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Before Kate and Rick got to play dress up out west, though, they had to deal with Laney, Ryan, and Esposito’s hurt feelings over last week’s surprise nuptials – something that Laney quickly lets go of, but which Ryan and Esposito obsess over in the brief moments when the focus is on them. Remember when these two used to carry a little bit more water on this show? Once in Arizona, Kate and Rick try to blend in as best as they can, taking up residence in the bunk of the dead woman who, it turns out, shared a Jack and Jill bathroom with a chatty fellow traveler who dishes on the room’s previous inhabitant and her scandalous affair with one of the hands at the ranch, who just so happens to be married....

Not only can you pick up and read Mark Millar’s original Civil War series from the comics (it’s really darn good), but you can help yourself to some F-R-E-E new comics from the industry’s biggest publishers, including Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, Dark Horse and more. It’s a smorgasbord of geeky goodness and the closest thing comic book fans have to a national holiday, and it all started with one man....

This protocol is designed to assess if Sarah’s emotional involvement with Chuck is impairing her performance, and they dispatch steely agent Alexandra Forrest to evaluate her. Alex is played by the stunning Canadian actress/model Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), who’s presented as a singularly more attractive, but female, version of Casey. This is initially unconnected, but as the story progresses a mission arrives where Chuck must infiltrate the hospital where Devon and Ellie work to find a terrorist with a heart complaint....

Having lost his father to Fulcrum previously, Chuck is determined to find him and get the intersect out of his head, which means they need a Fulcrum agent to help him. This is a weird scene, where Chuck is pursued through the Roberts family home by the portly Ken Davitian as ‘Bernie’, who chases him to the attic before having a coronary. There’s a definite nod to Weekend At Bernie’s, when, while bundling his lifeless body out of the house, they imitate his gruff voice to the assembled guests....

I hate to upset James Cameron, God knows I do. But amongst the many things I took away from Jackass 3D was the knowledge that 3D clearly works best as a novelty. Sorry, J-Cam. I like looking at 3D forests and dragons flying into sky-rocks as much as the next chap, but it doesn’t quite compare to having chunks of 3D faeces flying out of the screen at you. If you’re honest with yourself, I’m sure you’ll agree....

2.13 The Place I Called My Home If I were going to be really fair, I would ignore the recent cancellation news and give this episode an objective review free of nostalgia, grief, and righteous fangirl rage. But I’m not sure I’m capable of that kind of self-control, and I don’t think people are overly interested in objective reviews right now anyway. In the wake of Lincoln’s assassination, Corcoran, Freeman, and Morehouse decide (drunkenly) to chase down the escaping John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice David Herold....

You know how it goes: you wait years for a brilliant adult Russell T Davies drama, and then three come along at once. Getting proceedings underway is Channel 4’s Cucumber – a raucously funny and wistful portrait of gay middle-age sex, relationships and frustration. Following that is E4’s energetic half-hour Banana, which swings the focus over to gay Generation Z. Finally comes talking heads-meets-speculative fiction web series, Tofu. The British love of innuendo being alive and well (as illustrated by C4’s cheeky, colourful promo campaign for the shows), everyone’s calling it a threesome....

Set in 1944, in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, the film stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, the leader of an elderly platoon of the Home Guard that comprises Oxford-educated Sergeant Wilson (Bill Nighy), doddery Private Godfrey (Michael Gambon), excitable Lance Corporal Jones (Tom Courtenay), cantankerous Scot Private Frazer (Bill Paterson), dim-witted Private Pike (The Inbetweeners‘ Blake Harrison) and spivvy Private Walker (Daniel Mayes). Charged with defending the coastline should the Nazis invade, Mainwaring and his troop are warned to be on the lookout for a German spy, but their attentions are distracted by the arrival of glamorous journalist Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who’s come to write a piece on the Home Guard....

Dark Matter Season 3 Episode 5 Dark Matter relies heavily on its twist endings, not just with their finales but with episodes throughout the season, and “Give It Up, Princess” is no exception. Likewise, there are always peak moments in each episode, sometimes with a particular character, sometimes with a humorous scene, that ensure enjoyment. Lately, however, the weakness of the overall storytelling has been lurking behind these shining moments, leaving viewers wondering where this is all headed....

If you told comic book fans growing up way back in the ‘90s that their nerdy passions would inherit the earth, you’d receive a raised eyebrow. Sure we might one day have an X-Men or Spider-Man movie, maybe even Green Lantern, but never Deadpool, much less a Deadpool 2 that also acts as a backdoor kickstart for an X-Force movie. That’s sheer lunacy! Since this century’s modern superhero craze exploded after the release of X-Men, we’ve had about 50 superhero movies based on major Marvel or DC characters....

Flesh And Stone is easily the trickiest episode of Doctor Who to write a spoiler-free review for thus far, and not just for the obvious reason of it being the concluding part of a two-episode story. We’ll come to why a little later. Rest assured that we’ve sucked out anything coming close to a story spoiler here, but for this one in particular, it does mean you’ll have to bear with us while we’re a little bit vague in places....

9.13 The Husbands Of River Song Two things were bound to happen with the Doctor Who Christmas special this year. One, that it would – as Christmas specials do – be a lighter, frothier piece of Who. We’re well schooled in the drill of that by now, Yuletide regenerations excepted. And we weren’t getting one of those, thank goodness. After all, across the dozen episodes we’ve seen since September, horror has never been too far from the surface in plenty of them....

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Doctor Who will miss Russell T Davies. Russell T Davies has probed at this before, at how the Doctor leaves behind a line of casualties in his wake, and how his very arrival at the scene of something means calamity is never far away. But here his script – co-written with Phil Ford – attacks the central character of the Doctor in perhaps the most potent way: he renders him utterly, utterly helpless....

Considering the strong run that Doctor Who has been enjoying this year, it was somewhat inevitable that at some point, the brakes had to be slammed on. In the first third, Amy’s Choice had the feel of being the low budget episode of the series (not necessarily a bad thing), given that it looked like it was going to be the Doctor versus a bunch of old people (who turned out to be a surprisingly good foe, before they got turned into yet another batch of aliens with a chip on their shoulder)....

6.12 Closing TimeThe thing about Doctor Who series six is that it’s been really, really good. A simple statement, granted, but for me, an absolutely correct one. It’s had an abundance of quite excellent episodes, with Neil Gaiman’s still-stunning The Doctor’s Wife standing proud at the top of a very high quality list. It’s hard to find anything that can hold a torch to it at the moment. Because Closing Time has some problems....

“There’s only a few things I really care about in life. My body. My pad. My ride. My family. My church. My boys. My girls. My porn.” Why? Because porn lets him do something real women can’t: lose himself. All that starts to change, though, when he meets Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson), a woman with sex appeal even stronger than her accent. Her one condition for them dating? Give up the porn....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 19 He’s baaaaaaack. Frieza is a trigger for a lot of Dragon Ball fans. Not only was the villain given a lengthy tenure as Big Bad back during Dragon Ball Z’s infancy, but the character has already returned a number of times through the Dragon Ball mythos. It’s not hard to understand why Frieza has been embraced so much through the series—he’s a ruthless tyrant that was depicted as one of the most evil presences in the universe....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 42 “Isn’t he supposed to be the strongest in the universe?” If there are two things that Dragon Ball knows how to do well, it’s tournaments and parties. Guess which one you’re getting this week? In typical Dragon Ball fashion, the gang does what they do best after a grueling battle or the “conclusion” of an arc; they throw a lavish party! Yes, Bulma is eager to throw a celebration party for everyone’s recent efforts, which results in this amounting to a rather frivolous and non-essential episode....

However, there’s one problem with Will Atenton’s dream house, and it’s not his lovely neighbor Ann (Naomi Watts) or her weird ex-husband Jack (Marton Csokas). It’s the fact that one night, after stumbling across an infestation of teenagers in his basement, Will finds out that his house is the scene of a grisly murder. Will Atenton’s dream house is actually Peter Ward’s slaughter house, and this sets off an increasingly desperate search for details behind the murder in the old Ward house, before Peter Ward comes home from the mental hospital....