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In the third instalment of Professor Cox’s fascinating tour of the processes and constituent parts that combine to form our universe, he turns to the force that moulds and governs the astral forms that we see when we peer into the skies, the force of gravity. Or, as we later discover, the non-force of gravity. Rather inevitably for any documentary about gravity with a decent budget, he takes a trip on the surprisingly busy Vomit Comet (the same plane that allowed Ron Howard such zero-G authenticity when shooting Apollo 13)....

As, no doubt, many of you are aware, there is a film causing headlines around the world at the moment for its perceived assault on decency. That movie is Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film. I won’t go into explicit detail about what is contained within the film (that info is pretty easily found) but ‘a sickening film’ is one of the kinder reviews. Featuring the usual torture porn staples of extreme sexual violence, it appears A Serbian Film crosses that line where art becomes distasteful and unknowable, and where not even justifications ring true....

Ah, another year, another WWE 2K release. Another year of attempting to rebuild the wheel. Well, the gameplay is the same for the most part. The 2K system has been a bit divisive due to how slow and heavy it can be. Personally, I’m a fan of the more realistic gameplay mechanics, such as wrestlers having extra fatigue in multi-man matches and tired wrestlers having to physically recover after hitting their finisher and crawling over for the pin, knowing that every second counts....

Sadly, with such power comes the requisite responsibility, and as such, a new lexicon of film reviewing has emerged. No longer do you need to spend 100 words extolling the virtues of a given film: for instead, meet the new language of the modern day movie reviewer… Is now:It sucks. — Is now:It rocks. — Is now:BEST FILM EVA! — Used to be:The film itself is a solid drama, but inevitably the main focal point of its marketing campaign is around the two female leads, who share some intimate scenes in an otherwise run-of-the-mill period piece....

Chris Hemsworth stars as retired Special Forces Captain Mitch Nelson (based on the real-life Mark Nutsch), who has just started unpacking boxes with his wife (Elsa Pataky, the real Mrs. Hemsworth) and daughter in their new home when the planes launch their deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Nelson immediately heads to base and wants in on the American response even if he has yet to see actual combat himself....

You may not have heard of the man, but you certainly know the men he clothes. Boateng’s suits have been worn – and championed – by the likes of Will Smith, Laurence Fishburne and Jamie Foxx, and his designs have appeared in films ranging from The Matrix to Die Another Day. However, with a title like A Man’s Story, the assumption would be that director Varon Bonicos’ thesis is that Boateng, despite his sharp suits and international renown, is a normal chap, with everyday problems and doubts....

It is all-encompassing in its Jewishness (there are four credited as ‘language and liturgy’ advisers, and two ‘Yiddish translators’), yet still proves to be as humorous, daring and barmy as their best work, with its closest siblings, no doubt, being The Big Lebowski or Barton Fink. Like the latter, A Serious Man is a period piece. Set in a suburban 1960s that is defined by quiet neighbourhoods and the roaring psyche-rock of Jefferson Airplane, the film centers around the life of Larry Gopnik, a physics college professor on the verge of being granted tenure....

Haggard recovering heroin addict James (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time’s Luke Treadaway) is trapped in a destitute cycle of homelessness and meagre vagrancy on the unforgiving streets of a perpetually sodden London. After a circumstantial relapse and near fatal overdose Bowen is given one last chance to turn his life around by his patient support worker, Val (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt). Relocated to a North London support housing bedsit James settles into a routine methadone program and an increased sense of stability....

Agents of SHIELD Season 4 Episode 13 It’s been awhile since we’ve seen an old school freak-of-the-week type Agents of SHIELD episode. I mean, the first two seasons of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s inaugural TV series was fueled by freaks of the week, but lately we’ve been distracted by the Inhumans, Ghost Rider, and the LMDs. A few episodes back we found out that Nadeer’s brother was an Inhuman. Nadeer killed her sibling to prove her hatred of all things Inhuman, but the Superior feels that Nadeer could carry the Inhuman gene, so she too must be destroyed....

American Dad!: Season 12, Episode 4 “We’re the NSA. We know who goes to Applebee’s.” Almost immediately into the episode Stan addresses that he’s having computer issues at work, with it seeming like the logical move to bring Steve into the office to hook him up properly. This rather quickly turns into a whole CIA versus the NSA sort of thing, which is a welcome dynamic to add to all of this....

American Dad! Season 15 Episode 13 “We did it Francine! We screwed the school! Yay!” In fact, Francine’s purpose is almost built from knowing what she isn’t, as some of the character’s most important episodes have attempted to explore the areas that she doesn’t belong. Francine adores her family (most of the time), but who is she really beyond that? “Mean Francine” doesn’t exactly get to the bottom of that question, but it does see Francine embrace a new field and continue to figure out what is and isn’t the right fit for her soul....

3.12 Go To Hell Of course, with only one episode remaining in the third season of American Horror Story: Coven, it’d be a pretty short binge, but with the pace at which this week’s episode moved, it’d be a pretty awesome back-to-back event. From the very beginning and the cold opening of a silent film strip explaining just what the Seven Wonders are and what a witch must do to accomplish them, all the way to the hallucinatory end scenes, this was an exercise in how to do great television....

Arrested Development Season 5 Episode 6 If you’re an Arrested Development aficionado, you’ll remember a season 3 episode titled “S.O.B.’s,” or “Save our Bluths” (which still remains one of the best titles given the series context). An episode devoted entirely to a slight nod to the audience and a not-so-subtle plea to other networks to pick up the show. When the Bluths were finally saved by Netflix and returned for a fourth season, the Ron Howard stuff still wasn’t great, but it was kitschy....

Arrow Season 5 Episode 11 Although the CW’s Arrow is likely closer to the end of its run than the beginning, episodes like the fittingly-titled “Second Chances” give fans hope that the story of Green Arrow is still reaching its peak. With a huge reference to Season 1 and some of the show’s best action yet, this installment felt a lot more like the dawn of something new for the aging comic book drama than anything else....

Arrow Season 5 Episode 6 As much guff as Arrow deserves to get for its meandering main plot so far in Season 5, it’s already standing head and shoulders above some of its previous years. Especially with outings like “So it Begins,” which found a way to touch upon the two most exciting things this series ever has to offer – heroes and villains. Last week’s slow-paced episode can hang it’s hat on the thrilling death of Tobias Church (Chad L....

Arrow Season 6 Episode 5 This felt like a classic episode of Arrow: a mix of character-driven substance and great action, building multiple season-long arcs, and a flashback to top it all off. Luckily, no scenes took place on Lian Yu with Ollie’s cursed wigs, although the Yao Fe reference was a nice touch. Special Agent Watson is suspicious I’m glad someone is finally calling out Team Arrow – the longer their secret remained intact, the more of an indictment it became on the intelligence of everyone else in Star City....

Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 9 After spending two episodes embodying what Evil Dead isn’t, it was time to get back to the basics. And that’s what “Home Again” is all about if you can’t already tell that from the reading the title with your own two eyes. We take a trip back in time, via an evil Necronomicon powered time portal that Ash forces Ruby to open up by reading the incantations written on Pablo’s cold dead skin, to the year 1982....

We’ve been sensing for a couple of weeks that someone was likely to meet their maker in Ashes To Ashes, a feeling heightened by the fact that this is the last series of the show. The events and actions of episode six weren’t really what we were expecting, and they’re going to screw with our head for a good week until episode seven comes along. So where do you begin?...

1.2 A Girl By Any Other Name Having won over the people of Atlantis, Jason is now part of a security business that bores him and keeps Hercules in wine and, according to him, women. After Frankincense is stolen, an old man turns up seeking someone to find his missing daughter… so, that’s the Frankincense crisis over. Thus begins a detective quest of almost Murder She Wrote proportions, before we leap into more action....