The long-gestating Ant-Man is due to start filming this year, but what's a director to do in the quiet time leading up to that magical production start date? Well, if Edgar Wright's example is anything to go by, you mainline Disney XD's The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Most of this Sherlock takes place during the events of Watson's wedding, of which Sherlock is the best man. Knowing this iteration of Sherlock as we do - borderline sociopathic, probably registering on the autism scale, unfeeling, uncaring - the very idea of him as a best man is inherently comedic.
2013 has been a grand year for television. As we'll soon see from my list - perhaps the definitive on the subject - this year has been a rare treat in terms of televisual treats.
It's quite difficult for a movie to totally bomb. Most movies, given a long enough timeframe, will make their money back. That timeframe differs from project to project - it might turn a profit at Christmas, or a year after the theatrical release, or after twenty years on DVD, but the high-stakes mega-budget mega-cast CGI extravaganzas that we get nowadays rarely fail, purely because of who's in them. How else do you explain the continued popularity of the Pirates of the Caribbean series? Two words - Johnny Depp. He very rarely bombs (Dark Shadows notwithstanding) purely because he is attractive and the budgets of the films he's usually in are huge.
Starting the episode right after the events of last week was a nice touch as well, carrying over the urgency of last week and building on it. It makes sense now that "Big Man in Tehran" was more of a slow burner, because for it to end explosively would have meant that we'd enter this episode at fever pitch, ready to blow our beans at the slightest incident
It's difficult to ascribe movies with a nationality, given that the murky business of film finance is nebulous at best (now more than ever), based more on tax breaks than creative concerns. Fitting with this model, this list is also nebulous, as some of the movies shown here aren't completely British, whatever that is. Some will feature American actors or American directors, but it's important to try not to get your knickers in a twist.
The stunning and surprising deal that the folks at Telltale made a couple of days ago with HBO - to create an "episodic, interactive gaming series" based on the global dragons 'n' shit sensation Game of Thrones - may be more expansive than we originally dared dream.
I can't believe I didn't see this coming. I can't believe that I didn't, for one second, think that what happened in this episode would happen. Any of it. If nothing else, I've proven myself terrible analysing televisiual situations.
Looking back over the previous episodes of Homeland, it's difficult to name a single thing that has gone the way that Saul or Carrie intended. It's like the original kidnapping of Brody, the seismic event that cast the die for the series, also cursed everybody involved, and its pall lingers over the particpants like the stink from an inside-out sock.
Ahh, that beautiful tradition. So entertaining, so succulent, so magical. Yes, it's that time of year again - New Girl's Thanksgiving episode! More represented in the show than any other holiday, every Thanksgiving episode has been a real treat. Who could forget "Parents," last year's Thanksgiving episode in which Joan and Bob Day (Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner, respectively) come and stay with the gang? It gave us that Nickest of Nick punchlines - "Jess! I think I'm into your mom!", and his close relationship with Bob sowed the seeds for his and Jess' future relationship, I think.