No, what you need in a pinch isn’t a celebrity, it’s the Watson family. Come the apocalypse, theirs is clearly the door to knock upon. It’s in Perth, Scotland so if that’s round your way, Bob’s your uncle. The Watsons, the first civilian team to take on the 2017 Crystal Maze, were free of uncles of any stripe. They played a mother, two brothers and twin sisters, a formation that served them well....
If you want to come along, you have to reserve your place in advance. We have limited space, and we sold out in two days last time. Thus, if you’re thinking of booking a place, you need to move quickly. Without further ado, here’s what you need to know… Jerusalem Bar 33-34 Rathbone Place Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road TEAM DETAILS & COST Teams can have a maximum of six people in them....
Of course, Aquila isn’t coming to the forsaken British Isles for a vacation. He’s got redemption on his mind. His father was the commander of the Ninth that disappeared, and now his son is coming back in an attempt to restore the family name somehow. After proving his bravery in battle and getting an honorable discharge from the Legion, Aquila formulates a plan. He’ll take his slave, Esca (Jamie Bell), and head north across the wall to either find the eagle or die trying....
The Expanse Season 1 Episode 9 Sometimes a finale hits you like a freight train, and the answers to questions you’ve held onto all season long are almost overwhelming in how much they reveal all at once. Such is the case with the two-hour season 1 finale of The Expanse, which delivered thrills, gore, action, and emotion in a torrent of information that threatened to drown the viewers rather than quench their thirst....
That’s certainly not a lot to go on. But considering that the first trailer for The Flash Season 4 prominently featured both Caitlin Snow and Killer Frost, it’s safe to assume that they’re both right, even though the suspicion is that the Caitlin Snow we see aiding Team Flash is probably not the same one who turned into a cold-powered supervillain last year. After all, this is the show that introduced DC’s Multiverse to the CW TV shows, and it we can get a different Harrison Wells each year, who’s to say we can’t get a different Caitlin Snow, right?...
1.10 Guilt So much of the plot around her has focused on three things: her marriage to Joe, her relationship with Ryan, and being a mother to Joey. Getting married to Joe is forgivable, as she didn’t know he was a serial killer and any true crime show reveals that most people don’t know they’re with a serial killer until the cops kick in the door or he turns the knife on the wife....
We know that Spielberg is a living legend among filmmakers who excels at making touching friendship tales that tug at your heartstrings, bombard you with spectacle and get you high on adventure. He’s also a dab hand at pulling off period detail and has a proven track record in producing epic war stories. It’s a project of promise, especially when you note that the Master of the Leitmotif and long-time collaborator John Williams is providing the score....
Reality is being airbrushed away right before our eyes, and the motion picture business is one of the main bodies to blame for the dystopian descent into illusion. Film posters project the Photoshopped images into our eyes and infiltrate our senses, spreading their influence on the sides of buses and on roadside billboards. You think that’s air you’re breathing? No! It’s all a computer-generated simulation pumped out by Korean slave labourers on their break from additional effects work on the Battleship movie....
This is a sorry state of affairs, for one because it gives a magical film an aura of abject misery and, furthermore, because it obscures everything else exciting about the Parnassus picture beyond Ledger’s appearance. Simply seeing Terry Gilliam’s fantasy trip solely as ‘Ledger’s last movie’ is like calling Psycho ‘that film with the shower scene’ or A Clockwork Orange ‘that film about the dancing rapist’. There is so much going on in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus that it’s painful to think that no one is interested for any other reason besides the fact that it contains the final frames shot of an actor who died whilst in his prime....
We’ll never watch his career trajectory crash through the televisual stratosphere, going national then international then intergalactic, becoming a reality TV boxing star along the way as the first winner of the celebrity version of The Contender. Tragically, we’ll have to survive without The Late Show With the Legend, Ron Burgundy. The best news anchor that side of 1978 is instead left to wander aimlessly through the sweltering back streets of broken America, drinking down the milk of unkindness (it never goes down smooth, and yes, milk was a bad choice), his suit dishevelled and his marvellous moustache unmaintained....
The Last Man on Earth: Season 2, Episode 12 “You’re not a Viking. You’re a sucking.” After their ambitious mid-season premiere, Last Man on Earth begins to settle into a more familiar groove, with everyone returning to their baser instincts here. Right from the awkward moments that open the episode, “Valhalla” is all about Phil’s death affecting the Malibu crew in different ways, whether it’s through subtext or being very obviously pushed in your face....
This review contains spoilers. In the fifth episode of The Legend of Korra, things start getting romantic. Unfortunately, this is not to the show’s credit. I like romance as much as the next girl, but by and large I felt like it was one of the few things that kept the original series from being truly flawless. There’s a right way to handle romance subplots, and there’s a wrong way, and unfortunately, The Legend of Korra followed its predecessor and took the wrong path....
Paul Raymond, aka The King of Soho, aka Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s biopic The Look Of Love, would have disagreed with Welles’s sentiments in the strongest possible terms, having spent his whole life attempting – and, for the most part, succeeding – to turn the sex he surrounded himself with into mass-market entertainment and, naturally, into a tidy profit, riding the coat-tails of a sex industry borne of the progressive 60s and 70s era to a multi-million pound fortune and a Central London property empire....
Part 6 of The Night Of, “Samson and Delilah,” introduces reasonable doubt at the same time as it raises unreasonable suspicions. On the one hand, the investigation is digging up suspects who are far more ambiguous and, on the other hand, well, Naz (Riz Ahmed) got a jailhouse tattoo on the other hand, and that just doesn’t play with juries, but more on that later. That good boy sticky note is losing all its adhesion....
1.22 From A Cradle To A Grave Rebekah’s surprise return, for example, shouldn’t have felt as achingly satisfying as it did. That scene alone would have made sticking with the show all year worth it, with Claire Holt’s presence instantly reminding us of why we love Rebekah, of her relationship with Klaus and of her desire for a family. Giving baby Hope over to her to protect while Klaus, Elijah and Hayley wage a war is the perfect solution for a number of reasons – it gets rid of the baby without, you know, killing it; it finishes off Rebekah’s story in a way we didn’t even know it needed to be finished, and it gives the central cast an off-screen cause to fight for....
On that note, Philip’s character is lost and unsure of where he is in a literal sense, but he also feels empty and finds himself on the seemingly impossible search for peace and meaning in life. The Passage effectively highlights how barriers like language are ultimately irrelevant. The experience of being lost and looking for meaning is universal and something that’s easy to decipher. Phil might not say anything through the episode, but at every moment you know exactly what he feels....
It’s actually the story of a select club for the elite few at Oxford University. With a capped membership, and a reputation that extends back a good century or two, it turns out there are a couple of vacancies come the start of the year. The two inevitably become early rivals, as gradually writer Laura Wade – who penned the screenplay based on her own stage play, Posh – exposes us more and more to the views and behaviours of the infamous Riot Club....
After 86 years on this planet, Grandpa Abe Simpson has sprung a leak and no affordable American doctor can seal it. His nursing home is only keeping him alive long enough for him to die and has no interest in prolonging that. Even if he did donate his cartilage to baseball great Hank Aaron. Abe has been in every branch of the service but VA coverage is one of the biggest shames of America, among a lot of picks....
The Simpsons: Season 29 Episode 16 Music may soothe the savage breast, but Bart’s fiddling conjures beasts on The Simpsons season 29, episode 16, “King Leer.” The baddest boy in Springfield is told to stifle his worst urges by pushing them through a musical instrument, only to find much uglier urges rising from the comfort of his own cushions. The episode introduces us to the Szyslak family, none of them look quite as ugly as bartender Moe, but you can still feel the ugliness coming off them....
The Son Episode 4 “Death Song,” almost finds comfort in a loud crowd. Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) shows how far Texas has come since the Rangers silenced sounds that soothed the savage breast, and how short that distance is. Pete McCullough’s (Henry Garrett) ex-significant other tipped him off to a cache of tools left by the banks of a shallow crossing in a river that look suspiciously like the fixings for a good derailment....
