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White Collar – Digging Deeper

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White Collar - Digging Deeper

When the full skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex on its way to the Natural Museum of History is stolen Peter (Tim DeKay) and Neal (Matt Bomer) go hunting CEO Brett Forsythe (Zeljko Ivanek) who has a known love for both ancient artifacts and a willingness to go to whatever lengths to acquire them. With Mozzie’s help, Neal crafts a copy of the T-Rex egg in their possession to sell to Forsythe in hopes that it may lead them to the skeleton.

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Stories We Tell

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  • Title: Stories We Tell
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Stories We TellFor her latest film actress/writer/director Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own past in a series of inter-cut interviews with family and friends of her mother dragging the family’s darkest secrets into the light including her mother’s affair around the time of Polley’s conception raising life-long questions about her true parentage.

Stories We Tell offers several different viewpoints of the past, old home video, video recreations using actors, and emails and letters from over the years read directly into the tale. The father who raised her provides the narration (under the direction of his daughter) adding yet another unique spin to the story, especially given how those family secrets change his relationship with his daughter.

The result is an emotional and spellbinding tale of a search for understanding and truth and how we remember and retell personal stories that likely delivers far more for both Polley and audiences than she originally intended.

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Legends of Red Sonja #2

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Legends of Red Sonja #2The second issue of the latest Red Sonja mini-series isn’t as strong as the first, offering only two tales of Red Sonja’s exploits for the Grey Riders with not much in the way of pushing their hunt for Sonja forward in he segments in-between by Gail Simone and artist Jack Jadson.

Although it ends with a nice twist, the tale of Red Sonja’s cowardice and ineptitude from a fellow adventurer didn’t do much for me. The second tale of Sonja taking on the protection of a young girl and her mother is a bit hit-and-miss as well, although once again the tale does find a way to offer a nice wink to the reader at the expense of the villains. I also didn’t think the various styles of the three artist meshed as well this time around.

Undeterred from the tales of the She-Devil with a Sword’s heroics in the first issue, which weren’t having the desired effect, Sonja sets out to pull back on the legend a bit in hopes that the group may overconfidence when their paths finally do meet on the battlefield. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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The Cooper Extraction

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Cooper Extraction
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The Cooper Extraction

With his sister about to give birth to his nephew, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) heads home to Texas leaving the rest of the gang, including Stuart (Kevin Sussman), to spend the night together for a Christmas tree trimming party which leads to each fantasizing about their lives if none of them had ever met Sheldon.

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Lea Michele is one Elle of a woman

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Lea Michele - Elle (December 2013)

In her interview for the December issue of Elle, actress Lea Michele discusses her relationship both on and off screen with Cory Monteith and his passing, her upcoming solo album Louder, her parents, Glee‘s success, her first singing role on stage, her upcoming book Brunette Ambition, her break in Spring Awakenings, and staying with Kate Hudson after Monteith’s death. You can find the pics from her cover shoot inside.

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