Lie To Me - Beyond Belief

This was probably one of the best episodes of Lie To Me but there was a potential for it to be incredibly brilliant and carry over to two episodes but it just comes to a neat conclusion.  Shame really.
The story starts with a woman attempting suicide in the office of a self-help guru by the name of David Sutcliffe, the operator of SRP.  Her daughter is trying to get to her but her mother has disappeared from the hospital, returning to SRP and is refusing to see her daughter.  When Lightman investigates, the woman appears like an automaton, spitting out the appropriate responses and is always accompanied by one of the staff.
The story starts to take on a nasty side, when Lightman arrives home and a brochure for SRP is sitting on his kitchen bench, even though neither he nor his daughter put it there and all the doors to the house were locked.  This could have been thr precursor to a spectacular battle of wills between Lightman and Sutcliffe, but Lightman uncovers Sutcliffe's real past and the end of the story comes pretty soon after that. 
A really cool concept for a story but could have been so much more.
And what is going on with Tim Roth? Is he ill?  Why has the show really been cancelled?

SciFiNow - Issue 53

Another fantastic issue of SciFiNow!  The cover story on Terra Nova was a taste and I am so looking forward to seeing this show.  It is filmed here in Queensland and I have just heard that my eldest daughter's primary school teacher has just got a part in the show!  (I know that's stretching the connection a bit [a bit?!])  Unfortunately nothing much else seems to grab me from the season preview except perhaps Falling Skies which is only available on PayTV, so will have to wait to see this on DVD/Blu-Ray.
Great article on Thor.  Wished I'd been able to see this while it was at the cinemas.  I will go and buy the Blu-Ray when it comes out. The summer of superheroes was great too!  I wasn't sure about the Green lantern movie but after the complete guide I think it might actually be quite good.  I saw X-Men: First Class and loved it and I am looking forward to Captain America.
A really good article on Source Code, another movie I enjoyed. 
Another great show that is only going to be on PayTV is Game of Thrones and there is an excellent article in this month's edition.
However, I find myself having to criticise your critic, Alasdair Morton.  Is he the only one seeing new movies?  He seems a little 'one-eyed'.  Does he not like science fiction?  To only give Source Code 3 stars and Battle: Los Angeles only 2 stars!?  Are you kidding?  Were we watching the same movies?  But then to give Attack the Block 4 stars.  So a movie that reflects the reality of war that allied soldiers are having to fight in Afghanistan is not as good as something that glorifies violent youth that like to mug innocent ladies?  I don't care how funny it is, Attack the Block is not twice as good as Battle.  Perhaps more than one person to see and review new movies may give a more balanced rating.  If I had read his reviews first, I may have missed seeing these movies, and that would have been a shame.
I was a little disappointed in the Sandman article.  I would have liked to have known more about the character and storyline.  There is a quote in the article that captures the article perfectly, "it manages to be accurate while telling you virtually nothing at all", however, it did make me intrigued to find out more, so I suppose it succeeded!
The Green Lantern complete guide was spectacular!  I had no idea about the back story of the Green Lantern Corp and I have to say thank you very much Samuel for a brilliant article.  I really am excited to see the movie now to see if it lives up to the history.
Good choice in Modern Classic, Pleasantville.  I love this movie.
Superman 2's Flashback was interesting.  It seems that Richard Lester was not really interested in directing the movie and it seems Richard Donner got screwed over completely.  Haven't seen the director's cut yet, but really want to now.
Oh and I ended up being Dutch Schaeffer in the Arnie Personality Test. (Yeah, in my dreams!)

Supernatural - ...And Then There Were None

##MASSIVE SPOILER ALERTS!!##
What a way to clear out some dead wood!  Not that these minor characters were dead wood, but OMG, three of our recurring characters all die in this episode!
Eve is here and her first act as Mother To All, is to create a new monster and then pass it on to it's first host, a Christian truck driver who works at a cannery.  The monster is a worm that enters through the ear canal (as bobby says, the 'Kahn' worm) and not only do you black out but it makes you do violent things you wouldn't normally do.  So the truck driver of course goes home and bludgeons his family to death with a hammer!  He wakes up at the cannery where another worker goes berserk and shoots half a dozen fellow workers before being gunned down by the police.
This episode, Bobby gets to get out of the house and his flannelettes and into some FBI clothing to get to the crime scene where he finds Rufus.  All four of our boys go to the cannery at night to find the monster, only to discover Samuel and Gwen.  Dean leaves the room so he doesn't kill Samuel, but while away, he gets infected and when Gwen comes to speak to him, he shoots her!
In an episode very reminiscent of the film, 'The Thing', the work leaves Dean only to infect one of the others but who?  Samuel is infected, so Sam shoots him in the head but while Bobby and Rufus are cutting him open to get the worm out, he awakens and starts beating them to death.  He is finally pushed onto an exposed electrical wire and is electrocuted and the worm leaves him, only to infect Bobby, who then kills Rufus!!
Our boys tie Bobby up and torture him with the electrical wire and the monster tells them Eve will kill them all before the worm is finally killed and exits Bobby.
This was a shocking episode for the amount of characters that die.  It is an excellent introduction to the Eve character and what she is capable of and it was good to see Bobby doing more than looking up info in a book.  Great episode - AGAIN!

NCIS: Los Angeles - Absolution

Now this is more like it!  This is the high quality that I have come to expect with the NCIS shows. 
Absolution is the first of a two parter and is a great story but also has some fantastically funny banter between the team members, especially Deeks and Kensi.  Showing how they are growing as a partnership, he asks her to pick him up from his yoga class and act like she is dumping him so he will look good to the women in the class.  At first she plays along telling him it is over, then she hits him with the old one-two by saying he should never have cheated - with her brother!  Fantastic!!  Suffice to say, he strikes out with the girls!
This episode has some background on Hetty.  She was a devastating force when she was a secret agent in the Cold War and has been keeping a man a prisoner in an retirement home disguised as her husband.  He is in a wheelchair and blind (a result of being shot by Hetty) and is in the early stages of Alzheimer's.  He is the link with a book that hold vital information on spies and the international espionage world will do anything to get a hold of it.  One of the hunters is played by Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot) who threatens to kill Hatty to get the location of the man in the retirement home.  At the end of the episode, Hetty goes to visit the prisoner, only to find him dead!  Is the killer still there?  How will they ever find the book now?  What other secrets is Hetty hiding?
One of the best episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles for some time.

The Defenders - Las Veges vs. Reid

The second episode of this great little legal comedy/drama is just as good as the pilot.
While waiting for his case to come up, Nick sees a lady who should have got a six month probation for killing a jogger with her car (as a deal worked out between her lawyer and the DA's office) but the judge gives her six months jail time instead, leaving her daughter to possibly end up in foster care.  He feels this is unjust and takes on the case where he succeeds in getting the case relooked at, but the DA's office (who hates Nick) decides to go for vehicular manslaughter and four years jail to prove a point.  They feel they have got her because they believe she was on a mobile phone at the time of the accident.  How Nick gets to the bottom of this case and the facts is brilliant (an iPhone app even helps his case!). 
There is a second story where Pete is helping a man who 'borrowed' $10,000 from his boss' safe to place a bet on a horse race, so he could pay his mortgage.  He wins but when he tries to replace the money, his boss has already discovered the theft and has called in the police!  How can Pete get the money back and get the case dropped and the guy out of jail and keep his house?  A fun episode.  Why the hell did this get axed again??

Downton Abbey - Episode Six

The story jumps almost another year to May 1914 but once again, alot of the stories haven't moved forward that far. Including the Bates/Thomas tangle over the stolen wine.  Bates has said nothing since it occurred almost a year ago, but as if it just happened, Thomas and Miss O'Brien decide to tell Carson that they saw Bates steal the wine.  Carson does not believe it and decides to get to the bottom of this.  Thomas even uses Daisy to lie about seeing Bates coming out of the cellar.  Daisy gets second thoughts and confesses to Carson who confronts everyone but Bates will still not dob Thomas in!  Later, Bates reveals he has been in prison for theft in the past and must resign.  Carson will not accept his resignation until he has spoken to the Earl.
Meanwhile, Sybil defies her father and goes to a political rally only to be injured when a fight breaks out and gets rescued by Matthew, who ends up proposing to Mary.  Mary realises that she loves him but feels she must tell Matthew about what happened with The Turk.  Because of her sister's treacherous letter to the Turkish Embassy, people in London are starting to gossip about what happened to The Turk at Downton.  It even comes to the attention of Carson (who tells the Countess) and the Dowager, who also speaks to The Countess.  The Countess confesses that the stories are true and that she assisted her daughter in hiding the truth.  At first the Dowager is angry, but once again, she proves she is a nice person by coming back to The Countess and apologising and agreeing that if she had the strength, she would have done the same thing.
This episode is building up to the season finale that we now have to wait two weeks for!  Not fair!  Looking forward to the explosive conclusion.  What an exceptional show.

He's just Not That Into You

Being a bloke, this movie did not appeal to me as much as it did for my wife, who watched it twice!  It is an ensemble cast in a movie about relationships that are tentatively (and conveniently) connected.
##SPOILER ALERT!!##  This is the entire movie!
You've got three girls, played by Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly (that must have got confusing!) and Ginnifer Goodwin who all work together.  Aniston is with Ben Affleck who won't marry her even though they have been together for seven years.  His best friend, played by Bradley Cooper, is married to her best friend, Connelly.  Cooper lets Scarlett Johannson jump the queue at the shops one night and she ends up winning an Esky.  She starts flirting with him but he tells her he is married.  Johannson is actually been going out with Real Estate Agent Kevin Connolly but she no longer sleeps with him.  He has just gone on a date with the third girl, Goodwin, who is a desperate girl wanting a guy, constantly waiting for them to call.  She tries to find Kevin but ends up talking with his brother, played by Justin Long who tells her the facts about guys and how they treat women.  She uses him as a sounding board to see if she is dating dopes or not.  Eventually, she falls for him but he doesn't realise he loves her till he rejects her and she walks out on him.  She tells her friends all about the facts about guys, which causes Aniston to leave Affleck, only for him to be there to help when her Father, Kris Kristopherson, has a heart attack.  Meanwhile, Connelly thinks her husband is smoking which he denies (she hates smokers because her Dad died of lung cancer) but all the time he is having an affair with Johannson.  He even tells her so he can leave her but she tries to save the marriage and turns up at his work to have sex with him, just as he was about to have sex with Johannson!  He hides her in the closet and screws his wife while Johannson has to listen.  Afterwards she walks out on him!  Connelly thinks everything is good but then finds more smokes, which is the last straw, so she throws him out.  Now he has no one.  Johannsen goes back to Kevin but she realises he doesn't love her and he ends up with Drew Barrymore (she was a producer), who puts his real estate ads in the paper!
If you are a guy, then my rating of 5/10 is sufficient.  But for girls, you will probably want to give this movie more points.  But seriously, I just wasn't in to this movie.