July 2012

Franklin & Bash – Voir Dire

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  • Title: Franklin & Bash – Voir Dire
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After skipping the morning partners meeting Jared (Breckin Meyer) and Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) find themselves defending a chop shop mechanic (Gino Anthony Pesi) who brutally beat several other members of the crew in self-defense after the others refused to let him leave to start a new life and save a witness (Colleen Foy) to one of the crew’s robberies. Besides having almost no legal merit to stand on things get even trickier when an Assistant D.A. (Brian Howe) with a grudge against Peter, and plans on running for District Attorney, takes over the high profile case.

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Anna Faris Flaunts her love of grilled cheese sandwiches

/ / Books & Magazines

Recently Anna Faris drove her Mini Cooper by the Flaunt Magazine’s headquarters to grill herself a grilled cheese sandwich and to talk with Maxwell Williams about her challenge in working with Sasha Baron Coen on a film as heavily improvised as The Dictator, the exagerated dumb blonde version of herself she often portrays on-screen, the Scary Movie franchise, growing up in Seattle as a drama nerd, her recent film What’s Your Number?, her choice to finally major in English at the University of Washington, working on her next project I Give it a Year, the comedic power of cheese, meeting her husband Chris Pratt on the set of Take Me Home Tonight, her plans for a personal project involving her old high school drama program, the difficulties of being a working actress in Hollywood, and the angry response over her role in Observe and Report. She also took time for a photoshoot with Donna Trope which you can find inside.

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Covert Affairs – Hang on to Yourself

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  • Title: Covert Affairs – Hang on to Yourself
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After witnessing the death of a very paranoid Jai Wilcox (Sendhil Ramamurthy) in a car bombing, Annie (Piper Perabo) finds herself shaken and reassigned out of the DPD, as does Auggie (Christopher Gorham) who finds himself promoted into Jai’s role as head of Special Projects and tasked by Arthur (Peter Gallagher) to uncover the people responsible for Jai’s murder. This, of course, also leaves Joan (Kari Matchett) without two of her most reliable resources during a particularly stressful time in the agency.

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News and Notes

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  • Title: Item 47
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About a week ago Entertainment Weekly broke the story of Marvel’s new short film Item 47 which will be included as an extra on The Avengers Blu-ray. In the film Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) and Jesse Bradford (Flags of Our Fathers) star as a couple who find one of the discarded alien guns from The Avengers and “proceed to make some incredibly bad decisions.”

Today EW debuted the short film’s official poster and confirmed Titus Welliver and Maximiliano Hernández (reprising his role as Sitwell from Thor and The Avengers) will be appearing as well as the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents called in to take down the modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

Item 47 will make it’s debut at Comic-Con and will be available on The Avengers Blu-ray September 25th.

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Doctor Who Classics #6

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doctor-who-series-4-6-coverThe latest Doctor Who Classic Series featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri, and his penguin private eye companion Frobisher comes to an end as the threesome head to the planet of Zazz for the Lorduke’s 21st birthday bash. However, on arriving on the planet they run into the Lorduke’s brother, an exiled mad scientist who believes he can escape the planet’s gravity by use of a rocket powered by an erupting volcano and who unintentionally has released a plague of self-replicating robots who could quickly overrun the entire planet.

Taking the TARDIS back in time The Doctor discovers the history of the self-replicating robots who have adapted and evolved into a full civilization over 20 generations from a single repair robot that crash-landed on the planet’s moon thousands of years before.

Using what little he has at his disposal, including the volcano rocket, and taking a page from the Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Doctor devises a crazy but workable solution to the problem.

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