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First-time director James Ward Byrkit talks cramming big sci-fi ideas into a tiny indie film. Den of Geek: Congratulations on the film. What came first, the experimental nature of how you shot it or the actual concept? All those years the Ray Bradbury stories andTwilight Zonesproved that ideas were the most compelling part of science fiction. I think its a really fertile ground. I think its just the beginning of a renaissance of sort of big idea, small budget science fiction....

It’s Valentine’s Day at Litchfield, but is love really in the air? Here’s our review of Orange is the New Black season 2 episode 6. The episode is punctuated by interviews in which the characters describe what love means, for them. In a great parting shot, Piper calls Larry the moon. All he can do is reflect the light of other people. Larry wants her things out of their apartment....

How much of this was biographical? Paul Haggis:All of it. Ad content continues below Seriously? No, I mean, what I do is I start out by asking questions. I start obviously with relationships Ive had. Things that have failed. Things that have worked. So thats really what I did. Often its children who pay the price for our selfishness. I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I had a kid right away....

The period June 9thto 15th2014 was an unpleasant raid on the collective VHS cassette memory of our youth. And before that Earth lost Rik Mayall, who performed the bestJackanoryever. Well call it Nostal-jarr jarring nostalgia. And much like grief, the nostal-jarr reaction to the re-making of an old show comes in seven stages. Theres Surprise, followed by Excitement, Apprehension, Scepticism, Tweeting, Re-Tweeting, and then finally Acceptance. On a stick or on TV, taste is cyclical....

Tim Burton’s Batman was released 25 years ago. Ryan looks back at how it overcame a media backlash to become a defining 80s blockbuster… Sure, the 30-year-old director had made feature films before namelyPee-Wees Big AdventureandBeetlejuice but those films were relatively low-budget. Made outside the glare of public and Hollywood studio scrutiny. Batman, on the other hand, was being put together with a blinding media spotlight trained on it. He stands at an estimated five feet 10 inches tall and weighs in at 160 pounds or so....

A pirates life might be for me, but this week’s Crossbones sure isn’t. Check out our pirate expert’s review. God, that was a mess. I love pirates, but even love will only take you so far. Here we are with episode three of NBCsCrossbones. We begin with Blackbeard thinking. Hes got a lot to think about. Its not a bad idea. This is the way a real pirate does things, through manipulation of allies, not with brute force....

We chat with the directors of 22 Jump Street about doing a comedy sequel and those crazy end credits. What made the making of this film different than21? Chris Miller:We felt like we knew what we were doing a little bit more this time. We only had to fake it 10 percent less. Everybody was more comfortable. Channing was more comfortable and confident doing comedy. We all had a lot of faith in each other....

Itd brought that particular narrative strand to a (not very satisfactory) conclusion. However, in spite of miserable reviews,X-Men Origins: Wolverinedid okay. So what should Fox do? With Wolverine still firing, should it reboot, or something else? It chose something else, opting instead for the prequel route. A reboot of sorts, but not a full one. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence duly signed up. Only a fleeting appearance by Hugh Jackman as Logan muddied things slightly....

Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys brings back doo-wop for its nostalgic set-pieces, but is an otherwise muted affair. And the artists caught in the Campbellian garrote do not put up much resistance, despite their rough-and-tumble upbringing. Sadly, the movie isnt walking anywhere. In Eastwoods reliably steady hands,Jersey Boyscertainly has a sharp look. Or at least, how everyone chooses to remember them. However, such confident restraint proves the antithesis of rock and roll....

Vee is up to no good and there are new shades of Caputo in OITNB’s fifth episode. Best scene of the episode? When Healy goes to a bar and sees Caputo playing bass in an over-the-hill-hipster band called Side Boob. For all his politicking, Caputo is the quintessential middle manager. Tough to do your job when you are wading through a river of shit. Sewage has begun backing up into the showers in the Latin dorm....

Rectify visually hits its stride in the season two premiere. Like us onFacebookand follow us onTwitterfor all news updates related to the world of geek. AndGoogle+, if thats your thing! Rating: 4 out of 5

Game Of Thrones' fourth season was a typically bloodthirsty affair. Martin including him in the nextA Song Of Ice And Firenovel, and then killing him with extreme brutality. In the novel, that is. Ad content continues below Perhaps the defining characteristic of pre-modern societies is their lack of well-funded social services infrastructures. Well, that and their home in an utterly impregnable mountain fortress. In the end, it was a combination of both features that did for poor Lysa....

A playwright and actress wrestle with sex and morality in Roman Polanskis latest movie Venus in Fur. As the two read sections from Thomas play, reality and fiction begin to blur. Are they Thomas and Vanda, or Severin and Wanda, the actual characters they are playing? And thats kind of where the wheels come off. Venus in Furis out now in limited release. Like us onFacebookand follow us onTwitterfor all news updates related to the world of geek....