence as he explores his themes with greater subtlety....

How, you ask? Because the money was, just like in the show, laying out on the beach, or in very shallow water. And news got out. “Hey, dude there are millions of dollars laying on a beach, with a huge wrecked ship right there to mark the place!” Adventurers came from all over the world. The Spanish came too, of course, with an army. So the scavengers formed their own army and they fought up and down the beach, pausing only to pick up gold, dive for it, or send slaves diving for it if the water was too deep....

This episode of Black Sails is another good one, showing off everyone’s strengths, and including all our favorite characters without being predictable or feeling like we’re ticking items off a list. Vane gets some deep moments, Miranda gets included in a growing plotline, and the love (okay, not love – sex) between Anne Bonny, Jack Rackham and Max heats up. Eleanor isn’t even annoying. You remember where we left them last time....

4.10 White Horse Pike Seeing these characters before they attained the notoriety that still attends them has been one of the biggest appeals of Boardwalk Empire since the beginning. It is, however, more than simply an unofficial prequel to The Untouchables. Their respective ascents of the criminal ladder, interesting though they are, are given additional depth and context by the sense of generational change. Cast your mind back to the very first episode and to Nucky’s dinner party at which he entertained Big Jim Colosimo, Johnny Torrio and Arnold Rothstein....

5.3 What Jesus Said As if to prove the point, the opening wasn’t even the most hushed moment. The later scene on the beach in 1884 was so quiet and mannered as to be dreamlike. The beautiful emptiness of the white sands, spoiled prettily by a handful of people and objects was so eerily quiet that it looked like limbo, an impression made all the stronger by Mabel’s preternatural quoting of scripture, specifically Genesis 5:24, ‘Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him’, a passage that she takes to mean that although the Lord took Enoch, he didn’t actually die....

4.12 End Times End Times was a curious episode of Breaking Bad. As perfectly written, directed, and performed as always, but I couldn’t shake the fact that there was something oddly unsatisfying about it. This is not to say that it was a bad episode. It was just as intense and packed with incident as any of the stellar episodes preceding it. I think the problem may have been that Breaking Bad has entered unfamiliar territory for the show thus far, by presenting us with a genuine whodunit mystery....

The unravelling personality of Claire Ripley was the meat of this week’s Broadchurch episode. Is Eve Myles’ character psycho, nympho, klepto, or drongo, boyo? (One thing she obviously isn’t is a decent hairdresser – Ellie’s ‘do hadn’t changed a lick despite all her al fresco twiddling and prodding.) Only if Claire had spent the hour dancing around the Dorset countryside wearing Lisa Newberry’s skin as a cape and singing “I did it....

This review contains spoilers. To really catch your whodunnit audience off-guard, make the culprit a kid. Twelve-year-old Bobby killed Lucy Beale on EastEnders. One-year-old Maggie shot Mr Burns on The Simpsons. And sixteen-year-old Michael raped Trish Winterman on Broadchurch. He didn’t want to; a bigger boy made him. That’s about the long and short of it. If I sound withering, forgive me. Broadchurch has done a great many things right this series, but revealing that Michael—groomed by swaggery young shit and serial rapist Leo—attacked Trish wasn’t among them....

But you should never forget about The Way of the Dragon (perhaps better known as Return of the Dragon), which, yes, came out before Enter the Dragon and no it’s not a franchise. Return of the Dragon was Lee’s first directorial effort and while it’s a little heavier on the comedy than his other movies, there’s no shortage of ass-kicking. In particular, it features one of the most incredible fight scenes ever filmed, with Lee taking on Chuck Norris in a seemingly endless battle in the Coliseum in Rome....

Adapted from the French graphic novel of the same name (or Du Plomb Dans La Tete. if you want to be accurate), Bullet To The Head is a sleazy, straight-up action flick that doesn’t dare subvert or exceed one’s expectations. Stallone strolls through the carnage as a mean, no-bullshit old sod who is roped into doing some honest-to-goodness heroics after he’s double-crossed by the mob. Seeking revenge, he pairs up with a technophilic cop, forming an unlikely – if generically made-for-measure – alliance to bring the bastards to justice....