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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

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  • Title: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
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green-lantern-emerald-knightsThe latest animated feature from DC Animation is a sequel to 2009’s Green Lantern: First Flight. There’s a little continuity juggling from the first film (Hal Jordan is a veteran and Sinestro is still part of the Corps). The focus here isn’t on Earth’s Green Lantern but other members of the Green Lantern Corps.

As the threat of Krona‘s return looms Hal Jordan (Nathan Fillion) takes new recruit Arisia (Elisabeth Moss) under his wing and regales her with tales of different Green Lanterns over the course of the Corps’ history.

“The First Lantern” tells the tale of Avra (Mitchell Whitfield), a scribe chosen as one of first Green Lanterns and the first to use to ring to create a construct. “Kilowog” shows Kilowog‘s (Henry Rollins) and Tomar-Re‘s (James Arnold Taylor) first adventure with the hard-as-nails drill instructor Deegan (Wade Williams) who makes Kilowog look fluffy by comparison.

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Psych – The Complete Fifth Season

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  • Title: Psych – The Complete Fifth Season
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psych-season-five-dvdAfter five seasons on the air Psych delivers what is arguably its best season to date. Why own the Complete Fifth Season on DVD? Oh, let me count the reasons!

The season stars with a terrific Kung Fu episode before giving us aliens, a Scooby-Doo mystery, drag racing Fast and Furious-style, the return of master art thief Despereaux (Cary Elwes), a spy (Franka Potente) on the run, an opening composed by Tears for Fears, and a Polar Bear wanted for murder.

We also get an episode that pits Gus (Dulé Hill) &; Lasseter (Timothy Omundson) against Juliet (Maggie Lawson) & Shawn (James Roday), Shawn and Gus compete against couple of Henry’s old cop buddies (Carl Weathers, William Devane) to solve a case, a Police Academy episode featuring The Karate Kid‘s Ralph Macchio, a Pych version of It’s a Wonderful Life with UPN Sitcom Gus and Bad Santa‘s Tony Cox, and the return of serial killers Yin (Peter Weller) and Yang (Ally Sheedy).

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Drive Angry

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  • Title: Drive Angry
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The biggest problem with this grindhouse/70’s style car flick from Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier is the almost complete lack of fun. A little humor, maybe a couple of sly winks at the camera, would have helped a story hellbent (so to speak) on trying to be gritty.

Nicolas Cage stars as an escaped soul from Hell who has returned to Earth to kill the leader of a Satanic cult (Billy Burke) who murdered his daughter and plans to sacrifice his granddaughter to bring about Hell on Earth. He’s assisted by a spunky waitress (Amber Heard, the only one here who seems to be enjoying herself) and hunted by an Accountant (William Fichtner) enlisted to return him to Hell.

Here’s what I knew going into Drive Angry: Nicolas Cage is occasionally wildly entertaining when choosing crazy projects like this one, and Amber Heard is really hot.

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Once Upon a Time in the West

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
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Although I know many love it, I’ve never been a big fan of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In fact the only film I really enjoy out of the “Man with No Name” trilogy is the second film – For a Few Dollars More. For my money Sergio Leone‘s best western, and his best film, is Once Upon a Time in the West.

Co-written by Leone’s longtime partner Sergio Donati, Once Upon a Time in the West is a love letter to the mythology of the Old West and more than thirty American Westerns Leone had deep affection (several of which are referenced throughout the film including High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Iron Horse, and The Magnificent Seven).

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The Mechanic

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  • Title: The Mechanic (2011)
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Remakes, Hollywood’s second favorite shortcut (after sequels) for quickly churning out mediocre flicks. If I have seen the original 1972 film with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent I don’t remember it. And there’s nothing in the remake that makes me think I’ve missed anything.

This version stars Jason Statham as hitman Arthur Bishop who takes on the son (Ben Foster) of a old friend (Donald Sutherland) he was forced to kill.

As action flicks go this version by director Simon West is average at best. There’s plenty of poor decision making and plot holes where the story is sacrificed for more action scenes. I also found the film’s main villain (played by Tony Goldwyn) to be rather bland. His near limitless supply of generic soldiers are even less memorable than he is. If a movie is only as good as its villain The Mechanic is pretty damn forgettable.

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