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The arrival of a ‘totally unexpected enemy’ causes Elena to act recklessly — like she needs an excuse.

If there’s one thing Elena (Nina Dobrev) is good at — besides leading men on and screwing with their minds — it’s thoughtlessly throwing herself in harm’s way. And it looks like she’ll be living up to her reputation on the Jan. 24 episode of The Vampire Diaries, titled “Catch Me If You Can,” as she “comes up with her own daring plan” to save Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) from himself.

According to The CW’s official description for the episode, Elena tries to strike up a deal with Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to ensure her brother’s safety, “but when danger suddenly appears from a totally unexpected enemy,” she’s forced to resort to Plan B.

So who’s this “totally unexpected enemy?” Me thinks the answer can be found somewhere in...

Bmf, one of the best ad agencies of the last decade has gone off the boil, argues Robin Hicks.

There is a sinking feeling you get as a marketing trade hack when it is finally appropriate, after months of chronicling their decline, to describe an ad agency as ‘troubled’ in a story you’re writing about them.

Most recently, it was a description applied by pretty much the entire trade press to The (now dead) Campaign Palace.

I should be clear that it is not appropriate to describe Bmf – for many years one of Australia’s leading creative lights – as ‘troubled’. But at the same time, it would struggle to lay claim to currently being Australia’s best agency.

So what can be said about Bmf, one of the most highly prized assets of its owner Enero (née Photon)? Last year it topped the Mumbrella Creative Agency Review which records...

We've updated our Film4 Fright Fest line-up story with tons of images. Read on to see what you may have missed and what's brand spanking new! Dig it!

Programme - Screen 1

Thursday Aug 23

Opening Film - The Seasoning House (World Premiere)

Special make-up prosthetics and splatter genius Paul Hyett makes his directorial debut with a harrowing exploration into tense claustrophobia, hard-hitting action and rollercoaster suspense. In a Balkan brothel, where girls kidnapped by soldiers in war-torn zones are prostituted to the military and civilians alike, Angel (Robin Day) is the deaf mute orphan enslaved to care for the inmates. But unbeknownst to her captors, she moves between the walls and crawlspaces of the seasoning house planning her escape. Psychological horror in the nerve-shredding Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski style but with an ultra-modern twist.

89 mins Director: Paul Hyett UK 2012

Rosie Day – Angel

Sean Pertwee – Goran

Kevin Howarth – Viktor

David Lemberg...

You know those episodes of The Walking Dead in which people don’t get eaten, zombies don’t get blasted with guns, and major plot points destined to impact the show in drastic, game-changing ways don’t get introduced? Well, tonight’s second-season finale of the AMC was not one of those.

Below, Walking Dead comic writer and TV show exec producer Robert Kirkman talks about the of and , the of , and that final of the . Yep, if you didn’t watch tonight’s show then you should probably do so before reading any further.

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