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Results

  • Title: Results
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ResultsWriter/director Andrew Bujalski‘s Results about a recently-wealthy client’s (Kevin Corrigan) impact on the lives of two personal trainers (Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders) in Austin, Texas boasts a strong cast and an unique indie feel but suffers from not being funny enough to be a true comedy, dark enough to be dark comedy, or dramatic enough to be taken seriously. Results intermittently entertains while teasing the audience with a cast (that also includes Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hall, and Constance Zimmer) that is far better than its source material.

Pearce is all-in as Trevor, the odd-duck owner of a local fitness center whose life is complicated by the employee he loves (Smulders) and the untethered client whose infatuation with the woman throws all their lives into chaos. Anthony Michael Hall has a small humorous role as the guru whose philosophy Trevor has based his entire business on. Trevor’s eventual encounter with his idol needs to be either funnier or more soul-crushing but, like the entire movie, the script flounders when hard choices must be made.

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Supergirl – Fight or Flight

  • Title: Supergirl – Fight or Flight
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Supergirl - Fight or Flight

“Fight or Flight” is a hit-or-miss third episode to the series as Kara (Melissa Benoist) struggles both with her boss’ mean-spirited expose of the city’s new heroine and the arrival of one of Superman’s enemies Reactron (Chris Browning) who hopes to take down the Girl of Steel in order to teach Superman a lesson. The conceit of Supergirl is that Kara lives in a world where she’s just as good (but not really) as a more experienced and more seasoned hero with the exact same power set who she can’t interact with or learn from on-screen. As with the “Pilot” episode, a blurred version of Superman does make an appearance to help Supergirl out of a jam but lets his younger cousin fend for herself against a rather lame villain who seems far less unstoppable than we’re meant to believe.

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Hard Target

  • Title: Hard Target
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Hard Target

This movie has Jean-Claude Van Damme punching a snake and Wilford Brimley, while sporting a Cajun accent, shooting arrows into people. More than 20 years after its release Hard Target feels every bit the B-movie early 1990s action flick it is. Notable for teaming up action star Van Damme (as an out-of-work Cajun soldier in Louisiana) and director John Woo (in his first American film) the film delivers audiences stunts, action sequences, and the large number of wide-eyed reaction shots from co-star Yancy Butler looking directly into the camera.

The story brings Natasha (Butler) to New Orleans in search of her missing father, a homeless veteran who was recrutied by a group of demented sprotsmen (Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, and others) who enjoy hunting humans for sport. A chance meeting, so to speak, with Chance Boudreaux (Van Damme), who is in need of some quick cash to get back to sea, leads the pair to team-up to investigate what really happened to the woman’s father and track down those responsible.

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Magneto #21

Magneto #21Magneto is dead. Again. Despite being my favorite villain in the Marvel pantheon I somehow can’t get moved by the the X-Men’s greatest enemy, and sometimes friend, stepping in to save the world which he’s always viewed as lesser than himself and has always viewed him as little more than a monster.

I have spent my time avoiding Marvel’s new Secret Wars crossover and its tie-ins so I don’t really understand why the world is being destroyed, what exactly is destroying it, where the other heroes seem to be, or what Magneto actually does to save the world in an issue that reads an awful lot like a cheap rip-off of The Final Night. Still, I will admit I enjoyed the flashabacks to the character’s more flamboyant past (and his trademark red and blue costume).

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Beauty and the Beast – Sins of the Fathers

  • Title: Beauty and the Beast – Sins of the Fathers
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Beauty and the Beast - Sins of the Fathers

Setting the stage for the season finale, “Sins of the Fathers” heats up Vincent (Jay Ryan) and Catherine‘s (Kristin Kreuk) battle with Liam (Jason “Iron Eagle” Gedrick) who gets Catherine investigated by Internal Affairs and Vincent suspended from the hospital just as he prepares to take his revenge against the entire Ellingsworth family. Out of time and options Catherine and Vincent agree drastic measures are needed beginning with Vincent breaking Catherine’s father (Ted Dykstra) out of prison.

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