Posts

Den of Geek was part of a group of reporters on the Supergirl set yesterday. We talked to Melissa Benoist (Kara) about what to expect from Mon-El’s return and Kara’s interaction with the Legion. “It’s pretty mysterious,” continued Benoist of the Kara/Mon-El reunion. “I think this season, we’ve really delved into a different tone, a different atmosphere for Kara. She’s really figuring out how to own her alien-ness, if you will, and in turn I think she’s finding her womanhood at the same time through grief and that grief is apparent even in the coloring of the show....

However, one of the highlights of the event has long been the early hours of the morning devoted to speedrunners who have mastered some of the worst games ever made. This block – affectionately known as awful games done quickly – proves that some truly bad games are way more entertaining when they’re beaten really fast. The highlight of this year’s awful games done quickly block was undoubtedly headstrong1290’s run of Superman 64....

Supernatural Season 12 Episode 10 Supernatural brought us an episode rife with the theme of consequences. This is especially true in regards to angels making rash decisions regarding humanity. Also: a Kill Bill like assasin! What’s not to love? Dean is pretty upset with Cas at the beginning of the episode, giving him the silent treatment and even opting to not play any music on the drive to their destination. This is serious guys....

First of all, please bear with me while I abandon all modes of journalistic impartiality to say, “Hot dang! Sam Winchester looks sexy in a white suit.” There, I’ve said it. It’s over and done with. It’s finito. My fan-girl has been exorcised in time to bring you this week’s non-biased, informed review of Supernatural, episode 4, The End. If the creators are so adamant about giving us this impression, it’s hard not to reel in the ‘sexy’ element to any review of the show....

I feel like a full baby who has just been burped: It won’t get any better than this until I poop, y’all. In Mexico, we learn that Scott is going to be turned into a Berserker. Kate’s motives seem unclear here, but I don’t doubt that they’ll be explained. Right now though, her angle is a little obtuse. Just saying “I want to know about you Scott” sounds less like an ominous threat and more like a line Kate would use to try and pick him up after hours at a TGIFridays....

3.13 Anchors The sheer dedication Teen Wolf‘s creative crew put in to crafting the nightmarish details each of the three kids experiences in the early stages of this episode helps not only to make skin crawl, but also to provide insight into what truly scares Scott, Stiles, and Allison. Stiles’ nightmare is knowledge; he knows something he shouldn’t know, and it terrifies him. Allison is haunted by the spectre of her late aunt, Kate Argent; Allison is scared of her power to kill and her family heritage of werewolf elimination....

The 100 Season 4 Episode 8 The return of Indra’s daughter, more screen time for Monty, and a viable use for Jaha made the B plot more worthwhile than the A plot in the episode. Plus, I can already see how this will reverberate into next season. Jaha finds the Promised Land Aside from the obvious prospect of a solution, Indra not only used a gun, but procured several for her people....

“I had a fling this summer…” There’s a lot in this episode about trying to find the light in the darkness, searching for the beauty amongst all of the pain. Some of the characters have an easier time achieving this than others. But if anything, this episode shows us that this is not an easy process and that unsurprisingly, honesty may not always be the best policy. We see the Solloways in therapy due to what Whitney did to Jodie not that long ago....

Taking place in the 8th century, The Assassin is about Nie Yinnang (Shu Qi) an efficient and deadly killer trained by a white-haired nun (Fang-Yi Shue). When Yinnang fails to execute a government official because of the presence of one of his young children, the nun dispatches Yinnang to the province of Weibo. There, Yinnang’s ordered to kill another governor – this one her own cousin, and a man she was once supposed to marry....

This review contains spoilers. We’re picking up where we left off last week in this The Big Bang Theory season ten finale, and Sheldon is missing Amy. Devoid of anyone to willingly accompany him to weird events, Leonard is stuck back in his old role as faithful valet/companion, and he’s not enjoying himself. So it’s little wonder that, when Ramona Nowitzki – Sheldon’s old stalker – turns up with the intention of following him around once again, the gang inadvertently let it happen....

This review contains spoilers. 4.19 Massacre Did someone say “Zombies”??? That series of episodes, you may remember, introduced us to the Nightsisters (the aforementioned witches) and Darth Maul’s “brother”, Savage Opress. It was a brutal set of episodes which saw an exploration of the Sith and what it means to be truly “evil”. This new arc isn’t so much as a sequel as simply a direct continuation as Count Dooku seeks revenge on his former apprentice, Asajj Ventress....

Jesse Eisenberg stars in this darkly fantastical drama, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky yet shot through with an aesthetic that’s entirely its own. From the first shot to the last, The Double is visually and aurally oppressive, with benighted visuals akin to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and the Coen brothers’ Barton Fink, and a sonic backwash that recalls David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Simon diligently goes about his desk job, yet struggles to make an impression in this ominously retro environment, where everything seems to come from a science fiction vision of the future circa 1979....

Brian Epstein is not an unsung hero, the Lennon-McCartney song “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” is as much about Brian Epstein as it is about John Lennon. The early sixties wasn’t a happy time to be gay and Brian spent his life in the closet. Coming out was a felony in England at the time. Epstein died in 1967. Right after The Beatles released what was the pinnacle of their artistic heights Sgt....

For this third, and we’re told final, outing writers Craig Mazin and Todd Phillips have come up with something else for The Wolfpack – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and a bit of Justin Bartha – and they have a new mission as a result. No longer does the film start with a messed up scenario that we spend the film waiting to be deciphered. Instead, it plays things a lot straighter....

The Hateful Eight is set in post civil war (actual, not Marvel) America, and it primarily takes place in Minnie’s Haberdashery. Here, a small collective of scoundrels find themselves stuck together, seeking shelter from a blizzard, with haberdashery-owning Minnie conspicuously absent. As is the case with scoundrels, it’s hard to know who to trust. Two bounty hunters, a general, a cowboy, a sheriff, a hangman and Seńor Bob seem to be on a collision course....

The wedding I went to was a bit Four Weddings-ish. All morning suits, posh frocks and popping champagne corks in a country house setting that Agatha Christie would have been proud to be seen dead in. The following day a clay pigeon shoot had been arranged. I was a bit miffed that I hadn’t been asked to partake. After all I am practically an expert. If you have seen my Jason King episode, The Company I keep, you would understand what I mean....

Then the phone rang and a deep American voice asked to speak to me. Could it be Baltimore was back on the time sheet again? No! But it was a job. It was Max Brule, the bloke with whom I had made a documentary about Hammer early last year. He was in a bit of a hole and hoped I could dig him out of it. He was scheduled to do a piece on the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race....

Although I may have been the catalyst it wasn’t all my fault. It was the second Who I had done. A decade before (1972) I had played Galleia, Queen of Atlantis, when Jon Pertwee was still ruling the Universe. The series was called The Time Monster. Even then everything was a bit hairy. It was considered a feather in the cap to be asked to guest on a Who. I’ve never been sure why....

In a moment of admission, Graham Linehan confessed via Twitter that last week really wasn’t the show at its best. Reports from himself and folk at the taping reveal that a lot of it was pieced together on the actual day, suggesting that either circumstance was against it, or perhaps even that the script wasn’t finalised yet. This week is thankfully free of any such controversy. Jen is consumed with rivalry with the near-perfect businesswoman Linda, a lady who doesn’t let a silly little thing like childbirth slow her down....