In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, No Domo Shall Escape My Sight!

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It appears Domo Toys has made an agreement with DC Comics to craft a line of 4in. Domo-ized DC heroes including Green Lantern, Superman, Flash and Batman as well as a collection of 2in. Blind Box figures which include Captain Marvel and Two-Face. You can find more pics after the jump.

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Person of Interest – 2 Pi R

  • Title: Person of Interest – 2 Pi R
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With Reese (Jim Caviezel) in FBI custody for the next 72 hours Carter (Taraji P. Henson) has to go the extra mile to stop Special Agent Donnelly (Brennan Brown) from discovering the true identity of the man in the suit, and with his partner temporarily unavailable Finch (Michael Emerson) is forced to go undercover as a substitute teacher to protect the latest number – a gifted teen named Caleb Phipps (Luke Kleintank) who is going to great lengths to hide his genius.

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The Egg Salad Equivalency

  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Egg Salad Equivalency
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The Egg Salad EquivalencySheldon’s (Jim Parsons) overreaction on hearing his assistant Alex (Margo Harshman) has made a pass at Leonard (Johnny Galecki) backfires for both roommates when Dr. Cooper is accused of sexual harassment after turning to Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), and Amy (Mayim Bialik) for advice. As Penny becomes upset by how much Leonard enjoyed getting hit on by an attractive younger woman Sheldon meets with a representative of the university’s human resource department (Regina King) which only makes matters worse.

Throwing his colleagues under the bus to save his own skin, Leonard, Raj, and Howard all find themselves called before human resources to defend recent actions. By the end of the episode things get back to normal as Sheldon apologizes to Alex for his behavior (and then enlists her assistance in a university mandated sexual harassment workshop), and Penny’s jealousy slowly fades with Leonard’s apology and her discovery of a new tool to keep his interest.

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Promised Land

  • Title: Promised Land
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promised-land-posterHow far will you go for your job even when you know what you are doing is wrong? That’s the question at the center of director Gus Van Sant‘s Promised Land. Matt Damon (who co-wrote the screenplay with costar John Krasinski) stars as Steve Bulter, a rising star for a natural gas company sent in to a small town with his partner (Frances McDormand) to get his company an initial foothold in the state.

Butler is a closer, known for his ability to use his own small town upbringing to close communities far faster than anyone else. His last trip in the field before his big promotion leads him to a small town hit by hard economic times looking for just the kind of relief his company can offer.

What starts out as a simple sale is complicated by a variety of factors including a local science teacher (Hal Holbrook) against the dangers of natural gas, a possible love interest (Rosemarie DeWitt), and the arrival of a do-gooder (Krasinski) who scares off potential buyers with horror stories of how fracking has destroyed similar farming towns.

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How Rich White People Survived The Impossible Tsunami

  • Title: The Impossible
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the-impossible-posterThere are really only three types of disaster movies. The first are those focused on preventing a disaster (Armageddon, The Core). The second are movies solely concerned with the immediate problem of surviving the disaster (The Day After Tomorrow, 2012). And the last are focused more on living in the aftermath of a disaster (Blindness) than the disaster itself. The Impossible is the later.

Based on real events, Naomi WattsEwan McGregorTom HollandSamuel Joslin, and Oaklee Pendergast take the place of a Spanish family who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami while on Christmas vacation in Thailand. Sergio G. Sánchez‘s retelling of Maria Belon‘s story is a visceral tale of raw emotion, loss, and the chaos following the disaster which is almost as traumatic as the events of the tsunami itself.

Only six minutes of the near two-hour film are devoted to the actual disaster. That means the crux of the story isn’t the disaster itself but the emotional separation of family, the level of devastation, and the search for survivors.

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