Samantha Morton and Jason Patric star as the unlikely pair of a sweet meter maid and an asshole of a parking officer who fall in love in Los Angeles. Teri Garr, Sonia Iris Lozada, Illeana Douglas, Paul Palo, and Rachel Wttman also star. Check out the official site. The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.
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Mike Myers plays a man raised by gurus who returns to the good ol’ USA to get into the self-help business. Yeah… Jessica Alba, Meagan Good, Ben Kingsley, Romany Malco, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake and The Daily Show‘s John Oliver also star. Check out the official site. The film begins trying to help itself at the box office on Friday.
Okay, this one’s not for everybody. This bleak look at the life of a girl raised by a serial killer, ushered in an out of psychiatric hospitals, abused by a doctor she believed loved her, and mother to a legacy of Grendel, isn’t what one would call a happy tale. Now available in a new hardcover collection from Dark Horse Comics, it is however worth a look.
Grendel: Devil Child takes a look at one of the most important transitionary characters of Matt Wagner‘s Grendel storyline.
The story follows the tragic life of young Stacy Palumbo, the adopted daughter who turned on Hunter Rose after learning of nighttime activities as the original Grendel. Stacy spends the entire length of this tale in and out of psychiatric institutes, never quite coming to grips with that fateful night she purposely sent Grendel and Argent to their doom.
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Grendel: Devil Quest is a curiosity, the less interesting alternative view of Grendel Prime’s travel through time searching for the original Grendel, Hunter Rose. Told through the perspectives of other characters in the future world first established in previous works such as Grendel: God and the Devil, Grendel: Devil’s Reign, and Grendel: War Child.
Those unfamiliar with the convoluted history of the futuristic versions of Grendel in the 26th Century may want to take a pass, or at least do some research before jumping into Grendel: Devil Quest.
The story’s main function is to show what is happening in the future after Jupiter’s coronation as the new Grendel-Khan. Most of the story revolves around the unsuccessful search by various factions for the missing cyborg Grendel Prime, who only makes the shortest of appearances here before vanishing in a time travel experiment before reappearing on final page (those wanting to know what happened should pick up Batman/Grendel).
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Ousting the director and cast of the last film the sequel finds Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) on the run from the US Military and introduces a new enemy – the Abomination (Tim Roth). William Hurt, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Robert Downey Jr. also star. Check out the official site. Norton has had a very public dispute with the film’s producers over the final cut of the film which he describes as “overblown.” The film smashes into theaters everywhere on Friday.
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