‘Ghosts’ play review
London-based readers have just a fortnight to catch Richard Eyre’s production of Ghosts, before it vacates the Almeida to make way for Matt Smith’s American Psycho.
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London-based readers have just a fortnight to catch Richard Eyre’s production of Ghosts, before it vacates the Almeida to make way for Matt Smith’s American Psycho.
So – rape as entertainment. Well, it’s a debate to be had, isn’t it?
When ITV denied the press access to a preview of last night’s episode, we assumed it was for some trivial reason: a CGI backdrop of London that had yet to be painted in, while Edith bumped into Virginia Woolf in the foreground. That sort of thing.
The principle law of the horror movie genre is that if your film is even just slightly successful, there really must be at least one sequel.
Usually, one sequel is not enough, so the endless cycle of diminishing returns continues until somehow you have a Wrong Turn 5 on your hands. God knows, no-one wants that, so let’s hope that with the frankly ridiculously-titled The Last Exorcism Part II, producer Eli Roth has learnt that valuable lesson and stops while the going’s still relatively good.
Opening with a pounding forest action scene, this second episode of Atlantis exists primarily to introduce a further addition to the cast; Jemima Rooper makes her first impression with a slow turn to camera and a terrific scream.
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but they never saw Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz, which is the best looking thing to happen to Star Trek since Karl Urban’s hair.
Revised and with a new introduction, ‘Blue Box Boy’ is the memoir of Doctor Who actor Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric, the teen companion who joined Tom Baker during his final series and continued into Peter Davison’s first before being memorably killed off.
‘Effects of External Conditions’ is all about the chase. Orphan Black wastes no time in getting the police on the trail of the mysterious clone introduced towards the end of the last episode. Meanwhile, Sarah continues to use her connections with Alison and Cosima to assist her deceit as they both help her out in different ways.
After opening the Alien vault for his 2011 book of the same name, Empire’s Ian Nathan now lifts the lid on the Terminator film series.
It’s almost as if the abrasive industrial landscape of Birmingham scours away the principles of all who set foot in its dark and vice-riddled back streets. The same can be said of Birmingham back in 1919 too (we kid, we kid!), because as Peaky Blinders reaches its fourth episode, people are willing to compromise almost every principle in order to get what they want.
Following the pattern that grisly discoveries occur when the Whitehapel gang are socialising, this final tale began amid a “Zombie Apocalypse” team building exercise.
Not that we were initially aware, joining them fleeing from the undead hordes with Buchan and Miles worryingly immersed in the game. It was a smart move, serving to highlight this fractured team’s plight. If such an event does not truly exist for corporate jollies, it really ought to!