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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary jogs through a history of American comics, feminism, and culture, leavening its depressing content with a fundamentally optimistic tone. Moving in chronological order, taking in the advent of superhero comics, the Great Depression, the background to Wonder Woman’s creation and World War Two, from the outset Wonder Women ties societal trends and revolutions into the contemporary depictions of Princess Diana, looking at her influence and legacy while addressing the general representation of women in fiction....

Den of Geek had a chance to talk to McCabe during a recent press event. Was he nervous when he found out he would be acting opposite Oprah? It turns out, it wasn’t too much of an issue… McCabe was only eight when he filmed the movie, which means The Oprah Winfrey Show has been off the air since he was three. Now that McCabe knows Oprah, what does he think?...

3.3 Colder Weather In some ways, death is simple. It’s final; as Wynonna spits out in this episode, it’s forever; it is maybe the only things in existence that resists shades of grey. But how those who are left behind deal with death? That‘s complicated. It’s messy and unpredictable. Sometimes, it’s silly and awkward, sometimes it’s sober and precise. Always, it’s heavy, all-encompassing, impossible to see past. Grief is a filter that coats all things, saturating the world and everything in it with its own, unique, terrible color....

The more everything changes, the more everything stays the same. There are but two notable alterations to the format for 24: Live Another Day. Firstly, it’s spread over 12 hours, rather than 24. That’s a long overdue move that should help navigate nagging criticisms of narrative being spread thin. Sure, ‘projects’ are now ‘council estates’, and there’s a red bus never more than a few minutes away. A few lustful shots of the London skyline are potent clues that the geography has changed....

Ronald Reagan will, no doubt, go down in history for many things: bombing Libya, starting a trend for Hollywood actors moving into politics, giving George Bush Sr’s career a boost, and surviving an assassination attempt. But in providing the inspiration for the latest episode of 30 Rock he’s finally done something worth celebrating. Referencing the American right’s nostalgic portrayal of Regan as the president who could do no wrong, this week’s episode coins a new verb, to reagan....

Agents of SHIELD Season 3 Episode 18 The plot of this week’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is very simple. A bunch of very loyal comrades try to save Daisy from Hive, and get really fucked up doing so. It makes one realize that Daisy is a very popular lady within SHIELD because just about every character goes through hell to free the quake causing Inhuman agent. And they all fail....

The solution, when Marvel decided to bring back annuals, was to use them sparingly, and make them count in a wider context. They dipped their toes into the water with annuals for the “Ultimate” line, with an “Ultimates” annual by regular series writer Mark Millar and an “Ultimate Spider-Man” annual that radically altered the main series by getting Peter together with a new girlfriend. A “New Avengers” annual brought the concept back to the regular Marvel universe, marrying off Luke Cage and Jessica Jones....

American Horror Story: Cult Episode 8 American Horror Story: Cult season 7, episode 8, “Winter of Our Discontent,” brings the political melting pot to a boil, burning off the rough edges of possible betrayal and commitment. The title is based on the last novel by John Steinbeck, who was deriding what he saw as the decline of the western civilization that started in the 1950s. Steinbeck based his title on the first two lines of William Shakespeare’s Richard III: “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York....

In this fictionalised version of events, set in New York in 1978, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) is a conman who falls for Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) and becomes involved in a lucrative embezzling scheme with her, while also trying to keep his young wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) and their son happy. As Irving forms a genuine friendship with the mayor, Sydney starts to develop feelings for Richie. Meanwhile, Richie continues to over-reach his authority at work, and everybody starts to feel as if they’re in over their heads, and in some cases, over their hairstyles....

Arrow Season 4, Episode 12 Between the rooftop Parkour, the surprise paternity reveal, and Shado saving Oliver on Lian Yu, tonight’s episode of Arrowgave me some serious season 1/season 2 nostalgia. Maybe it was the return of Roy Harper, but this episode had a lot of energy — the kind of energy generally more reminiscent of a show in its first or second season than its fourth. Star City really can’t catch a break....

1.8 Vendetta The first scene of the episode repeats much of what we saw last week, with Oliver and Helena arguing about the difference between vengeance and justice. Anything Oliver has to say comes across entirely hypocritical of course, as he’s been waltzing around Starling City snapping necks since day one. This week is actually the first time Oliver appears normal and well-adjusted in contrast to his thoroughly damaged partner in crime, and this may just be a move on the writers’ part to make him more relatable and less troubling for the audience....

4.17 Beacon Of Hope So here we are with Felicity no longer part of Team Arrow, a move that pretty much nobody wanted and one that poses the question – what are the writers going to do with her now? This is a series about the Green Arrow, hence the name, so seeing one of the regular cast members working outside of that core group feels like a distraction. But the rest of Beacon Of Hope was pretty great, and a vast improvement on what we’ve been seeing from Arrow lately....

Getting back on schedule and settling down yesterday evening for this week’s show, I was asked by my loving partner if I felt this series was a lot darker and nastier than its pre-cursor Life on Mars, which is something I have covered a great deal in my reviews. I agreed with her completely – that, really, for all its jokes and poking fun at the 1980s, this really is a lot more mature series, dealing with some pretty hard-hitting crimes and social issues which are highlighted by the plot this week that deals with drugs, gun dealing and the perception of the underground gay culture in the 1980s....

I’m going to break with protocol here and go straight to what, for me, was the big question mark raised by the terrific second episode of Ashes To Ashes’ final season. So what the hell was that all about? Was that Gene Hunt putting together a piece of the jigsaw that explains his character? Are we supposed to see that as part of the overall puzzle coming together? Or is it something to do with the investigation into the death of Sam Tyler that Alex Drake is busying herself with?...

This review contains spoilers. For those readers who make it a weekly habit to read these Awake recaps, it may seem like I’ve been a little harsh of late. I don’t hate the show, or at least I don’t want to, but things have gotten depressingly predictable since the promising early stages. The central mystery has all but ironed out by the show’s events and producer’s comments, and the character of Michael has become little more than a casual observer of his own life....

As it happens, this exact question is at the very centre of Bad Neighbours (renamed over here from its US title Neighbors, for obvious Australian-soap-confusion-avoidance reasons) – as it is, in part, a surprisingly canny exploration of what happens to the generation that simply refuses to grow up when real life does actually start to catch up with it. Rogen and screen wife Rose Byrne are torn between wanting to be responsible, grown-up parents to their newborn daughter, and still wanting to kick back and have the sort of good time that their new frat-house neighbours are living twenty-four seven....

1.2 The Rave At the core of Banshee’s second instalment was the scheming of Proctor to get Hood on side, but before we got to that a few more pieces of Lucas and Ana’s criminal past fell into place. Opening with a flashback sequence/dream which sends Hood on one of his, so far unexplained, mad dashes through the Banshee woodland, Lucas and Ana discuss their intent to pull the wool over the eyes of their New York employer Mr....

1.6 The Truth First though, Dylan. His dispatching of Ethan’s killer has given his bad boy reputation a real boost and his association with the criminal organisation appears to be going places. He’d be advised to proceed with a little more caution – Gil seemed very easily impressed that he’d killed the chap, with little concern about witnesses or other lose ends. When Remo (the ‘Seasoned Professional’) showed up, there’s no effort to confirm identities before they start naming names and citing crimes....

The show’s return after an all too lengthy absence does not come with the crash and bang of epic space battles or hand to hand combat with rogue toasters that you might expect. Instead it bleakly creeps its way back onto screens, assaulting our psyche at every opportunity. If episode 10 was a bleak reminder that we should never have even encouraged the notion of a happy ending, then episode 11 gradually eats away at any and all remaining hope that we may have had left....

This is a time of reckoning. A time when the characters are forced to come to terms with what they are and what they might become. A president, no longer able to hold on to the belief that she is leading her race to salvation, is shocked to the core and falls to pieces. Even Admiral Adama is unable to bring her to her senses. That colleague is Dee, who has been devastated by the discovery that Earth is a barren wasteland, and after a final date with her ex-husband, kills herself....