Community – Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

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Community - Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

As Britta (Gillian Jacobs) helps Jeff (Joel McHale) spend Thanksgiving with his estranged father (James Brolin) and the half-brother (Adam DeVine) he’s never met, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) invites the rest of the Study Group to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family. Trapped in a situation that makes their own family dinners look inviting by comparison, Abed (Danny Pudi) narrates his friends’ plan to survive the ideal and escape in a way designed not to hurt Shirley’s feelings.

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Oz the Great and Powerful

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  • Title: Oz the Great and Powerful
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Oz the Great and PowerfulThere’s no Scarecrow, Tin Man, or Cowardly Lion, but by the end of Oz the Great and Powerful the stage will be set for a young girl from Kansas to make her own journey to Frank L. Baum’s magical land of Oz. This completely original script by screenwriters Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire offers us the origins of the great and powerful Wizard of Oz (James Franco), who, as the film opens (in black and white), is nothing more than a traveling carnival magician and con man on the dusty plains of Kansas.

The first quarter of our story is centered around presenting Oz in his own world before whisking him away to the magical land of Oz via the most likely transport: a tornado. Franco is well cast as the smarmy, selfish, womanizing, con man wishing for greatness (but too lazy to work for it), with an unquestionable greed for fame and fortune and an uncomfortable relationship with the truth. Oz’s myriad of failings leads to a hasty escape from the carnival that traps the magician’s hot air balloon in the middle of a Kansas twister leading to a journey somewhere over the rainbow.

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Coming Soon

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  • Title: Much Ado About Nothing
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We’ve been hearing about director Joss Whedon‘s pet project, a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing featuring several Whedon regulars, for more than a year now. Filmed in black and white at Whedon’s home over twelve days, the film stars Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof as Beatrice and Benedick. Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Reed Diamond, Jillian Morgese, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Spencer Treat Clark, Ashley Johnson, and Riki Lindhome also star. Whedon’s take on Shakespeare will finally open in theaters on June 21st.

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Psych – Juliet Takes a Luvvah

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  • Title: Psych – Psych – Juliet Takes a Luvvah
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Psych - Juliet Takes a Luvvah

Shawn (James Roday) becomes jealous when Juliet (Maggie Lawson) goes undercover on an online dating site trying to find a serial killer who has a thing for late twentysomething blondes and Gus (Dulé Hill) begins spending all his free time with his new girlfriend Rachael (Parminder Nagra), also found on the dating site, rather than his psychic best friend. Feeling a little lost and taking advice from his mother (Cybill Shepherd) a little too far, Shawn decides to move in with his father (Corbin Bernsen) to help in his recovery after getting shot by one of oldest living friends.

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The Lying Game – The Grave Truth

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  • Title: The Lying Game – The Grave Truth
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The Lying Game - The Grave Truth

Picking up right where the last episode left off, Ted (Andy Buckley) has a heart-to-heart with Emma (Alexandra Chando), who he believes is Sutton, at Derek’s grave admitting that he and Rebecca (Charisma Carpenter) are her birth parents. He also admits to meeting and talking with Theresa (Yara Martinez) the night she disappeared but swears he wasn’t involved in her disappearance. Ted turns himself in the next morning to an irate Dan (Tyler Christopher) who is stopped from ripping Ted’s head off only by the timely arrival of Alec (Adrian Pasdar) who shifts Dan’s suspicions to Rebecca while still skirting the issue of the twins’ secret.

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