The Pointy End It’s fair to say things have taken a turn for the worse for House Stark. At the beginning of the last episode, Ned essentially had Cersei and her family on the backfoot with his knowledge that Joffrey was not King Robert’s son. However, being the man of honour that he is, he played his trump card too early and now finds himself in a cell with his entire household dead, except for his children....
Leading a fantastic ensemble cast is Josh Brolin, who stars as John O’Mara, one of LAPD’s finest who is tasked with forming a mob-toppling team of cops to wage war against LA crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). The ex-boxer turned mafia don has extorted his way to the top of the food chain, so O’Mara and his men must leave their badges behind and tackle the case head on....
I had an anxiety attack over breakfast this morning. This isn’t anything new to me, but the severity was something I hadn’t experienced in a long time. I weighed myself and looked into a full-length mirror beforehand, and it all went to hell after. I ended up tossing everything in the bin except for my tea, and then felt guilty for those who would’ve given anything for the meal that I so ungratefully discarded....
Sigh. I wish they would just make out already. As you might remember, last episode Graham appeared to have crossed another significant line in his development as a monster. He attempted to kill a serial killer who mirrored Hannibal. However the good doctor held him back at the last minute. This week, during therapy, Graham expressed regret. Only he regrets letting his bromance stop him from pulling the trigger. The two of them are delving into the pros and cons of adopting a Batman-esque (albeit a lethal Batman) practice of vigilante justice....
This is, in a nutshell, the premise of Happy Death Day, where drunken, sharp-tongued college student Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up each morning, groggy from a monumental hangover, and finds herself hunted by a murderer in a grotesque baby mask. To make matters worse, there’s no shortage of suspects, from puritanical sorority housemates to the wife of a science professor she’s been secretly dating and about a dozen more besides....
1.1 Pilot & 1.2 Vector The show laid its paper-thin premise down in the previously aired first fifteen minutes. Nasty goings on in an Arctic research facility attract the attentions of the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention), which despatches their best people in the form of Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell, The Rocketeer), his ex-wife Dr. Julia Walker (Kyra Zagorsky), other infection control experts along with, predictably, a member of the military....
*”She’s the hero Hemlock Grove deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll chase her because she’s seven-feet tall, has a strange eye and can take it.” I never thought I’d object to more Shelley but her inclusion in the episode makes little sense and leaves her plot almost literally back where episode 12 of season one ended. Shelley runs through the woods, kills a re-animated Christina Wendell again and then finds refuge in a basement with a “Precocious Child Who Can Look Past Physical Defects Into A Person’s Soul ™” If Shelley’s fate were just to kill Christina yet again, why even include her in an episode that was already bursting at the scenes anyway?...
With that in mind, a lot of Hemlock Grove’s storytelling sins or inefficiencies make more sense. Netflix struck gold early on with House of Cards in establishing the “network’s” binge-watching style. Everything from the slick visual tones to the charismatic lead character is designed for binge-watching. The effect for House of Cards may feel clinical or even downright manipulative at times but it also just flat out works. Hemlock Grove, on the other hand, has an insistence on relying on mysteries to drive the plot that makes it a strange choice for the Netflix brand....
After a childhood illness and surgery, during which he passed away on the operating table several times only to be brought back to the land of the living, George has gained an ability to speak with the spirits of the recently departed. He only has to take your hands for a brief moment, and the connection is made between George, the spirit world, and the person for whom he is reading....
After the emotional mini blockbuster that was Company Man, Parasite resumes the usual format of flitting from one character to another. Which, though frustrating, is just the way it has to be when you have such a sprawling cast. And offers up a few nice little moments. After what seems like a trillion years, and with the help of an (impossibly) conveniently placed Ando, Hiro finally recovers his magic sword of destiny....
Fortunately, in his absence the rest of the cast just about manage to keep things interesting. DL and his wife/wives Niki/Jessica are still having marital problems, and the poor little can’t-act son is caught in the middle of it all. With the two men of the family on the run from the two women, the Jessica part of the group is busy buying herself a sniper rifle, with the intention of shooting DL’s poor baldy little head off his shoulders....
Eh? No, that’s the plan that’s presented in the first five minutes of ‘Villains’. We also find out that the attempt on Nathan’s life in his car, the one that resulted in his wife being in a wheelchair, was initiated by Arthur Petrelli because of his business relationship with Linderman. And his bedridden condition was the result of Angela’s anger when she found out. We also discover that Noah and Elle intentionally worked to get Sylar killing again, after he wanted to stop....
5.1 Separation Anxiety For example: whatever happened to Javadi after he became the CIA’s mole in Iran? Also, what effect did Saul being a hostage have on his getting a new job at the CIA (where he is apparently back in a command position)? Also, are we ever going to find out about lingering aftermath from the attack on the U.S. embassy in Pakistan from last season? Forget about all that jazz, kids....
The friend, Carol, is played by Oliver! musical performer Jodie Prenger, though she doesn’t sing at any point for those expecting that. She’s in here to provide an odd romantic diversion for Eddie, which is the sort of unlikely pairing only the writers of Hustle could come up with. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t good. But I’m sorry to report to Barrowman fans, he’s out-matched, as his co-performer this week is the amazing Raquel Cassidy....
Earlier this week, the Internet Movie Database – that’s IMDb to its nearest and dearest – announced that it’s going to be shutting down its online message boards. The boards were duly shut for new contributions on Feb. 3 and they’ll be gone altogether from Feb. 19. IMDb, in explaining its decision, noted that it came to the conclusion to pull the plug “after careful consideration”, and that the call was made based on “data and traffic”....
iZombie Season 4, Episode 9 If it wasn’t already clear how much power Fillmore Graves has in New Seattle, the corporation’s declaration of martial law that basically shuts the city down in order to find an escaped killed, Ronnie “Sugar” Cain aka the Zombie Killer, would seal the deal. These sorts of lockdowns have been seen before in the real world—most notably for this Massachusetts resident, the lockdown that Boston went into during the manhunt for the Boston marathon bomber—and they represent the actions of an authoritarian government....
Killjoys Season 4 Episode 8 “What are you going to do, ground us?” Having survived the traumas associated with an abusive father, D’avin, Uncle John, and Auntie Dutch renew their commitment to teach young Jaq what it means to be a real man, and if early returns are an accurate indication, they’re doing a wonderful job. “It Takes a Pillage” reveals everything we need to know about the Jaqobis’ reluctance to return to their home on Telen, and as they leave the past behind, Jaq takes a bold step forward....
1.13: Leviathan Instead of stopping for too long to question the dodginess of this plan (have they really exhausted every available moment in Savage’s centuries of existence? Does the fate of the planet really depend on them pinching a bit of jewellery?), let’s move on to talk about what walked in Leviathan… The massive robot was a nice touch, for one. This gave the impression that Savage’s rein could descend into a Days Of Future Past-alike dystopia, as well as allowing Ray to try out a new ginormous form of The Atom....
Of course then it goes all slapdash and weird like the less cohesive episodes of Louie are wont to do and, coming off of the sustained six-part narrative of “Elevator,” “Pamela Part 1” invariably seems weaker. But it’s also the funniest episode Louie’s done in a long while. Charles Grodin is again great, offering sage wisdom (“You’re like a walking poem”), which is capped off with “Pick up the dog poop, would you please?...
When Mad Max: Fury Road emerged in 2015, it marked the end of an almost 20 year-long process that constantly seemed on the verge of disaster. Critically acclaimed and modestly successful at the box-office, Mad Max: Fury Road was far from the disaster some might have been expecting – and, in fact, writer-director George Miller has often said that he has two more movies he plans to make, beginning with something currently titled Mad Max: The Wasteland....
