Dragon Ball Super Episode 36 “A prince like me was saved thanks to the rules?” Dragon Ball Super’s current arc is able to have a lot of fun with this by presenting an alternate universe full of new takes on familiar characters, but it also does an exceptional job at making these fights feel distinct. Each of these battles focuses on a different sort of aspect, more or less, with Vegeta’s battle with Magetta being one of the better executions of how to keep these fights feeling fresh....

After making his debut in 1998 with the tiny indie Following, Nolan broke through and got the attention of Hollywood in 2001 with Memento. While he did land a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, he was perhaps too young and relatively unknown for a Best Director nod despite navigating the script’s time-twisting structure so effortlessly. The second big snub from the Academy was undoubtedly in 2008 when it passed over The Dark Knight for deserved Best Picture and Best Director nominations — while the film elevated the superhero genre to new levels of gravitas and sheer cinematic power, one could reason that the Academy simply wasn’t ready to give the genre any accolades (and it still really isn’t)....

Mr. Davis has taken more-than-full advantage of a Who producer’s right to add to the canon and lore of the Gallifrean’s world, what with the disappearing bees, the thing on Donna’s back that (for all we know) may still be there, the ‘threefold Doctor’, the ‘ending song’, giving the Doc a daughter and also investing him with the power to grow back limbs, cancel regenerations, read thoughts and wipe other people’s memories....

Tom says it best: “What we are about to embark on may not be the most rational plan, but I believe it is the plan that has the best chance of success.” No, it’s not rational, unless you can somehow get Matt to stumble across the controls for pitch, thrust, yaw, and roll. Oh, that happened? Well, don’t worry about navigational skills; if you just get it NEAR the moon, the base MIGHT remotely pull it in....

Likewise, the goings on at the sanctuary were stuck in exposition mode until the introduction last week of the Overlord known as “The Monk.” Maggie’s confrontation about consorting with the enemy – although a refreshing return to normal for her character – was completely ineffectual and almost annoying. Did they really need to interrupt of Lexi’s teaching, whatever that may be, and combat Lourdes’ high priestess act AGAIN? Whatever amazing powers Lexi has, she better start using them before the audience gets bored with her little cult....

After last week’s Nick-centric episode, I wondered if Fear the Walking Dead would continue to narrow its focus to individual character arcs in the latter half of its second season. The Walking Dead is fond of doing this, delving deeper into tighter storylines with fewer cast members. The upside of this is we get to learn more about core characters. The obvious downside to that is that, while we may get more Rick or Michonne one week, it also means less Glenn or Daryl screen time....

NB: The following contains spoilers for War For The Planet Of The Apes. The premise was bold right from its inception: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes depicted the fall of humanity and the ascent of a new species not from our perspective, but from that of Caesar, played with stunning depth by Andy Serkis. Sure, there were humans tottering about in director Rupert Wyatt’s apocalyptic drama, including Will Rodman (James Franco), the scientist who unwittingly triggered the civilisation-ending ALZ-112 virus in the first place....

Ian Fleming was good at sex. Writing it, that is. And not just in the way James Bond bedded women with the frequency of a man allergic to standing up. Fleming made sure everything in 007’s literary adventures was writ sexy: destinations, clothes, food, drink, cars, planes, even décor… everything in Bond’s life was veneered with the seductive, the alluring. It still is. Well, you only live twice, why not make it fun?...

Florence Foster Jenkins, here played by Meryl Streep, isn’t a name I was familiar with. But as the film puts across, she was a terrible singer, who was led to believe she was a great one. Specifically by her husband – St Clair Bayfield, played by Hugh Grant – and in turn young musician Cosme McMoon, in the guise of Simon Helberg. Thus, we’re soon introduced to Jenkins’ ear-cleansing singing, which Streep goes for with gusto....

Let’s talk about Josie for a minute here. She started out as a wide-eyed innocent eager to make the most of her uni experience, even going so far as to get busy with JP within minutes of meeting him. But it’s always been Kingsley she’s had eyes for, if only there wasn’t that small matter of her fiancé in the first series. For whatever reason, this was the big focus of the first series which would have been okay if both of them were likeable....

Worryingly, I’ve noticed that the slide of US viewers for Fringe has continued downward. If the numbers go much lower, this season might end abruptly, which I don’t really think the production remotely deserves. Part of the problem, I think, is that sending shows on hiatus always robs them of momentum, which was exactly what happened to this show in season one. So that’s Fox’s fault. It starts with the trademark shocking event, this time a romantic gesture falls apart in an unexpected way when the architect of the evening literally turns to dust....

After last week’s corker of an episode, I wasn’t expecting another top notch story so soon, but lo and behold, season six throws up another absolute peach for us to enjoy in Silence Of The Clamps. As you may have deduced from its title, the latest instalment of the science fiction animation features the return of that lovable rogue, Clamps! Or Francis X Clampazzo, to give him his proper name....

3.10 Mhysa It’s one of a few great shots in this week’s episode, courtesy of the brilliant David Nutter (who crushed last week’s episode as well). We open big, and we close big on one of the most impressive shots the show has ever accomplished, and in the middle, we get a lot of catching-up done on the characters we didn’t get to see last week, or that didn’t actually die last week in the great Stark Purge of 2013....

Billy Joel sang ‘In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong’. This room, he sings, is a safe space to retreat to when suffering from heartache, until you’re ready to fall in love again. We’ve all got a room a bit like Billy’s, I think, where we go when the world gets a bit much, when we lose our job or home or partner or family member or friend, or when the world just gets a bit, well, much....

This week, I want to natter about unrealistic comparisons, something that’s bubbled to the top of my head following a few independent conversations with people over the past few weeks. Three people, in very different walks of life, admitted they were struggling. What was interesting was that they cited the fact that they couldn’t meet the standards of those around them. They couldn’t write as well as other people they admired....

This episode was another standalone about Hannah accompanying Jessa to visit Jessa’s father at his home in the countryside of upstate New York. Last season we saw an episode where Hannah went back home to Michigan to visit her parents and I kind of love this as a recurring concept for Girls. It’s a show about these twentysomethings living in the Big Apple and yet of course they’d go and visit their parents occasionally....

It’s a movie about young people, with all of their self-interest, entitlement and precociousness, but it is also, underneath the predictably twee trappings, a dark dramedy about broken young people. Most of us have been broken young people at some point in our lives, such is the nature of that period of life, and the three central characters – Eve (Emily Browning), Cassie (Hannah Murray) and James (Olly Alexander) – provide three distinctly different examples of that experience for the audiences to latch onto....

I’ve finally figured out Gotham‘s problem. It has nothing to do with the subjectivity of “good” or “bad” or what I, personally, like or dislike. The problem I have with Gotham is that the things it does well, it does really well, and then there are…those other things. That’s not even the real issue, though. That issue comes from this: what it does well one week isn’t necessarily what is done well the following week....

Incredibly accomplished as both a writer and artist, Jurgens just finished his latest run with Superman, wrapping up his time as writer on Action Comics, and writing and drawing the lead story for Action Comics #1000. He’s currently writing Green Lanterns, his first time on a proper Green Lantern book, despite having made his mark on that world (albeit indirectly) back in 1993. Den of Geek: So, you just kicked off an arc on Green Lanterns, let’s talk about that....

The Gambler, the new drama written by William Monahan (The Departed, Kingdom Of Heaven) and directed by Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) represented its own set of unique challenges. One of them was to bring tension and visual excitement to a story that frequently sees its wayward protagonist Jim (Mark Wahlberg) frittering his money away at a blackjack table or lecturing a theatre full of distracted college students....