The short answer is, yes. While Microsoft attempted to introduce desktop apps with the release of Windows 7, the execution of the idea always felt lackluster. But, with Windows 8, Microsoft has finally hit the nail on the head. Ever since the release of Android phones and Google Play marketplace, I’ve wanted a computer to give me the same experience– functional apps that streamed information to your desktop, smoother application performance and better interface....

The focus of this episode is David Webster, an Easy Company soldier whose memoirs proved an invaluable source for the show’s writers. Webster, played here by Eion Bailey, was injured back during Operation Market Garden and as a result missed out on the events in Bastogne. When he links up with his Company again, they are a very different group of men to the one he left, now shut off and distant after the scenes they have witnessed....

2.11 Contagion It turns out Varley has discovered that the legend of the Iconion race is actually based in fact. Unfortunately his ship – the Galaxy Class Yamato – is malfunctioning, meaning he’s unable to complete his investigation. Or, for that matter, his conversation, because the ship explodes right in front of them, killing everyone on board. Everyone is briefly traumatised, but then a Romulan ship arrives. After determining that they didn’t destroy the Yamato, Picard insists to the Romulan captain that he be allowed to complete his investigation into the Yamato’s destruction....

3.11 The Hunted The Enterprise attempts to subdue the escapee in his stolen ship, but he gives them the runaround. Eventually, they transport him onto the Enterprise and although he managed to beat up Chief O’Brien and two security nobodies, Worf and Riker are able to subdue him. (Yep, that’s right. Worf actually won a fight!) The man, Roga Danar (that’s pronounced “Roh-gah”, not “Roger”), is placed in the brig to await extradition to the surface....

2.2 Where Silence Has Lease Suddenly it engulfs the Enterprise! Oh no! Wait, we all pretty much expected that to happen, right? Inside the spacehole, the crew performs various scans and recover no interesting information. At one point Dr. Pulaski turns up and starts having a go at Data for being unable to work his console (no wonder I never warmed to her. She’s insulting the one crew member everyone else loves....

I most love Rick and Morty for being unafraid to go dark and intense, but another of its strengths is its ability to juggle tones and to know when to ease off and just do a bunch of funny-ass, sci-fi bullshit. “Ricksy Business” demonstrates an awareness that you don’t want to go out on a down note so it’s pretty much a gleeful hodgepodge of funny-ass, sci-fi bullshit. The plot actually hews pretty close to those eighties movies and ridiculous sitcoms of yore, like Growing Pains or whatever....

His second (arriving one year after The Fall Of The House Of Usher) 1961‘s The Pit And The Pendulum was one of the best, roping in all the classic elements from the Corman-Poe cycle: a castle, premature burial, and most importantly, Vincent Price as a furtive and possibly mad nobelman. Here, Price plays Nicholas Medina, a ruff-wearing and despairing man haunted by his Spanish castle and grim ancestry. When Medina’s wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) dies suddenly and mysteriously, her brother Francis Barnard (John Kerr) journeys from England to find out what exactly happened....

Usagi wakes up in Mamoru Chiba’s apartment and finally gets him to tell her the story of how he became Tuxedo Mask. On his sixth birthday, he was the sole survivor of a car crash that claimed the lives of his parents. He lost most of his memories, but in the years following began to have dreams of a woman who told him to find the Silver Crystal. He found himself sleepwalking in a Tuxedo, thieving for the Crystal....

Scandal Season 7 Episode 6 When you sire a vampire, you are responsible for their behavior, destruction, siring more vampires, and condemning their souls to purgatory. If Olivia is Akasha from Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned and Jake is Marius, she’s less convincing as a villainess than he as a villain. The trio of Olivia, Mellie and Jake seem to be in over their heads as the new leaders of the free world....

Scream is something of a horror classic, just because it references so many genre classics. It’s the film that took the idea of being meta to its logical conclusion, by making one of the most meta films ever and informing an entire generation of horror films. Wildly successful, Scream spawned multiple sequels of varying quality and inspired a whole new way of looking at films from within films. MTV’s Scream is aimed at the generation who grew up on post-Scream horror films, but it also offers a whole lot of fun for those of us who remember just what a breath of fresh air the original was when it came out in 1996 (almost 20 years ago!...

In stark contrast to the indulgent rock-star poses and fly-on-the-wall bickering of many musical documentaries, Searching For Sugar Man immediately, and effectively, marks its own territory, as it’s not so much about the search for stardom, as it is about the search for a star. And, spoiler alert, they find him. Searching For Sugar Man is the kind of crowd-pleasing documentary that eschews doubt and cynicism in favour of infectious enthusiasm....

This review contains spoilers. Lots of pilot episodes seem a bit clunky. They’ve got a fair amount of setting up to do, after all – the first episode of anything needs to introduce its audience to a setting, to characters, and, if the show’s got any kind of sci-fi or fantasy element, to the rules of its universe. So sometimes you get a bit more telling than showing, and some on-the-nose dialogue....

So, first of all, thank you very much Terry Pratchett for saving me having to think of a Christmas gift every year. That sounds glib, and lazy, but every year you could be assured of buying something that he was guaranteed to enjoy. It’s easy to take that for granted, but it’s a gift in itself, the knowledge that a problem simply doesn’t exist because this man – dressed as Puritan Santa – was writing....

Nick appears to be a great big swaggering cock of a young man, acting like a braying wanker whenever he’s with his teammates, sleeping with his girlfriend’s friend. To humanise him is a monumental task, and one which this episode just about pulls off. If only it didn’t start off like an episode from the last generation. Leon Levan is a life coach for whom failure isn’t just frowned upon, it’s there to be beaten until it becomes pure success!...

This review contains spoilers. If previous season structures were anything to go by, this penultimate episode would have been the moment a cast member was killed off. But this generation the writers decided to do something different, and placed Grace’s final moments at the very beginning of the series. It pays off here, as instead of a downbeat (season two’s Cassie) or violent (season four’s Effy) ending to the series, it looks as if the show’s final curtain call will arrive next week with hope, romance and friendship....

3.12 June Wedding This episode was set up perfectly from last week’s: the main strand is for the Sons to get Tara back from Salazar, which takes up the majority of the episode. The first half of the episode is fairly slow, with a lot of time divided between the Sons, the Mayans, and the ATF searching for Tara, but this serves to build tension, rather than to serve up boredom like a few of the misfires earlier in the season....

Worst of all, I’d taken my eyes off what really mattered. Actually, you know what, I don’t know what matters anymore. I watched South Park’s season finale looking for a takeaway from an arc that introduced the real Lorde to the world and restored the Internet back to the people. But there is no big “I learned something today moment” for me. I’m all pooped out from finding the common threads throughout season 18 and commenting on it....

If you are to believe some of the stars of Stargate Universe’s tweets, the next three episodes are to be the best yet, starting with this one. From the outset, it seems like it’s not just a way to boost ratings, and that they may well be right. Meanwhile, Eli Wallace is paired up with the Lucian Alliance’s Ginn to see if she can make any sense of his half abandoned work....

Steven Universe Season 5 Episode 10 I’m really bummed the last episode didn’t lead into this one. I wanted to see Sadie belt it out with the band! Ah well, this one is a nice little ending to the mini thematic arc about dealing with your problems. The lesson here is fairly straightforward. Steven already has the right answer but is lead astray by Kevin into trying to be “cool”. This is a plot we’ve seen a thousand times before but Steven Universe at least gives it a new look and a stand out color scheme as well....

The excellent on-screen chemistry between Ms. McGrath and Melissa Benoist has led to some fans reading their friendship as a romantic one. The people involved in making the show do seem to be aware of how strongly fans feel about the Kara/Lena relationship, too. “I’m pretty sure the producers weren’t expecting this, as I wasn’t [originally] signed for that many episodes, but here I am,” Ms. McGrath says. “What’s nice is that they’ve responded not only to how Melissa and I are together but also to how the fans like it....