Fear The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6 I have to say, the best part of “Sicut Cervus” wasn’t the zombie altar boys—something we certainly haven’t seen yet in the TWD universe. And it wasn’t the melee outside the Mexican church, in which our group takes on a zombie horde—something we haven’t had much of this season. No, the best part of this episode was actually the family drama. Specifically the friction caused as lines are drawn down the middle of Travis and Madison’s blended family....

Episodes 12 and 13 weren’t bad. In fact, they had some really cool moments. But, as if to remind me how stupid this show can be, the opening scene has Simon, Demetri, Vogel and Janis flying into Somalia in a CGI helicopter. While they’re travelling, another agent is teaching them a few phrases in a foreign language, which could be Somali or Arabic. He teaches them to ask, “What did you see?...

12 Concentrate And Ask Again But, between the bone melting blue dust, there is an interesting and strong subtext about the children that Walter experimented on, and their legacy. For one of his lab rats, the consequences of his exposure have condemned him to a hermit-like lifestyle, as he can’t stop the thoughts of others echoing in his own mind. The relationship that Olivia forms with him, because he can’t hear her thoughts, was both gently crafted and sensitively portrayed....

3.17 Stowaway Last season, with the musical episode, they probably went too far, and this season I’d support the view that Stowaway fell into the same bucket. The problem I had with it was that, while it was odd and funny to have Anna Torv doing Leonard Nimoy impressions, irrespective of how good she is at doing that, I found it became grinding as it continued for the entire story and possibly beyond....

The premise of Future Man sounds unique but oddly familiar. A janitor and video game addict named Josh Futturman is chosen by travelers from the future to save humanity from an apocalyptic future based on his performance in a first-person shooter. If that sounds like a mash-up between The Last Starfighter and The Terminator, it’s because creators Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir wrote it that way, not only as an homage to sci-fi of the past but because Josh needs his knowledge of what came before in order to succeed....

3.3 Walk of Punishment On a show like Game of Thrones, you never know what’s going to happen or who is going to be a stand-out character. For example, in a group with Tyrion, Bronn, and Pod the squire, who would be most likely to be the most interesting character in the scene? Well, it wasn’t him, unless you said Pod. Ditto a scene with Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie....

5.6 Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken For a relatively sedate episode, a lot of things get moved around this week. No Daenerys, but she’s as much of a character in this episode as she is in episodes in which she appears thanks to the presence of Ser Friendzone, Jorah Mormont. There’s no Brienne, but her vow to protect Sansa Stark seems to be meaningless given just what the poor girl undergoes this week....

7.7 The Dragon And The Wolf Much like the show, the characters are also moving with serious energy and purpose. While Game Of Thrones is bumping up against time constraints, the characters are fighting to keep up with an army that doesn’t need to eat or sleep. The Night King’s forces are constrained to move at walking speed, but aside from last week’s distraction, they seem to be moving steadily south....

The movie opens with a tremendously thrilling battle scene. Well, it would be a tremendously thrilling battle scene if I could tell what in the hell was going on. Gamer falls into the trap of most modern action movies, from Batman Begins to Star Trek. That trap is mistaking Shakycam and Rapid Zoom for actual excitement. Yes, Gamer is rife with hand-held camera work, and lots and lots of blurry, jiggling, and flat-out nauseating moments right in the middle of the actions scenes....

I wrote last week about how the original Gauntlet from 1985 and its sequels had a great deal of influence on some of the modern dungeon crawlers that we play today. Without the original tale of the Warrior, Wizard, Valkyrie, and Elf, the story of characters like the Barbarian in Diablo 3 may have never come to pass. But I also wrote last week that the central question surrounding Arrowhead Games 2014 remake of Gauntlet is whether the old franchise could still make an impact in a genre now dominated by franchises that it helped create....

This week, one of our contributors has something to say about emotional abuse. We’re handing over to her… From August 2016 till June this year I was in a relationship with a guy called Adam (not his real name). Adam was an artist, into animation and we hit it off immediately. We both loved music, I was full of movie recommendations for him, he was writing me up a list of TV shows that I needed in my life; it was so much fun I could hardly believe my luck....

This week, we’re handing back over to the brilliant Charlotte Harrison, who wants to talk about how rewarding it can be to push past anxiety, this time, by going to the cinema alone… It’s only in retrospect that I can identify what exactly was going on in my brain. As someone with high-functioning anxiety I had entered a profession that from day one had provided me with a to-do-list that would never be completed....

Among them, Cory Monteith, who plays Finn, is 27 while Rachel is played by the 23-year-old Lea Michele. It’s unfathomable to me why American TV is afraid to put talented teenagers on screen in teenage roles. These characters, just like those in silly Dawson’s Creek in which James Van Der Beek looked about 35 by the time Dawson finished high school, will never feel as authentic and credible as they could because they look over grown, over mature and over groomed....

Goon: Last of the Enforcers, the sequel to 2011s Goon, is a film about the world changing. The new owner of the Halifax Highlanders has expectations of the team and he’ll bring new players in to achieve them. The new kids coming into the league are something else; all-rounders, and some of them can really fight. Bruiser Doug Glatt’s home life is pulling him away from the game, and his body can hardly keep up with it anymore....

I can safely say, without hesitation, that “Harvey Dent” is the best episode we’ve seen from Gotham. It’s the most balanced, least gimmicky (mostly), sensible hour that they’ve managed to produce. It’s good enough to make me forgive and forget some of the earlier missteps, and I think, given the general trajectory of the last few weeks that maybe, just maybe, they’re starting to work the kinks out. But now, with Gordon, Dent, Montoya, Allen and (to a lesser extent) Bullock and Essen, we have the core of some real “good guys” on the side of the GCPD....

1.16 The Blind Fortune Teller Also pleasing this week were some hints of upcoming plot advancements. Seeing as Gotham is a show that has an ongoing obsession with mysteries and unresolved questions, it was refreshing to take these baby steps towards the truth after a long stint of inactivity. ‘Who killed Bruce Wayne’s parents?’, ‘will we ever find out about the shady Arkham project?’ and ‘was that comedian in episode one really the Joker?...

That same passion for Japanese kaiju movies and mecha comes through when talking to del Toro, too, and as Pacific Rim opens in cinemas everywhere, it was our pleasure to chat to him about designing his robots and monsters, his personal style of filmmaking, a smattering of politics, and how it feels to be back in the director’s chair for the first time since 2008’s Hellboy II… The first notion was to inform the ideas with the tradition of the kaiju eiga [Japanese giant monster films]....

For the second week in a row, Captain_Howdy, was the first to find the hidden geek. Well done and congratulations! Geek is hiding again somewhere among this week’s stories’ pictures. (Hint: This week it’s in TV.) It will always be in the main picture, to the top right of each page’s story and you’ll need to click and zoom on that picture to help with your search. Once you’ve found it, email geekcontent@gmail....

Holy Rollers‘ roots are in reality, being based on the true story of the ecstasy smuggling ring, which fooled airport security in the late 90s by hiding pills in the traditional dress of Hasidic Jewish travellers. Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg) is an unlikely gangster. He keeps his head down, working at his father’s fabric store while aspiring to be a rabbi and marry a nice local girl. However, a run-in with rebellious neighbour, Yosef (Justin Bartha), introduces Sam to the secular world of booze, E’s and women, causing him to turn his back on his family, in favour of ill-gotten fortune....

A large part of it comes from experience: Markus and McFeely are the closest thing that Marvel Studios has to “house writers,” having penned all three Captain America movies, Thor: The Dark World (with Stephen Yost) and now Avengers: Infinity War and next year’s Untitled Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers 4). On both new Avengers movies and the last two Captain America adventures, they’ve worked with directors Anthony and Joe Russo, with Marvel head Kevin Feige saying about the quartet, “The four of them together have an understanding of our cinematic sandbox more than anybody else....