October 2011

The Big Bang Theory – The Wiggly Finger Catalyst

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Wiggly Finger Catalyst
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Feeling sorry for a lonely Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Penny (Kaley Cuoco) decides to set him up with the perfect woman for a guy who has trouble speaking to the female sex – a deaf girl. Troubles arise when Raj’s friends begin to think Emily (Katie Leclerc) is taking advantage of their friend who keeps showering her with lavish gifts.

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The Ides of March

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  • Title: The Ides of March
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ides-of-march-posterThe loss of innocence is the theme for George Clooney‘s latest directoral effort which centers around a high-ranking political staffer whose idealism is shattered over the course of the two-hour film as he learns just how dirty a business politics really is.

The youthful Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) has worked on more campaigns that most staffers twice his age but he believes he’s finally found the real thing in Governor Mike Morris (Clooney). Morris is one of two front-runners for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. With Myers help he might even make it, if he’ll agree to make the backroom deals to get him the delegates needed to sew-up the nomination.

Myers is approached by the campaign manager (Paul Giamatti) for Morris’ opposition who attempts to woo the wunderkid over to his campaign. Although he declines the offer, Myers’s hyper-paranoid boss (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is angered over his protege’s willingness to meet with the enemy.

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Real Steel

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  • Title: Real Steel
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real-steel-posterReal Steel is a rather simple story about the connection between a father and son mashed up with a movie adaptation for Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. It’s not going to wow you, but it’s a farily harmless family film with better than average effects, its share of charm, and lots of fightin’ robots!

In the not-too-distant future boxers have been replaced with robots. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a former fighter who never got his shot, now works the edges of robot boxing in state fairs and underground clubs. Charlie barely makes by, owes markers to everyone he knows, including the daughter (Evangeline Lilly) of his former trainer, and has just been given the responsibility of raising a son (Dakota Goyo) who he has never bothered to get to know.

Seeing how the boy’s aunt (Hope Davis) wants to adopt him Charlie makes a deal with her husband (James Rebhorn). For $100,000 he’ll take Max (Goyo) for the summer and then sign him over afterwards. In Charlie’s mind, everyone wins. And so father and son hit the road with Charlie’s new robot in tow.

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Luther – Series Two, Episode Two

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  • Title: Luther – Series Two, Episode Two
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Series Two continues with one very long day for DCI John Luther (Idris Elba). Ripley (Warren Brown) has been taken hostage by the serial killer Cameron Pell (Lee Ingleby) whose end game is far more nefarious than a slowly rising body count. Luther is blackmailed by Jenny’s boss (Pam Ferris) who wants very much for Luther to silence a witness who could put her grandson Toby (David Dawson) in jail. And, just to top things off, Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson) decides to break into his apartment and pay him a visit. Like I said, big day.

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