April 2012

Avengers vs. X-Men #1

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avengers-vs-x-men-1-coverHow far would you go to protect your planet? How about your entire species? With the Phoenix Force returning to Earth for the obvious chosen new host of Hope Summers, the Avengers and the X-Men find themselves with opposing viewpoints that aren’t going to solved by mere words.

Captain America wants to take Hope and sequester her away from the Phoenix Force before it arrives. Cyclops wants Hope to embrace the power, and with it help Mutant-kind back from the edge of extinction. Not surprisingly, given the stakes, neither man cares much for what Hope wants for herself.

The rise in tension leads to Cap and Cyclops having a frank discussion on the shores of Utopia that ends far from peacefully with Cap blasted back into the sea, the Avengers assembling overhead, and the X-Men preparing to defend their homes and Hope from the invaders (who include former X-Men Wolverine and Beast) who have arrived to kidnap a teenage girl from a sovereign nation.

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Community – Pillows and Blankets

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  • Title: Community – Pillows and Blankets
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Forced into mediation by Dean Pelton (Jim Rash), a unconcerned Jeff (Joel McHale) attempts to negotiate a peace between Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) whose disagreement over pillow forts and blanket forts has grown into a campus wide war between Pillowtown and Blaketsburg.

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The Hunger Games

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  • Title: The Hunger Games
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Long before the young adult novel by Suzanne Collins on which The Hunger Games is based, Hollywood has enjoyed the idea of a culture putting murder on display as reality television for the enjoyment of the masses. From the enjoyable The Running Man to the deplorable The Condemned the results have been mixed.

And we’re not even going to get started on the dozens of gladiator and horror movies that use some version of the tale as well. Originality is not this film’s strong suit. And with a running time of 142 minutes neither is brevity.

The Hunger Games gives us a world in which the twelve poor outlying districts attempted to rise up against the rich capital state 74 years ago only to be thwarted and beaten back down. Now, in memory of the events and to keep the populace in line, one male and one female between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen by lottery to kill each other on live television in “The Hunger Games,” with as much pomp and circumstance as they can muster. Murder, of and by children, it seems is to be the sport of the future.

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Psych – True Grits

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  • Title: Psych – True Grits
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After serving nearly three years for a crime he didn’t commit a recently exonerated man (Anthony Anderson) hires Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) to solve the crime for which he was wrongfully convicted and find the man who actually robbed the restaurant in order to receive restitution from the state for his incarceration.

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Breaking In – Cyrano de Nerdgerac

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  • Title: Breaking In – Cyrano de Nerdgerac
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“Cash can do this; he’s been turning off women his whole life.”

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After Veronica (Megan Mullally) is unrepentant after stealing Oz’s (Christian Slater) pudding cup, he enlists the help of  Cameron (Bret Harrison) and Cash (Alphonso McAuley) to get his revenge by stealing her assistant Molly (Erin Richards). However, an unexpected result of everyone showering her with attention causes her to admit to Creepy Carol (Jennifer Irwin) that she’s fallen for one of the men in the office

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