Backup singers Merry Clayton, Darlene Love, Claudia Lennear, Lisa Fischer, and Judith Hill take center stage in this new documentary from filmmkaker Morgan Neville that includes interviews from Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, and others. Twenty Feet from Stardom opens in limited release in select cities on June 14th.
The Third Season of Rookie Blue continues to looks at the latest crop of police academy graduates now serving in uniform with the 15 Division. Three seasons in you can’t really call the group rookies any more, but the show’s continued focus is the growth and development of its five young officers (and their, at times soap operatic personal lives): Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym), Gail Peck (Charlotte Sullivan), Traci Nash (Enuka Okuma), Chris Diaz (Travis Milne), and Dov Epstein (Gregory Smith).
Season Three includes more romantic troubles for the rookies. Nick Collins (Peter Mooney) in introduced as a new rookie as well as the Gail’s old flame (and potential new love interest). We also get an annoying amount of Andy’s on-again/off-again relatinship with Sam Swarek (Ben Bass), Epstein getting romantically involved with the sister (Mouna Traoré) of a gangbanger he shot and killed, and the tragic end of Traci’s relationship with Jerry Barber (Noam Jenkins) when Barber is killed in the line of duty.
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We now have our first look at both the trailer and teaser poster for Ender’s Game based on Orson Scott Card‘s award-winning 1985 sci-fi novel of the same name. Asa Butterfield stars as Ender Wiggin, a young prodigy sent into space to train to become the world’s best hope for survival against an alien race that nearly wiped out all life on Earth. Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Moises Arias, Aramis Knight, Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak, Suraj Partha, and Khylin Rhambo also star. Ender’s Game opens in theaters on November 1st.
Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle’s (Nathan Fillion) latest investigation is stymied when Homeland Security closes the crime scene of the car bombing. Without a body or a crime scene, Beckett continues the investigation by talking to the victim’s widow (Catherine Dent) and son (Shane Coffey) who believe he was killed for his whistleblowing website which revealed highly damaging documents concerning corporations, politicians, and several government agencies. Things get even more interesting when they discover their victim was killed not from a car bomb, but by an unmanned aerial drone. Despite Castle’s assertions that the drone may have achieved sentience and attacked on its own, Beckett begins looking into where the drone came from and why it was used as a bizarre method of murder.
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The calm before the storm finds the ronin of Lord Asano scattered across the land working as farmers or laborers, or, as in the instance of Oishi Kuranosuke Yoshio, shaming any lasting respect they might have by playing the role of a town drunk. After months of planning, Kira Yoshinaka has finally been lulled into a sense of security and begins to fire some of his guards and spies as he plans to move into his new palace.
Hearing the news they have been waiting for, the group finally gathers to fulfill their vow to return the honor of their fallen lord and exact their vengeance of Kira. Oishi joins the group, after taking care of a spy who has glimpsed his drunken buffoonery is nothing more than an act, setting up for what should be an action-heavy final issue next month.
Writer Mike Richardson and artist Stan Sakai’s retelling of the classic Japanese legend has been heavy on story and character, but that should change with the series’ finale. (And, even more importantly, it will free Sakai to return to doing what he does best – write and draw Usagi Yojimbo.) Worth a look.
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