August 2016

Doc Hollywood

  • Title: Doc Hollywood
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Doc Hollywood1991’s Doc Hollywood is one of Michael J. Fox‘s better feature films that doesn’t involve a time-traveling DeLorean. On his way to Los Angeles to begin a promising career as a plastic surgeon, Dr. Benjamin Stone (Fox) runs into trouble in a small southern town where he’s sentenced by the local judge (Roberts Blossom) to hours of community service at the town’s hospital. Initially resistant to the situation, Stone eventually becomes enamored with the town’s charms – particularly those of the ambulance driver Lou (Julie Warner).

Doc Hollywood is a simple big city vs. small town story that Cars accomplishes with far more flair, but the supporting cast is strong (David Ogden Stiers, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda), and Fox and Warner are good together on-screen providing the chemistry needed to make the story work.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #29

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #29Stymied by the limitations of his role as a Vengeance Demon and the rules still in place on the Vampyr tome (which seem to come out of nowhere by the way) by Willow not allowing him to expand his power any further, D’Hoffryn and his minions (who include the no longer ghost duplicate version of Anya) attack Buffy and her friends.

The first-half of the season finale finally pits the Scoobies directly against the big bad Buffy’s decision making helped create. Revealing Anya to the rest of the team, to the suprise of all the Scoobies except Xander, D’Hoffryn takes special glee in how his new disciple deals with her kinda-sorta former fiance.

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Killjoys – Meet the Parents

  • Title: Killjoys – Meet the Parents
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Killjoys - Meet the Parents

Family is the common theme in both the A and B stories of “Meet the Parents.” While Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) escorts Pawter (Sarah Power) home to Kresh to plead with her disapproving mother to step in and save Old Town, Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) and D’Avin‘s (Luke Macfarlane) simple bounty gets complicated by Khlyen (Rob Stewart) who, while digging for answers about what makes D’Avin so special, accidentally swaps the two men’s consciousness allowing for D’Avin’s reunion with his father and giving Dutch the opportunity to talk directly to the man who made her what she is today.

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Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1

Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1Hal Jordan‘s search for the missing Green Lantern Corps begins here. Following the Rebirth issue that returned our hero to his classic costume and ring-slinging ways, Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1 features Green Lantern beginning his search for answers to what happened to the Corps.

Meanwhile, in their absence, the Sinestro Corps has grown powerful. Taking over the duties of their enemies, Sinestro‘s minions scour the known universe to control by fear. Aboard Warworld, a weakened and weary Sinestro is also reborn as it looks like he may be the latest host for the Parallax entity.

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