Short Term 12

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Short Term 12Written and directed by Destin Cretton, Short Term 12 is a little rough around the edges but delivers a compelling tale of supervising staff members and kids at a foster care facility for troubled children and teens. Brie Larson stars as Grace, a supervisor with a troubled past which is reawakened by Jayden (Kaitlyn Dever), the newest addition to the facility who reminds Grace of issues she’s done her best to suppress over the years.

Limited to mostly the locations of the foster care facility and Grace’s home with her boyfriend and co-worker Mason (John Gallagher Jr.), Cretton’s film focuses on the challenges Grace and Mason face every day as well as Grace slowly going off the rails due to an unexpected pregnancy and raw emotions and memories Jayden’s presence cause to resurface.

Cretton isn’t interested in making a mainstream Hollywood film. There are no easy answers. No one is fixed or healed completely as the credits roll. But despite the subject matter the movie is far from bleak.

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Green Hornet #7

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Green Hornet #7Reunited with Kato, the Green Hornet makes a discovery that the wealthy industrialists behind The Voice weren’t working alone as the Hornet finds a way to keep his cover and save the life of a FBI agent while uncovering the fact that the group are receiving orders from a mysterious voice on the other end of the radio. The real villain? Nazis!

As the Hornet gets back to business as usual, big changes are in store for Britt Reid who opens his new radio station and woos Lenore Case away from The Sentinel into joining him not only in that venture but his late night activities with Kato as well.

Personally I’m hoping the radio adventure is short-lived as there’s just something about the character that fits the mold of a newspaper man and the series, in the early issues, have used The Sentinel well by establishing it as another character. Case being introduced to her boss’ secrets begins to widen the network the vigilante can rely on while also laying the groundwork of possible romance down the line. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Arrow – Keep Your Enemies Closer

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Arrow - Keep Your Enemies Closer

After Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) informs Diggle (David Ramsey) that his friend Lyla Michaels (Audrey Marie Anderson) has gone missing while searching for Deadshot (Michael Rowe) in Moscow, Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity head to Russia along with Isabel Rochev (Summer Glau) who decides to horn-in on the group’s cover story of inspecting Queen Consolidated’s overseas holdings. Contacting an old Russian friend (David Nykl) and fellow prisoner aboard Dr. Anthony Ivo’s (Dylan Neal) freighter, Oliver learns Lyla was caught while attempting to break into Russia’s most secure prison known housing the country’s most insane murderers and psychopaths.

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Amazing X-Men #1

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Amazing X-Men #1Years ago Marvel Comics had a simple rule: characters killed in the Marvel Universe stayed dead. This idea, which forced deaths to both be rare and mean something, has long since been abandoned. Although I’m in favor of the old way of doing things, the current need to kill a major character every couple of years makes it hard to stick to those old rules. Thankfully for the X-Men (who have an insane history of defying death – just look at Jean Grey) the rule is no longer enforced allowing the return of a character who should never have been killed.

Amazing X-Men #1 begins on the edge of Heaven where Nightcrawler remains unwilling to fully embrace the paradise that has been rewarded to him since his death. When a a group of Dankeschön show up to storm Heaven followed by a pack of Bamfs and Azazel, the mutant is jilted out of his melancholy and into action.

On Earth the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, and its newest teacher Firestar, faces its own problems as the Beast discovers an infestation of Bamfs who have cobbled together some kind of transporter inside the schools walls.

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