The Family should be good. With the talent in front of and behind the camera, it really should be good.
It should be a smart, snappy and entertaining deconstruction of the gangster movie, providing laughs, knowing references and exciting action. The Family is none of these things, and provides none of these things.
When Nip/Tuck creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story first surfaced a couple of years ago, it proved to be a high camp, deliciously OTT small screen take on classic horror movie conventions.
Coming after three very solid weeks, Episode 4 of Ripper Street’s second series marked a slight dip in quality. Though still undeniably enjoyable fare, this week’s story was let down by its over-exaggerated villains, hastily-resolved ending and watery subplot involving newbie Constable Flight.
We all love to see a returning character in Doctor Who don’t we? With a number of returnees confirmed for the 50th anniversary special, ‘The Day of the Doctor’, CultBox recently sought your opinions regarding this very subject. Here’s how you all voted…
The usual suspects all return with their latest stand-up shows on DVD this Christmas, including brand new live comedy from the likes of Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey, Jack Dee, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson, while Seann Walsh and Josh Widdicombe make their DVD debut.
We’ve picked out five of Doctor Who‘s best moments featuring the Third Doctor, as played by Jon Pertwee from 1970–1974… The Doctor and the Old Silurian: peacemakers amongst the warmongers in ‘The Silurians’ The Doctor takes a trip in ‘Inferno’ The Master’s first story: ‘Terror of the Autons’ The Three Doctors … >
Wizards Vs Aliens returns to CBBC for a second action-packed series, bringing magic and sci-fi together to tell the epic tale of aliens intent on devouring all the magic on Earth – with only 16-year-old wizard Tom Clarke and his friend Benny to stand in their way.
To celebrate the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition on Blu-ray 3D™ and DVD on Monday 11 November, we’ve got some goodies (including a journal, USB stick, t-shirt, mug and more) plus copies of the film on Blu-ray 3D to give away to 3 of our Twitter followers!
Just over halfway through ‘Unconscious Selection’, Art digs up a key piece of information that we’ve known has been available since the very first episode.
In the opening moments of ‘Pure As The Driven’, a policeman is hurled through the first floor window of an East London building and impaled on the iron railings below, and – BAM! – just like that we’re back in the grimy, gritty, glorious action of BBC One’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Meaning, in other words, that it’s time to reach for the smelling salts.