You can probably spot the pattern here. In The Nice Guys, we get two likeable screw-ups for the price of one: Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), a crumpled “enforcer” whose job basically involves frightening people and breaking their limbs for hard cash, and Holland Marsh (Ryan Gosling), a private investigator so catastrophically bad at his job that his own daughter, Holly (Angourie Rice), describes him as the worst detective in the world....
Sometimes you just want to hang a jury. The prosecution and the defense rested in the Andrea Cornish murder trial in The Night Of’s finale “The Call of the Wild.” The jury is still out on just who committed the crime of homicide because the producers committed the crime of ambiguity. The series presented enough evidence to make Nasir’s own mom (Poorna Jagannathan) wonder if she raised an animal for a son....
1.1 Camille In short, it’s tremendous television. Mysterious, beautiful, and unusual, The Returned is certainly the best-looking new drama to arrive this year, and if early signs don’t lie, we’ll soon be able to snip off that compound adjective’s second half. There’s plenty to praise in terms of its composition and cinematic style, but the first episode also deftly balances story and character without resorting to clunky exposition. We’re left with any number of questions, but encouraged by this early show of quality that The Returned will answer them in good time....
Michael Bay’s fifth and apparently final Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, is now in theaters. But one sequel that he never made was a follow-up to arguably his most liked film, The Rock. Bay did have an idea for a follow-up, and in conversation with Slashfilm, he’s been talking about where it could go. “The sequel that I have in my mind for this movie is basically after Nic Cage is married to Carla, they drive off,” he explained....
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2.5 Kill Or Be Killed So what happened? Well, Stefan attempts to clear the air with Mason, in hopes that neither will get hurt. Damon is a little upset with peace negotiations, as he should be, since Mason tells Caroline’s mother that the Salvatore brothers are vampires and that he can prove it to her. He does so by spiking the lemonade with vervain. This prompts Damon and Stefan to take action....
5.16 While You Were Sleeping The loss of Katherine is massive for this show, with pretty much the only thing preventing this season from becoming a train wreck now no longer part of the ongoing narrative. I worry what the series is going to do without her after the equally huge loss of Klaus and Rebekah at the beginning of the year but, lucky for us, mad and terrorised Elena is the second best thing Nina Dobrev can do....
6.9 I Alone There are shows, like The Vampire Diaries, that start off pretty terribly before going on to become sizeable hits (think what’s happened with The 100 this year). They burn hot and bright for a couple of seasons before the complacency sets in and eventually drives even the most enthusiastic fans away. Vampire Diaries was a textbook example of this, and to see it get back to its early quality in its sixth year is fantastic....
2.7 Pretty Much Dead Already Of course, this is also the official end of Frank Darabont’s reign as show runner and the beginning of Glen Mazzara’s term as the zombie master of TWD. No matter what you might say about the show thus far, the first season was riveting. The second season had a great debut, but since then, the fire has gone out of the show in a sense....
With very few tweaks, The Watchman could slot in as an episode of dystopian tech anthology series Black Mirror. No matter that it takes place in the present and features technology already so widespread you’ve almost certainly been captured by it multiple times today, its depiction of modern alienation aligns it perfectly with the Charlie Brooker drama. The two also share a composer in Jon Opstad (whose cleverly spare score is the closest thing Stephen Graham could reliably call a co-star here) and the ability to captivate in no time at all....
How does a show go about building such a unique and fun universe while still servicing such a large cast of characters? After all there are five paladins, Allura, Coran, Zarkon, Haggar, the upcoming Lotor, and even the space mice. Voltron: Legendary Defender story editor Tim Hedrick says the world building and characters feed off each other. He gives an example of coming up with a new planet for the paladins to visit....
The current season of The X-Files decides to right this wrong in a big way with an episode that digs deep into the past of Walter Skinner. “Kitten” still has plenty for Mulder and Scully to do, but it centers its mystery around Skinner’s time in Vietnam and the first time he loses faith in the government. “Kitten” fills in a lot of blanks for Skinner, but we got the opportunity to talk with Mitch Pileggi and learn even more about his character and what he goes through this season....
Phoning in from The X-Files set in Vancouver, series creator Chris Carter says he hopes to capitalize on what worked well in the six-episode revival. Naturally, it was the same morning they began production on a “dark comedy” episode written by fan-favorite writer Darin Morgan. Though tight-lipped about the actual plot of the episode, the often cryptic showrunner had more to divulge on the season 10 cliffhanger ending that sent the passionate X-Files fan base into a frenzy....
There’s extensive use of newreaders relaying stories to jolly things along, and it’s never a bad narrative device if it cuts out some pontificating. A few too many close-ups of newreaders’ pixelated mouths, perhaps, but we get that the schools are closed, there’s a curfew in place, and everyone appears to be bricking themselves. The show is refreshingly quick to get this information across. We also get a Daily Mail headline saying “They’re coming today”, which presumably for once doesn’t mean asylum seekers or something like that....
The Gathering With The Gathering, though, I felt it was all just a little bit muted. That Torchwood: Miracle Day, at the point where it should be paying off on the weeks of steady build up, was spluttering just a little. I say that appreciating that not everyone out there has warmed to Miracle Day as much as I. The thing is, though, at the point I expected my head to be awash with thoughts of the season finale, at the end of this episode, I just wasn’t really pumped up for it at all....
If the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day was spent establishing the show for the potential new audience that its US exposure has been attracting, then this second focuses more on shuffling the relevant parts of the plot into place. As such, it’s not a great deal quicker than the series opener, but it’s still got plenty in the proverbial tank. Chief amongst them is the character of Oswald Danes, played by Bill Pullman....
This week Torchwood cracked the difficult nut of how to deal with suicide bombers (next week: what is the meaning of life?). A woman discovers herself in the headquarters of the Fifth Emergency Service, unable to remember how burglars died. Soon enough she’s wrestling with her inner sleeper agent, part of a cell who are waking up in unwitting humans to try and destroy the world. So Torchwood likes to deal with grown-up themes....
Davies hooked up with del Toro through a series of professional connections. Having worked with composer Gustavo Santaolalla on the video game The Last of Us, Davies was also hired on for the Santaolalla-scored animated film, The Book of Life, on which del Toro served as executive producer. That film’s director, Jorge Gutierrez, passed along Davies’ name for some last minute work on another of del Toro’s films, Crimson Peak....
After Sookie’s brush with hair metal-tinged death last episode, its goodbye to thieving 80s throwback Longshadow, staked by Bill before he could reach our psychic. That’s right, staked, not eaten. Which leaves literally buckets of Longshadow’s blood free to drench Sookie in her own personal claret shower. Of course, killing a fellow vampire to protect a human, no matter how special they are, is a faux pas on Bill’s part – witnesses are never a good thing, as Eric so helpfully points out....
True Blood‘s third season continued with the confession and revelation filled I Smell A Rat, from the new-found knowledge that Sookie is, um, a faerie, to Arlene, Tara and Jason’s tearful declarations, the episode provides the background for what becomes a mass unburdening in Bon Temps. Thankfully, though, in another (slightly predictable) revelation, Crystal finally reveals her shifting powers, giving rise to Jason’s best line of the season, simply, “Mama!...
