TV Club #4 Radiohead - From The Basement

This week, Radiohead's Thom Yorke guested on Gilles Peterson's Radio 1 show and confirmed that the band will tour in 2012. This week's TV Club features the band performing the King of Limbs in full on producer Nigel Godrich's From The Basement podcast turned TV Show.

TV Club #3 Flipside

This week's Who Do You Think You Are? featured Alan Carr as the latest celeb to trace their family history. In an incredibly tenuous link, this week's TV Club investigates his TV history, going back to one of the shows which gave him his break on television and saw the start of his partnership with Justin Lee Collins.

In this episode of Flipside TV, the rare sight of the lesser-bearded JLC hosts the channel surfing show and guests include Karl Pilkington, star of the Ricky Gervais podcasts and An Idiot Abroad.

Review: Green Lantern

There's something childlike about this latest comic book conversion and you expect kids will lap up the adventures of the Green Lantern and his fights against intergalactic evil - yet you also get the feeling this is completely unintentional and they were actually trying to make something that plays to the same crowd as Marvel films such as Iron Man, Thor and Captain America.

But thanks to second rate CGI and a script full of one dimensional characters and jokes that even the ever- charismatic Ryan Reynolds can't bring to life, Green Lantern sits at the lower end of the superhero films seen on screen - more Batman & Robin than Batman Begins.

Add on the poor box office returns and you get a commercial failure too. You do wonder if they might've actually been able to save that if they'd embraced a younger audience and gone in for a PG instead of the usual 12A. In the end The Green Lantern is a misse doportunity on all levels.

TV Club #2 Smashing Pumpkins 1991-2000

This week Billy Corgan and company announced that the latest version of the Smashing Pumpkins would be hitting the UK in November for a 7 night tour. To celebrate, this week's TV Club lets you watch the documentary that gives you the full Behind the Music style story of how things went first time round in the build up to their 'final' Metro show in 2000.

TV Club #1 Brass Eye

Tonight at 9 sees the terrestrial TV premiere of Chris Morris' controversial comedy Four Lions. Kicking off a new section of this blog we go back to 1997 to check out an episode an episode of his TV series of Brass Eye, which after the recent riots seems more topical than ever.

For those wanting more, the entire collection of Brass Eyeepisodes is available from 4oD here

Review: Captain America - The First Avenger

The final offering in Marvel's Avengers origin stories, Captain America offers two hours of fun, but ultimately forgettable action - yet deserves credit for how it manages to avoid becoming the nationalistic nightmare that Matt Stone and Trey Parker so successfully lampooned in Team America: World Police.

Chris Evans is excellent in the lead role, his softly spoken portrayal of Steve Rodgers standing out against the usual OTT performances you've come to expect from Marvels' Superhero films. Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter is the stand out amongst the supporting cast, but one of Captain America's main problems is that there's too many of them - The Cap's crew coming and going in the blink of an eye being the case in point for too many cast members spoiling the broth.

Captain America also falls short of hitting the heights of the Superhero genre by just kind of petering out towards an end thanks to the lack of a big action sequence or the feeling that he's ever really in any real danger at some point resulting in a leaving the cinema in a bit on anticlimax.

*speaking of which don't bother staying after the credits this time - I'm pretty sure the original post credit sequence was moved to the end of the film and you just get a rubbish Avengers trailer this time.