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As everyone in TV land is complicit in the celebration of consumerism that is Valentine’s Day, even the usually deliberately outside of the mainstream Community can’t escape its grip. Thankfully though, Early 21st Century Romanticism is a very Greendale-esque take on the trad schmaltz fest that Valentine’s Day generally produces. Jeff’s mystification at the popularity of the Barenaked Ladies having caused a rift in the usually far too close group, he’s forced to spend Valentine’s night watching Manchester United trounce (I assume) Liverpool with Prof Dean....

This review contains spoilers. After last week’s potentially explosive, rival faction fort building, Troy and Abed’s fluffy armies finally meet at the battle of Communityburg this week, in a fight that will determine not only whose fort is best, but also the fate of the bromance we know and love; a battle that will surely be re-enacted by war geeks in period pyjamas for centuries to come. Yes, Community: Pillows and Blankets will surely go down in the annals of military history… With Greendale’s central friendship, the pillar that apparently holds up the entire college – how else could they persuade literally every student to not go home for the better part of three days, while they build and defend pillow forts – hanging in the balance thanks to Starburns’ horrific aim, it falls to Jeff to play mediator and prevent all-out pillow war....

This is the strongest song you’ll find in the film. Gervais gives Brent’s vocals a Britpop-aping faux-swagger, but instead of singing about morning glories or country houses, Brent’s explaining how much petrol it will take him to get to Milbank. For purposes of a good rhyme, this, of course, is half a tank. For me, this opening salvo is the peak of the film, with a selection of sweet scenes at the end coming close to matching its heights....

3.3 The Broken Bough After the recent incident-packed couple of episodes, I was expecting things to progress at pace in The Broken Bough. But, and this is being somewhat kind, this was a mess of a story that didn’t really take us anywhere original. It starts after some teasing by Nolan of Irisa about her comic persona, with the return of the Tarrs to Defiance. Given that Datak’s injuries seem largely superficial, I was rather disappointed that nobody questioned their arrival, and the subsequent destruction of the weapons stockpile, given their respective track record....

Denial is a dramatisation of Holocaust denier David Irving’s libel action against American academic Deborah E. Lipstadt. Timothy Spall takes the former role, Rachel Weisz takes the latter. It’s also a deliberately quiet movie, a little contradictory given the outrage the real life events caused. We meet the pair of them at the start in a slightly shaky opening, as Irving turns up at a lecture that Lipstadt is giving, where her assertion that she won’t debate things that are factual – purely because someone says they aren’t true – is put to the test....

Skullduggery Pleasant author Derek Landy asked, according to interviews, for either the Tenth or Eleventh Doctors for his short story, because he favours fast-paced dialogue. He got the Tenth, as apparently someone had already claimed the Eleventh (or he was reserved for them), and although The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage is the funniest of this series by far, sometimes it feels like he’s writing for the wrong Doctor. Martha Jones is consistent with her on-screen persona, though....

The Fourth Doctor is, frankly, a bugger to write dialogue for. Like Patrick Troughton before him, Tom Baker was a great interpreter of other people’s scripts. Unlike Patrick Troughton, Baker didn’t always stick to the basic meaning of his lines if he felt they were substandard. This means that the prose Fourth Doctor is often written as ‘Generic Doctor’, because trying to think like Tom Baker is enough to give any mortal being a headache....

I was curious to discover if this story tries to tie the whole show up with a pink bow, and accept that it won’t get another season, or brazenly represent that this is just the beginning of the Dollhouse story. At the end of Briar Rose, Alpha imprints Echo with the identity of someone he knows and they leave together, which is where this story starts. Alpha and Echo have abducted a woman and stolen her car, but the personality put into Echo doesn’t seem to be one that Alpha will be able to tolerate long....

Without doubt, Belonging is the strongest Dollhouse story so far, which has only fuelled my frustration with this show even more. For a brief eclipse of time the bright glare of silly ideas and digital hookers gives way to some brilliant performances and clinical story telling. The plot represents a complete back-story for Sierra, how she ended up in the Dollhouse, and why she probably shouldn’t be there. I’m not going to dissect it here, because it’s so good that it deserves watching un-fettered by my frame-by-frame analysis....

1.7 Servant To Two Masters But it didn’t truly gel for me until I watched this week’s Dracula. When I first started reviewing Dracula, its crawling pace was a minor distraction. The show was obviously envisioned as a Scorsese-like visual banquet. We were supposed to take our time and appreciate the vaguely steampunk aesthetic – Jules Verne-esque technology and rich Victorian dress combining in a way that, frankly never quite becomes coherent....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 39 “I am still improving.” In spite of how Goku’s fancy “new” move is all sorts of wonderful and there’s some exciting stuff that happens here, this episode really feels like it bides its time and is just here to help set up the concluding installment. The episode’s big moments all happen towards the end of the entry and while the stage may be properly set to push Goku and Hit’s battle to its conclusion, this middle chapter inevitably meanders....

The Visitor is director Thomas McCarthy’s follow-up to The Station Agent, the film that brought Peter Dinklage to the wider world upon a wave of critical acclaim. McCarthy’s drama follows Walter (Richard Jenkins, best known for Six Feet Under), a quiet widower and part-time professor who leaves his home of Connecticut for a NYC academic conference – having the unfavourable job of presenting a paper as his own when it is barely even his work – and comes across a pair of squatters in his flat....

2.21 The Man With The Twisted Lip Mycroft’s back, Sherlock’s stashing heroin, and Joan’s been kidnapped. So begins Elementary’s first steps towards its season two finale. This week paved the way for the remaining three episodes to reveal something we’ve been wondering since the beginning of this season: just what is Mycroft’s game? Since episode eight, when we heard Elementary’s dapper restaurateur version of the elder Holmes sibling phone his anonymous accomplice to report on the failure of his “little gambit” to lure Sherlock back to England, a question mark has hung over the character’s head....

We said in that piece that we had some sympathy for Stoltz, as it’s easy to look back now and say that he wasn’t working in the role, given just how familiar many of us have become with Marty McFly in the guise of Michael J Fox. Furthermore, it’s hard to blame an actor for basically being miscast. “You know, it was twenty-something years ago and I rarely look back, if at all, but in retrospect, I think just getting through that difficult period helped me realise how freeing it really was,” he told the site....

Whereas last week’s episode, while okay, was more of a test run designed to see if there’s an audience for horror anthology shows, this week’s show is definitely more of the real deal like any reasonable audience member would expect from a fright-fest. Short on blonde model cleavage but long on atmosphere, good acting, and legitimate chills, this Masters of Horror that isn’t actually an episode of Masters of Horror features a legitimate frightener, Brad Anderson....

I’ve always adored film. And as cynical as I can be about most other things, film still plugs directly into my wide-eyed inner child, inspiring a level of excitement that few other things can match. So when I studied it at university, and found myself neck-deep in dense critical works about its history, techniques and cultural ramifications, one of the things that struck me was how gosh darn dry film-related writing could be sometimes....

‘Demon woman You cut puppies’ toes off, pull an animal’s nose off How’d you magic my clothes off? Demon woman Take me back to your room, make me howl at the moon Make me pray to the temple of womb Demon woman, woman demon’ Cut to the boys performing an awful version of Scarborough Fair, with Bret dressed as Paul Simon and Jemaine dressed as Art Garfunkel. Mel seems less than impressed with this, but Jemaine attracts the attention of Karen, an Art Garfunkel obsessive, played by Mary Lynn Rajskub (Little Miss Sunshine, Punch Drunk Love and erm Dude, Where’s My Car)....

1.10 The Man in the Killer Suit It’s always a curious thing when crime shows cover identity fraud, because by definition everyone involved in the performing side of a TV show is doing exactly that. That’s the subject this week, when Henry is called to unravel the untimely death of an English noble, only to discover he’s neither of those things. There’s a repeating narrative thread from the outset about how a man’s suit can present him in a specific way, selling an idea, and it’s woven right through the story....

One of the most striking things about Fortitude (which, given the parade of bizarre happenings that have brought us to this stage in the season, must be very striking indeed) is the landscape. The beautiful desolation of the far north has been such a dominant feature of the show’s presentation, not to mention its marketing, that it could almost be seen as a character in itself. Certainly, its native remoteness has offered much to the tension, sense of dread and island politics that we have been seeing and which are only becoming more intense as we creep towards the promised denouement....