July 2014

Pretty Little Liars – Thrown From the Ride

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – Thrown From the Ride
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Pretty Little Liars - Thrown From the Ride

With Aria (Lucy Hale) obsessed about Shana (Aeriel Miranda), Emily (Shay Mitchell) helping train Sydney (Chloe Bridges) while avoiding Alison (Sasha Pieterse), and Spencer‘s (Troian Bellisario) focus on the discovery of Mrs. DiLaurentis‘ body and the secrets she correctly believes her family is keeping from her, it falls on Hanna (Ashley Benson) to accompany Alison to a medical check-up where several more questions about her missing time come up including the cause of knife wound the young woman refuses to discuss. The stress doesn’t do much for Hanna either as she returns to her old shoplifting habits after following Alison’s instructions to give more lies to her friends to memorize.

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Covert Affairs – False Skorpion

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Covert Affairs – False Skorpion

Intelligence that the one remaining member of the terrorist cell responsible for the attack on the CIA offices in Chicago leads both Annie (Piper Perabo) and Ryan McQuaid (Nic Bishop) to Venezuela to track him down. Despite realizing the skills and resources each other bring to the table, Annie and McQuaid fight working together as each attempts to one-up the other to stay one-step ahead of their competition.

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Longmire – Wanted Man

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  • Title: Longmire – Wanted Man
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“Did you ever feel that you created more evil than you stop?”

Longmire - Wanted Man

With Branch (Bailey Chase) on forced leave to recuperate (while actually still searching for David Ridges), and Walt (Robert Taylor) taking personal time to look up a few old enemies (Peter Stormare, Rodney Eastman, Kenneth Wayne Bradley) he believes capable of masterminding the the deaths of his wife, his wife’s killer, and Henry’s impending trail, Vic (Katee Sackhoff) is left in charge to deal with a missing rooster and a complaint by Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) that a Native American was drugged and kidnapped by two white men. When the man figures Travis (Derek Phillips) as one of his attackers, Vic begins to grow suspicious especially after Branch alibis his friend with a story so weak Vic immediately pokes holes in it.

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Can a Song Save Your Life?

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  • Title: Begin Again
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Begin Again

Written and directed by John Carney, Begin Again is simply a joy to watch. At times this tale of the mismatched pair of a record label exec (Mark Ruffalo) whose life is swirling around the drain and a young singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) dealing with crushing rejection of her now-successful longtime writing partner and boyfriend (Adam Levine) comes dangerously close to being too cute for its own good. Thankfully Carney’s choice to ground the film in serious issues such as heartbreak, betrayal, estranged families, and politics of the music business balances the film’s hopeful tone and message to prevent the movie from ever becoming too cliche or sappy.

While Ruffalo provides both angst and humor, Knightley is the soul of the film. Having only seen her sing in short segments of The Edge of Love (a movie worth seeing more for her performance more than anything else), I was thrilled to find a her lilting voice the perfect match for the indie songwriter thousands of miles from home dealing the emotional yo-yo of immediate heartbreak and at the same time a once-in-a-lifetime record offer.

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Batman ’66 #12

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Batman '66 #12Neither Marsha, Queen of Diamonds nor the Minstrel rank high the list of Batman‘s rogues gallery, but that doesn’t stop the latest issue of Batman ’66 from delivering another fun issue. The main story focuses on Marsha’s obsession with locating the world’s largest diamond which just happens to be housed in the Batcave.

Although the villain and her minions break into the Batcave and steal the diamond, writer Jeff Parker works in a reasonable explanation why Martha doesn’t know her exact location or choose to stick around to learn the true identity of the Dynamic Duo. The thread of the time-freezing potion created by Marsha’s witchy Aunt Hilda is less effective, but does make Martha a bit more formidable.

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