If you are a fan of director Guillermo del Toro, who has created such amazingly visual films as Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, you may often have wondered what goes on in the mind of someone who can create such worlds.
With the seventh episode of Ripper Street Series 2 tonight came both the first half of a thrilling two-part finale and – as we found out last week – the penultimate episode EVER.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, was a very accomplished and entertaining opening chapter of this prequel trilogy, albeit an undeniably uneven one.
The Desolation of Smaug is probably superior, but suffers from a curious inverse of the problems that the first had. Luckily for Desolation, it has a dragon up its sleeve.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire follows survivors Katniss and Peeta after their first Hunger Games, a futuristic game show where children have to fight to the death for the public’s entertainment.
Lawrence Rickard + sarcasm. That’s basically all you need to know about this week’s Yonderland. It’s time for Rickard and Jim Howick to get more screen time as the Chamberlain and King Bernard respectively.
After the dramatic events of ‘Pandora’s Box’ culminating in Medusa’s transformation into the snake headed monstrosity of legend, we had hoped Atlantis might maintain some momentum. Instead, tonight’s ‘The Price of Hope’ was a transitory piece, appearing principally to introduce two characters for later in the saga.
Gary Russell has connections with Doctor Who that stretch back many years. To name but a few, he has edited Doctor Who Magazine, produced, directed and written Big Finish audio stories and more recently been a Script Editor on both Who and Torchwood. He has also written a wealth of books on the subject, including ten novels across both the Virgin and the BBC ranges.
When plans were announced for a spin-off TV series based on Thomas Harris’ 1981 novel Red Dragon (the first appearance of cinematic horror icon Dr Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter), with the creative team of Star Trek: Voyager and Heroes writer Bryan Fuller onboard alongside 30 Days Of Night director David Slade and the dream casting of charismatic Dane Mads Mikkelsen in the title role, expectations were understandably high.
So far this series we’ve held off giving any episode of Misfits the full 5 stars. Partly because none of them have been perfect. Partly because we knew deep down in our tummyguts that there’d come an episode that would nudge just a head above the rest to truly deserve them. And guess what? Our tummyguts were right.
It’s Episode 8 of this ten-part cross-country endurance murderthon and finally we can start to see the light at the end of The Tunnel. It’s about time. We’ve been stumbling around in the dark for what feels like ages.