As I alluded to in my review of episode five, the spectre of bullying is hanging over this series like never before. In previous episodes, it’s been poor Lucinda getting it in the neck. This time round, it was Sara. Her treatment by the remaining candidates on her return to the house was nothing short of shocking and genuinely made me question whether I can continue to watch this year....
6.1 The Date Night Variable We pick up not long after, with Howard having arguments with both his mum and his wife over living arrangements once he returns to earth. Naturally, his mother wants him to stay in her home and Howard, neither able to stand up to her nor to Bernadette, lies his face off and tells another crew member that he intends to solve the problem of them finding out by simply…staying in space....
It’s the second in Sandler’s four-picture deal with Netflix, which was viewed as a coup for the streaming service when it first moved into producing its own content, but thus far, they probably haven’t been as expected. After last year’s Western spoof The Ridiculous 6, in which the Happy Madison players found a million more ways to die in the West, The Do-Over is even more of a departure, into more adult (though still not grown-up) territory....
1.1 Dulcinea Series developers Mark Fergus and (the wonderfully named) Hawk Ostby resist the temptation many new shows succumb to: jumping out of the blocks with all guns blazing, hoping to entice viewers with a packed forty minutes of explosions, only for subsequent episodes to inevitably fail to live up to that opening salvo. Instead, The Expanse allows its audience to spend time with each primary character and location and get a feel of where this show is headed....
The Flash Season 3 Episode 15 It’s hard to think that this show could get any more quintessentially Flash after, in the last two weeks the gang travelled to a parallel earth to fight a gladiator match in a city populated by sentient gorillas, THEN had the gorillas invade our Earth and were fought off by three super speedsters and half of Justice League Detroit. But then you get Barry, Jessie, and Wally training to open this week’s episode....
2.6 Fly Away The Following was one of the most violent shows on television in its first season, and its second season has merely upped the violence ante to an impressive degree. It’s not enough to have someone get stabbed, they have to be impaled with a fireplace poker and left to slowly bleed to death while being threatened with a gun by Ryan (who promptly leaves the wounded Family member to die in exchange for her cooperation with his investigation, but not before he hops over her prone body in a really funny way)....
This review contains spoilers. It’s about square footage. Margaret Atwood’s single novel didn’t have the footprint to take us outside Gilead and into the Colonies. In the book, it was enough to know that lethal nuclear wastelands where dissidents were forced to work themselves to death existed beyond the borders. In the TV show—already confirmed to have thirty episodes and with the possibility of more—there’s room to see the place’s stories....
The ill-fated Blair Witch sequel, Book Of Shadows, tried – and, inarguably, failed – the self-referential tack. Meanwhile Elm Street’s breaking of the fourth wall in New Nightmare fared decidedly better, discovering an almost perfect balance between scares and nod-nod-wink-wink comedic self-awareness. Tom Six, writer/director of the first Human Centipede: First Sequence, returns with a similarly pitched sequel to 2009’s controversial body shocker – a grim, monochrome love-letter to the lucrative furore the original film created, the ending of which had backed him into something of a narrative corner as far as a sequel was concerned....
So series three kicked off with expectations higher than Moss’s trousers, and really I must admit it was all a little bit disappointing. Sort of like Windows ME; it didn’t really fit, and was all a touch underwhelming. Running three parallel stories in one episode, we got to see that at the beginning of every day Moss (Richard Ayoade) gets bullied by some hoodies on the way to work; Jen may (or may not) have a cowboy builder with a piddling problem fixing her flat; and series 2 newbie, Douglas, the long-lost son of series 1’s superb Denholm Reynholm (Chris Morris), gets the company into financial difficulty (not to mention shagging all the members of HR)....
If you like cowboys and aliens, this is clearly a movie you’ll want to see. It’s unambiguous and upfront about what it’s offering unlike, say, Super 8. (“Who are these Super 8? Is this going to be like X-Men?”) It’s a clash of the titans showdown that calls to mind battles like King Kong Vs Godzilla and Alien Vs Predator, except Favreau’s flick mashes together two whole genres rather than individual franchise characters....
This review contains spoilers. The first episode’s strength was in the gloomy atmosphere it created where a sense of foreboding seemed as present as the loch itself. This week’s need to get the plot going properly means that atmosphere is set to one side a little. There’s still that ominous tone to everything, but it is more focused in on certain characters rather than the grand, sweeping shots of the dramatic Scottish landscape....
He certainly seems like a real twinkle-in-his-eye character, one that the documentary only scratches the surface of. Though perhaps spending too much time with the man pulling the strings would take some of the mystery away, or maybe he was scared of giving too much away. As he gleefully explains at one point, one explorer purportedly came as close to 200 feet to it – it’s just one of a few moments when we get to see just how much Fenn loves all the attention....
At the highest levels of power, the Nazi government decided to use the world’s greatest art museums as their personal shopping mall, except they didn’t pay for their art and they typically killed any museum curator or religious official who got between them and the world’s treasures. As the Germans retreat from advancing Allies, they take everything not nailed down, and what they can’t take (or what they don’t like, like any modern art), they destroy....
The show’s well-edited trailers have promised big budget period action and drama imbued with a style and energy that should attract even those who may feel uninspired by yet another adaptation of Dumas’ classic. However, punchy trailers do not a good show make, so the question remains; does the BBC still have a problem? At first sight it seemed that the show would be family friendly, and I for one can’t think of a version of The Musketeers that hasn’t been for family consumption....
3.7 Fool’s Gold Following last week’s Death Of A Hero was always going to be a tough ask. It’s interesting to see down which route The Musketeers went – keep up and maintain the pressure until the end, or have a breather and then go all-out for the remaining three episodes. Certainly, Fool’s Gold went for the latter course (presuming that the last three episodes do indeed go hell for leather!...
As usual feel free to discuss whether you’re watching along or you’ve seen it all, but please don’t spoil future episodes for anyone in the comments. Okay, so I get it. You have to make it seem at least possible that The Punisher might decide he’d rather be dead than killing people to avenge his family. I completely understand. That is no excuse to show two apparently sane people having sex with a Paul Weller backing track for about twenty minutes of the episode’s runtime....
For many, this means donning masks and killing whoever they can find, while for well-to-do types like security hardware salesman James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) the Purge means heading back to his gated community and dropping the steel barriers surrounding his lushly-appointed house. Following a confident opening title sequence in which the soothing tones of Claude Debussy run counter to the casual violence of shootings and stabbings captured on security cameras, writer and director James DeMonaco ensures that events unfold briskly....
For British viewers, the anime boom took a long time to arrive. In America, Japanese shows like Kimba The White Lion, Gigantor and Astro Boy were a common sight on television in the 1960s, yet it took until the late 70s and 80s, and a string of European-Japanese co-productions, before anime finally began to find a hold on UK television. Marine Boy Airing in 1969, this charming anime show was the first of its kind to appear on UK screens....
This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. “Trust But Clarify” is very layered and the characterizations are deep. The jokes come so fast, they are often stacked on top of each other and the sight gags are perfectly paced. The couch gag is replaced by true existential crisis in animated reality. While the rest of the Simpsons and Springfield at large become part of the cubist art movement, Homer finally surrenders to the changing reality but only manages to transform into the polka dotted struts of comic strip coloring....
The Son Episode 1 There’s a lot of money in black gold, Texas tea. Oil, that is. But digging the fracking thing isn’t the only criminal cost of doing business. In The Son, season 1, episode 1, “First Son of Texas,” Pierce Brosnan plays Eli McCullough, a man born on the same day the Lone Star State became a republic. Tough enough to survive a frontier Comanche attack as a child, he’s cutthroat enough to start an oil empire as a grandad....
