Alan Rapp

Arrow – Vendetta

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Green Arrow – Vendetta
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Despite Diggle’s (David Ramsey) objections, Oliver (Stephen Amell) gets romantically involved with Helena (Jessica De Gouw) and begins training her to be a crossbow-wielding Starling City vigilante known as the Huntress.  Together the pair take down another name on Oliver’s list,  a crack dealer who works for Helena’s father, but  his influence, which isn’t helped by an awkward double-date with Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Merlyn (Colin Donnell), can’t stop her from starting a gang war by killing the leader of the Triad to weaken her father (Jeffrey Nordling) and make the mob boss pay for the death of her fiance.

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Star Trek: Into Darkness
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We now have our first teaser for Star Trek: Into Darkness, and, apparently, Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Bane. There’s been much hullabullo across the Internet about whether the actor is or is not playing Khan Noonien Singh in the Star Trek sequel, but the similarities to Tom Hardy‘s villain from The Dark Knight Rises in this trailer are a little hard to ignore. Whatever the name of his character, it appears Cumberbatch is Starfleet’s reckoning. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, and Bruce Greenwood all return. Alice Eve and Peter Weller also star. Star Trek: Into Darkness opens in theaters on May 17th.

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Masks #1

/ / Comics

masks-dynamite-1-coverDynamite Entertainment’s idea to combine as many of their characters together as possible in the crossover Masks is an interesting, albeit it odd, idea. The Shadow, The Green Hornet and Kato, and The Spider all work together to stop the rise of “The Justice Party,” a group of criminals who have wormed their way into office and are turning New York City into a fascist police state.

Over the course of the comic several other Dynamite properties will be introduced as well including Black Bat, Miss Fury, Black Terror, the Green Lama, and (perhaps most perplexing) Zorro. When you get to the point where you are forcing Zorro into a late 1930’s fascist alternate reality of New York you have to wonder why Dynamite stopped there and didn’t decide to throw in Robocop, Red Sonja, Vampirella, Army of Darkness, and John Carter as well.

Cliff Roberson, whose work I very much enjoyed on his his pair of Fables mini-series centered around Cinderella (Fables are Forever, From Fabletown with Love), makes the bizarre plot work – at least for an issue.

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Leverage – The White Rabbit Job

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  • Title: Leverage – The White Rabbit Job
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“This con is unpredictable. It can break a mark. It can break a grifter. It can break a team.”

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The Leverage team attempts the impossible con to save a small town by turning the the owner of an energy company (Andrew Bowen) back into the man he used to be before he started massive cuts and laying off workers en masse in an attempt unload his grandfather’s company. By offering the Dodson a 10-day cure for his panic attack Sophie (Gina Bellman) gets their mark into Hardison’s (Aldis Hodge) “Dreamnasium” where they attempt radical behavior modification through the man’s dreams and Elliot’s (Christian Kane) drug-induced hallucinations.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ha’awe Make Loa

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ha’awe Make Loa
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“This is my most favorite day of all-time.”

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While Danny (Scott Caan) searches for a man stalking and threatening a Victoria’s Secret model (Behati Prinsloo), McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and the rest of the team rally around Max (Masi Oka) who got stuck in the middle of a bank robbery gone wrong resulting in two gunshot victims including the bank teller (Rumer Willis) the M.E. has had a serious crush on for months.

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