Psych‘s mid-season finale finds Shawn (James Roday) and Juliet’s (Maggie Lawson) weekend getaway hijacked by a charming couple (Jason Priestley, Jennifer Finnigan) who rob them, a real sad sack (Tony Hale) in way over his head, and the discovery of a murder victim at a nearby winery.
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This award wining short film from writer/director Sharon Wright follows a homeless man’s (Bobbie Sutcliffe Blackie Robert P. Campbell) quest for change. Find more about Change For A Dollar and Wright’s other projects on her official site.
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Glee wastes no time getting to the music in their latest Christmas episode as “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” opens up with Mercedes’ (Amber Riley) performance of Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” followed quickly by Rory’s (Damian McGinty) performance of Elvis Presley‘s “Blue Christmas.”
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The first trailer for G.I. JOE: Retaliation has hit the Internet and I’ve got to say, despite a cool looking sequence between Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Cobra ninjas on the side of the mountain, it doesn’t look much better than the supremely awful 2009 movie. In the new film the JOEs become renegades when Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), under the guise of the President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce) disbands the team and makes them public enemy number one. Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Bruce Willis, and D.J. Cotrona also star, but Christopher Eccleston, Sienna Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Karolina Kurkova, and (surprisingly, as she was one of the first film’s only bright spots) Rachel Nichols won’t be returning. G.I. JOE: Retaliation opens in theaters on July 29th.
The first story arc for the New 52 version of Stormwatch comes to an end as the Midnighter and Apollo are all that stand in the the way of the giant alien creature who has absorbed their other teammates.
Although there’s plenty of action here, the writing by Paul Cornell struggles at times. We get more of Jack Hawksmoor literally talking to cities, the complete uselessness of Adam One, the lack of appearances of any other DC character with a threat this huge and public, and some very unsubtle stirrings between Midnighter and Apollo.
One of these issues might be taken care of in next month’s issue as the Shadow Cabinet puts the team leader on trial for his failures, but the rest really need to be addressed if the comic is going to ever grow into anything more than a curiosity.
When introduced this Stormwatch appeared to be a group that would take on shadowy threats far more covertly than we’ve seen so far. That might work. Fighting giant aliens very, very publicly (while keeping it hidden from the rest of the DCU) is far more problematic. Hit-and-Miss.
[DC, $2.99]
