January 2013

Pretty Little Liars – She’s Better Now

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – She’s Better Nowa
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Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family’s show about a quartet of teens terrorized by the mysterious individual (who turned out to be one of their own), and haunted by the disappearance and murder of the group’s former leader (Sasha Pieterse), returns with the fallout of Halloween night and murder of Garrett (Yani Gellman), and with Mona’s (Janel Parrish) release from the Radley Sanitarium and return to Rosewood High School looking for a fresh start with the people she’s spent the better part of her time on the show tormenting as the mysterious “A.”

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Teen Titans #15

/ / Comics

teen-titans-new-52-15-coverLike pretty much every other issue of Death of the Family, Teen Titans #15 is a mess that makes less sense the more you read it. Once again we get the Joker capturing a member of the Bat Family (this time Red Robin) and torturing him by saying (but once again failing to offer a single piece of evidence) that he knows the identities of every member of the Bat brood.

For no reason that makes any sense, the Joker dresses Red Robin in his classic Robin costume before talking at him non-stop for the rest of the issue. Meanwhile, the rest of the Teen Titans reach out to Batgirl for help now that they are lost in Gotham without their leader.

Although Batgirl proves less than helpful (as she tells them, as nicely as possible, to fuck off and deal with their own issues), the team does run into Arsenal and Starfire, seeking out their own member of the Bat Family, as the issue catches up with the final page of Red Hood and the Outlaws #15. I’m so ready for this crossover to end. Hit and Miss.

[DC, $2.99]

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News and Notes

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ECRAN LARGE has posted the new poster and new pics for writer/director Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers which stars Selena Gomez,  James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Ashley Benson. You can see some of the previously released images for the film here

BAFTA has released their full list of nominees for this year’s awards. Lincoln leads all contenders with 10 nominations (although Steven Spielberg didn’t get a nomination for director). My two favorite films of the year (Anna Karenina and Zero Dark Thirty) picked up six and five nominations respectively

TV Line is reporting actress Sarah Shahi will appear as a recurring character later this season on Person of Interest

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Smash – Season One

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Smash – The Complete First Season
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smash-season-one-dvdNBC’s attempt to cash-in on the success of Glee and American Idol produced an up-and-down first season of the soapy backstage goings on behind the scenes of a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Katharine McPhee stars as Broadway newbie Karen Cartwright, the most talented member of the cast eventually chosen by the show’s director (Jack Davenport) as the show’s lead, even if he is dating her main competition (Megan Hilty). Other storylines involve the various love lives of the musical’s writers (Christian Borle, Debra Messing), bedhopping, drug problems, and the struggles of the show’s producer (Anjelica Huston) in both her personal and professional life.

The addition of Uma Thurman late in the season as a Hollywood celebrity who lacks the singing and dancing chops necessary to pull off the lead of a musical offered the role of Marilyn to keep the flagging production afloat, is, like everything else about the First Season, only partially successful.

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Castle – Significant Others

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  • Title: Castle – Significant Others
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Castle - Significant Others

Castle’s (Nathan Fillion) life gets infinitely more complicated when Alexis (Molly C. Quinn) returns home from school suffering from mono, his ex-wife Meredith (Darby Stanchfield) arrives unannounced, and Beckett (Stana Katic) moves in temporarily while her apartment is being fumigated. And then there’s that pesky murder of prominent female divorce attorney to solve.

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