Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 6 Review: The Stakeout There are limits. Whatever Time Lord technology Inside No. 9 uses to pack its 30-minute episodes fuller than a foie gras goose, there isn’t always room for everything. Take ‘The Stakeout’. It managed to cram police procedural, car chase, meta-commentary, comedy, poignancy and a supernatural rug-pull into the precise amount of time it used to take Mad Men’s Don Draper to light and smoke a single cigarette, but that left no space to explain why and how the application and training process to become a volunteer Special Constable might be undertaken by… a vampire....

What a sad tale! Four sad tales, if we’re counting – a melancholic pass-the-parcel that tore off layers of wrapping and changed shape at regular intervals. ‘Lip Service’ started out as a domestic drama that turned dark, briefly became a romance, and ended unexpectedly as a conspiracy thriller. Four stories, three twists, as many genres, 30 minutes, no waiting. Where else on TV does an audience get this much bang for their buck?...

Interview with the Vampire Episode 5 Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire’s “A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart,” is a pivotal episode. The dysfunctional family unit of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), and Claudia (Bailey Bass) pushes past the breaking point several times. In normal families, the kid grows up and moves on. That’s a sticky point for vampires. Throughout his conversation with journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), Louis digs his fingernail into the hardwood tabletop in front of him....

When Unforgotten series four begins, DCI Cassie Stuart has been away from work for a year. She’s living with boyfriend John and her 21-year-old son Adam, her father Martin having moved out to live with his fiancee. Spending almost 30 years as a detective investigating the most brutal and traumatic murder cases has taken its toll on Cassie’s mental health. At the end of series three, Cassie was signed off on sick leave....

Over the years, in a career in which he’d appeared in almost 225 films and TV shows, the New York-born Irish American convincingly portrayed Asians, Middle Easterners, Hispanics, Frenchmen, Germans, Native Americans (he played Sitting Bull twice), East Indians, Italians, and even the occasional Canadian. He’d been nominated for two Oscars, and won one Golden Globe. But at the end there he was working for second-rate exploitation king Al Adamson, hired as part of a package deal with Lon Chaney Jr....

Beginning with the first Bond film from producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and which starred Sean Connery as the international man of mystery, 007 has burrowed into the global zeitgeist. And he’s never left. There have been 24 canonical Bond films produced by either Broccoli and Saltzman, or their successors Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and six actors who’ve donned the tuxedo during that run. Over the years, the debate has been endless over who is the Best Bond, and which is the best Bond movie....

Right now, however, we’re talking about the new Halloween, which discards the torturous mythology of seven previous sequels and acts as a direct follow-up to the original film, focusing on Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as she deals with the still traumatic effects of her encounter with Michael Myers some 40 years later. Michael himself has been pared back to his essence as The Shape, an embodiment of unstoppable evil whose motivations are frightening because they’re utterly unknowable....

We all agree that Jurassic Park is a masterpiece, right? Perfectly directed and acted, and augmented by one of John Williams’ best scores. And we should also agree that the rest of them are trash. To be clear, I don’t mean that derisively—killer dinosaur movies should be kind of trashy. While Steven Spielberg brought a sense of wonder and genuine emotion to the first film, not even he could make the sequel anything more than a nasty movie about dinosaurs eating people....

Colin Trevorrow was supposed to direct Star Wars: Episode IX back when it was called Duel of the Fates. This bit of barroom trivia will forever remain a “what if” among fans. What if the “final” Star Wars movie, at least in the Skywalker Saga, did not just revert to playing the hits for longtime fans? What if the newest movie continued on threads weaved by its controversial predecessor The Last Jedi?...

How much of the movie is “new”–meaning written and shot by Whedon–and how much remains of the original Snyder footage might stay a mystery for some time (we’ve heard rumors that Whedon wrote as many as 70 new pages and that some 45 minutes of footage hit the cutting room floor). But whether the movie’s overhaul was that extensive or not, the situation allowed the studio to take stock of what it had in the can already, and what it means for the future of the DC universe on film....

Now, a new deepfake that replaces Jackman with Urban makes the strongest case yet for why the actor might the best choice to play the MCU’s new Wolverine. In the video below, YouTube user Stryder HD has digitally embedded Urban’s face onto Jackman’s head in scenes from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While we have to question the YouTuber’s choice of movie, Urban does look very convincing as Marvel’s star mutant. Fans may want Urban as Wolverine, but does Urban want to play the mutant hero who first made his debut in the pages of The Incredible Hulk in 1974?...

Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 10 I feel like I saw set photos of Matt Letscher showing up in “The Fixed Point” before I saw the episode, but because both my brain is mush from the last two years of low-grade background stress AND because DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has a long tradition of having the same actors play different characters, it never really registered for me what might be going down....

The pause button really came into its own in this week’s Line of Duty instalment, which was even more packed than usual with references to the past. It saw the return of Patrick Fairbank, and the new arrival of a potential ‘H’ candidate played by Jimmy Nesbitt, plus a cliffhanger that threatened the end of DI Kate Fleming (see below for more on that). On top of all that, it turned out that Jo Davidson being related to Tommy Hunter wasn’t the worst of her DNA revelations; her family history is a sad one indeed....

“This iconic American quiz show still hasn’t decided on a permanent host. What is Jeopardy!? Once again, Sony still has pushed off inking a permanent Jeopardy! host, announcing that interim hosts Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will remain behind the podium for the remainder of its 38th season. ‘We are delighted to let you know that Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue to share hosting duties through the end of Jeopardy!...

“At the beginning of last year, it was impossible to predict just how much the moviegoing experience would change over the following months as theaters across the globe closed, many films shifted to a streaming-only release strategy, and blockbusters got punted to a year or two later in the wake of the pandemic. This year will be different in at least one significant way: We already know it will be strange....

“It’s been three years since Dragon Ball Super: Broly hit, kicked, and kamehameha-ed its way into theaters, raking in $120 million around the world. Now, a sequel movie is gearing up for a rematch. Other than it’s scheduled to premiere in 2022, we know virtually nothing about this second Dragon Ball Super movie, of course.” Read more at Gizmodo. Gal Gadot confirms that Joss Whedon tried to threaten her career on the set of Justice League over disputes of Wonder Woman’s lines and character development....

“No matter who you are or where you are, 2020 has been a rough year. It’s been a year where things have gotten so bad, sometimes you just had to find joy in the most unexpected of places. Family, friends, a new book or video game. It’s different for everyone.” Read more at Gizmodo. Are you still having trouble wearing face masks because of the way they fit (or don’t)?...

“There was a moment a few months ago where it felt possible Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film, Dune, would be released only in theaters. Oh sure, it was one of Warner Bros.’ big 2021 releases that were announced to debut both on HBO Max and in theaters—but even in comparison to Godzilla vs. Kong or The Suicide Squad, Dune somehow felt immune. Destined for the big screen.” Read more at Gizmodo Pokémon fans will be sent on an adventure to a new and improved Sinnob region in the upcoming remakes of Diamond and Pearl....

“Time truly is a flat circle, baby, because True Detective is back. HBO has officially ordered a fourth installment of the acclaimed drama series, titled True Detective: Night Country. Actor and world champion boxer, Kali Reis, is set to star alongside Jodie Foster, whose role was announced in May. Reis made her acting debut in sex trafficking revenge thriller, Catch The Fair One. She will also appear in the upcoming film, Black Flies, opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan....

“Betty White, the vivacious comic actress who had the longest television career in the history of the medium, has died. TMZ first reported her death, which law enforcement authorities confirmed. She was 99. White is best known for her roles in two of TV’s best sitcom ensembles: The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls. But she also appeared in 30 films, starred in seven decades’ worth of sitcoms, hosted a talk show, was a favorite on the game show circuit, and was one of the first female television producers....