Well, of course it’s going to end on a cliffhanger…the world may be destroyed by the Founder! But is there a “need” for a second season? The show is not only competing with Dancing with the Stars, tonight it will butt heads with the two hour premiere of 24: Live Another Day. I’m sure there’s enough material for The Tomorrow People to get through a second season, especially since several relationships between characters are changing rapidly (most notably John and Astrid gravitating toward each other)....

Like Hollywood, the passage of time has challenged directors to take on new scripts and audiences to be receptive to new ideas. You’ll see a very clear indication of that in the extensive list below, which features Academy Award and BAFTA nominated films, and even Grammy Award-winning artists. Recent films are based on sentimental and patriotic real-life events, with some brilliant original scripts that would have fallen flat had they been released earlier....

That’s right, the review of this week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries is being written by me, a twelve year old girl obsessed with cute vampiric boys and I regret NOTHING. As though paying penance for getting Elena and Damon together too soon in the show (and thus, having to create ridiculous plot-lines like the one currently unfolding), the burgeoning relationship between Caroline and Stefan has taken actual years to develop....

3.9. HomecomingIt’s mid-season finale time for The Vampire Diaries, and things are finally starting to heat up. Klaus’ plan to resolve things with daddy dearest finally comes to fruition, and there’s some valuable allies on Elena and Damon’s side since last week. With Stefan and Rebekah now helping out on the big master scheme, the gang can get down to business. This year, they’ve opted for a more considered approach to the originals and Klaus’ plan to create hybrids, and things aren’t heating up like they used to....

5.14 No Exit This week’s return of the show should have rectified this at least briefly, propelling the storyline forward now that Damon has something to do other than pine after Elena, but it actually did the opposite. Remember when we all loved Katherine and wanted her to stay alive for the rest of the show? Well that’s over now. I never thought I’d want Elena back after she was body-hijacked, but right now the two characters are looking equally dreary and predictable, with only the love of a good vampire on their minds and no agency beyond seducing one of them at a time....

6.7 Mommie Dearest Of all the crazy twists and turns this show has taken over the years, impregnating Caroline with the unborn twins of her favorite high school teacher has to take the biscuit. Not only does it not make any sense logically within the rules of this universe, but it also doesn’t make any sense narratively. There’s a consent issue here that I wish wasn’t a recurring problem for The Vampire Diaries, but the execution in Mommie Dearest just made the whole thing worse....

2.4 Cherokee Rose The survivors need gun training, the farm needs medical supplies, and Sophia is still out there missing. Then again, with Shane limping around and Rick vampired out of most of his blood, there’s only one person really skilled enough to wander around in the woods and rescue Sophia, and that means Daryl’s off on his lonesome, Glenn and Maggie are off to a suspiciously empty town to raid the pharmacy, and Rick and Carl get to bond over their shared gunshots, when Rick’s not off trying to talk Hershel into letting the group stay on the farm....

3.11 I Ain’t a Judas For the bulk of this season, Andrea has been an after-thought. There’s been potential for the character to become interesting, but none of the writers have really taken hold of it. Until, perhaps, this week. After weeks of being on the back burner to Michonne, The Governor, and even Milton, Andrea gets pushed to the centre this week as she finally starts to show some agency....

Remember The West Wing? It was the one critics wouldn’t shut up about before the arrival of The bloody Wire. It turned even the most hard-nosed, cynical viewers into devoted pseudo-politico-fanboys and won more Emmys than you’ve had hot dinners. But, over a decade on, does its first season stand up to a re-watch? For all the plaudits it received, it also suffered accusations of being sentimental, unrealistically optimistic, unfairly biased towards the political left and far too clever for its own good....

The World’s End There are very few filmmakers that carry the accolade of having made a great cinematic trilogy. More often than not, one film at least will prove to be a weak link, or as is so often the case in the last decade, a director or star (or both in the case of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull) will return to a once beloved franchise only to ruin the mythology....

It’s amazing stuff, and all of our favourite thespians are guilty of it, even during what are considered their best performances. So enjoy the below, and suggest some more below.. Let’s start with a man who’s chewed scenery with aplomb for decades. Whether as the Prince of Darkness, Scaramanga, Count Dooku, or Saruman, Lee has imbued all his roles with a power that only the very finest can achieve. He has two lines in the above clip, but that’s the only two lines you’ll care about....

Thankfully, that’s not the case with Top Five, Chris Rock’s first project as a writer-director since 2007’s I Think I Love My Wife, and inarguably his best so far. With a semi-autobiographical approach, the film clearly has a lot of influences from other films but thrives on a brand of charm that is entirely its own. Andre Allen (Rock) is a stand-up comedian turned movie star who is best known for a trilogy of cringe-making comedy movies in which he stars as a crime-fighting bear called Hammy....

4.3 If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’? Without doubt, the biggest news in Bon Temps this week is that Diet Eric would appear to be here to stay, for a while at least. Having completely lost all sense of who, but not what, he is, the new Sheriff might be a little less cocky than we might like, but he’s hilarious nonetheless. And clearly, Snookie, sorry, Sookie, likes him a whole hell of a lot more this way....

Turn Season 3 Episode 9 This season’s penultimate episode of Turn: Washington’s Spies opens with a panning shot of West Point, the Continental Army’s fortified position at a strait of the Hudson River forty miles north of New York City. For people who know even a little of the story of Benedict Arnold, that’s a key location, and a sign that this season is approaching its climactic confrontations. This episode of Turn offers fewer surprise twists than others this season....

Take this week for example, Under the Dome goes to a place the book never does, namely, outside the Dome. How does that happen? Read on! Anyway, down Barbie went, and of course he fell which kicks off two new directions. One, with Barbie out of the picture, “Big” Jim can take the town as his own. This week’s B plot saw Julia trying to keep the truth of Barbie’s demise from Jim....

Unity #1 functions as both a team-up book (kinda) and an introduction to the Valiant Universe. If you haven’t been reading Valiant comics, they make it awfully hard to keep your excuses up. Their books are mostly self-contained, they offer plenty of easy jumping-on points for new readers, and the collected editions are reasonably priced. Unity #1 isn’t quite as accessible as some of their other recent first issue offerings like Quantum & Woody #1 or Eternal Warrior #1, but it’s no harder to follow (and introduces no more characters and story beats) than your average dramatic television pilot....

Veep Season 6 Episode 3 Democracy, what a horror show. With Veep season 6, episode 3, “Georgia,” Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) begins her second chapter, traveling the globe to spread democracy. The former president is overseeing the as-free-as-possible elections of Georgia (not the state, the country). While being told that the country is looking for free, rather than American style elections, she learns that communist elections are as capitalist as those at home....

4.8 Portage What people will or will not do for the ones they care for was largely the theme of this week’s episode, as we moved from the Frankish countryside to its Parisian court and across the channel to Wessex and then back to Kattegat. It looked for a moment as though Gisla’s love for both Rollo and her father might be tested, for example, when Odo sought to betray the Viking who had turned his brother back by trying to convince the Emperor that, while Rollo had served his purpose, he was untrustworthy and should be done away with....

I can’t be the only person who got the impression from the promotional material that We Bought A Zoo was mawkish, overly sentimental piece of Hollywood nonsense. Granted, it’s based on a true story, but that’s hardly a factor that encourages film makers to put the sugar bowl away. As Dylan is expelled from school, Benjamin decides it’s time for a fresh start and…, well, the clue’s in the title really, isn’t it?...