Alan Rapp

First Look

  • Title: Person of Interest
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Premiering this fall on BBC One and BBC America is Atlantis, the new British fantasy-adventure inspired by Greek mythology and starring Jack Donnelly (as Jason), Mark Addy (as Hercules), Robert Emms (as Pythagoras), Aiysha Hart, Sarah Parish, and Juliet Stevenson. Here’s a preview of what’s to come plus you can find some promotional photos of the cast inside.

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Burn Notice – Reckoning

  • Title: Burn Notice – Reckoning
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“Sometimes sacrifices must be made.”

Burn Notice - Reckoning

Stuck between choosing between the life of Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and that of Sonia (Alona Tal) and his cushy new job as the head of James‘ (John Pyper-Ferguson) organization, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) makes the only choice possible and brings down the fury of a billionaire with his own private army on both him and his friends in the final episode of Burn Notice.

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Austenland may be a fun place to visit, but…

  • Title: Austenland
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Austenland

Based on the novel of the same name by Shannon Hale, writer and first-time director Jerusha Hess (co-writer of both Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) delivers a quirky, over-the-top, odd film that is more charming than it has any right to be. Showcasing how one may take fandom too far, Keri Russell stars as Jane Hayes, a middle-aged single woman with a lifelong obsession for the works of Jane Austen and a romantic life that has never lived up to her fantasies. Spending her entire savings, Jane books a vacation at an Austen-themed destination getaway where she might finally live out those fantasies as a woman from Austen’s era.

In the spirit of a Christopher Guest film that simultaneously celebrates and pokes fun at a particular niche, Austenland‘s premise could turned around any number of overzealous fans and the properties they embrace so religiously. However, anyone who has ever known a woman obsessed with Austen’s books may take a somewhat perverse glee in Jane’s realization that her time-period-appropriate assigned role isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

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