Out this week is Chalet Girl, a British comedy that was boosted by a £800,000 stimulus from the UKFC. Like Tom Hooper’s awards-winner, it is fiercely British, and casts its gaze over one of the nation’s pet obsessions, class. The script, penned by newcomer, Tom Williams, tries incredibly hard to please, stuffing every scene with sight gags, cheap gags, physical gags, broadly caricatured characters and plenty of fish out of water gags....
Enter Nick Antosca who, along with producer Max Landis, has expanded the creepypasta idea into a complete story guaranteed to send chills down your spine. As each episode of Channel Zero airs, we’ll ask Antosca the burning questions posed by the current installment and get a glimpse into the process used to create this wholly unique horror experience. Check back each week for further insights! Den of Geek: What the heck is “creepypasta” anyway, and what can we expect of a series based on the internet horror phenomenon?...
Since then, they’ve got to work on their planned Lego movie, as well as overseeing Cloudy 2, due out at the end of next year. Fortunately, they could still find a bit of time for a natter with us… Well we could tell from the camera test that Channing and Jonah were going to have great chemistry, so we were all really excited. But the directors’ job is not to be the one going “This movie is awesome....
1.4 The Empty Locket But first, the earlier fifty-five minutes of the episode. Interestingly, Copper has chosen to tackle the issue of Corcoran’s wife’s disappearance early in the game. The trend in crime dramas is to give the hero one very personal unsolved case and then shove it to the backburner, but only four weeks in, Copper has already devoted an entire episode to its primary mystery, and it’s refreshing not to have to wait so long for progress (although it’s debatable whether progress was actually made in the end)....
Hosted by Communitystar and self-proclaimed “super fan girl” Yvette Nicole Brown, Cosplay Melee seeks to unite fandom and creativity in a weekly hour-long epic battle between four passionate, innovative cosplayers picked from around the nation. These contestants will “create not only intricate full-body costumes – but fully-formed characters that they must bring to life through their own realistic performance.” Cosplay Melee Episode 4 Sneak Peek Four weeks in, and Cosplay Meleeis proving to be just as exciting as we anticipated....
3.4 The Labrys If this is confusing to you, what with the creepy cave echoing with chanting voices and the child that Da Vinci doesn’t have, no need to feel like you’ve been missing anything, because none of it’s true. The marriage, the farm, the child… it’s all fake. The camera travels from Da Vinci and Andrea to the depths of the cave to reveal Leonardo Da Vinci, strapped to a rack, eyes held open by the Clockwork Orange eyeball clamps, the drip-drip-drip of water and/or hallucinogens a constant reminder that Leonardo Da Vinci isn’t a married householder, but a prisoner of the Labyrinth undergoing some hard-core brainwashing....
There are several reasons why a sequel never appeared. Firstly, there’s that underwhelming Elektra movie, which didn’t help. Then there’s the fact that Fox may have been hoping for a slightly higher final gross. And then there’s the Affleck factor. For post-Daredevil, Mr Affleck’s career had some, erm, ‘tricky times’, with a succession of flops, the media scrutiny of his relationship with Jennifer Lopez, and the career nadir that was Gigli....
The EP features the songs “No Plan,” “Killing a Little Time,” and “When I Met You,” along with “Lazarus,” which was included on Blackstar. The final three songs that Bowie recorded were previously released as part of the cast album for Lazarus, his 2016 musical that starred Michael C. Hall. The musical features songs Bowie wrote that were based on the same novel as his 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth....
1.5 The Serpent’s Egg The framework for hatching of these plots was a storyline as old as the hills themselves, best used in Stagecoach (1939). Except in Defiance it’s a coach that travels between outposts, and delivers the mail, among other things. Anyone who has watched that classic movie, or the many dozens of reworkings of that concept will know that there are always two threats; the obvious one, and the other not so obvious....
Vampires are in town this week, bringing with them some much-needed backstory for Mina and a whole lot of literary references. It was revealed back in Episode 1 that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was not the work of fiction the world believes it to be; with Suckers, the show heads deeper into that mythology. The vampires in question are Quincey – a smug yuppie-type in a shiny shirt and gold jewellery – and Anika, whose appearance can best be described as ‘feathery pseudo-Victorian Eurotrash cancan fetish monstrosity’....
Arrival In adapting Doug Chiang’s Story Of Your Life, director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer faced a translation problem of their own: how to make a compact tale about linguistics in any way cinematic? Together, they managed to work out an elegant solution: expand the genre elements on the fringes of the story – the ships, the aliens, the Cold War tension – while retaining its delicate, emotional hub....
He’d been abducted by George ‘Skinner’ King, who Miguel has set on him. Or that’s what was presented. But we never actually saw George, did we? Inside the trunk of the SUV, Dexter is struggling to get free while having a philosophical conversation with the ghost of Harry about friends, and how sometimes it’s best to kill them. He gets free and waits for the trunk to open! Kerr-pow he punches the man who opens the trunk....
This fast-paced adventure is the sort of story the Sixth Doctor never got on screen, and is more indebted to the Russell T. Davies era’s tendency to travel to alien planets reminiscent of aspects of present-day Earth. Possibly it would have been called Pterodactyls in Vegas. The sixth entry in the Puffin ebook series introduces the Koturians, a race who’ve based their planet on Las Vegas and interpreted the American dream as ‘exploiting people’s hopes and dreams for profit’....
One of the greatest challenges that confronts any show is the ‘occasional viewer’. Your core audience, who’ve watched fervently since week one, will understand exactly what’s occurring as they’ve made the journey with the characters. But that person who just watched one or more before, or maybe just came to the show cold, is entirely a different problem. How much show runners care about these people is reflected in how much exposition they get to explain what’s going on, or not, as the case might be....
Dragon Ball Super Episode 11 Now we’ve got a Battle of Gods on our hands! After so much build up, it’s rather satisfying to actually see Goku land a number of combos on Beerus and send him flying through the sky. They might not leave much of a mark on him, but Goku is finally holding his own against the God and that actually translates to compelling content. At one moment Goku basically acts as a black hole to an energy blast of Beerus’, crushing it under his own power....
1.12 M. Written by creator Robert Docherty, the episode left us with a name, an enduring image, and a repeated line, all three immensely rewarding viewing. The name? Moriarty. The image? Holmes clearing away the detritus of his former revenge obsession and replacing it with that single name. The repeated line? “I’ll miss this. Not this, but this. Working with you. I think what you do is amazing”. Last week, I offered some alternatives for what would cause Watson to stay with Holmes – his potential relapse topping the list – but the best and most emotionally satisfying reason didn’t occur to me: that she would simply choose to....
4.7 Saturday Night Massacre At its core, Falling Skies is a really positive show where characters who mean well generally come out on top. The strong, kind instincts of a man like Tom Mason, history professor turned unlikely general in a guerrilla war, usually work out for him. Not in this case. The daughter he’s fought so hard to take care of, to protect from the doubting crowds, has turned… well, for lack of a better word, she’s gone evil....
Falling Water Season 1, Episode 1 Take for example, the three dreamers. They don’t seem to know it yet, but their dreams are trying to tell them something. According to the narrator, billionaire Bill Broeg (Revolution’s Zak Orth), dreams are “like tiles in a grand mosaic we’re all dreaming together,” implying that Tess, Burton, and Taka can cross into others’ dreams granting them a special power that “could lead to a revolution in our understanding of human existence: the idea that we are all connected in ways that we can’t even understand yet....
