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THE FLASH – Season Two
If there’s one thing to blame for the unevenness of recent seasons of both The Flash and Arrow, it’s The CW’s latest spin-off DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Undoubtedly, The Flash remains one of the most confident and entertaining comic-book shows on television. But its storytelling throughout season 2 is inconsistent; especially in the first half,…
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MATINEE (1993)
A small-time film director releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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MR. ROBOT, 2.10 – ‘eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx’
“It’s a long way from getting high and watching Back To The Future II.” It certainly is, my friends. With only two more hours to go, Sam Esmail really ratcheted up the tension in “h1dden-pr0cess.axx”, ensuring that my nerves were jangling by the end. Is Darlene (Carly Chaikin) dead? On any other show, I’d say…
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.4 – ‘Rules of Honorable Play’
This wasn’t as strong as the previous three Halt and Catch Fire episodes, but you can’t arc a season of TV without plot-building instalments like “Rules of Honorable Play”; hours that gently set new things in motion, foreshadowing better things to come. I liked how this episode spent time looking at three characters—Joe (Lee Pace), Donna…
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Six to See this September
What new movies and television shows are most deserving of your attention this month? Our editor, Dan Owen, selects his top six choices for UK audiences…
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FLEABAG – Series One
The BBC is currently celebrating televised comedy via its ‘Landmark Sitcom Season’. Amidst the remakes of popular shows—such as Porridge and Are You Being Served?—you may have missed one of its grittier new creations. Released on BBC Three to very little fanfare, Fleabag has emerged as one of the finest British comedies of recent years.…
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MR. ROBOT, 2.9 – ‘eps2.7_init_5.fve’
After last week’s excellent Darlene-focussed episode, this was more of a placeholder; a chance for Sam Esmail to get his ducks in a row ahead of the final three hours. That said, what “init_5” lacked in exposition it more than made up for in atmosphere. Most of season 2’s been as much horror movie as…
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.3 – ‘Flipping the Switch’
The difference between Mutiny and MacMillan Utility is startling, and in “Flipping the Switch” talented young coder Ryan (Manish Dayal) has walks in both worlds. Mutiny’s always been a relatively low-scale and scrappy outfit, but it’s built around real friendships and passion. Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) can offer all-night parties inside extravagant sea-view apartments, crowded with attractive people doing…
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ESCAPE FROM L.A (1996)
Snake Plissken is once again manipulated by the US government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, which has become an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
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SUMMER 2016: WINNERS & LOSERS
The summer movie season is drawing to a close, and 2016 hasn’t been a vintage year. To put it mildly. It seems that most of the big wannabe-blockbusters didn’t make the splash the studios wanted, and many high-profile releases were savaged by critics. But which offerings from summer ’16 became hits, and which were the…
