The Blacklist – Luther Braxton: Conclusion

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The Blacklist - Luther Braxton: Conclusion

With Luther Braxton (Ron Perlman) escaping the CIA black site with Lizzie (Megan Boone) who he now realizes is the key to finding the Fulcrum, Reddington (James Spader) goes on the warpath to bring Lizzie home. As expected, the conclusion of the two-part episode offers us some insight into Lizzie’s past but (as the doctor forced to perform the dangerous memory therapy on her states) much of what she remembered may actually be wrong leaving us right back where we started.

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Backstrom – Takes One to Know One

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Backstrom - Takes One to Know One

One of the hardest needles to thread for a TV-show with a persnickety lead characters is how much of an asshole you allow he/she to become before they go from gruff to unlikable. Last week’s episode of Backstrom edged over that line but “Takes One to Know One” attempts to reign in Detective-Lieutenant Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) in a little this week with the introduction of Sarah Chalke as an old girlfriend, now in a position of power in the department to enforce changes she wanted him to make when they were together, and the reveal of the guilt the man feels for some of his more underhanded antics.

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Stalker – Lost and Found

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Stalker - Lost and Found

What begins as a straightforward case of a troubled high school girl (Cole Bernstein) with a crush apparently stalking and attacking a high school coach (Andrew W. Walker) soon becomes far more complex when Beth (Maggie Q) and Jack (Dylan McDermott) discover the coach isn’t the only target of the attacks but the girl as well. Following her boyfriend’s attack and a leaked video of the coach having sex with a girl resembling her, Jenny becomes an instant social outcast in the school as her stalker (Caitlin Carver) continues to isolate her from any support system.

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Jupiter Ascending

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Jupiter AscendingJupiter Ascending is insane (and only occasionally in a good way). The latest from the Wachowskis casts Mila Kunis in the starring role as an illegal immigrant house cleaner who is actually the resurrected matriarch of one the galaxy’s richest families. Despite being born on Earth, and having no memory of her previous life, based on her DNA Jupiter is entitled to her former estates and riches which her galactic progeny (Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton) will do anything to prevent from happening.

Saved by a soldier spliced with a wolf on rocket shoes (Channing Tatum), Jupiter eventually finds her way into space to accept her inheritance which includes the planet Earth and everyone living on it.

Did I mention this movie is insane? Jupiter Ascending jumps the tracks fairly early, after a slow introduction to our protagonist’s pre-space-faring life, and becomes a constantly exploding runaway train that no one involved in the project lifts a finger to gain control of for the remainder of its 127-minute running time. Visually intriguing, the film is a mess of mashed-up sci-fi ideas borrowed from better films.

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