5.12 Into The Schwarzwald This week Grimm hit its much talked-about 100th episode, and in the main, it didn’t disappoint. Show creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt had previously teased a big reveal to the four-and-a half-season-long storyline involving those damn keys, but they were still in no hurry to reveal their secrets. As a side note, the gang still only have five keys and not the full set of seven....
Grimm Season 6 Episode 2 Tonight’s episode is entitled “Trust Me Knot”, however viewers aren’t asked to take sides because we’re familiar with the main players over the last six seasons. We know who’d we want and trust if cornered in a dark alley. We know what’s at stake in this supernatural game of truth or dare. The only ‘secret’ others aren’t privy to, and he himself doesn’t know to what extent, is the growing reliance Nick has on the tanned totem....
If you had doubts, you can safely dismiss them. Guardians is exactly what the trailers promised: a slacker comedy in space where the fate of billions lies in the hands of people who can barely stop squabbling long enough to shoot in the same direction. From the moment the title hits the screen above a silhouette of Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) literally dancing into danger, the covenant of that Marvel Studios logo is fulfilled: you will be entertained....
Was the BBC drama Gunpowder, in the end, a horror story? There’s also the fact that shifty Lord Robert Cecil (Mark Gatiss) won back the favour of King James I (Derek Riddell), brokered peace with the Spanish, and still got to persecute Catholics while being rewarded for his efforts. The scene in which he was presented with a golden necklace by the King in pomp and splendour, cutting to shots of the conspirators having nooses placed around their own necks, was a great juxtaposition, and a continuation of an element that has been really successful throughout this series – the comparison between the lives of the rich and the poor, the comfortable and the desperate....
007 movies rotate their directors regularly, giving the fella behind the camera around half the film to make his mark (and I’m not being sexist here: find me a female director of either franchise), before the stunt coordinators/effects people kick in and pretty much take over the back end of it. David Yates, the man who helmed the BBC’s State Of Play miniseries a few years back and has a primarily TV background, is the man in charge this time, and you have to say he’s made a good fist of it....
I’m a self-confessed Harry Potter fan (more of the books than the films it has to be said) and despite the fact I knew exactly what was going to happen, I still booked to see the film on the night of release and was excited all day long. Like a kid before the summer holidays. The scene was set. My eyes were glued to the screen from start to finish....
Finish the railroad first, or save Cullen–a truly tough choice for Elam to have to make, considering the rise of Elam and Cullen’s bromance throughout this season. The decision was made at the end of the previous episode, as Elam chose to do as Bohannan asked and finish the railroad. “You hung my boy, and you WILL stand accountable” were the last words spoken in last week’s episode, and it was probably one of the best cliffhangers we’ve seen yet in Hell on Wheels....
One of the reasons I watch this show is that just when you think they’ve shown you the borders of their realm, they discover an entirely new domain to the art of grifting. The trouble with this is that it entirely goes against the whole mantra of the conman, where emotion is the old enemy and the con is sanctified ground that should never be entered without an entirely clear head....
Hyrule Warriors is a hybrid action game that takes the hack-and-slash gameplay of Dynasty Warriors and imbues that bombastic flavor into the iconic Legend of Zelda universe. The Wii U exclusive was praised for its fast-paced and successful meshing of concepts upon its release in late 2014. Now Nintendo has brought the unique Zelda spin-off to the 3DS in the form of Hyrule Warriors Legends, complete with new playable characters and game modes....
4.5 And The Winner Is… However serious that answer, it’s not a stretch to see why TV awards-giving might be ripe for satire here. Inside No. 9 has won a number of prizes (Rose d’Or, RTS, Writers’ Guild, Banff Rockies, comedy.co.uk…), but there’s still a baffling gap where a Bafta might be. It’s a matter of genre, Reece Shearsmith suggested. As a dramatic comedy/comedic drama, Inside No. 9 “falls between all the stools and therefore gets ignored a little bit....
The much anticipated film is based on Stephen Sondheim’s play, mashing up a bunch of different fairytales to more subversive effect. In a magical kingdom by a great forest, a baker and his wife (James Corden and Emily Blunt) are desperate to have a child together. Alas, the baker is cursed with childlessness by the Witch who lives next door (Meryl Streep) over a quarrel with his deadbeat dad, (Simon Russell Beale....
This episode is entitled: Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense. Dennis and Frank literally squabble over spilt milk while the rest of the Gang conducts a trial to determine which Reynolds is at fault for the auto accident that ruined the interior of Dennis’ car. With his role as the mature Paddy’s Pub owner becoming more and more apparent each week, Dennis threatens to take Frank to court. Dee swiftly convinces him otherwise, citing his outstanding warrants for sexual harassment and the abundance of unregistered firearms in Frank’s vehicle....
Now I get to write a plot synopsis, which immediately marks this as the easiest Jackass film to review. Elderly Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) is ready to embrace the bachelor life after the death of his wife. Before he even gets a chance to indulge himself, though, his drug-addict daughter tasks him with transporting her eight-year-old son, Billy (Jackson Nicoll), cross country to his stay with his father due to her impending prison sentence....
Episode 7 is called In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, and to a degree, this is the first of this series where I felt that the concept trod water rather than expanded any horizons. That’s not to say it isn’t entertaining, it’s just that it doesn’t progress in any significant way the larger ‘pattern’ plot arc. Solving this case requires the finding of two people, one called Jones and the other Smith....
So to the present. Emily, now a very attractive fortysomething, is recruited as assistant housekeeper to noted crime writer Hugo Dore and his family. Whilst being shown her duties, Emily is warned about a strange unsolved Victorian murder mystery by wise old Mrs Gantry, the family’s long-serving housekeeper. One of the property’s former owners was killed whilst sitting alone in the middle of the lawn some 130 years before, and died in mysterious circumstances at a precisely predicted time....
If you’re amongst the group of those feeling bereft after the passing of Fringe, which aired its finale just days ago, perhaps a few words from Joshua Jackson can provide some solace. On Fringe’s legacy: I feel like Fringe and its afterlife is a test case for the new way that television works. Fringe, in an odd way, started its afterlife while it was still on the air. The community of the show is currently strong and vibrant, and I have a funny feeling that the afterlife of this show, as much as we who have been making it for the last five years are finishing our portion of it, will live on in that community....
However, this weekend I rushed myself off down to WH Smith’s to grab myself half a tree-ful of weekend supplement goodies. Why? Well, the paper came with a free DVD of the original 1954 Godzilla film, and I am a sucker for all things Gojira-based. This trend of putting free DVDs, albums and such in broadsheets started as a bit of a gimmick, but over the past year we have had Prince’s album (admittedly this was a nifty marketing ploy and nothing else), copies of Highlander, episodes of Only Fools and Horses, Porridge and Alan Partridge....
Its opening is both promising and entirely made up. In 1987, Neil (Ben Barnes) careens through the streets of Dublin, which are draped with posters teasing an exclusive launch party for The Joshua Tree, the latest album from U2. In between swerves, he breaks the fourth wall, staring at the camera as we hear of his thwarted dreams. “I always knew I’d be famous,” he crows, but little did he know that it would be his two classmates, Paul Hewson (Martin McCann) and David Evans (Mark Griffin), later known as Bono and The Edge, that would take on the world....
