Vanessa Hudgens Gets in Shape for Fall
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Foundation – The Emperor’s Peace
- Title: Foundation – The Emperor’s Peace
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Originally written as short stories for Astounding Magazine more than 70 years ago, Isaac Asimov‘s idea of examining something akin to the fall of the Roman Empire on a galactic scale would result in a series of stories and novels, some written decades apart, spanning thousands of years, where the fate of humanity weighed in the balance. Using the concept of predictive models taken to the nth degree, Asimov offered the mathematics of psychohistory which was capable of predicting the future of large populations, even if those populations don’t like what those predictions might be.
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Catwoman: Lonely City #1
- Title: Catwoman: Lonely City #1 (of 4)
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- Writer: Cliff Chiang
- Artist: Cliff Chiang
Released as part of DC’s mature Black Series line, Catwoman: Lonley City #1 opens with the release of an older Selina Kyle from prison ten years after the deaths of Batman, the Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Nightwing. Gotham has changed in her absence, with Harvey Dent as mayor of a more militarized city full of Bat-style soldier cops roaming the streets.
Less than thrilled by the changes to the city, and still haunted by the past, Selina struggles to fit in calling on old friends and finding it much harder to perform her rooftop antics after a decade in prison. She does have a mystery to solve, and a final word from a dying Batman all those years ago. Can Catwoman become the hero that the new Gotham City needs her to be?
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Anya Taylor-Joy – Downtown (Last Night in Soho)
Here’s the official music video for Petula Clark’s “Downtown,” from the upcoming movie Last Night in Soho as sung by star Anya Taylor-Joy.
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American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
- Title: American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
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Feeling like a Made-for-TV movie that Al Pacino got suckered into, American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally offers a half-hearted attempt to examine the post World War II trial of Mildred Gillars (Meadow Williams), an American actress who worked for the Germans during the war broadcasting Nazi propaganda under different names including Axis Sally.
It’s easy to pick out the two scenes which peaked Pacino’s interest in his character, the lawyer assigned to defend Gillars in an American courtroom on eight counts of treason. It’s harder to find a reason for anyone else getting involved. Williams plays a character who things happen to and we’re left with no better picture of who Gillars was than when the story began. The film is weak in terms of courtroom drama, doesn’t have the time or interest for character study, and doesn’t take a stance of Gillars, leaving the film by writer/director Michael Polish dead on arrival.
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