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Gotham Season 3, Episode 11 There was a point in Gothamseason three when it felt like this show was dealing with some of its major problems. It streamlined its vast ensemble cast into a few focused plots. It broke out of many of its redundant narrative cycles, hinting at a potential romance between Ed and Oswald that felt organic and sweet and increased queer representation, to boot. It stopped trying to make Jim Gordon into Batman for five seconds and, instead, recognized that he was kind of a mess....

More than a century later, director Alfonso Cuarón achieves a similar thing with Gravity – a visual conjuring trick worthy of Méliès himself. His movie makes you forget that you’re watching actors pretending to be astronauts. You forget that the satellites and the backgrounds and the explosions are all special effects. You forget that you’re sitting in the dark with silly 3D specs balanced on your nose. It’s a conjuring trick so seamless that you’re swept up in its drama from the deafening opening notes to the final fade to black....

The show satisfies the unlikely hero in me, and I’d guess, in many men out there who don’t lift two hundred and fifty pounds three times a week at the gym. This same group doesn’t resemble Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson or Wesley Snipes. Raise your hand if you’re of slight build and didn’t always get the girl in high school or college. Grimm comes with its own vocabulary, unique characters, and universe....

Grimm Season 6 Episode 9 The premise of Grimm is usually as simple as good versus evil. This installment was about karmic justice: kill innocent forest creatures or dump toxic waste, and pay the price in both worlds. If the remaining episodes were interconnected as the series heads toward its inevitable end, tonight’s chapter would’ve been an ideal start with its eco-avenger theme. If Wesen are from outer space as a previous episode alluded to, are the original guardians returning to reconcile the balance sheet and tie up loose ends?...

The film staggers listlessly from scene to scene, lingering well after the last ‘punchline’ before finding some other new bodily function or physical mutant to distract the audience with. And, surprisingly, there are a whole lot of body oddities to be mined. From Tim Meadows in the world’s worst balding wig (you can see wrinkles in the bald cap), two characters with terrible fake noses, a guy with a lazy eye, Steve Buscemi, lots of doughy naked flesh, Nick Swardson with a violent bowel movement into a fake toilet at a Kmart, bald jokes, ugly jokes, short jokes, tall jokes… if you can mock someone for something, it gets mocked in this film....

It’s no surprise, then, that writer and director James Gunn has brought plenty of swagger with him the second time around, and it’s right on display the very moment the movie begins. From the soundtrack choices to the production design to the script, there’s barely a single moment where this film isn’t delighting your senses. We won’t make you wait for the one-line verdict: if you loved the first one, you’re going to love this one too....

A number of misfires have happened storywise in recent episodes, but I hope we’re heading back to what makes Hell on Wheels a fan favorite: Cullen versus the bad guys and situations in Cheyenne. Cullen is fed up with Sidney Snow, and so am I. Cullen means business after his life has temporarily changed. His best friend is dead and he has deposited his wife and son with the Mormon Militia in Fort Smith....

Seinfeld is, deservedly so, a legacy show. It sparked a major paradigm shift in TV comedy. Seinfeld premiered in 1989; the top-rated sitcoms that year, in order, were: The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Cheers, A Different World, and Golden Girls. Every one of those shows holds artistic merit, every one of them funny in their own way. But they all shared an earnest sensibility that most, if not all, sitcoms of that era adhered to....

This only happened after Dan Castellaneta (who played Genie in The Return of Jafar and the series) had recorded his lines, but it was worth it to Disney to push back the release of the film and even add new scenes to accommodate Williams. “Then of course, he did his own,” remembers Schooley. “A few of our jokes made it, and we were happy about that, but Robin goes off....

7.5 I mention this only because this story and the character in it bears an uncanny resemblance to Mervyn Lloyd in that season. Except in this instance he’s called Don Coleman and he’s played by the ever resourceful RADA graduate, David Harewood (Tuck in Robin Hood). What these two performances have in common is some pretty outrageous, yet massively entertaining, overacting. But, from the outset, this story is presented like the cast is playing to the furthest rows on at the back of the auditorium, as Robert Glenister’s Ash is allowed to set the scene by extolling his love of football, and his anger at his local team’s demise at the hands of an unscrupulous agent....

Clive solves the crime, almost by himself. To give the rest of Team Z time to chase around Major and the cure, Clive wound up solving this week’s murder largely alone. If this is a sign of things to come, I’m not looking forward to less screentime with Liv and Clive, but I did enjoy their goodbye when Liv still thought she would be cured soon. This week’s brain did seem to affect Liv more drastically than usual, but perhaps that’s because she’s less inhibited around Clive now that he’s in on her secret, or maybe even residual effects from the blue brain....

The romance plot is thin gruel and entirely beside the point. If you’re here, it’s for spinning heel kicks and jokes about Timecop. Jean-Claude Van Johnson has both, but ask yourself if that’s enough to fill a whole series. Your 80s action-loving heart will want to say yes, but your 2016 head, stuffed with an ever-growing list of excellent TV you already don’t have enough time to watch, will likely tell you no....

In retrospect, this entire episode is a homage, with minor and major nods to a few classic films along the way. What it does is emulate the Taranatino flip in From Dusk Til Dawn, building the tension in dramatic fashion before flourishing into high camp and comedy. Hyde emerges and then undergoes a series of visions, presented almost as VR, where he can experience Jackman’s life in small but rewindable chunks....

Wrong. It’s not that type of review and it’s not that type of film. Granted, Megan Fox does play a seductive rascal who looks as good as Megan Fox looks, but if all you watch Jennifer’s Body for is to gawp at Megan Fox, then you’re going to miss out. If you absolutely have to, crack one off to the front cover before you watch. Imagine, if you will, that after that more-feminist-than-thou introduction, I have the nerve to tell you that the only reason I watched Jennifer’s Body was because of a feisty, foxy brunette....

Released in 1987, Innerspace captures the feel of films released during the mid 80’s, sharing video shop space with Teen-Wolf, Goonies, Lost Boys, Splash, Explorers and Back to the Future. This was a time when Spielberg and co were producing idea-rich, story-driven, high-quality family movies that pushed the creative envelope more than the templated popcorn-fodder of today. The chase is then on to get Tuck back to normal size, stop the bad guys and to fall conveniently into the arms of Lydia Maxwell, played by Meg Ryan (who, in my opinion, looks absolutely stunning in this film)....

When you are as bereft of puzzle solving skills as I am, the “E for Everyone 10+ Up” label on Lego: The Hobbit’s box can feel cruel, condescending, and smug. Every time I buy these games, a thick fog of frustration rests over me, for I am a plunderer and a warrior who smashes through walls, not one who collects colorful baubles so I can construct a catapult to fling me through a barrier of tinder....

Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 15 “I did not see that coming.” This week Riggs and Murtaugh also have their work cut out for them outside of the line of duty. Riggs appears to truly be committed to his recent vow to quit drinking and work on his sobriety. “An Inconvenient Ruth” focuses on how difficult this transition will be for Riggs, but it’s comforting to see the series not back down from the grave nature of this sort of storyline....

Sucker Punch Of course not! Unfortunately, the fact that Sucker Punch isn’t that other Sucker Punch doesn’t mean that it was a good episode. It was another middling, frustrating effort from a show that showed huge promise in its initial stages and has sadly lost its way in the final stretch. It’s especially a shame because, as we pointed out here last week, Lights Out will not be renewed for a second season....

The Comeback Lights has barely a scratch on him after the fight, meaning that his family remain none the wiser, but I think the bigger problem I had with the fight was just how reckless a decision it was by Lights, and as The Comeback demonstrates, he is far from your atypical hair-trigger meathead. Maybe I’m just spoiled by the likes of Breaking Bad, where every action, no matter how insignificant they may seem initially, has deep and far-reaching consequences that sometimes do not become totally clear until, sometimes, whole seasons later....