There was much wailing a fortnight ago when Waterloo Road swiped the Best Drama award from both Doctor Who and Sherlock at the NTAs. The Guardian’s Vicky Frost was particularly outraged. “Sometimes I do wonder whether the people who vote for the NTAs are completely bonkers. Waterloo Road is fine. A decent middle-of-the-road programme. But [...]

*Spoilers Ahead* Surprisingly, the funeral of fallen officer Nate Moretta is not how this episode begins. In fact, it’s only mentioned in passing and the chances that it may not even be viewed next week either are high. Quite the unconventional choice for a cop show – they tend to indulge in the sentimental and [...]

*Here Be Spoilers!* One bite from a werewolf can kill a vampire, and it takes nearly two months to go into full effect. Actually, that’s just how long thit’s been since the last new episode aired of The Vampire Diaries. It seemed so much longer than it really was, because this show is just that good. [...]

*Possible Spoilers* Before we can dive into the resolution for last episode’s cliff-hanger ending, it’s time for a pensive voice-over led flashback montage. A few significant things gleaned from these scenes are:  Sally attended her own wake, Josh had a hell of a time trying to control his urges back when the curse first came [...]

              * SPOILERS AHEAD. SERIOUSLY.* Near the beginning of the season, those of us who could be called ardent spoiler fiends started to hear there was some massive news about Southland‘s third season. Someone was going to die. No, I don’t mean some random recurring cast member or a [...]

Channel 4 has been gagging for a populist news show for a while and in the wake of what was possibly the most TV influenced general election in history, the twitter generation who hashtag along to BBC’s Question Time and Dimbledance every Thursday night were ripe for the picking. Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker was joined [...]

Final Fantasy: Heroes of Light is a role playing game made by Square Enix for the DS. The game centres around four heroes who go from saving a princess to trying to save the world. You begin playing as Brandt, a youth who lives in a scenic and idyllic town called the Kingdom of Horne. [...]

*Spoilers Ahead*   In the world of Southland, who you ride with is more than just the person you work a case with or walk a beat with–this person can be your lifeline or they can drag you down with them. This week’s episode again focused on the individual partnerships of the series and the push [...]

*Potential Spoilers* So let’s just get this out of the way in the interest of full disclosure: yes I’m American, and no I haven’t yet seen more than a random episode of the original Being Human. So unfortunately, I won’t be able to do the kind of in-depth dissection of every single line or every [...]

*Spoiler Alert* Issues such as race and class difference have always been a catalyst of major crimes on Southland but to see both start to affect the detectives and officers themselves made this episode a real stand-out. When an inter-gang ‘Romeo and Juliet’ love story causes a bloody Quincenera shooting resulting in the death of [...]

Within the first ten minutes of the new boxing drama Lights Out there has already been graphic violence in addition to a sex scene with partial nudity. Toss in some cable- ready foul language and we’ve hit the FX trifecta. Patrick Leary is first shown beaten to a bloodied pulp in a tight shot that [...]

After a tumultuous and brief run on NBC, Southland has hopefully found a home on cable television. I say hopefully because this show is a real underrated gem. The premiere finds a unifying theme in the relationships of all of the different partnerships on the show. From the uniformed patrolmen to the homicide and narcotics [...]

The BFI London Film Festival bowed out in style last Thursday with the premiere of Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’,  a story about Aron Ralston, an adrenaline-junkie always on the lookout for another adventure. Played by the talented James Franco, ‘127 Hours’ is based on Aron Ralston’s true story of an exciting escapade gone horribly wrong. [...]

Angst-filled 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist) has ridden his bike to Brooklyn Bridge for no other reason than to jump off. He lays his bike down and starts clambering up onto the bridge when all of a sudden his family, overbearing mum Lynn (Lauren Graham), busy businessman dad George (Jim Gaffigan) and child prodigy sister Alissa [...]

Derek Cianfrance’s ‘Blue Valentine’ is a heart-warming and heartbreakingly real account of falling in and out of love. The film follows the relationship between Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) juxtaposing the present with their tender and promising past. As the story unfolds we learn more about how they’ve ended up in a marriage which [...]