5.2 Parasomnia One of the things Teen Wolf struggles with is introducing new characters. Sometimes they can feel a little bit forced, and there’s always a little chemistry difficulty when a new element is added to a cast we’ve been with for five seasons at this point. Liam was a little difficult last season, and Kira was (and continues to be) a little problematic from a chemistry standpoint. While Kira might not yet feel like she’s fitting in, Liam seems to be adapting nicely to the Teen Wolf world, even if the character seems very different from the angry kid we were introduced to last year....

There are a good few of us who really love those original Mirage comic books, but a larger group of Turtles fans want an adaptation of the vastly different cartoon series from the 1980s. They want characters like Krang and Bebop and Rocksteady. As illogical as it might sound, you have to make a faithful adaptation of an unfaithful adaptation. And that’s exactly what director David Green and his Turtles team have done for this new movie sequel....

Still, it’s widely known that Landis pitched a version of the An American Werewolf in London sequel that was never used, and now he is opening up on what exactly that movie would have looked like. Speaking with author Paul Davis for his new book, Beware the Moon: The Story of An American Werewolf in London (which is about to be released), Landis gave the whole gist of what his version of werewolves in London and Paris would’ve looked like—which included the return of Jenny Agutter’s Alex character, a detour in Paris, and even the skeletal ghosts of the first film’s main protagonists, David and Jack (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne)....

Because she became, in the penultimate episode of the third series of The Apprentice, the first person to get to the final and then walk away. You knew fairly quickly something was up when Sralan told her she was in the final, given that the camera continued to linger on her long after she’d had the seemingly life-changing news that she’d been insistent she wanted. And as her face slowly changed colour, she had the look of a person – admittedly in a way that seemed part of the act – that’d been given the wrong news down the clap clinic rather than someone who’d made the final of a major reality TV show....

This review contains spoilers. 10.15 The Locomotion Reverberation What happens when you introduce a big storyline in a show like The Big Bang Theory only to forget it exists after the first couple of episodes of the next season? You get an episode like The Locomotion Reverberation, which conveniently reminds us that Leonard, Howard and Sheldon are still working on that guidance system, and the project’s nearing completion. In order to get Sheldon out of their hair while they wrap things up at the lab, Leonard gives him an invitation to some sort of train experience....

This review contains spoilers. 10.21 The Separation Agitation The Big Bang Theory has been in dire need of new blood for some time now. With it getting difficult to remember a time when Bernadette, Amy and Stuart weren’t part of the furniture, there’s been a sense this season that the writers may have run out of things to do with their regular characters. That concern was only exacerbated by the apparently imminent cancellation and subsequent two-season renewal....

8.4 The Hook-Up Reverberation The setting of the comic book store has been missed this season, and Stuart certainly needs something to do aside from make Howard insecure about his mother’s affections. That’s what makes the idea of Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj investing in it so brilliant – it would have freshened up the show and given them somewhere to socialise outside of the university cafeteria, but also create a legitimate space for Stuart within their group....

4.10 Carnage Of Krell Krell has been a figure of hate in these past few episodes, and here he firmly takes centre stage as he orders the execution of Fives and Jesse – the soldiers who bravely saved the day last week. As the defiant couple is lined up, still wisecracking, there’s a real sense of doom followed by a gasp as the shots are fired. Lead by the rule-obsessed, Jedi-following Clone, Dogma, it’s nasty, with a deeply unpleasant tone....

Immediately I have to call Fat Wreck Chords out on false advertising. Few of the songs on Short Music clock in at exactly half a minute. There’s an error margin of about plus or minus three seconds. The notable exceptions (because there are always notable exceptions) include Fizzy Bangers, who turn in a measly eight second blast; the Mr. T Experience, who felt eleven seconds was long enough; the Offspring, who pushed their limit to thirty-six; and Bad Religion, whose track clocks in at an unprecedented forty seconds....

The Expanse Season 2 Episode 9 This week’s episode of The Expanse was reminiscent of some more carefully paced installments from season 1 which led some viewers to mischaracterize the show as having a slow narrative. Perhaps by now, faithful fans are used to the contrast between the building tension of an episode like this in which political maneuvering takes center stage and one in which action and epic space battles blow people’s minds....

Having never been a show that shies away from the darker side of prime time drama, this final episode of The Fades‘ first series was far lighter on the human body count scale, but infinitely darker than its siblings. A measure of a show’s success – how well it achieves its aims, as opposed to how many people watch it – is how willing the team are to take risks and make hard choices....

1.19 Who Is Harrison Wells? The question in the title actually only makes up a third of the episode, as Cisco and Joe head to Starling City to find out what really happened after Wells’ car accident. It’s the first time either show has crossed over to the other’s city during an episode, which is fun, and lends a little more logic to why Joe and Cisco might be interacting with Laurel and Quentin....

It’s the dirty little secret gamers all share, yet none but the truly foolhardy dare to discuss in any detail, and with good reason, too. We all do it. The gaming industry is fantastic at generating hype for new and upcoming releases and this is especially apparent now E3 has passed and every self-respecting gamer’s wish-list is fit to burst. It’s no wonder, then, that with every new release we chase that new hot product, like parents cooing over a newborn when they have 50 neglected children already sitting at home....

And it seems the weather is getting colder. No. I’m not hawking for a job as a TV weather girl. I don’t have the figure! Just lamenting the passing of the sunny days I’ve been enjoying down here on the South Coast. Apologies to all who are buried in snowdrifts and frozen in! Which reminds me of the time, when working on Judge Dredd for the Daily Star, that my artwork for the week got stuck in a train en route to London....

It was 1975 and I was in the middle of doing a deal with film director, George Willoughby, (Masque of the Red Death, City Under the Sea, Summer Rain etc) and Lord Alex Hesketh. George to provide the nous, Alex the dosh and me the hype. At the time Lord Hesketh was still on a high after running his own, rather eccentric but fairly successful, racing team. His driver had been the charming but ruthless James Hunt....

As we wound our way up the hill I couldn’t believe it. There, etched in dark chiaroscuro against the sky was an emblem I recognised instantly: the old Hammer logo. I thought of Jonathan Harker riding up the hill in the stage coach and felt the thrill he must have felt at that moment. Okay, so Harker’s fictitious, and it was another castle, but it wasn’t a time to be picky....

The American Beauty and Jarhead actor read the script and allegedly dismissed it as “the most absurd thing I’ve ever read”. Instead, Robert De Niro ended up playing the hardline Texas politician, which is actually a better outcome. Nevertheless, the issue here isn’t De Niro’s evaluation of potential jobs, but Cooper’s. “The most absurd thing I’ve ever read”? Really? Has he never scanned a copy of Take A Break magazine?...

These two characters – the only characters – retreat to a forest log cabin to work on their fragile marriage but, alas, end up overwhelmed by the darkness of nature. This means severely shocking sequences of despair, depravity and several other activities suggestive of extreme psychosis. At least that’s what I know going off a few articles and reviews. If I’d have gone off the title alone, I’d be more likely to expect another film about the antithesis of Jesus....

I love the slow burn Soderbergh has us roasting at. Thack no longer seems like the devil he was in the series premier. His rough edges have been sanded down, ever so slightly. He isn’t just a raging narcissist. He cares; about his staff, his lover, and possibly even his patients. Most of all, he cares that the Knick has run out of cocaine. Oh dear. Withdrawal is a bitch and someone is starting to get mighty twitchy....

The Last Man on Earth: Season 2, Episode 15 We all know that the big news this week is that we get the glorious return of Carol’s unique dirty talking, and it does not disappoint. Mike’s incredulity with what she’s saying as this former astronaut tries to keep up and comprehend is just wonderful. The rest of the house being numb to the nonsense is an even better new angle to all of it....