Alan Rapp

Arrow – The Promise

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Arrow - The Promise

Presented mostly in extended flashbacks to the island, and back in the present with Oliver (Stephen Amell) being forced to humor the devil in their midst when Moira (Susanna Thompson) and Thea (Willa Holland) show Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) around the Queen home, “The Promise” deals with the relationship between the two men and the series of events which turned friend into enemy. The well-coordinated attack on Ivo’s tanker succeeds as Oliver, Sara (Caity Lotz), and Slade take the ship but when Ivo tells Slade the circumstances under which Shado (Celina Jade) died everything goes straight to hell.

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Mind Games – Asymmetric Dominance

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  • Title: Mind Games – Asymmetric Dominance
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Mind Games - Asymmetric Dominance

Hired by a lifetime executive about to be overlooked for the job as the company’s new CEO (Becky Ann Baker), Ross (Christian Slater) and Clark (Steve Zahn) are hired to make sure that doesn’t happen. Using Asymmetric Dominance (which gives the series’ second episode its name), the group adds a third candidate to the final pool in an attempt to make their client stand out from the pack as the obvious choice. Clark’s public display almost looses the firm the account they desperately need to stay afloat, but that’s nowhere near the problem they run into when their decoy refuses to play the game.

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Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #2

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Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #2Complications with Zoe‘s pregnancy leave the crew of Serenity with a newborn baby to care for and a forced trip to an Alliance medical ship where the crew, to protect themselves and young Emma, must leave the injured ship’s first mate in the hands of their enemy.

That’s hardly the only trouble for the crew as Jayne leads the leaders of the new resistance to their messiah who (not surprisingly) has no interest in joining or leading their cause, especially after Mal correctly deduces that rebels have brought trouble right to his door.

Jayne swapping places with Zoe means we’re still without a full crew, and River‘s choice to put herself in a medically-induced coma to find more information like Miranda which can be uses as leverage against the Alliance proves the young woman‘s timing hasn’t improved as it leaves her defenseless, and the ship down another crew member, when Jubal Early catches up with Serenity once more. Worth a look.

[Dark Horse, $3.50]

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Pretty Little Liars – Cover For Me

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – Cover For Me
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Pretty Little Liars - Cover For Me

As Spencer (Troian Bellisario) returns from rehab only to find herself under house arrest, cut off from her friends, and with a sobriety coach (Nathaniel Buzolic) hired to help her through the next several days Aria (Lucy Hale) spends a weekend at Syracuse University under the guise of a campus visit but really to get distance and perspective on Ezra (Ian Harding) and his betrayal. Ditching the scheduled activities, Aria spends her time with another prospective Freshman (Nick Roux). As Aria drowns her sorrows and finds the courage to return home and confront Ezra, Spencer fights being cut-off from her friends and the return of suppressed memories that make her believe she may have attempted to kill Alison (Sasha Pieterse) on the night she disappeared.

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1994 – The Chase

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  • Title: The Chase
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The ChaseReleased on or around this date 20 years ago, The Chase is by no definition a good movie. However, despite its many faults the absurd road chase of falsely convicted Jack Hammond (Charlie Sheen), his rich-bitch hostage (Kristy Swanson), and the various cops, rednecks, and documentary crew following them to the Mexican border does provide some dumb-fun moments (along with one of the most preposterous sex scenes ever filmed).

Other than The Phantom, The Chase is arguably Swanson’s best movie role (especially for those of us who far prefer Sarah Michelle Gellar in the role of cheerleader turned vampire hunter Buffy Summers). At its best The Chase is a guilty pleasure fans of Sheen and Swanson can enjoy without using any more brain power than those who put the film together in the first place.

Available on DVD (but not Blu-ray), the only feature the home video version includes is the ability to watch the film in either Full Screen or Widescreen.

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