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2.5 Akane No Mai Lee Sizemore’s tired writing—and a really funny performance from Simon Quatermain—serves as one of the highlights of the episode. From his first appearance (after another cold opening involving Bernard in what appears to be a future time line), he tends to steal the show with every little moment he’s given. He’s incredibly funny, as his shtick about complaining about characters breaking from the storyline continues to make me chuckle, and one of the highlights of the episode is the way he shrieks, “Shit, ninjas!...

Yes, it’s an awful film, but the worst? I don’t watch horror, and friends who do tell me it has a long way to go. But when a film has Lust for a Vampire‘s Yutte Stensgaard playing a boring game of strip poker, there is something seriously wrong. Zeta One was originally a cartoon strip in a lad’s magazine. Although it had been created only because Playboy was vulnerable due to its strip – Little Annie Fanny – looking dated, Cort saw beyond that to the success of the French sci-fi comic Metal Hurlant, and its Barbarella, basis of the successful Vadim film....

1.1 Three Card Trick What do we find inside? Proof that the BBC was entirely justified in splashing Damian Lewis’ dishy Henry VIII and Mark Rylance’s inscrutable Thomas Cromwell over countless magazine covers. It’s tremendous stuff; a richly textured brocade compared to the flimsy, titillating chiffon of The White Queen and The Tudors. Adapted from Hilary Mantel’s revisionist take on Cromwell’s career in the Henrician Court by playwright and screenwriter Peter Straughan (Frank, Tinker Tailor Solider Spy), Wolf Hall is historical drama at its best....

Let’s start with the good. Samoa Joe made Bryan pass out in the Coquina Clutch, securing Joe’s spot in the Money in the Bank match and relegating Bryan to something different on that pay-per-view card. Oh, Big Cass was in the match for some reason as well. The way the storyline has played out, it’s allowing Bryan’s comeback story to be more of a journey rather than immediate gratification from the fans’ standpoint....

Wynonna Earp Season 2 Episode 10 Perhaps for the first time, we see Waverly and Wynonna working against one another, and winding up squarely on opposite sides. It’s bad news for the Earps, but it makes for great television. While Nicole may have felt isolated from the Black Badge crew this season, their various (and sometimes misguided) actions to save her life this episode should make it clear where they stand....

Your Name introduces two teenagers united by longing: Mitsuha, a girl who lives in the small, sleepy town of Itomori and feels stifled by its traditions, and Taki, a boy works part-time at a Tokyo restaurant and harbours a crush on Miki, an older student and co-worker. On random days, Mitsuha and Taki, strangers who live miles apart, abruptly switch bodies; Taki is astonished to find himself in a girl’s body and vice versa....

Then we come to the score by genre veteran Danny Elfman. No stranger to a comic book movie as we’re about to discover, the lauded composer interweaves both his original 1989 Batman theme and John Williams’ original 1978 Superman theme into the fabric of the music to give the DCEU an energetic yet nostalgic kick in the pants. Batman (1989) By the time Elfman got round to scoring Tim Burton’s revolutionary Gothic blockbuster he was already established through his Oingo Boingo work and wacky efforts like Beetlejuice....

The time travelers will visit eras deeper into the past. Viewers who have seen the promos and teasers for 12 Monkeys season 2 will probably already have noticed that, whereas 1987 was as far back as the first season went, this season will include earlier eras of the 20th century. How these long ago decades will tie in to the plague or some other larger story remains to be seen. The Emerson Hotel, a central setting of season 2, will be seen across the different time periods as well, and Schull shared that the environments made it easy to get into character....

Ding dong the witch is dead! Yes, after last week’s shock ending, the landscape of 24‘s last season is changing rapidly, and this week’s episode also upped the ante, continuing to build into what could be an epic series finale. Meanwhile, we finally see Dana’s evidence, a recording of her speaking to her Russian contact. The recording not only gives Jack the ammunition he needs, but also confirms something else: Dana really was in love with Ortiz....

I’ve watched every episode of both seasons at least 30 times each and it’s still not enough. The second season finished up last April and I’ve been going through withdrawal, craving fresh supplies of 30 Rock. Soon, I should have it. The third season of my laugh source of choice airs in the US on 30 October. If you’re less easily addicted, but worry that you won’t know the characters and can’t catch up, here’s a rundown and tempter....

This post, though, is for those who are finding life particularly tough, and are struggling to find much light in the midst of the season. All are welcome to read this of course, and we’re happy to hand you each a virtual coffee and biscuit as you do so. Firstly, then, it’s okay not to be bowled over with joy at Christmas. You’re not abnormal for feeling like that, and there’s more of it about than you might think....

It’s hard to know where to begin summing up the plot, because it’s incredibly convoluted in a way that suggests the filmmakers hadn’t quite made up their minds what the story should be about. But let’s try to make some sense of it anyway. Due to adverse weather conditions, most of the flights out of the East Midlands Airport have been cancelled, but one plane manages to take off regardless....

Not so these days. A shrinking market, coupled with expensive production, is driving comic prices ever-upwards. The price of an individual Marvel comic is already creeping up to $3.99 for a regular sized issue – 32 pages, with approximately 20-24 of story and the rest made up of ads. Once Marvel raises its prices, DC is rarely far behind. It’s a massive jump from the previous standard price of $2....

Stan stays at Snot’s house one night after Snot invites him in for some casserole. Stan and Snot have a sleepover and chat like best friends do and Stan quickly befriends Snot. Roger has Jeff, Hailey’s boyfriend, clean Roger’s attic for some cash, but then jumps him after he leaves to get the cash back. He does this three more times. Eventually, Jeff stands up to his masked assailant and shoots him repeatedly....

The show begins this week outside a store with a Salvation Army Santa ringing his bell. The Santa is quickly shot dead by McShane’s character and when it cuts to the next scene, we find McShane, wearing the red suit, in the home of a family. He ties up the family and they reach the same fate as the Salvation Army Santa. We presume these actions took place in the past....

4.9 Tupperware Party Massacre After opening up with Twisty as the focus, the show has become the Dandy Mott Murder Hour, and Dandy is making the most of his opportunity to captivate—then slay—the audience. Finn Wittrock, with his matinee idol face and his Flintstones name, is really putting on a clinic when it comes to chewing the scenery, and with every crazy bit of dialogue, Dandy becomes that much more appealing....

We’ve written you a letter. We’re hoping in a strange way that it’s the first time you’ve read one of our letters, because that means we’ve got a paragraph or two before you rumble we’re about to peg it for Christmas. So let’s assume that, and move on quickly. Firstly, we want to say a genuine, heartfelt thank you. We do say this quite often, and we’re genuinely not fishing, but we know not why you choose us as a website worthy of your eyeballs....

The public outcry is part of a wider issue: should television viewers be subjected to animations for shows that are coming next, or should the programme be presented cleanly? As with all things, the answer lies somewhere in-between. So, I’d like to set some facts straight. The people who schedule these things aren’t faceless powers-that-be. They are, in fact, pretty normal people, and most of the time fans of the shows being aired....

Clive Owen – in another sci-fi role following his turn in the classic Children Of Men – plays a lonely, hard-drinking detective who works in a future New York of ubiquitous technology. The algorithms that govern the web have come home to roost, and are now in our heads; information and advertising is projected onto the environment – so no need for those energy-guzzling neon signs that are a staple of sci-fi movies – and everything we see and do is recorded and carefully filed away as vast troves of data....

1.15 Dodger Firstly, the big change instigated by last week’s adventure was Felicity coming aboard Team Arrow. As predicted by ninety-nine per cent of the fans, she brings lots of good stuff to the group’s dynamic and allows old questions to be reposed in different ways. This is obviously essential for a show as morally grey as Arrow, as the concerns raised by Diggle at the beginning of the series would have become stale had he kept bringing them up whenever Ollie went after a new criminal....