30 Minutes or Less

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  • Title: 30 Minutes or Less
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30-minutes-or-less-posterLoosely based on real story Jesse Eisenberg stars as slacker pizza deliver guy Nick who is kidnapped by two slackjawed buffoons (Danny McBride, Nick Swardson) who strap a bomb to Nick’s chest and give him 10 hours to rob a bank. Don’t you hate it when that happens?

Nick must quickly make up with his best friend (Aziz Ansari), who he recently had a falling out with, and come up with a plan to save his life. Despite having everything to loose, Chet (Ansari) agrees to help Nick rob a bank with a plan that makes the guys from Bottle Rocket look like the Ocean’s Eleven crew.

Somehow 30 Minutes or Less wins a prize for being overly simplistic and convoluted at the same time. I’m still not sure exactly how screenwriter Michael Diliberti managed to do this. It turns out McBride and Swardson don’t want the $100,000 for themselves but as a down payment for a hitman (Michael Peña), the boyfriend of a stripper (Bianca Kajlich) they have just met, to kill McBride’s character’s father (Fred Ward). Did you follow all that?

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Top Ten Most Memorable Moments of the Secret Six

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In July of 2005 DC Comics unleashed writer Gail Simone in her own little corner of the DC Universe with the six-issue mini-series Villains United. The idea behind the comic was simple, the various villains of the DCU were banding together as part of Lex Luthor‘s expansive Secret Society of Super Villains, that is until one villain said no. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Covert Affairs – World Leader Pretend

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  • Title: Covert Affairs – World Leader Pretend
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Annie’s (Piper Perabo) by-the-book extraction of a defecting Chinese scientist (Benedict Wong) runs into problems when he starts showing symptoms of radiation poisoning. Taking precautions for herself and her family, Annie comes clean to her sister (Anne Dudek) about the radiation scare and what really does for a living. Let’s just say her sister could have taken the news a little better.

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White Collar – Countdown

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  • Title: White Collar – Countdown
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The Third Season’s mid-season finale finds Neal (Matt Bomer) in a delicate balancing act, on several fronts. Peter (Tim DeKay) has called in his mentor (Beau Bridges) and is closing in on the one piece of the Nazi treasure that was sold. Mozzie (Willie Garson) has given Neal an ultimatium of 48 hours to decide on whether Neal will accompany him when he leaves New York. Oh, and Keller (Ross McCall) is still lurking around trying to uncover the treasure, and the hit Mozzie put on him certainly hasn’t enhanced his mood.

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Coming Soon

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  • Title: In Time
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In a world where people only live until 25 years of age time becomes a valuable commodity. Justin Timberlake stars a man given more time than he can possibly use by a mysterious stranger (Matt Bomer) and soon finds himself on the run. Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Alex Pettyfer, and Johnny Galecki also star. The premise sounds like a so-so idea for a sci-fi short story, but we’ll have wait until October 28 to see if writer/director Andrew Niccol can make it work for an entire full-length film.

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