Based on the novel The Double by José Saramago, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a man who begins a bizarre journey for answers after discovering the existence of an actor who looks and sounds just like him. Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini also star. Enemy opens in limited release in select cities on March 14th.
The constant merry-go-round of the show’s Third Season continues as Monica (Dawn Olivieri) is fired for creating the hostile work environment that got her stabbed and Clyde (Ben Schwartz), trying to get in back in Marty’s (Don Cheadle) good graces and back with the old gang, looks to land a potentially huge client (Eliza Coupe) in a sexually promiscuous and potentially crazy former owner of huge website empire who also may just be his soul mate.
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Pieced together from found footage of the crew of the Europa One who lost contact with Earth halfway through their 22-month mission to Jupiter’s moon, the pseudo-documentary from director Sebastián Cordero includes a look at the problems which led to the missions success and failures at the fates of the various members of the crew (Daniel Wu, Christian Camargo, Karolina Wydra, Anamaria Marinca, Michael Nyqvist, and Sharlto Copley).
Not told in chronological order, and inter-spliced with interviews from those at NASA (Embeth Davidtz, Dan Fogler) both before and and after Europa One’s disappearance, the storytelling takes a while to get used to. Also troubling is Cordero’s over-reliance on glitches, light flashes, static, and the like which are meant to frame the “real story” as documented by the crew.
What the story does have going for it are the various mysteries which slowly unfold involving what happened to the crew and what they found on Jupiter’s moon.
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The end of “Who Goes There” marks the halfway point of the anthology’s first season and the midpoint of this storyline. It also gives Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart (Woody Harrelson) a legitimate lead on the crazed meth maker Reginald Ledoux (Charles Halford) who looks more and more like the killer the pair of detectives have been hunting for months. With no way to find Ledoux except through the biker gang who their suspect is now cooking meth for, Cohle goes undercover off-the-books renewing an old friendship that may lead him to a possible introduction. And, of course, that’s when things start going seriously wrong.
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Ms. Marvel #1 introduces the character who will taking over the name for Marvel’s new Marvel NOW! campaign (not to be confused with Marvel’s old Marvel NOW! campaign also currently still happening). The first issue from writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona does a good job at introducing us to Muslim teenager Kamala Khan and her close circle of dysfunctional friends and family.
The comic also gives us the origins of Kamala’s new powers with the magic fog and hallucinatory visions which leave her with super-powers and Carol Danvers‘ old costume. Neither the fog nor her vision is remotely explained leaving the reasoning behind the gift a mystery. Since we don’t see the character in costume until the final panel it’s also unclear what power set the new Ms. Marvel has at her disposal.
As an introduction to Kamala Ms. Marvel #1 works but as an introction to the new Ms. Marvel it feels incomplete. Although we do Kamala in Danvers’ old costume (which she rightly prefers) given the promotional materials (and comic’s variant cover) we know it’s not the costume she keeps. Worth a look.
[Marvel, $2.99]
