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Although there was much to like in this episode of The Tunnel, it has begun to feel like the show is settling into a routine for some of its instalments. The Truth Terrorist makes another threat/truth, this week involving injustice within the law’s treatment of young people by setting them on fire. He communicates this to journalist Danny Hillier. Hillier acts like a bit of a dick and Detectives Roebuck and Wassermann race against time to stop TT from completing his latest statement on society and hope to catch him....

2.8 Rose Damon and Stefan take to the road to get her back. The brothers try and take part in some road trip bonding, but their common link, Elena, gets in the way. Tyler suddenly has to keep his strength and werewolf skills in check, though it’s not easy with Caroline keeping her information on his condition to herself. He breaks into her house and Caroline is forced to tell him that she is a vampire....

Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), from the tiny town of Cynthiana, Kentucky, is a good cop, but more importantly than that, he’s a loving father and husband. When Officer Grimes is shot and wounded in the line of duty, he ends up lapsing into a coma. When he revives, he discovers that things have changed quite a bit in his absence. Namely, that all the people on earth have become ravenous, flesh-hungry zombies, out to make Rick and the few remaining dregs of humanity into snack food....

The fractured sons of York took centre stage in this week’s episode of The White Queen, during which Edward celebrated fifteen years of his reign, George took a fatal dip in a barrel of Malmsey wine, and Richard began a Sméagol-to-Gollum transformation into the kind of skulking villain you could imagine muttering hunchbacked about the winter of our discontent. It was George’s story, or rather his ending, that took precedence....

Thelma (Eili Harboe), the character, is comprised of some of cinema and real life’s most enduring archetypes: the very lonely girl. Thelma is a ghost roaming the halls of her school, posting up at the library and nervously looking around as if waiting for someone with the shining to have the capacity to notice her. When someone finally does, the beautiful and alluring Anja (Kaya Wilkins) she responds by having a massive seizure, falling off her chair in the library and pissing her pants....

For his first English-language film, Il Divo director Paolo Sorrentino has not only pilfered the song’s title (sans the parentheses), but also brought in Byrne to provide both the soundtrack and a quirky cameo. However, the Talking Heads connection stops there, as the film’s plot focuses on Cheyenne (Sean Penn), a middle-aged rock star who is living out his reclusive later years in an Irish mansion. However, after slowly building up a number of character-portrait plot points – there’s a young goth in need of guidance, and a bereaved mother whose son took Cheyenne’s lyrics too seriously – the director performs a narrative about-face, sending the protagonist Stateside, to his father’s deathbed....

Preparing for Cowboy Camp, the only toy Andy wants to bring is Woody. Yet, right before leaving, his favorite Sheriff has his arm ripped. Set on a shelf to be repaired, Woody meets Wheezy, an old toy penguin who was supposed to be fixed months ago, but now is covered in dust. Once Andy’s favorite toy, Woody now feels he may be forgotten as well. Woody wakes up inside Al’s office in the presence of a rowdy cowgirl named Jessie, a shy steed named Bullseye and Stinky Pete the Prospector, an unopened toy still in his original packaging....

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army Speed RacerWith the Warchowski brothers at the helm, this could go either way. The trailer is exactly what you would expect from them. Loud, lots of quick cuts and plenty of effects. One thing that’s very different from the Matrix series is the use of colour. Wow. Every thing, every person looks crisp, sharp and, frankly, very cartoonish. It also looks far more kid-friendly than the PG-13 rating would suggest but then all that’s to be expected considering the source material....

Picture this: Kate Winslet is a Russian-Israeli gangster who’s holding Wonder Woman (okay, Gal Gadot) hostage so that an ex-soldier and explosives expert, Terrell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) will pull off a pair of heists, each more dangerous than the last. At one point, Woody Harrelson wears a werewolf mask. Michael K Williams… well, I don’t want to spoil his unexpected cameo. This is the latest movie from John Hillcoat, the director of gritty Australian western The Proposition, poetically despairing Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road, and moonshine-running period gangster yarn, Lawless....

This week saw the eagerly anticipated return of HBO’s True Blood, a program that expertly blends the Southern drama of Tennessee Williams with sexy vampire mythology and the driest sense of humor known to man. Add to all this a rather substantial dollop of sex and drugs, and the result is the funniest detective/vampire/romance series ever produced. Nothing But The Blood picks up exactly where we left off last season – with the discovery of yet another body....

The other upside of the True Detective fandom is that it brings out the true detective in people. I asked about Telios de Lorca in my last review and, lo and behold, a wonderful scholar and former professor did my homework for me. Thanks doc. The Devil Trap still keeps me up at night. Last night I was up until all hours of the morning and decided to show it to Genoveva Rossi, a horror scream queen who happens to more than dabble in the esoteric arts....

The suppressed love of Abe and Anna has been the big secret hanging over Turn’s scenes in Setauket—even more than the secret that they’re both spying for the American cause. But by the end of this episode, that secret is out. Abe’s wife Mary (Meegan Warner) and Anna’s creepy suitor Capt. Simcoe (Samuel Roukin) each force the truth from Ens. Baker (Thomas Keegan). A duel with pistols between Abe and Simcoe provides the climax for this episode....

Veep Season 5 Episode 10 Veep’s “Inauguration” proves that a free democracy is full of surprises, not matter how much it costs. Last week closed with the news that President Selina Meyer lost the vote in the Senate and the race now moves, under little viewed constitutional law, to the vice presidential candidates. That means the Meyer administration is staring down the barrel of a Tom James (Hugh Laurie) presidency. We forget that some guns have a double barrel....

4.2 Kill The Queen Bjorn has ventured off alone and must contend with the harsh conditions of the Scandinavian winter, but for what? His desire to prove something to his father seems ill advised and unnecessary since it’s always been clear that Bjorn is Ragnar’s favorite and destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. While Bjorn is off on his journey of self-discovery, his younger half-brother Ubbe accompanies the search party and discovers Floki hiding in the stream....

Episode one of What Remains presents us with a game of Cluedo. A woman’s body is discovered in the loft of a shared address, but who killed her, and with what? Was it the maths teacher with the rope? The journalist with the candlestick? Or the lesbian with the lead piping? That’s the distressing kernel inside What Remains’ whodunit intrigue: how can somebody’s disappearance go unnoticed? More provocatively put, were you to disappear one day, would anyone miss you?...

Is Hollywood trying to create a whole generation of manic-depressive children? If so, they’re doing a pretty damn good job of it. First Up taught them that your dreams will all be squashed and your loved ones are all going to die, and now Where The Wild Things Are takes it one step further by telling them that their entire lives will be filled with mistakes of their own devising, they’ll hurt everyone they love, and that the road to hell is paved with the best of good intentions....

I haven’t played much World of Warcraft since George W. Bush was president, so I went into a hands-on demo at PAX East curious to see how much had changed in Blizzard’s MMORPG. What I discovered is that the game’s new expansion, Battle for Azeroth, is a great re-entry point for those players who left the game long ago. After quickly customizing our high-ranked characters, we picked a quest and were sent off to one of the game’s new island areas....

Only it isn’t. And it isn’t only because they sold me the ticket to the wrong film, which they blatantly did here. Just because you get Danny McBride, Justin Theroux and the director of Pineapple Express at work, it doesn’t, I’ve learned, mean you’re necessarily going to get a comedy at the end of it. For, as it turns out, Your Highness has far more fun being a posh-looking, 80s-style fantasy movie than it does being a comedy....

Poor Liz Lemon. Nothing ever quite works out the way she imagines it, does it? In the teaser, Liz walks past a bookstore window and stops to admire a stack of her ‘Dealbreakers’ books, happily tapping on the glass and telling the store clerk who she is. The guy, though, isn’t really a fan of Liz’s decree that if a guy is over 30 and still wears a nametag, well, that’s a deal breaker....

Inelasticity is the daily bread of sitcom characters. That these people don’t really change, develop or grow is a big part of why they’re funny. Whatever happens inside the space of one episode, we expect, even rely on sitcom characters to be back at square one the following week, behaving in the same way and making the same mistakes in different scenarios. 30 Rock has always let absurd characters, pop culture parody and punchlines win out over realism or continuity, stuffing episodes full of self-referential nods to its own lack of follow-through as it does so, but ¡Qué Sorpresa!...