TV
Scream – season one
1 October
“You can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series …” Oh wait – they have done. The postmodern horror films move to TV.
Atlantis – season one
1 October
BBC’s Saturday night fantasy gets another showing. An updated version of the adventures of Jason, Hercules and Pythagoras with Jack Donnelly, Aiysha Hart, Mark Addy and Robert Emms.
Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand Up Ever
1 October
Spiky comedy from the always-entertaining Lee.
Terra Nova – season one
1 October
Daft, entertaining time-jumping sci-fi about a group of rugged pioneers trying to establish a new world in the past in order to save the future (or something). Lots of dinosaurs and some kind of Stargate-style wormhole contraption just about justify the “Steven Spielberg presents” tag.
Robin Williams Remembered – A Pioneers of Television Special
1 October
Tribute to the late comedian with career clips and interviews with Pam “Mindy” Dawber, Henry Winkler and Whoopi Goldberg.
Homeland – season four
12 October
Catch up on the previous season of international espionage with Claire Danes, Rupert Friend and Mandy Patinkin before season five starts on Channel 4. The first Brody-less outing proved that there’s still mileage in watching Carrie throwing the CIA rule book away, this time in Afghanistan.
Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno Live!
15 October
In which the actor discusses the joys of animal sex lives in typically idiosyncratic fashion.
American Horror Story: Freak Show
21 October
The AHS anthology continues: this time, they’re all in a travelling carnival show in the 1950s.
Hemlock Grove – season three
October 23
Netflix’s homebrew horror hasn’t had the critical reception its other originals have had, but here’s the third season, so it must be doing something right … surely?
Film
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
3 October
“The Jackass crew mix up the formula – by getting even older.” Review here.
About Time
3 October
“Richard Curtis’s film is a good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it’s impossible to dislike.” Review here.
White God
5 October
“A psychotic outbreak affects all the dogs in Budapest in Kornél Mundruczó’s energetic and imaginative film.” Review here.
Winter on Fire
9 October
What We Do in the Shadows
10 October
“Flight of the Conchords writers are behind this wickedly funny mockumentary about a bunch of undead flatmates rowing about the cleaning.” Review here.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
10 October
“Raise your child’s IQ with Aardman’s effortlessly funny piratical caper – also known as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.” Review here.
The Signal
13 October
“Cerebral and stripped down, this sci-fi drama has more in common with recent indie contributions to the genre than big-tent actioners.” Review here.
Beasts of No Nation
October 16
“True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga directs Idris Elba in the first competition film to screen at this year’s Venice film festival – and the first awards contender from Netflix’s new cinema division.” Review here.
Kung Fury
22 October
Full-length version of the Kickstarter-funded VHS-homage about an 80s cop sent back in time to defeat Hitler (AKA the Kung Führer).
Results
22 October
“Guy Pearce stars in a pleasingly off-centre romcom with something to say about loneliness and the cult of personal improvement.” Review here.
Saving Mr Banks
24 October
“There’s a sorry lack of spark between Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, but then this is a Disney film about Mary Poppins.” Review here.
Capitalism: A Love Story
28th October
“If Michael Moore’s latest documentary lacks the clean punch of his best-known work, it can only be because the crime scene is so vast.” Review here.
