Okay, it’s not as invigorating as JJ Abrams’s first Trek reboot, but it’s still a deft cocktail of humour and action. And, more crucially, the chemistry between Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) still crackles. The crew off the USS Enterprise are on a manhunt for Benedict Cumberbatch’s super-soldier/terrorist who is giving Starfleet a headache with his explosive activity.
“It’s weird, alright,†maintains Rory Kinnear’s jaded TV reporter who reluctantly returns to his Kent hometown to cover the gun massacre wreaked by his former schoolmate (Sean Harris, excellent). Channel 4 has been pummelled in the ratings of late, however Tony Grisoni’s fiercely intelligent Southcliffe is the best drama they’ve screened in a fair while.
“All I see out there is barbarity,” yells a gendarme at a French soldier. Â Â Â Â
A Richard Curtis-ian rom-com with a misanthropic twist, I Give it a Year focuses on a pair of newlyweds, Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne, who aren’t sure whether to stay together. The problem is that we aren’t sure, either. Â Â Â Â
“I’m nine feet tall, I weigh six hundred and forty three pounds, got a bit of a temper on me,†maintains Wreck-It-Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly), a lonely arcade-game villain who longs for acceptance.    Â
CBBC’s frequently funny and crude sketch show, which has a mission statement of “making history look less crapâ€, succeeds in making the past as accessible and enjoyable as possible for children.    Â
Brian De Palma is often derided for being derivative – and Blow Out is partly inspired by Blow Up – but at his best (and this is his best) the director delivers a huge emotional punch.
Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.Quebec provincial police said later that they had arrested three people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Saint-Jerome jail from which the inmates escaped. One of those arrested was 36-year-old inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau.
“That’s what I want. No pity,†explains François Cluzet’s quadriplegic, Paul, to his adviser about his “pitiless†carer, Driss (Omar Sy, very convincing), a Senegalese rough diamond from a La Haine-style estate in Paris.
Lena Dunham directs, produces, writes, stars and sheds her clothes quite a bit in these tangy adventures of four twentysomething New Yorkers: self-absorbed Hannah (Dunham), uptight Marnie (Allison Williams), promiscuous Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and goofy Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet, very funny).