Person of Interest – Bury the Lede

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  • Title: Person of Interest – Bury the Lede
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“How am I supposed to save a woman who wants to put me on the front page?”

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Reese (Jim Caviezel) has to find a way to protect the life of investigative journalist Maxine Angelis (Gloria Votsis) who is threatening to destroy a crooked politician and has taken an interest in HR, especially now that Special Agent Donnelly (Brennan Brown) and the FBI are rounding up members of the rogue police force, thanks in large part to Fusco’s (Kevin Chapman) help behind the scenes,  and trying to flush out Simmons (Robert John Burke) and the group’s mysterious boss who may or may not be the son (John Ventimiglia) of a famous mob boss.

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Batman Adventures / Scooby Doo Halloween Fest

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bataman-scooby-halloween-freeOne of the free Halloween comics this year Batman Adventures / Scooby Doo Halloween Fest reprints stories from both comics. From Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #2 we get the Scooby Gang investigating the appearance of aliens at the Grand Canyon.

We also get a pair of short Batman stories from Batman Adventures #1 featuring a short origin of the hero and Batman taking down the Cavalier and Batman outwitting Hassan, a member of the League of Assassins, into revealing the location of Ra’s al Ghul from part of that story originally printed in Batman Adventures #4.

If you can still find this it’s worth picking up. The Batman stories work better for me than the Scooby-Doo one which feels a little forced with Velma’s lecturing about the importance of the Grand Canyon. However, I do give it credit for staying true to Scooby-Doo’s original premise that all bizarre happenings have a real-life (not alien or mystical) cause. Worth a look.

[DC, FREE]

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The Extract Obliteration

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Extract Obliteration
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“What does Sheldon Cooper and a black hole have in common?”

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Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) excitement over Stephen Hawking accepting his invitation for a friendly game of Words With Friends soon becomes an obsession when Hawking suddenly stops playing. Based on Howard’s (Simon Helberg) experience with the scientist, Sheldon believes the he was beating him so soundly that Hawking decided to move on to other pursuits. However, when given the change to throw the game to cement his friendship Sheldon has a crisis of faith.

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News and Notes – Electro on the way to the big screen

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  • Title: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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After Variety reported yesterday that Jamie Foxx was in talks to play the villain in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man sequel, director Marc Webb confirmed in an interview with Collider that Foxx will indeed be playing Electro in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. As a longtime fan of the character I’m happy to see Electro finally on his way to the big screen. Foxx is certainly unexpected casting, but what interests me far more is how much of the character’s original (and insanely ridiculous) costume may make it on-screen.

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Wreck-It Ralph

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  • Title: Wreck-It Ralph
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wreck-it-ralph-posterPixar’s growing influence on Disney, particularly that of head of Walt Disney Animation Studios John Lasseter, is certainly evident in Wreck-It Ralph. The latest Disney animated feature from longtime Futurama director Rich Moore bucks the trend of most animated kids’ fare in that it’s a love story to classic video games (which skewers older) and is centered around the unlikeliest of heroes — a villain. It also doesn’t take place in our reality. Instead it’s set in a world where arcade games and their myriad characters roam about, but are connected to each other by a Grand Central-like power strip allowing them to come and go as they please.

Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) has spent every day of the last 30 years doing exactly the same thing. When the arcade opens and the first customer puts a quarter in the video game (as if a quarter would buy you a game anywhere today), Ralph sets to wrecking the digital landscape of Fix-It Felix, Jr. This, of course, allows the game’s hero (Jack McBrayer) to fix the villain’s destruction, vanquish his foe, and earn his medal.

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