Lucy Hale covers Venice
Pretty Little Liar Lucy Hale is a cover girl for the Fall issue of Venice. You can find the pics from her photo shoot inside.
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Velvet – The Man Who Stole the World
- Title: Velvet Volume 3
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Ed Brubaker
- Artist: Steve Epting
The third volume of Velvet collects issues #11-15 of the Cold War spy series as framed super-spy Velvet Templeton returns to the United States searching for answers and ultimately bringing her face-to-face with the person responsible for destroying her twice – first as her agency’s top covert agent by tricking her into killing the man she loved, and then years later by framing her for the murder of another close associate. Although she isn’t able to reclaim her life by the end of this volume, Velvet’s search for justice will come to head.
If you haven’t been reading writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting’s series on a monthly basis (why wouldn’t you? this series is awesome!), these trade paperbacks make for a pretty fair value.
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Marvel’s Luke Cage – Moment of Truth
- Title: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Moment of Truth
- wiki: link
“Moment of Truth” is a problematic first episode which doesn’t completely sell me on Marvel’s latest television series. For a series supposedly centered around its title character, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) himself is mostly sleepwalking through the series premiere of the new Netflix series. Even what we do see of the character, introduced previously as a recurring character in Jessica Jones, such as his low-key life as a dishwasher and barbershop janitor will be thrown completely out the window by the end of the first episode when the corruption and violence around him will finally force Luke to take a stand. Instead we get teases about the character’s unexplored past while most of “Moment of Truth” works on world building and setting up the various characters of Harlem. While its possible some of this work may eventually pay off down the line over the series’ 13 episodes, we’re not given much to suggest that its probable that will be the case.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- IMDb: link
Adapted from Ransom Riggs‘ novel of the same name, Tim Burton‘s latest tells the story of high school outcast named Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield) who is drawn into a mystical and macabre world following his grandfather’s (Terence Stamp) death as he discovers all the childhood bedtimes stories told to him are actually based on real people and real events just waiting for Jake to find them.
As a film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children features all the trademarks of Burton’s style, although without Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter the movie feels more serious and less madcap than several of the director’s more recent projects. As a story, the movie feels very much like a book (somewhat akwardly) adapted to film. The odd story moves in fits and starts introducing Jake’s life prior to his grandfather’s death, his psychoanalysis, and his journey to England with his father (Chris O’Dowd), before getting down to introducing Miss Peregrine (Eva Green in the role Helena Bonham Carter would usually play) and her unusual students all trapped in a time-loop in a single day during WWII where they are safe from the monsters hunting them.
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Blindspot – Hero Fears Imminent Rot
- Title: Blindspot – Hero Fears Imminent Rot
- wiki: link
While the rest of the team is busy hunting the group responsible for a series of bombings around New York, Jane (Jaimie Alexander) is given a test by Sheppard (Michelle Hurd). Although Jane will fail her assignment to kill as ordered to by Sandstorm, Roman (Luke Mitchell) will step in to cover for his sister. Shaken from the experience, but now accepted by the organization, Jane is offered some ominous words of wisdom from her brother stating he will do whatever it takes to bring back the sister he lost before Sandstorm wiped Jane’s memories. Roman also suggests Sandstorm’s plans will now proceed quickly (which would be news to both the show’s writers and its audience).
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