While the title may sound like a Jazzy Jeff album, In the House is one of those sophisticated French films that makes you wonder why more people don’t gargle their Rs and hang up Klee watercolours in their corridors.
A tongue-in-cheek approach and some genuinely scary moments just about save Bryan Singer’s new fantasy adventure from the realms of the half-hearted TV movie.
This is pretty gruesome stuff in places and certainly the kind of broader territory that Doctor Who could only tackle in expanded media.
Whether the show’s hero will survive War of the Damned remains very unclear.
Each first meeting with Jenna-Louise Coleman has been wrapped in just enough mystery and thrills to make something familiar seem brand new.
There is so much heart and warmth here that the more syrupy and predictable tropes are ignored.
Shetland has a high bar to leap given the TV crime competition lately, especially the previous week’s Mayday and of course ITV’s epic Broadchurch.
A group of old codgers drinking in a pub. A questionable doctor and his coquettish nurse. A work-experience lad languishing in a stale newsroom. A young boy with a penchant for kicking pigs. These are the characters that populate the bizarre world of Kill The Beast’s new production of The Boy Who Kicked Pigs.
Is anyone else getting tired of new horror movies? If it’s not 12A haunted houses, Eli Roth torture-porning it up or endless found footage films, it’s smug-as-hell meta bollocks po-moing for all its worth. I hear you screaming “where are the phallic puppet-demons?” Lucky for you, then, that we have a batch of vintage re-releases this month.
It’s only becoming clearer why War of the Damned had to be the final season of Spartacus.