Guy Davis, Journalist

"I was fascinated by how greed can change a person mentally and emotionally, which is what happens with Thorin as our story progresses."

“They either want to play straight roles and then no one takes them seriously because they think the performance is going to be a joke."

"I was fooling around on one of those family-tree websites, and that’s something I just found out, even though I’ve known Joss for 15 years."

Warm Bodies’ message rings loud and clear: even if you feel cold and dead inside, there’s always a chance love can bring you back to life.

"I mean, we made some odd choices – there were some parts, even in the first episode, that we deliberately wanted to be quite boring. My number one rule was that it had to be honest.”

But to Retaliation’s credit, it does throw enough flak at our heroes that victory never seems like a completely foregone conclusion.

"If you can find someone as talented as Melissa, you jump in and basically form a singular character that the audience hopefully enjoys."

"The people with a constant happy-go-lucky approach, who treat the world like everything is perfect, they just strike me as fundamentally dishonest. That upsets me."

Things blow up. People get shot. Bruce Willis says that line that everyone expects him to say. So revisit the original. Hell, revisit Die Hard 4.0. It’s better than this shit.

It’s everything that’s needed to bring us up to speed before we plunge once again into the sexy, bloody world of this masterful series.

“I liked the fact that there’s this ten-year age gap in there, so Tommy starts off as this carefree guy who’s sort of playing by his own set of rules. He’s a bit wayward, really, and he then turns a corner and starts putting everything into his football."

There’s a real sense of camaraderie among the actors (there’s also great work from Darren Gilshenan as stats-mad Col and David Lyons as team shaman Prince), and Hicklin’s direction has a winning pace, energy and style.