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The opening set-piece throws us into American picket-fence suburbia, and a raid by Overwatch, a shady black ops team lead by Wahlberg’s James Silva, on a Russian safe house filled with extremists. Sixteen months (and several body bags) later, Silva’s unit are now stationed in Indocarr City, a South-East Asian metropolis where police officer Li Noor (Iko Uwais) surrenders to custody at the US embassy, claiming to know the scattered whereabouts of a chemical weapon....

Indeed, Mom and Dad is one doozy of a setup that will instantly ensnare the imaginations of some gore hounds and repel most others, even horror aficionados, who still enjoy a certain moral boundary in their bloodlust. What is most interesting, however, is where actual parents fall into either camp for a movie that ultimately involves Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair as a couple patiently waiting for their kids to suffocate in the basement—or come out so the elders can take work bench tools and kitchen utensils to the little brats....

3.7 Fredrick & Tanya She’s right. The Dark Army is going to get away with it. Whiterose has achieved her precious annexation of the Congo. 71 E Corp buildings have been destroyed, along with at least 4,000 people dead. Elliot and Mr Robot are defeated, their people’s revolution is torn to ribbons, each one of those ribbons picked up to be co-opted by yet another 1% puppet master. Trenton and Mobely are dead, framed for the E Corp building attacks....

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, for example, prized the film, and for this writer, it was a disturbing counterpoint to the more commercial Drive – if that film was a sun-drenched dream in which Ryan Gosling played an archetypal male hero, then Only God Forgives is the nightmare: a view of machismo gone horribly awry. The upheaval of the experience is evident from the very beginning, as Refn relocates his family to a plush high-rise apartment near the film’s location in Bangkok....

TAKE US FROM THE TOP: Zoey ignores logic and reason and sifts through clothing in her empty bosses dressing room so she can overhear about Juliette’s pregnancy for the sake of plot. This prompts Juliette to text Avery, who is doing court-ordered community service, “I’m pregnant. It’s yours.” Way to tell him first before Zoey had a chance to Juliette. A+ for effort. BEST SCENE(S) OF THE NIGHT: BIG CLOSER: Juliette can’t catch her breath on stage so she walks off hyperventilating and NO ONE COMES TO MAKE SURE SHE IS OKAY except for Derek Hough....

It centres on Vee, played by Emma Roberts, a high school student who’s treated shoddily by her best friend Sydney (Emily Meade), and thus, in a quick moment, signs up to play Nerve. Nerve, we learn, is a social media-driven game of truth or dare, where you can either play or watch. Watching costs you 20 bucks a month, playing can earn you fame and big cash prizes. But, inevitably, the dares you have to undertake – chosen by the watchers, who search out everything they can find about you online – get gradually more and more dramatic....

Shannon Purser made quite an impression after she appeared in Stranger Things – playing Nancy’s straight-laced best friend who tried to steer her away from boys and late nights only to get a face full of Demogorgon and a whole lot of memes. Walking into Sierra Burgess Is A Loser to a synthy dream-pop soundtrack and a suspiciously familiar looking font, it’s easy to think her first proper feature is picking up her story where we left her in Hawkins, but it turns out newbie director Ian Samuels is just doing the whole retro thing....

Like a lecture on colonial capitalism from a fusty but well-meaning professor, New Worlds plods on. This week’s episode gifted us an extra twenty minutes of earnest political speechifying and imperialist hand-wringing. Of the things New Worlds lacks – nuance, characters to give a damn about, dialogue that doesn’t thud like a washing machine being dropped down a set of steps – it certainly doesn’t lack for message. Political conviction is all it has....

Sarah Phelps, ladies and gentlemen: putting the ‘Ha! Christ!’ into Agatha Christie. With its incest, murky parentage revelations, cruel mistress and villain-turned-secret-prisoner, Phelps’ Ordeal By Innocence was more Gothic than a weekend in Whitby. Just when it seemed as though Leo had been bundled into his rowboat (named after the murder weapon!) and sunk to the bottom of that picturesque lake, there he was, captive and at the mercy of Kirsten the maid....

Romance wise, Sarah has done a good sight better with good old bearded Cal. Cal and his heroic hipster self was the one who rammed Sarah and her kidnapper last week. After pulling Sarah from the wreckage, Cal wants an explanation to why a cop was murdered on his front lawn. Oh brace yourself, bearded one, this one is going to be a lulu. Despite his misgivings, Cal knows how to take care of his family, he is ready to go on the run with his ex and his newfound daughter even though he has no idea what Sarah has brought to his doorstep....

Hi Steven and congratulations on the Peabody. I wanted to talk a little bit about Jenna [Louise Coleman] and what she brings to the series; to the relationship with the Doctor and with Matt [Smith]. S: Well Doctor Who is almost more in a way about the story of the companion. It’s her take on the Doctor, it’s her adventure. While the show revolves around the Doctor, it’s the companion, the other characters who change more than the Doctor ever does....

Outlander Season 2, Episode 10 Outlanderhas turned into a full-on war drama since its return to Scotland, demonstrating the narrative flexibility of this show. Arguably more than any other drama on TV, Outlanderis adept at jumping from genre to genre while maintaining a consistent enough tone and character focus that it never feels like a different show. This latest arc’s mantra? “War tastes bitter no matter the outcome.” In “Prestonpans,” the Jacobite army has gathered, and all of the men are there for different reasons....

In the year leading up to the release of Shaun Of The Dead, I’d broadened out into the cult classics, and had watched An American Werewolf In London, Dawn Of The Dead, Suspiria, and the Evil Dead trilogy for the first time in a very short time period. So, when Shaun Of The Dead arrived, my tiny geek brain was completely primed to be utterly blown away by it. And it was....

4.11 Bring Down The Hoe All we’re getting right now are vague teases that point to Cece being behind ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, which only makes experienced Pretty Little Liars viewers certain that she’s actually totally innocent. But, then again, even if she isn’t Red Coat (despite the red coat in her apartment), it seems as if she’s on the A team. My theory? She’s investigating Alison’s murder (otherwise that was a pretty excessive Alison shrine) and has obtained the red coat as a clue....

5.5 Miss Me X 100 Is it about the ubiquitous monsters under the beds of young women, as Spencer and Alison mused last week, or about the rise of cyber bullying in American high schools? Is it a camp soap opera focused on the ever-evolving relationships of these five girls or does it have something much more important to say? At one point or another, I would have said all of these summations were true, but now?...

1.7 Babes in the Woods The episode opens in a cabin in the woods – no, not that one – with a selection of beauties – the babes of the title – taking part in a photo shoot with the photographer doing his best Austin Powers parody. It’s not long before he decides to leave the women and head into the forest for a cigarette, but naturally there is a series trademark point of view shot and something is stalking him in the woods....

Quarry Season 1, Episode 2 And it was exposition really, even when there wasn’t much dialogue. The audio tapes Joni and Mac exchanged while he was deployed, for example, were a firm reminder of how much love was destroyed by Joni’s indiscretion. Likewise, the destruction of the mattress was a particularly effective non-verbal message, and although Joni never spoke her suspicions aloud, she must know who was responsible for her lover’s death....

Indeed, in these first two episodes of the second season, the story of Daniel has taken a backseat to what appears to be an increasingly ensemble-like structure that strives to explore the impact of Daniel’s release on both family and community, while still fleshing out our understanding of Daniel’s time in prison through flashbacks and dreams. “Sleeping Giants” kicks off with one of those memories, showing us a depressed and unhinged Daniel tearing apart his cell with a fury that we could only vaguely glimpse behind the thousand-yard-gaze that characterized actor Aden Young’s interpretation throughout the first season....

Dear Dave, the latest episode of Red Dwarf, felt a lot like a Sunday afternoon. Whilst I can usually name at least one major thing that happened in an episode (Rimmer meets his brother, the crew install a new computer, they travel back in time and meet Jesus etc), it’s hard to name any major plot points in this one. Lister thought he might be a dad (again) but then found out he wasn’t, Rimmer was almost in trouble with the JMC but then he (presumably) wasn’t, and Cat almost had an important role to play in the episode but then he didn’t....

Through some investigation by Bellamy and Maggie, we discover that Caleb Richards’ return isn’t the most suspect thing he’s done. It turns out that just days before his death, Caleb robbed a bank, the very same bank that his daughter just became the manager of. Highly convenient timing. Bellamy and Maggie even come across the holes Caleb has been digging, but besides the new insight, these scenes really work due to Omar Epps and Devin Kelly....