Holland is all too aware of those challenges and obstacles. While taking the New York Film Festival stage alongside The Lost City of Z director James Gray and co-stars Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Angus Macfadyen, Holland revealed how he broke his nose on the last day of filming in the literal jungles of Colombia… and how exactly Marvel Studios reacted when they heard the news. From there, as Holland tells it, the director witnessed a video of the Spider-Man star doing a backflip on a beach and claimed that he could not do that at all—implicitly challenging him to do it again right there....

Top of the Lake: China Girl Episode 1 There’s a macabre sense of humour in the dialogue-free opening of China Girl, the follow-up to 2013 crime drama Top Of The Lake. A large suitcase is rolled into a dirty kitchen where a woman serves a meal to two schlubby guys dressed in underpants and holey t-shirts. One of the men, now in trackie bottoms sliding down his arse, pushes the case off a cliff but it stops dead before the edge, requiring him to crawl out to it, anchored at the ankles by the woman....

If Creep couldn’t quite deliver on its intriguing premise (an updated Death Line, albeit without Donald Pleasance to ham it up), and Severance an enjoyable but rather undemanding horror-comedy, then Triangle is Smith’s most satisfying yet. An ambitious psychological horror that starts slow and hits its stride at the halfway point, it never quite scales the heights you so want it to, but it has a terrific time trying to....

On the episode “The Witching Hour,” the show explored the case of 26-year-old law student Tracey Schoettlin. She disappeared after her shift as a waitress in Birmingham, Ala. Her body was found, naked except for knee-high stockings, under a bridge near the River Run shopping center by the Cahaba River in Jefferson County. She had been beaten, sexually mutilated, and stabbed 19 times. According to Bradley’s visions the killer went after “girls he thought were attractive enough to go out with even if he had to kill ’em before,” the confessions read....

In February this year, a Florida teenager was in court for setting up shop as a doctor and treating patients without a medical licence. In 2015 a UK woman forged qualifications to sign up with an agency that found her locum positions at GP surgeries, prison hospitals and healthcare centres. In 2009, a German man was discovered to have faked documents that enabled him to pose as a surgeon and take part in almost two hundred operations....

3.6 Don’t Die Well, that’s all over now. Welcome back to Lynchtown, population: what the ever-loving fudge? In an odd way, this is welcome. If the show is going to drip feed me plot developments as slowly and infrequently as it has been, keeping me in the dark about mostly everything, I’m good with it leaning into the unsettling, confusing stuff. What’s always true of David Lynch is you can be perplexed, frustrated, and maybe even occasionally bored, but it’s difficult to go away from his work not feeling emotionally affected....

Tracie Thoms plays Alicia Bryce, someone Selina really can admire. Going door to door, tacking up posters, going the distance for Universal Child Care. An important cause. As important as care for seniors, who trump kids because seniors vote and kids don’t. Or, by definition, can’t. If only unborn children could vote … but that’s a story by Philip Roth and was better covered in last week’s “The Choice” episode....

Veep Season 5 Episode 8 The president takes the dysfunctional fractured first family to Camp David for an intimate Popcornaments-bedecked pre-Christmas celebration. Camp David is known as the place where peace accords are signed and President Eisenhower recuperated after heart problems. But there is no peace this weekend. The Meyer Administration is also bunkered down for secret negotiations with the president of China over sanctions. New Hampshire Congressional hopeful Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) doesn’t mix well with people....

Vice Principals, Season 1, Episode 2 Vice Principals wasted no time morally compromising its lead characters in service of comedy. Usually, a show like this would wait until the audience had become attached to the characters before plunging them in dark, unflattering water. Obviously Vice Principals doesn’t care much about whether you like Neal Gamby and Lee Russell and their show of contempt for their new boss is likely to complicate the volatile nature of their relationship....

Neither do I. Why would we, when We Are The Freaks does all of the above so well? Jamie Blackley (who, at the time of writing, had just won an acting award for uwantme2killhim? and is definitely worth keeping an eye on) plays Jack, an Angry Young Man who reads Bukowski and wants to become a writer. He lives on an estate with his disabled mum and his sister, and has been accepted to Bolton University for a creative writing course....

1.1 The Original Like that long awaited locomotive pulling into Tucson for the first time, Westworld is finally here. Many at HBO have anticipated this day with just as much reverence and optimism as the 1880 denizens of that famous railroad town from the Old West, watching anxiously as the smoke clouds plumed beneath the fading Arizona light. Of course, in spite of the dust, horses, gunplay, and even coal-powered engine from that oft-romanticized era, Westworld is not a Western; nay, for all we know it’s not even located in North America....

1.3 Anna Regina No, the best historical drama, like the best drama of any genre, simply reveals us to ourselves. Mad Men does it, I Claudius does it, Deadwood does it, and Wolf Hall does it. (The modern perspective’s a tricky one anyway. To himself, a sixteenth century politician or a 1960s ad man is every bit as modern a character as we are. And really, how far can a country in which “plagues of black-eyed ghost children” find their way onto the front pages of a national newspaper judge anyone as being premodern?...

Wynonna Earp Season 2 Episode 1 Wynonna Goddamn Earp is back with a million quips a minute in a season premier that sets up a season 2 with and expanded mythology, a larger roster of characters, and an updated premise. We meet three new characters (one of whom is sadly not long for this world), Wynonna and friends rescue Dolls, and Waverly hides a little bit of everything from everyone. Waverly keeps her secret and feels the darkness Outwardly, Waverly is still her delightful, brilliant self....

12 Monkeys Season 2, Episode 1 The return of 12 Monkeys comes over a year after the show’s season 1 finale, and anticipation was high for an amped up, knock-your-socks-off season 2 premiere. The cinematic opening with the race through the streets of Budapest certainly helped with this idea, bringing immediate attention to the most impactful moment of the season ender: the fact that Cole had changed the past by rescuing Ramse, who was fated to die....

It’s no surprise that it turns out he is actually in the States preparing the next part of his ultimate plan. And when that turns out to be storming the White House itself, then the stakes are raised higher than ever before. Ok, so we have been down these paths as well, but it works in this episode clearly because we actually have forward momentum. And with that comes tension, and the beeping clock begins to work....

Tony meets up with his fellow cohort and of course the old “Where is the Canister?” “Where is the money first?” fall out ensues. Forgot that old “exchange” cliché nugget, but the 24 writers didn’t! Yes a double cross ensues resulting in Tony having to kick the living crap out of the guy, and then finish him off. The mystery lady responsible for Jonas Hodges predicament arrives expecting him to pass it onto their betters, but Tony insists on using the thing now instead of waiting for 6 months....

Jack starts to profile people in order to hunt him down. Janice still hasn’t learnt to stop being a pain in the ass, despite the good yelling Jack gave her last week. Jack’s condition also starts to worsen. They manage to work wonders by nailing the right lead, because some sloppy ass bad guy’s paperwork shows right up on the old CTU system. How convenient. The problem here is that they detect the guy for having a large money transfer put into his account....

24 Season 8 – 2:00-3:00am Well, it’s about bloody time! After a fair few borderline forgettable and, perish the thought, dull episodes of 24, and a season that gave me no real reason to look forward to the next episode, season eight has finally picked up, and, if this week’s outing is anything to go by, may well pick up the pace and get back to form. This week was all about the main plot, weaving together a couple of storylines into the main narrative, and this was all done very well, indeed, even if Dana’s side story isn’t showing any signs of dying just yet....

Those eyebrow-raisers would, however, do well to note that Robert Zemeckis has now topped this. In adapting Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol into a festive Disney film, he’s managed to put together one of the most scary family films in a long, long time. And it’s sat there with a PG rating too. There’s little point recapping the story of A Christmas Carol here, given that virtually everyone reading this is likely to be very, very familiar with it....

Well, here’s a revelation: they are, essentially, the same thing. From the graphical language to the technical lexicon, it’s all one format. There are cultural idiosyncracies, yes, but especially when you get into the league of OEL – so-called “Original English Language” manga, you can no longer reasonably argue that the two are any different. My theory is that certainly comicbook fans are trapped in a certain mindset, with expectations of what manga is actually about, assuming that it’s all giant robots and Dragonballesque Shonen adventure – is only true so far as manga fans might avoid western comics because they’re “all” continuity-heavy neverending yarns about superheroes....