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2.6 Bali’Hai Jimmy McGill has been uncomfortable at Davis and Main from the moment he first walked through the doors. Initially his seemingly relaxed new workplace looked to be somewhere he could be himself and exercise some autonomy, which led to humiliation and huge trouble. Last week he was reminded by a former associate of just how good he has it, but the look on his face made it clear that he doesn’t really feel lucky, even if he quantifiably is....

I can say without hesitation the hour long premiere of Big Hero 6 The Series feels like the sequel you’ve been waiting for since the first movie came out. The humor is there, the action is there, and most importantly the heart is there. The main plot of the premiere fleshes out the last three minutes of the movie to give more depth to not only how Hiro was able to reconstruct Baymax but also the team’s reluctance to go back into crime fighting....

The documentary Birth of the Living Dead charts the whole process of the film making process from inception through to copyright issues through to modern day impact, whilst never over exaggerating the quality of the film, the abilities of the cast and crew or the production itself. The analysis of the film is broken down into segments and remains easy to follow throughout. The viewer doesn’t have to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the film or film in general, just the ability to follow a well constructed documentary....

What does any of that have to do with the price of rum in the 18th century? I’ll tell you what, mateys. Black Sails season 3 was amazing, that’s what. Black Sails Season 3 Episodes If a blue link ye see, a review there shall be! If you click it. In the wake of the burning of Charles Town, all the New World lives in fear of Captain Flint. But when his campaign of terror crosses over into madness, it falls to John Silver to locate the man within the monster before it’s too late....

Blood Drive Episode 7 Blood Drive is extremely self-referential. It is self-aware, self-deprecating, occasionally self-defecating, and positively narcissistic in its allegiance to itself. Self-referencing is a wonderful artistic conceit. All the best artists do it. The Beatles did it. The Simpsons do it. This reviewer does it all the time. He’s doing it now. The most glaring examples come during the board room meetings, which might be a stand in for the Syfy channel offices....

As with From’s previous games, the asynchronous elements, such as leaving message for other players, and seeing their points of death are still present, and invading other people’s games is still an option. However, there’s more of an emphasis on real co-op this time, and invasions aren’t quite as straightforward as simply jumping into another player’s game. Co-Op Up to three players can group up together online, with the objective being to defeat the boss in the area (guest players receive a word upon success)....

Even so, I’d be reluctant to say this was a book for teenagers alone. If it was made into a film (which I think would suit it) there would be no doubt in my mind that it would be one of those great family entertainment films that rarely get made any more. There’s a strong feeling of Indiana Jones about the character of Boone Shepard, who is sent off to inhospitable places on wild goose chases and never fails to have a wisecrack for every situation....

As a pervasive film of the moment teaches, there can be pleasure in pain. When DI Hardy muttered that eureka-like “Of course!” at the end of series one’s penultimate episode, the agony was delicious. For one stupefied week, we stumbled around in a bubble of speculation, asking strangers in bus queues and GP’s waiting rooms, “Are you watching it?”. It hurt to be made to wait, but the anticipation was glorious and the reward was worth it....

The episode also ended in a cliffhanger where the ship has to leave abruptly, leaving Sara, Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) and Kendra (Ciara Renee) on the ground in the ‘50s. That’s where we pick up and we spoke to Lotz about it in the WonderCon press room for Legends of Tomorrow. She’s pissed. She’s not going to take it well. I think heartbroken too. They just left us there. We’re there for a long time....

It’s one thing for Hank to wallow down his own path of self-pity. It’s another to bring his loved ones down with him. That’s the central problem in Californication’s latest episode “Getting the Poison Out.” After Hank summons a prostitute to help Levon lose his virginity, his relationship with Karen, his attitude toward women and his ability to be a father are called into question. By now, we know that naughty rumors about Hank pollute the California air....

After missing a high power speaking engagement, relationship expert Alice Clark is found dead and it is clearly a professional hit. Nothing taken, but her car ripped to shreds by someone looking for something. Her cash, cards and iPad all left alone. Hmmm. Curious that an A-lister that has a billionaire’s ear would just off herself when things are going so well. That being said, the setup of the arc had me intrigued and I was invested in the episode....

Castle Season 8 Episode 22 “Crossfire” I’ve tried. I’ve tried really hard. I’ve watched and rewatched, and there’s only one conclusion: “Crossfire“ is downright insulting to the Castle audience. And it’s not just that the guy is ruggedly handsome—though, of course, he is. He’s also undeniably, overwhelmingly charismatic… and yet oddly humble. No matter how talented Fillion might be, he never seems to take himself too seriously, nor does he take for granted how blessed he’s been in his career....

A UK-based internet thriller directed by horror legend Hideo Nakata, and starring one of this year’s most promising young stars Aaron Johnson, this should have been at least interesting, if not a minor cult classic. Instead, it is just a truly terrible film that somehow manages to waste all the talent involved. The premise is this: four teenagers, Jim (Matthew Beard), Eva (Imogen Poots), Emily (Hannah Murray), and Mo (Daniel Kaluuya) meet online in an internet chatroom called Chelsea Teens....

If season three of Chuck has lacked in any department, it’s been in having themed stories, something that both the first two seasons did often. Having ended the will-they-won’t-they aspect of the Chuck and Sarah relationship, the writers didn’t take long to come up with a whole new threat to their future happiness, and their weapon of choice is that the intersect is sending Chuck bonkers. He’s sent to see a shrink, Dr....

The creative team behind Chuck really pulled one out of the hat with this latest episode, the strongest outing so far this season, because Chuck Versus The Cubic Z is a veritable tornado of craziness. They took four ideas: Sarah’s desire to slow the march towards motherhood, a midnight game launch at the BuyMore, the return of Big Mike, and the holding of two enemy agents within Castle. Then they twisted them together like stands of a very odd rope....

Some shows borrow scenes, plot points, and even entire stories from other sources and pass them off as their own. Chuck, on the other hand, has a more gentle way of adapting known resources and reworking them in fun and imaginative ways. In Chuck Versus The Couch Lock, they borrow a scene from the classic Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn movie, Charade, in which people turn up at a funeral just to make sure the person is really dead....

5.4 Chuck Versus The Business Trip What we got instead was Chuck claiming to be Morgan, hunting a CIA hired killer called the Viper sent to kill his buddy, in a sort of TV painting-by-numbers way. The word ‘formulaic’ doesn’t really do justice to how on-rails this seemed at times, and they also seem to want to loop back to the old Sarah issues about having a ‘normal’ life, something I thought we’d dispensed with a couple of seasons ago....

While it lacks surprises in terms of structure and the order and frequency of certain story beats, the story’s three heroes are the kind of people that stay with you after the film has finished. We’re introduced to the friends just as Philip, a paraplegic, discovers the existence of a brothel especially for people ‘like them’. Philip, Jozef (almost completely blind) and Lars (suffering from a degenerative terminal disease) all agree to go on their first trip together without the protection of their parents, to which they reluctantly agree....

2.4 I Defy Thee To Forget The dust is settling from last week’s intense episode, and the people of Copper must face the uncertain (and mostly grim) realities brought on by recent changes. This aftermath-focused offering provides a nice balance to avoid burnout on the heels of so much drama. Its exploration of the new scenery is punctuated by brief bursts of strong emotion, lest we forget just how screwed up everybody on this show is....

Attention comic fans, this week’s episode of Da Vinci’s Demons is penned by show creator David S. Goyer and Matt Fraction, the genius scribe responsible for three of the greatest books on today’s comic racks, Satellite Sam and Sex Criminals from Image and Hawkeye from Marvel. This seems to be Fraction’s first television writing credit and it will be fascinating to see if he can weave the same magic on a television drama that he does on a comic page....