There isn’t a lot that needs to be said about the soundtrack to BBC One’s The Paradise, it’s that good. So good, that it is probably the finest album of TV music you’ll be able to buy this year.
Anyone who’s ever been 14, a loner, or loved that episode of The Simpsons where they stay at a beach house and Homer laughs at Millhouse during a game of Mystery Date will definitely want to check out this unashamedly feel-good movie from the writers of The Descendants.
“What remains!”, you might have exclaimed enthusiastically as you saw the desiccated corpse of Melissa Young stowed away in the attic.
Pick any classic horror movie from the ‘70s or ‘80s and it’s more than likely there’s already been a horrible remake to shatter legacies and fanboys’ dreams alike.
Very few have bucked that trend (Zack Snyder’s amped-up Dawn of the Dead and Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac come to mind); the latest of these reboots is one of the most beloved films of the video nasty era, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead. On which side of the coin will this one land?
When layabout drug dealer David Clark (30 Rock‘s Jason Sudeikis) finds himself on the wrong side of orca-loving drug lord Brad Gurdlinger, he is forced to smuggle an industrial amount of marijuana into the US from Mexico. David enlists the help of his neighbours, the hapless Kenny (Son of Rambow’s Will Poulter) and stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston), and tearaway teen Casey (Emma Roberts) to pose as his family in order to avoid suspicion.
The inclusion of a Target Books novelisation in BBC Books’ 50th anniversary collection seems most appropriate. With the scarcity of repeats during the show’s original run, before the advent of home video, many fans will have experienced older stories and earlier Doctors through the pages of just such a book.
We get used to waiting as Doctor Who fans, don’t we? This past year especially has tried the collective patience of millions of us, as we’ve waited for the news of the new: new episodes, new specials, new Doctors. And also – almost as exciting – a new soundtrack. So, has the wait for 2 … >
Reliably gritty and gruesome, it is time for another slice of serial killer action on the mean streets of Whitechapel.
After two series, each which followed on a single story, last year’s run settled into a more digestible two-part format with each pair of episodes focussing on a new case.
Top of the Lake: the BBC’s latest drama event this summer – although perhaps smothered by the return of Luther and the never-ending The White Queen – is an altogether beautiful creature.
Channel 4’s Southcliffe was a muted, extremely tense show, but that didn’t stop it from going out with a bang. Nothing revelatory happened, the massive showdown wasn’t there – but it wasn’t needed. It was exactly this unsettling, seething atmosphere that made Southcliffe such a triumph.