And just like that, it’s time to bid farewell to Ripper Street. The good news is that, despite the series being axed after disappointing ratings (you can blame I’m A Celebrity), there remains a small glimmer of hope that LoveFilm could be funding a third series. Whatever happens, we couldn’t have asked for much more from this final gut punch of an episode.
Arriving almost ten years after the original sleeper hit, Adam McKay’s Anchorman sequel has to be one of the most anticipated films of 2013.
There is something about effeminate German-accented men that will remain eternally funny, and there’s not a lot anyone can do about that.
With a two-part finale on the horizon, this week’s Atlantis felt very much like a one-shot, although it did reacquaint us with the city’s regal characters who have been out of the story for a while.
After fifteen years off-screen, a move to a new channel and the widening variety of decidedly more brash comedy filling our television screens these days, the return of fan favourite Brit-com Birds of a Feather was always going to be something of a gamble.
It’s fascinating to see how a show treats its final ever episode. Some revel in nostalgia. Some look to the future. Some go big before they go home, while others try for a more intimate personal story to wrap things up.
In its final hour Misfits manages to tick almost off all of the above by reciting its greatest hits – time travel, violence, moving deaths, and enough crudity to fill a septic tank.
About halfway into Episode 9 of The Tunnel our reviewing notes on the episode just stopped. No, we hadn’t hit our drinking-grade Boîte de Vin earlier than usual and passed out. We were so wrapped up in hoping that Laura Roebuck wasn’t smithereened into a fine red mist that we forgot we had hands. Good grief, that was tense. That was bloody tense.
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.