Alan Rapp

Kick-Ass 2

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Kick-Ass 2
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Kick-Ass 2The work of comic writer Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) is an acquired taste. Although he writes super-hero comics, complete with brightly-colored masks and spandex, his gritty nihilistic visions often don’t paint a very rosy picture of the world which he seems to believe are predominantly filled with irrevocably fucked-up human beings.

Realizing this, the original Kick-Ass movie made some big changes to the source material. The choice to undercut some of the more gruesome elements with humor worked in its favor (as it does with the sequel). However, the sequel is also stuck with a couple of large plot changes that have to be addressed in Kick-Ass 2.

The first movie saw Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) get the girl (something not even considered a remote possibility in the original work). The problem of what to do with Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca) is easily handled as the movie quickly, much to my disappointment, writes Fonseca’s character out of the movie never to be heard from, or spoken of, again.

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Perception – Asylum

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Perception – Asylum
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“This is by far the dumbest idea you have ever had.”

Perception - Asylum

Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack) gets himself committed to an psychiatric hospital in order to help an old friend (David Paymer) whose client (Gia Mantegna) is charged with killing a nurse and then swallowing the murder weapon. The troubled young woman admits the second, but not the first, and Pierce recklessly goes inside the sanitarium to investigate the woman’s doctor (Peter Jacobson) and members of her group therapy (Marina Benedict, Rob LaBelle, Lou George, Bambadjan Bamba, Johanna Braddy) while being haunted by hallucinations of Sigmund Freud (Judd Hirsch).

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: CBGB
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Here’s a look at the first trailer for CBGB, a look at the story behind the rise of Hilly Kristal‘s (Alan Rickman) famous Manhattan live music venue. Donal Logue, Ashley Greene, Freddy Rodríguez, Johnny Galecki, Malin Akerman, Stana Katic, Rupert Grint, Bradley Whitford, Mickey Sumner, Justin Bartha, Richard de Klerk, Joel David Moore, and Taylor Hawkins star. The film is set to premiere at the CBGB Festival on October 11th.

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Fairest #18

/ / Comics

Fairest #18The odd plague which was introduced in the last issue is further developed here as Prince Charming loses a pair of fingers to the the malady only to regrow his hand. Whether his healing came from the notoriety of his legend or the discovery of the depths of his feelings for Nalayani is a left a bit up in the air.

I thought last month’s issue got far too sidetracked with Charming’s story while shoving Nalayani to the background. This issue focuses much more on the pair together. Although it’s hard to accept Charming’s feelings as true love (wasn’t he just gleefully boffing members of his harem an issue ago?) I will be curious to see where exactly these new-found feelings lead the story and Prince Charming.

Fairest #18 is certainly an improvement over last month’s issue, but it does have weird jumps in action such as the rivalry back at the maharaja’s camp and Charming’s attack of the crocodile that aren’t properly set-up and seem a bit out of place with the focus of the issue, and whose inclusion disrupts the flow of the story. For fans.

[Vertigo, $2.99]

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Fading Gigolo
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John Turturro writes, directs, and stars in this offbeat story of a florist (Tuturro) who is convinced by an old friend (Woody Allen) who convinces the man to make some much needed money by becoming a male prostitute. Sofía Vergara, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis, Bob Balaban, Eugenia Kuzmina, Tonya Pinkins, and Jade Dixon also star. Fading Gigolo is set to premiere at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival next month.

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