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Anomalisa

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AnomalisaBased on his play, Charlie Kaufman‘s stop-motion feature focuses on depressed self-help author (David Thewlis) in a Cincinnati hotel the night before the latest stop on his book tour. Alternatively charming and tedious, Anomalisa delivers a collection of mundane and awkward experiences and conversations highlighted by the author, who hears everyone he’s ever met speaking in Tom Noonan‘s voice, meeting an insecure young woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) whose voice breaks the self-help guru out of his melancholy.

Centering a film around a lonely puppet with questionable sanity who hears the world in monotone makes for an unique film experience. That said, Anomalisa is a film I could never quite wrap my arms around and embrace. Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson certainly tap into some real human emotion, but with the focus on the boredom, monotony, and depression of the life of our schmuck of a protaganist all Kaufman really has to explore is that same boredom, monotony, and depression with no end in sight. Dragging its way through several scenes, Anomalisa is a 90-minute film that often feels quite a bit longer.

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Shadowhunters – The Descent Into Hell Isn’t Easy

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Shadowhunters - The Descent Into Hell Isn't Easy

Picking up where the show’s Pilot episode left off, “The Descent Into Hell Isn’t Easy” introduces Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) and her nerdy pal Simon (Alberto Rosende) to the secret world of the Shadowhunters (Dominic Sherwood, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario). Learning more about the world which her mother (Maxim Roy) kept from her, and about the war between the Shadowhunters and the Circle, and suffering another loss of a good friend, Clara embarks on a risky undertaking to the City of Bones where the warlocks known as the Silent Brothers may have the ability to restore the young woman’s memories.

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Galavant – About Last Knight

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Galavant - About Last Knight

On their journey to find recruits to help rescue Isabella (Karen David), Galavant (Harry Collett) reaches his father’s (Greg Wise) lands where he has trouble reconciling the child-loving man in front of him who runs a swordsmanship school for at-risk youth with the father who raised him. Meanwhile the growing romantic feelings between Gareth (Vinnie Jones) and Madalena (Mallory Jansen) become a problem for Sid (Luke Youngblood) who is forced to flee the kingdom and for the Queen who struggles to give Gareth a proper birthday present he can appreciate.

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Pretty Little Liars – Charlotte’s Web

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Pretty Little Liars - Charlotte's Web

After introducing, but the quickly dismissing Aria (Lucy Hale) as a potential suspect in CeCe “Charlotte DiLaurentis” Drake‘s (Vanessa Ray) murder, the latest episode of Pretty Little Liars focuses on continuing to fill-in the lives of the Liars after they left Rosewood five years ago. “Charlotte’s Web” not only introduces us to Hanna‘s (Ashley Benson) fiance (David Coussins) but also gives us a look into Aria’s new office boyfriend (Roberto Aguire). Forced to return to Rosewood for work, Aria attempts to convince Ezra (Ian Harding) to finish his book for the publisher she now works for and face the possibility that Ezra could be the one who killed A.

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