“Suck It” is no longer just David Wallace’s weird idea for a kids toy. The Office joke is now a real product you could buy. Has there ever been a worse idea than David Wallaces Suck It shop-vac for kids? For one thing,Scotts Totswould have a much happier ending. You cant completely blame Michael for being so shortsighted, though. You know how kids leave their toys everywhere? David explains in the episode....
It gets a bad rap. That, and a certain time traveller with a predilection for scarves and jelly babies. None of that exists withoutBlakes 7. But to only laugh at the series for being dated is to miss just how weird the show is. What catastrophic effect does this have on Earth? Thats not for us to say. And with superb model work byGerry Anderson, somehow visually the show still stands up....
Tim Burton and his Batman Returns screenwriter Daniel Waters had big plans for a Catwoman spin-off movie. Sadly, none of them happened. Believe it or not, the dreadful 2004Catwomanwas not the movie Warner Bros. set out to make. For his part, Waters went in the opposite direction, leaning into the possibilities of blockbuster superhero storytelling. It wasThe BoysbeforeThe Boys. In other words, Waters was going for superhero satire before it was cool....
Hint: It wasnt the old school movie studios. The Equalizer 3;The Meg 2;The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Yet for the industry that makes those movies, it paints a bleak picture. The results are in from the streaming wars that began about five years ago. And the only victors are the companies who were only ever in it for the streaming. Of course Netflix was always going to be one of the winners....
Season 1 of The Traitors taught us some lessons in tactics. Will the season 2 contestants learn? Three episodes have landed all at once on iPlayer, one a night on BBC One. From episode four theyll arrive on iPlayer in line with their broadcast dates. End of ep three brought an amazing cliffhanger. Winkleman teasing more big reveals! Theres a lot to come. This was Kieran, who became a scapegoat, got voted out and then threw Wilf under the bus....
Love triangles are a crucial part of romantic TV shows. But some are more infuriating than others. Iconic love triangles have become a commonly used trope to hook viewers in. So, naturally we decided to take a look at TVs mostinfuriatinglove triangles. The seven-season run ofScandalwas iconic as fans anxiously watched to see how Olivia navigated her romantic options each week. While Jess and Rory had a lot in common, Jess was never the best boyfriend....
Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… its all a monstrous, demented gag! Because Ive heard it before, he responds. And it wasnt funny the first time. He is at last devoid of needing to philosophize or prove an existential point. The Birth of the Joker The Joker died as soon as he was born. Ad content continues below Its easy to see the appeal of the Joker in these issues....
Which of your British TV favourites are coming back in 2024? Theres even talk of aprequel series toRed Dwarf, if that comes off. If its brand-new British TV shows youre looking for, seeour big preview here. Keep checking back well update this list as new details are announced. New cast members for the second series includeIndustrys Conor MacNeill,Justice Leagues Francis Magee andThe Northmans Olwen Fouere. Bridgerton Series 3 We knew we were getting a third (and fourth!...
Or for it to be broadcast again. Depends who you ask, really. And thats fair enough, really. Then there are the folk who simply dont like Russell T Davies writing onDoctor Who. The question is: Will there? The list of plausible showrunners is short, as discovered whenChris Chibnalls replacementwas sought. There isnt a huge list of names, and three of them have already done the job. We cant just go in cycles of Davies > Moffat > Chibnall until one of them dies....
Consider the opening scene fromMarvelsEternals. A teenage boy picks up a power drill and switches it on. You dont remember that scene? Probably because it comes not from the 2021 movieEternals, but from the 2015 television showEternals. And theres one word that he repeated when describing his version: Weird. Instead of going into details, Ridley talked about the tone of his approach. Its just a really weird story about these people, he declared....
Hideo Kojima has just compared his upcoming OD project to the strangest game he ever worked on. The only thing we do know with any reasonable amount of certainty is thatODwill be a horror game. In typical Kojima fashion, though, he stopped short of explaining what any of that actually means. For me, the most experimental game was defeating vampires outside your house using actual sunlight around you. It was met with fierce opposition from the staff and even within the company....
A young gamer turned a seemingly impossible Tetris challenge into a new reality. Here is how he did it. 13-year-old Willis Gibsonmade headlinesrecently by effectively beating the NES version ofTetris. First off, what Gibson beat was the A-punch in mode of the NES version ofTetris. The A-punch in mode requires players to clear 29 levels of play. At various intervals past Level 10, the game speeds up and raises the difficulty level in the process....
Right in time for Christmas. Its the key in of grotesque spectacle that sticks with viewers… whether they like it or not. But according toSaltburns most famous producer, this is exactly the appeal that made Fennells script so exciting. Shes so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly… So by the time you get to something like the bathtub scene, shes primed you for it....
