‘Misfits’ Series 5 Episode 1 spoiler-free review
‘This is a chance to use your cock for good!’
And just like that, Misfits is back.
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‘This is a chance to use your cock for good!’
And just like that, Misfits is back.
CBBC’s Horrible Histories returns for a final series. It’s still very good, bowing out while the quality is still high and with the cast moving onto new things (The Wrong Mans, Yonderland).
Never a programme to devise a new storyline when an old one will do, Downton introduced a new lady’s maid tonight, Miss Baxter (Raquel Cassidy), who came in like a Mary Poppins with evil on her mind.
This fourth episode of Atlantis, which deals with the origins of a well-known myth, is the first tale written by someone other than series co-creator Howard Overman. With Richard McBrien takes on scripting duties, it also has a fresh director in the capable hands of Merlin‘s Alice Troughton.
‘Variations Under Domestication’ is a very full episode of Orphan Black. That’s not to say it’s not focussed, but it tries very hard to feature the majority of the central figures while also pushing the overall story forward.
Wow. We’ll get to that final moment in a minute, but first let’s look back to where it all began.
In our review of the first episode we called Tommy Shelby ‘the conquering Alexander wearing a crown of razor blades’ (We did. Honest), and over the past six weeks we’ve watched as Tommy the Great has expanded his Brummie Empire through cunning and violence to the point where he’s a legitimate power in every sense of the words.
With Halloween fast approaching and the glut of hastily cobbled-together releases that fact inevitably brings, CultBox has sifted through the dregs to unearth a few golden nuggets of bloody horror to whet your appetite before the witching hour commences.
Director Paul Greengrass (Green Zone, The Bourne Supremacy) has a habit of making movies that blend his documentary-maker’s sensibilities with his interest in the political situations of the day, leading to films that are both intelligent and unique twists on the action/thriller norms.
While the Expendables franchise has united them previously, Escape Plan is the first genuine double-header between arguably the two biggest action stars in Hollywood history – Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. That may come as a surprise – they’re so often mentioned in the same sentence that it’s strange to think they’ve never co-headlined a film together.
It’s not surprising that Scandinavian culture-clash cop show The Bridge has been adapted. What is surprising is that more dramas haven’t been based around The Channel Tunnel. The 31 mile subaquatic claustrophobia pipe filled with hurtling metal and disparate lives is a big concrete sausage of stories, yet to date the most dramatic thing to have happened in it was the denouement to Mission: Impossible. And that was 17 years ago.