The Game was Fincher’s follow-up to the remarkable Seven (sorry, can’t write it with the number 7 replacing the ‘V’. I don’t have it in me), and seemed at first to be an odd choice to follow it up with. It stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a man who, in the first portion of the film, we’re introduced to as a less showy, even colder and very lonely Gordon Gekko-esque figure....
1.21 Arsenal of Freedom As they approach the planet, they find it devoid of intelligent life, but an automated sales pitch invites them to check out their new weapons. A “minimal” away team consisting of the second in command, Chief of Security and whatever Data is (Head of Exposition?) beam down to the planet, whereupon they encounter Riker’s old friend, Paul Rice himself. Or at least, something pretending to be him....
3.22 The Most Toys No, he isn’t. Though the Enterprise crew is shocked by this suspiciously watertight death, the crew has to deliver the Hytritium they were collecting, and so off they head, leaving Fajo behind. Data then wakes up aboard Fajo’s ship and finds that he’s been added to the trader’s collection of rare and curious items. He’s basically PT Barnum in space. While Data protests his capture, Fajo tries to convince him he’s better off....
We jump ahead six months. In fact, the show itself was a running joke around here. “The Best Show On Television” it was mockingly called. With all the characters that were so absolutely critical to the big story of the power-outage, Revolution was an Abrams-Favreau broadcast TV attempt at Science Fiction where the bombast just fell flat. Better than Terra Nova? Well, OK…a little. Has there been a change in the music between seasons?...
2.1 Born in the USA. It’s not that anything that goes on in it is sufficiently dramatic enough to warrant a panic attack or even mild concern. It’s just that I suffer with an inherent low incredulity level that if exceeded, makes me feel violently nauseated, and this TV show has a knack of sending me past that point within the first five minutes of each and every episode. On that basis, you might reasonably wonder why I review it, as surely someone with a higher tolerance for garbage might be better placed to talk about it?...
They’re all among the subjects discussed in the opening installment of comedian Richard Herring’s new standup and sketch show, As It Occurs To Me. Fed up of bureaucracy and censorship within the BBC, Herring has taken his newest project to the Internet, releasing it as a free weekly podcast, which he hopes to finance with the money he makes from the live recordings. Giving him someone to play off against on stage are Danny Wallace’s stunt double Dan Tetsell, and the gorgeous Emma Kennedy, star of 90s ITV sci-fi sketch show Planet Mirth (Am I really the only one who remembers this?...
Ahead of Stitches’ release, we caught up with Noble to talk about acting, stand-up comedy, and his geeky interests… Well I have acted before, I’ve done stuff on stage when I was a kid and that; I have actually acted quite a lot, but it’s all been when I was younger. When I was a member of a youth theatre I did a couple of Shakespeares, and that was f***ing terrifying, quite intimidating....
Scream Season 2, Episde 1 Emma and Kieran Everyone welcomes Emma back to Lakewood after leaving due an emotional breakdown. I mean it was bound to happen to someone and out of everyone, it definitely makes the most since for it to be Emma. She wasn’t just experiencing loss, she was at the center of it, seeing multiple people being killed and becoming responsible for the death of the murderous Piper, who turned out to be her half sister....
Sharp Objects Episode 4 The town of Wind Gap has character. With our sense of place established, episode four really needed to make some headway in the plot of who killed Natalie Keene and Anne Nash to hold our attention, and it eventually did just that. But it didn’t take an easy route to unravelling secrets; instead we were given a meander through Wind Gap’s past and asked to make our own decisions about how that affects the future, leading to a cliff-hanger moment when several threads pulled together to suggest some frightening conclusions....
We’ve reached the end, Skins fans, and it’s a safe bet that we won’t be returning following this brave and unflinching final episode. Whether it satisfies or appals will probably have something to do with your enjoyment of this seventh series in general, as this is very much an ending to Cook’s story, and not to the series as a whole. If we want cosy resolution then we need to go back to the series two, four and six finales, as adulthood has no room for such things....
The episode begins with some early and ever so fun Rip Van Wrinkle teasings, which multitask here as a “Get out and Vote” public service announcement. But I honestly couldn’t help but love seeing Ichabod reprimand viewers for treating midterm elections with more indifference than “American Idolatry.” Of course, they have to walk it back and give a history lesson of how the voting process has improved in 230 years, but the point was still well made....
Tonight, Sleepy Hollow is also is a blessed distraction of entertainment on a night filled with horrors far more insidious than a Headless Horseman with a shotgun—even as they crept into the show before the hour ended tonight with unbelievable headlines. This is Sleepy Hollow at its silliest best, with all the Horsemen, demon babies, and stray Gorgons that could include. The Gorgon snake-haired lady is apparently protecting the sword that is the only tool capable of striking down an adult Moloch walking the Earth, and it creates a wonderful crisis of conscience for our heroes....
If there is one thing I can say about Sutter, he knows how to take a hard left. Last episode we watched the club deal with their grief at the loss of Bobby. There was a lot of forlorn sex. Abel tried to roll over on his ole granny; reported her for child abuse and then ratted her out to Jax as Tara’s killer. Pretty canny for a tot. Even a dead eyed, future serial killer tot....
Part of what makes Space Dandy such a thoroughly entertaining show is that you never know what you’re going to get each week. Whether it’s a racing epic or a zombiepocalypse, the different genre that the show tries to inject into its DNA every week is part of what makes it so enjoyable. So it only seems inevitable that Dandy would set its sights on high school fodder and it’s not surprising that the episode is a pretty silly delight....
The Spidey suit featured in Insomniac’s game isn’t the one you grew up with. While there’s a distinct Steve Ditko influence in the game that harkens back to Spidey’s earliest adventures and players have the opportunity to unlock the classic suit, the studio sought to modernize the suit while also paying homage to Ditko’s great work. No, the new suit shouldn’t offend the Spider-Man purist, but it does feature some noticeable tweaks, such as the big white spider symbol that stretches across the torso....
In the original series of Star Trek, I’d say that this is the very first classic episode in that all the characters are here, and it plays out the strongest themes that the show often covered – those being imminent jeopardy, loss of control and dealing with suppressed emotions. It starts simply enough, with Spock and another crewman transporting down to a survey station on a planet that’s about to disintegrate....
WARNING: This review contains Spoilers that may ruin your enjoyment of this episode. After being alerted by the disappearance of a Clone security force, the Jedi and Clones help out the rather unlikeable Chairman Cho and rather likeable Senator Chuchi (she’s a cutie!) but soon discover that the Separatists are not behind this dissolution. Turns out that Hoth, sorry, Orto Plutonia is inhabited (and has been for some time) by the Talz – a species previously seen in the cantina scratching its furry head quizically and making odd noises back in ’77....
I’m pretty sure most of you reading this will have seen The Phantom Menace, and most likely have your own opinions on the movie. Nothing I say will probably change it, but if you haven’t seen it in awhile, then checking it out at the pictures is not a bad idea. Star Wars is most definitely made for the big screen, and its appearances on TV can never quite do it justice....
Stargate Universe has been almost consistently delivering brilliant episodes week after week, and in the lead up to the finale, the last two have been just outstanding. If you, like me, have been enjoying the Lucian Alliance storyline so far, you’ll be happy to know that the finale delivers massively on the promises of the last two weeks. Characterisation here is key, as everyone hands in a brilliant performance. Robert Carlyle as Dr Rush is, as always, an utter gem; Louis Ferreira’s Col Young is as good as ever, if not boosted by the performance of his co-star, Carlyle; David Blue and Elyse Levesque hand in their best scenes here, as Eli and Chloe remain closed off from the rest of the situation....
We had a chance to talk to Jeremy Jordan, aka Winn Schott, about the apparent death of Toyman. Does he think his character’s dad is actually gone for good? “Yeah, I think he’s dead,” said Jordan. “I do. I mean, listen, I’m always up for a surprise, but generally when you’re found dead in your cell in prison or on the news, I think it’s harder to fake that. But granted he did bribe a prison guard who was the villain of the episode to take his place, so you never know who else he could have gotten under his belt....
