Before Sunrise and Before Sunset writer/director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite one more time for Before Midnight which features the continuing adventures of Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) nine years after the pair’s reunion in the sequel, and 18 years from the characters’ first meeting in Before Sunrise. Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed, Xenia Kalogeropoulou also star. The film opens in theaters on May 24th.
Castle celebrates its 100th episode with a homage to Rear Window as Castle (Nathan Fillion) believes he witnesses a murder while cooped up in his apartment two days before his birthday with a broken leg. While Castle goes stir crazy, Beckett (Stana Katic), Esposito (Jon Huertas), and Ryan (Seamus Dever) investigate a woman beaten to death with a baseball in a back alley whose body was left in a dumpster.
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Things are going pretty well for Barry Allen. He’s in a committed relationship with a woman who knows his secret, the Flash is back in the good graces of Central City, and he’s working to get his old job as a police scientist back. However, there are still issues for the Scarlet Speedster to solve including helping repair the damage of the the ape attack, looking into who might be framing the Trickster for murder, and watching out for a pair of would-be super-heroes enhanced by their time trapped in the Speed Force.
Brian Buccellato takes over the sole writing duties for this issue and Marcio Takara steps in to do the artwork for a missing Francis Manapul giving the comic a sleeker look. The art is good, but the layered panels that flow into each other, which the comic is known for, don’t quite have the same zip.
Even with Manapul’s abscence the comic works pretty well, although I’m less sure of the storyline that unfolds concerning the Outlander Nation or Barry Allen inexplicably suddenly loosing his powers (I’m also less than pleased I have to read the next issue of Dial H to apparently find out the cause). Worth a look.
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“Talking about love is like dancing about architecture.”
Released in 1998, Playing by Heart follows the formula of several romantic dramedies (Love Actually being the best) which feature interlocking stories of couples in various states of their respective relationships. Written and directed by Willard Carroll, the film is notable for it’s impressive ensemble cast as well as a pair of the six stories which slowly come together during the film’s final act.
My favorite of the group features Angelina Jolie, as the beautiful but high-maintenance Joan, and Ryan Phillippe as the aloof young man with a dark secret who seems immune to her obvious charms. Also worthy of note are Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands as an elderly couple dealing with both the looming specter a life-threatening medical condition and a long-simmering old argument as the pair prepare to renew their vows on their 40th wedding anniversary.
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With his eyes set firmly on getting the financing to leave Galweather Stern and open his own shop, Tamara (Nia Long) convinces Marty (Don Cheadle) to stick things out and finalize the Carlson (Mather Zickel) deal before he jumps ship. However, when Carlson’s attempt to settle their differences means driving out into the middle of the desert to watch the crazy man blow up watermelons with Ernest Hemingway’s rifle, he begins to have second thoughts.
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