Michael Fassbender leads a stellar cast in The Counsellor, a confused, sluggish, drugs-and-diamonds thriller directed by Ridley Scott from the first original film screenplay by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road).
For life-size science action figure Professor Brian Cox, the concepts of Time and Space are more exciting than the prospect of whatever Steven Moffat has planned for the world on 23 November this year. In the context of the entire universe, he’s probably got his priorities right.
It tends to happen once every series. Amid the crudity Misfits will produce an episode that manages to touch you right there.
You probably can’t tell because there aren’t two halves of two corpses lying across the fourth paragraph of this review, but we’re at the halfway point of Sky Atlantic’s continental murder marathon. The homicide hump.
The final episode began with the prospects of a conviction looking shaky. The defence had already rocked Will Burton’s eyewitness testimony and so the prosecution team were leaning heavily on their two pieces of physical evidence. Within a few short scenes, the razor sharp Maggie Gardener (Sophie Okenodo) had eviscerated both.
This week’s story from Wizards Vs Aliens continues Series 2’s strong form with some extraordinary CGI work, a fantastically unexpected team-up and some moral quandaries to face.
For a series named after one of history’s most notorious misogynists, Ripper Street rarely gives us the female perspective.
In retrospect, Series 4 of Downton Abbey looks like a gigantic exercise in repositioning the characters in readiness for Series 5.
After last week’s focus on Hercules and his romantic travails, we returned to a broader story which drew in the members of the Altantean royal court. Beginning with a pronouncement from King Minos, celebrations began for the engagement of Princess Ariadne to the oily Heptarian with the announcement of a Pankration, a brutal fighting contest.
It’s only when Misfits flies from our screens in – ooh, whoa, just 5 weeks’ time – that we’ll fully understand the unique position it built itself out of concrete and profanity and the colour orange.