February 2013

The Cooper/Kripke Inversion

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Cooper/Kripke Inversion
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“Tell him my coitus with Amy is frequent, intense, and whimsically inventive.”

The Cooper/Kripke Inversion

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) is outraged to lean he’ll be forced to work with Kripke (John Ross Bowie) on the proposal for the university’s new fusion reactor. What frustrates Sheldon even more is admitting to Amy (Mayim Bialik) that after trading research with Kripke, as they prepare to work on the proposal together, he has discovered his nemesis work is “leaps and bounds” ahead of his own.

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A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Love Story

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  • Title: Warm Bodies
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warm-bodies-posterNever was there a tale of love condemned more than that of Julie (Teresa Palmer) and her zombie boyfriend (Nicholas Hoult). One is a human-acting zombie from the wrong side of the tracks. The other is the tempestuous daughter of the leader (John Malkovich) of the army obsessed with blasting the brain-eaters off the face off the Earth.

From writer/director Jonathan Levine (50/50, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) comes a post-apocalyptic zombie love story take on William Shakespeare‘s classic Romeo and Juliet which definitely has a pulse.

Presented from the point of view of R (Hault), a thoughtful zombie who begins to believe he can be more than just an undead scavenger after meeting Julie (Palmer) and eating her boyfriend’s (Dave Franco) brains, Levine’s script is far more clever than I expected. Warm Bodies may not reach the heights of Shaun of the Dead, but with some heart and a good sense of humor this new take on a classic love story embraces the more absurdist elements of it’s premise and is a surprisingly compelling and entertaining story.

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Quartet

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  • Title: Quartet
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quartet-posterQuartet, which marks actor Dustin Hoffman‘s first time behind the camera in the director’s chair, is a perfectly fine (if completely unremarkable) film.

Adapted by Ronald Harwood from his play of the same name, the plot centers around the goings-on at a British retirement home for musicians. Our leading foursome is made up of a stroke victim who has lost the ability to censor himself (Billy Connolly), an increasingly confused busybody dealing with the on-set of Alzheimer’s (Pauline Collins), and the buttoned-down Reggie (Tom Courtenay) whose life is thrown upside down by the arrival of the famous former fourth member of their illustrious quartet, his ex-wife Jean (Maggie Smith).

Most of the film is devoted into two stories. The first involves Jean trying to earn Reggie’s forgiveness and reconnect with the love of her life who she lost to a terrible mistake in judgement decades ago. Pretty much by the book, you can probably guess exactly how this plotline plays out.

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