Bates Motel Nice Town You Picked Norma Review

The episode opens with Norma and Norman still reeling a little from the murder Norma committed, and then they both covered up. Added to that, who lands on their doorstep but Norma’s prodigal son (and Norman’s older brother), Dylan. Ewwwwww. That visual will unfortunately stay with me for quite some time. As the police gather and investigate, Norma makes small chat with weird undertones with Sheriff Guyliner. He is still suspicious of her....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;792 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gloria Moradel

Bates Motel The Man In Number 9 Review

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;0 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;0 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;William Thurman

Bates Motel Episode 1 Review First You Dream Then You Die

1.1 First you dream, then you die Still with me? Good. Bates Motel introduces us to a seventeen year-old Norman Bates as he and his mother start a new life in California after the death of Mr. Bates Senior. It may be a reboot, but young Norman’s destiny is inescapable. It needs to be an interesting journey. Freddie Highmore is great in the lead. It’s fortunate that he bears a passing resemblance to Anthony Perkins, but the real work is all his own....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;546 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Daryl Leitner

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 3 Review The Ties That Bind

Let’s commence with the Cylons (old-timey numbered variety) – after all, they started it. At the end of last week’s episode, the centurions were armed with the power of reason, and Brother Cavil et al were on their way to the warm liquid goo phase. We now catch up with everyone’s favourite wrinkly priest on a resurrection ship, catapulting himself out of the bath and into the arms of model-turncoat Boomer....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;785 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Alisa Schnader

Being Human Usa Season 2 Episode 2 Review Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

2.2 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? Being Human enjoys being over-dramatic, so it’s really no surprise that the latest episode begins with positing that for our characters, their nightmares are their reality. What is surprising is that this actually pans out into a pretty good episode. Sally ended last week’s episode by having her first nightmare since she died, and her afterlife becomes more nightmarish itself as a result....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;827 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Lorraine Gros

Being Human Usa Season 4 Episode 11 Review Ramona The Pest

4.11 Ramona The Pest Fresh off of last week’s World’s Most Awkward Kiss, Aidan is full of conflicted feelings about Sally. It all boils down to everyone’s favourite part of the friends-to-lovers trope, namely that he’s afraid he’ll risk their friendship by trying to be anything more. There’s also the whole incorporeal issue to work through, and sure, not being able to touch might be a problem if the delightful Pushing Daisies hadn’t already worked that through several years ago....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;881 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Barbara Stinson

Better Call Saul Episode 2 Review Mijo

1.2 Mijo Is this a problem? For me, the fact that the second episode of Better Call Saul is just so damn good makes up for the fact that, stylistically, it owes a hell of a lot to its parent series, from the visual choices – the extreme close-up on the vegetables at the beginning, the striking and peculiar camera angles dotted throughout – to the mounting tension of the desert scenes....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;722 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Wesley Brooks

Better Call Saul Season 4 Episode 7 Review Something Stupid

Better Call Saul Season 4 Episode 7 I expected fireworks. When interviewed ahead of the premiere of Better Call Saul Season 4, Bob Odenkirk, Peter Gould, and Rhea Seehorn all teased the creeping influence of Breaking Bad ‘s world and the introduction of a massive, previously unseen heavy that promised to shake-up Jimmy McGill’s life as we’ve come to know it. Perhaps they were playing misdirection. There’s been plenty of smoke, the Salamanca cousins’ raid was as violent as we’ve gotten on this show, but no grand display, and still no Lalo after seven episodes....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;639 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Garrett Harper

Blackkklansman Spike Lee Explores Racism In Classic Hollywood

The opening image of BlacKkKlansman is unmistakable. It is a classic moment from one of the all-time Hollywood classics: Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara wades through the dead and dying of the Confederate Army, slowly realizing the sheer hopelessness of the Southern “Cause,” a cause which Gone with the Wind (1939) demurred from explicitly stating (unlike what D.W. Griffith’s love letter to the Ku Klux Klan, The Birth of a Nation, had done 24 years earlier)....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;650 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Vikki Westmoreland

Bleed For This Review

In Bleed For This, directed by Ben Younger (Boiler Room, Prime), Miles Teller provides a sinewy performance as real-life boxer Vinny ‘Paz’ Pazienza, but the most startling turn in the movie comes from Aaron Eckhart, who plays his hard-drinking trainer, Kevin. When Eckhart climbs out of his Porsche to meet Vinnie for the first time in the opening act, it’s not so much the prominent belly and half-moon hairline that render Eckhart unrecognisable as his body language and thick east-coast accent....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;567 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Jose Dobek

Bodyguard Episode 1 Review

We’re not safe. That’s what Jed Mercurio thrillers have been telling us for years. The institutions there to protect us—hospitals, the police—are only as dependable as the people in them. And people, according to Mercurio’s dramas, are fragile. Greedy and arrogant, or damaged and under pressure, our protectors don’t always act in our best interest. Jed Mercurio’s Bodies and Line Of Duty gave us incompetent surgeons and bent coppers; Bodyguard gives us a personal protection officer who wants to put a bullet in the head of the person he’s been charged with personally protecting....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;479 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gerald Bailey

Bonnie Clyde Dvd Review

Speaking of bad omens, one of the first and most puzzling problems you’ll notice when watching this new Bonnie & Clyde is the fantasy-esque precognitive abilities Clyde Barrow is suddenly endowed with. Stemming from no Google-able historical evidence whatsoever, Clyde is now seen having weird premonitions of his future fate, even as a boy decades prior. Now, seeing the psyche of Bonnie questioned and explored in more detail is something fans of the original film and fervent historians alike would both probably sign-up for, but neither will be happy with the results here....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;439 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Jill Fletcher

Broadchurch Episode 2 Review

The riches of its cast aside, where Broadchurch leans away from the majority of mainstream detective drama is its interest in life after death. I don’t mean in the literal, chatting-with-the-deceased supernatural crime show sense (despite Will Mellor’s appearance this week as a psychic telephone engineer), but in the script’s desire to realistically inhabit the skin of a community after a loss. Not in Broadchurch. Two hours in, and there’s been nary a blue light, night shoot, or an exchange that hasn’t illuminated the inarticulate grief or insensitive self-interest that come from people affected to differing degrees by a local death....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;762 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Renato Walter

Broken Episode 2 Review

This review contains spoilers. Unsurprisingly, McGovern and Father Michael share the same idea. In Broken, McGovern is telling sad stories as a form of protest. Each encounter Sean Bean’s character has with his parishioners is a parable on modern villainy. Employers who don’t pay fair wages, a social security system that makes people anything but secure, underfunded mental health care, vampiric gambling companies… the series is a compendium of warnings about what can happen when profits are privileged over people’s lives....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;348 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Marketta Ross

Bryan Singer Interview X Men Apocalypse Quicksilver

Ahead of Apocalypse’s UK debut, we sat down for a brief chat with Mr Singer, where we talked about the film’s design and visual effects, and how Michael Fassbender’s abilities as an actor brought real drama to one of its most memorable scenes. Days Of Future Past was set in the 70s, and I remember you saying at the time that you were inspired by conspiracy thrillers of that era....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;1031 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Rose Blanche

Camelot Episode 8 Review Igraine

Igraine Morgan has infiltrated Camelot, having assumed Igraine’s form and is all set to drive a wedge between Arthur and his champion, Leontes. This half of the episode delivers exactly what you’re expecting. Morgan informs Guinevere that she knows about her and Arthur’s tryst before ‘letting slip’ the whole affair to Leontes. Cue outrage, glares and pondering about what to do next. So far, so predictable, but what I wasn’t expecting was to enjoy the rest of the episode, which contained the worst possible thing you could find in a series aimed at adults: a child....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;493 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Jeanne Bryant

Castle Under Fire Review

When fire investigator Blake McCann is found overcooked in a fire caused by arson, Beckett and company catch the case. Soon they realize that the case is far bigger than they thought and that McCann was close to something. He was close to catching “The Phantom.” Castle is enamored with the whole mystery of the fires and Nathan Fillion is at his best when his alter ego is engaged and interested in a particular crime....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;452 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;George Fernandez

Chuck Season 2 Episode 9 Review

Ty Bennett, Casey’s Sensei in 1994, turns up in a mission and awakens memories of previous failure, plus some anger that he’s now turned ‘rogue’. Ty Bennett is played ably by Carl Lumbly, previously Alias spy Marcus Dixon for five years. Bruce Boxleitner is ‘Woody’ Woodcomb, and Morgan Fairchild is his perfect wife, ‘Honey’. They’re just wonderful, and take virtually no time to start railroading the wedding like it’s a military operation....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;420 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Samuel Bell

Chuck Season 4 Episode 19 Review Chuck Versus The Muuurder

4.19 Chuck Versus The Muuurder Season 4 hasn’t been kind to those who wear green, but in Chuck Versus The Muuurder (that word spoken in a Bronx accent, presumably, by the late Lionel Stander), the Buymoreans are turned loose, and I loved every minute of their insurrection. What I was less than inspired by was the murder mystery that was acted out in Castle, because they used the oversubscribed plot where the first person to survive being killed is actually the killer....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;346 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Margaret Moore

Churchill Review

It’s June 1944, and Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) cuts a less impressive figure than he did when he was inspiring the people of Britain as they came under attack from Nazi forces years earlier. In fact, he finds himself listing in the margins of an Allied high command led by Dwight D. Eisenhower (John Slattery) as they plan Operation Overlord and the Dunkirk landings. If you’re looking for this year’s Deep Impact/Armageddon showdown, it might just be films about Winston Churchill....

<span title='2025-07-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>July 16, 2025</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;330 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;John Garrette