October 2012

Scandal – The Other Woman

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  • Title: Scandal – The Other Woman
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As the office reels from the surprising outcome of Quinn’s (Katie Lowes) trial, Olivia (Kerry Washington) is called in by the wife (Lorraine Toussaint) of a missing preacher and prominent civil rights leader. It only takes the team a couple of hours to track him down, but when they find the reverend he’s dead in a cheap hotel room on top of his mistress (Elise Neal) who is trapped underneath his girth and chained to the bed. As you might expect, the image is not exactly how Olivia, the White House, or the man’s family would like him remembered.

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Person of Interest – Bad Code

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The search for Finch (Michael Emerson) leads Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Carter (Taraji P. Henson) to Texas to look into the case of a missing girl from the early 1990’s that may shed some light on the past of the girl who grew up to become the computer hacker known as Root (Amy Acker). With Finch still her hostage, Root continues to search for the location of The Machine by torturing a White House lawyer (Cotter Smith) for information.

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The Big Bang Theory – The Decoupling Fluctuation

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Bernadette’s (Melissa Rauch) bridal shower leads to some unexpected revelations as Penny (Kaley Cuoco) confides to Amy (Mayim Bialik) and the future bride that she’s considering breaking up with Leonard (Johnny Galecki) due to the lack of passion in their relationship. In short order Amy spills the beans to Sheldon (Jim Parsons) who struggles with keeping the secret from his roommate and trying to convince Penny to keep dating his friend for both Leonard’s benefit and his own.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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  • Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Welcome to the Island of Misfit Toys.”

the-perks-of-being-a-wallflowerStories of loners searching for their place in the world are hardly new, and there are certainly more polished films which tackle the subject, but for its flaws The Perks of Being a Wallflower gets the emotion more right than most.

Taking on teenage suicide, closeted homosexual relationships, drug use, teenage sex, unrequited love, the complex psychological problems of an anxiety-riddled teen, and one or two other major themes I won’t give away here, the movie certainly doesn’t shy away from tackling hard issues and forcing its characters to deal honestly with both their choices and consequences.

Written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, who adapted his own novel of the same name for the film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower centers around Charlie (Logan Lerman), an awkward, introverted high school freshman who has seen too much pain in his young life. The brainy introvert starts high school all too aware old friends have moved into new cliques without him and is ill-equipped to make new ones.

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Taken 2: The Wrath of Nameless Eastern European Thugs

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  • Title: Taken 2
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taken-2-posterDirected by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, 2008’s Taken starred Liam Neeson as retired CIA Agent Bryan Mills – a man forced to use his “particular set of skills” to rescue his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who was abducted by an Albanian human trafficking ring while vacationing in Paris. Over the course of the film Mills racked up an impressive amount of property damage while assaulting, torturing, and killing dozens of people including shooting the wife of a French police officer (Olivier Rabourdin), and close friend, in front of him.

Taken 2 returns Neeson, Grace, and Famke Janssen (as Mills’ ex-wife), who take a family vacation in Istanbul only to find their past finally catch up with them. Mills and his family are hunted by members (who may, or may not, have ties to the trafficking ring) of the families of the men he killed in the first movie. When Mills and his ex-wife are taken the super bad-ass senior citizen will have to rely on the help of his daughter to wreck another city, rack up a hefty body count, and save both himself and her mother.

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