Mark Harrison Oct 12, 2017
Here's our spoiler-filled review of the Red Dwarf series 12 opener, Cured...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Who are The Gifted? The Gifted: spoiler-free review The Gifted episode 1: every X-Men and Marvel Easter Egg
12.1 Cured
“Thank you, deep space!”
In recent years, it's never stopped being remarkable that we're still getting new episodes of Red Dwarf. The show's second lease on life got off to a bit of a shaky start with 2009's Back To Earth, but the back-to-basics approach of subsequent series has got the boys from the Dwarf (waggle your hands appropriately) back on track.
Red Dwarf Xii comprises the second batch of six episodes, out of the twelve that were filmed in early 2016, and as such, you might expect that there isn't much difference in tone between XI and Xii. Remarkably, writer and director Doug Naylor has given us Cured, a high concept...
Here's our spoiler-filled review of the Red Dwarf series 12 opener, Cured...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Who are The Gifted? The Gifted: spoiler-free review The Gifted episode 1: every X-Men and Marvel Easter Egg
12.1 Cured
“Thank you, deep space!”
In recent years, it's never stopped being remarkable that we're still getting new episodes of Red Dwarf. The show's second lease on life got off to a bit of a shaky start with 2009's Back To Earth, but the back-to-basics approach of subsequent series has got the boys from the Dwarf (waggle your hands appropriately) back on track.
Red Dwarf Xii comprises the second batch of six episodes, out of the twelve that were filmed in early 2016, and as such, you might expect that there isn't much difference in tone between XI and Xii. Remarkably, writer and director Doug Naylor has given us Cured, a high concept...
- 10/4/2017
- Den of Geek
"This is TV's highest honor – us celebrating us," Stephen Colbert announced at the start of the 2017 Emmy Awards. "Tonight, we binge ourselves." It was a joke about smug self-congratulation probably intended to sound more ironic than it did. The Emmy ceremony, as always, was a night of the television world celebrating itself as the best Western civilization has to offer, not to mention an all-around swell bunch of people. The ego in the room was a marvel to behold – even when Seth MacFarlane wasn't onscreen. Colbert did his best with his Trump gags,...
- 9/18/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Finally, an episode of Rizzoli & Isles that's more serious than silly!
Rizzoli & Isles Season 7 Episode 5 featured an interesting case involving a fall down the stairs that wasn't so accidental. Even better, there were a couple of nice moments between Maura and Jane. And Maura's bio mom was back.
The case of the hour has been fairly ridiculous lately, but this one was an exception. The episode began with a dark, creepy scene of a woman screaming and someone sneaking through the house, ultimately ending with a gruesome discovery: a body at the bottom of the stairs.
The juxtaposition of this with the gentle family scene over at Maura's was perfect. Soon after the victim's death, Maura was struggling with her mother's coming to see her while she had minor surgery and Angela was coming through the door with bagels.
The normality of it all really underscored the horror of the crime scene.
Rizzoli & Isles Season 7 Episode 5 featured an interesting case involving a fall down the stairs that wasn't so accidental. Even better, there were a couple of nice moments between Maura and Jane. And Maura's bio mom was back.
The case of the hour has been fairly ridiculous lately, but this one was an exception. The episode began with a dark, creepy scene of a woman screaming and someone sneaking through the house, ultimately ending with a gruesome discovery: a body at the bottom of the stairs.
The juxtaposition of this with the gentle family scene over at Maura's was perfect. Soon after the victim's death, Maura was struggling with her mother's coming to see her while she had minor surgery and Angela was coming through the door with bagels.
The normality of it all really underscored the horror of the crime scene.
- 6/28/2016
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
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Michael Mann is set to work on a prequel to his 1995 classic Heat - and it may then turn into a movie...
A flat-out classic of 1990s American cinema, Heat was the movie that finally brought Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together on screen for the first time. Michael Mann's crime thriller is a regular on our rewatch pile here too, and is a reliable way to make the best part of three hours disappear.
Mann, who's currently working on his biopic of Enzo Ferrari, is set to ink a deal that'll see him launch Michael Mann Books. This is going to be a publishing imprint for a collection of novels, across a few writers, that will in turn be developed for film and television adaptations too.
And it turns out that a prequel to Heat is one of the first priority projects.
The novel...
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Michael Mann is set to work on a prequel to his 1995 classic Heat - and it may then turn into a movie...
A flat-out classic of 1990s American cinema, Heat was the movie that finally brought Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together on screen for the first time. Michael Mann's crime thriller is a regular on our rewatch pile here too, and is a reliable way to make the best part of three hours disappear.
Mann, who's currently working on his biopic of Enzo Ferrari, is set to ink a deal that'll see him launch Michael Mann Books. This is going to be a publishing imprint for a collection of novels, across a few writers, that will in turn be developed for film and television adaptations too.
And it turns out that a prequel to Heat is one of the first priority projects.
The novel...
- 3/17/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
It's been over 20 years since Margaret Cho starred in the first Asian-American family sitcom on network television, All-American Girl, but it looks like she might be coming back with her own show on Amazon. Deadline reports that Cho has an hour-long dramedy in the works at the streaming/selling-you-everything giant called Highland, where her character must attend court-ordered rehab and move in with her family, which now runs a pot dispensary. Unlike All-American Girl, Cho will have some creative control: She'll be executive-producing the show alongside the writer Liz Sarnoff. It's a long way from the bookstore in San Francisco, but hopefully there are still copies of Ass Master lying around.
- 12/14/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
HBO comedy-drama Entourage did a genius job of reflecting the realities of Hollywood survival. They hooked up actors and actresses (this happens), they jockeyed around studio chiefs over politics (this also happens) and they put a big-time star in rehab for drug addiction (this definitely happens).
But sometimes creator Doug Ellin and his writing team imitated real life before it happened. Ahead of the show's feature-length movie spinoff - out this month - here are 5 times when Entourage predicted the future...
1. Aquaman the movie (Seasons 2 and 3, 2005-2006)
Imagine a time when Hollywood wasn't smothering us with superheroes every other week. Hard, right? Believe it or not, when Entourage plotted Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) to play DC Comics' Aquaman on the big screen, there was merely a routine Spidey and Superman in sight. The movie even hired the mighty James Cameron to direct, plus Mandy Moore - ahem, Vinny's ex - as Aquagirl.
But sometimes creator Doug Ellin and his writing team imitated real life before it happened. Ahead of the show's feature-length movie spinoff - out this month - here are 5 times when Entourage predicted the future...
1. Aquaman the movie (Seasons 2 and 3, 2005-2006)
Imagine a time when Hollywood wasn't smothering us with superheroes every other week. Hard, right? Believe it or not, when Entourage plotted Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) to play DC Comics' Aquaman on the big screen, there was merely a routine Spidey and Superman in sight. The movie even hired the mighty James Cameron to direct, plus Mandy Moore - ahem, Vinny's ex - as Aquagirl.
- 6/14/2015
- Digital Spy
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