It may be June, but a dark and endless winter officially arrived at Riley’s in Haymarket on Monday night as guests poured in for the reaction screening of the Game of Thrones Season Five finale.
by Jade Shannon-Turnstill
It may be June, but a dark and endless winter officially arrived at Riley’s in Haymarket on Monday night as guests poured in for the reaction screening of the Game of Thrones Season Five finale.
by Robbie Jones
How the fuck does someone review an episode like that? Like, where to even start? How do we talk about all the good things about this episode when it all goes to shit? How is a person expected to be fully capable of forming sentences after an ending like that? Game of Thrones has done what it’s promised all season, and it has gone out with a bang. And yes, it broke the internet. If we can keep our cool for just a moment, let’s check out the brilliant parts of this episode.
by Cookie N Screen
Our over reliance on technology has been the source of fiction and terror. Where does artificial intelligence and robotic servitude end? The answer is becoming a reality that draws closer every day. Highlighting the general fear that we all have, our cinemas and television shows are opening the doors for creative scientific exploration into the possibility of being replaced by metallic beings made to look like us, who are faster, smarter and have none of that messy “emotions” business. With X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ex_Machina and Chappie all recently devouring the semantics and resonance of sentience in machine, and Terminator Genisys coming up, Channel 4 has waded in on the debate with their stirring television series Humans.
by Cookie N Screen
One of the main issues with season two was separating Will and Hannibal. With the incarcerated Graham stuck lamenting on his bad dues, Hannibal went on a spree trying not to be caught which wasn’t hard with Detective Jack “Hannibal is not a Cannibal” Crawford. The problems with splitting them up for the first half of the series, which was thankfully rectified when Hannibal missed his little experiment and endeavoured to see him escape. See one of the pair is highly interesting while the other has become a little stale and one-note. And you know who I’m talking about. So imagine our dismay when continents separate the pair, instead of confinements. Whilst the opening episode to the series was excellent, the second is lacklustre at best with no really purpose other than to show us one of them is sad. Hint: It’s Will Graham.
by The IWG TV Team
The I'm With Geek TV Team have been watching their shows which you picked for them! How are they getting on? Read on to find out and help them pick their next show!
by Cookie N Screen
Orange is the New Black is back! Aren’t we all excited? What have we been doing with our lives but bumping into one another aimlessly whilst trying to crawl our way back into Litchfield whilst the women there try to get out? The best show on Netflix is hopefully coming out swinging as it faces down a third season of inmate goodness after the finale of the season two. Releasing the episode seven hours early, the VOD service is enriching our lives once more as we follow on from Vee’s death, Rosa’s daring escape and the gaggle of nuns protesting for Sister Mary’s food strike. With the months that have passed, can season three continue to shine on like the previous two did? In a word, yes. Yes it can.
by Paul Robert Scott
In recognition of its outstanding, worldwide success, Downton Abbey is due to receive a special Tribute and award from BAFTA on Tuesday, 11th August. The Tribute itself will be filmed for broadcast later this year as the cast and crew gather with a live audience to celebrate the show’s unparalleled success as it enters its sixth and final season.
by Cookie N Screen
I’ve never been the biggest fan of The Office, both UK and US versions. It’s not that I hated it completely but I could never really get into it. Perhaps it was the characters or perhaps it was the set up. See I could never completely grasp the idea that a film crew, unseen, is following some lowly office workers around and they are interviewed after a certain event happens. It seems like a cheap trick. But while I couldn’t wrap my head around The Office, I most certainly dived head first into Parks and Recreation without a second thought. Why? Because of Leslie Knope and her collection of incredible characters who lifted this show into exceedingly good comedy.
by Helen Langdon
Over the last few years, there’s been an explosion of Nordic thrillers on English-speaking screens. There’s just something about the combination of bleakly beautiful landscapes, thick knitted jumpers and Scandinavian languages that excites us. Especially when it’s linked to dastardly tales of crime. They’re the types of shows that BBC4 shows, things like The Killing, Wallander and Borgen. And now you can have your own Nordic Noir programming with Arrow Films’ newest DVD line. Next out on DVD, released on 15th June, is The Spider (otherwise known as Edderkoppen).
by Cookie N Screen
Before I begin, let’s talk about Jamie Fraser. It feels as though Outlander has been very clever to use last week’s episode as a halfway point between the two characters. The focus on Claire, up until her decision to stay with Jamie, left her newly appointed husband in a bit of a cliché quandary. Apart from his belt beating, Jamie was a Knight in Shining Armour who could do no wrong. He took lashings for women, protected Claire from everyone and defended his family’s honour. So the focus away from the time travelling heroine and filling Jamie with a more in depth look at this character in episode twelve - Lallybroch |
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