Atlantis – Touched by the Gods (Part 2)

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  • Title: Atlantis – Touched by the Gods (Part 2)
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Atlantis - Touched by the Gods (Part 2)

Despite teasing major changes leading into next season, the second-half of Atlantis‘ First Season finale returns all of the chess pieces back to their starting position – with only one major change. After rescuing Ariadne (Aiysha Hart) with the help of Ramos (Joe Dixon), who gives his life to save the princess, Jason (Jack Donnelly), Pythagoras (Robert Emms), Hercules (Mark Addy), and Ariadne and head to a leper colony hidden in the Silver Mines of Pangeon in the Mountains of Galena where the Oracle (Juliet Stevenson) believes they will be safe. There the audience will learn more about Jason’s parentage, although the hero himself maintains blissful ignorance of the identity of the man (John Hannah) who helps him or the fact that his mother is the current Queen of Atlantis.

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Coming Soon

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  • Title: Nymphomaniac: Volume I
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Here’s a full-length trailer for writer/director Lars von Trier‘s story of middle aged woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) recounting the sexual exploits of her younger self (Stacy Martin) to a complete stranger (Stellan Skarsgård) who helps her after a savage beating. Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, and Willem Dafoe also star. Released in Denmark as a single film, Nymphomaniac will be split into two volumes for its U.S. release. Nymphomaniac: Volume I will open in limited release in select cities on March 21st. Volume 2 will be released a month later.

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Notting Hill

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  • Title: Notting Hill
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Notting HillRecently re-released on Blu-ray as part of Universal Studios “Best of the Decade Series,” 1999’s Notting Hill romatic comedy featuring the unlikely pairing of a Hollywood star (Julia Roberts) and British book store owner (Hugh Grant) is a watchable, but not always entertaining, piece of romcom fluff helped by the performances of its two leads (but not always the script by Richard Curtis).

Asking an interesting question of what happens when a celebrity falls for a nobody, the film rather quickly gives up any attempt to say anything original while falling back on the clichéd romcom roller-coaster template complete with a final act break-up and ridiculous last moment romantic gesture to bring the lovers back together. In comparison with other movies of this genre (see the filmogprahy of Kate Hudson or Katherine Heigl), Notting Hill isn’t awful but it’s far from one of the best films of this decade.

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Batman #28

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Batman #28Although I’m a huge Batman fan, with distasteful odor of Death of the Family still palpable even today, I decided to give Scott Snyder’s Batman title a wide berth for an entire year, only checking in to look at the Damian remembrance issue ten months ago.

Over the past year I’ve picked up and dropped various of the other Bat-titles but haven’t come back to Batman. This month’s issue reminds me why, but it also offers a glimmer of the promise that the New 52 hasn’t quite stamped everything once enjoyable about Bat-titles completely out of the DCU.

I have to start with Harper Row, who apparently is Batman’s new partner and a better acrobat than Dick Grayson. Other than the asshole New 52 version of Shazam she may be the poster child for everything wrong with the state of the current DCU. The edgy street kid who disobeys Batman and even USES GUNS (which doesn’t bother the Dark Knight) is a perfect example of DC Editorial’s forced gritty vision that has turned off so many readers from their books.

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