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Catching Fire

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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Catching FireThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire is very much a typical sequel with the same inherent strengths and weaknesses of the first film. Those who enjoyed The Hunger Games (based on a series of teen fiction) are likely to enjoy this one as well. And those, like me, who found the first film wanting will have a similar reaction to the sequel.

Picking up a year after the events of The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) leave their separate lives to reconnect for a celebratory tour on the anniversary of their win. Despite little contact over the past year, the pair play up the lovers angle at the command of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) who hopes it may help quell the glimmer of insurrection Katniss’ victory began.

When Katniss proves unable to give Snow what he wants, and he realizes killing her would only create a martyr, the president reaches out to new game master Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to design a scenario to end both her popularity and her life.

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Superman/Wonder Woman #2

/ / Comics

Superman/Wonder Woman #2The second issue of Superman/Wonder Woman is equal parts entertaining and frustrating. The tease in last month’s issue about a big throwdown between Superman and Wonder Woman vs. Doomsday is over in just a handful of panels before it ever really begins. And the way it ends is also odd as Doomsday simply stops beating Diana half-to-death to disappear as Superman saves the freighter from the storm. Consider of the unstoppable killing machine, I guess?

From there the two heroes spend time in both the Fortress of Solitude to discuss Doomsday who Kal-El fears may have found a way to temporarily escape the Phantom Zone and to the halls of Hephaestus who Diana beseeches to build a suit of armor for her love. The issue also teases the *sigh* arrival of another Kryptonian on Earth.

Although I’m against Superman needing magic god armor to take on anyone, the series of events does get the Man of Steel bitch slapped by Apollo whose second move is nowhere near as intelligent and leaves the god at the mercy of Superman. Hit-and-Miss.

[DC, $3.99]

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Not So Epic

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Epic
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EpicWith a nice pro-environmental message and a story cobbled together from a variety of sources, Epic is an inoffensive, if mostly forgettable, animated feature. Our protagonist is M.K. (Amanda Seyfried), a young teen struggling with the recent death of her mother and being forced to move out into the middle of nowhere with her absent-minded father (Jason Sudeikis) obsessed with finding proof of a colony of tiny 2in. people in the nearby forest.

Through a series of events M.K. accidentally gets shrunk down and becomes involved in the struggle of the Leafmen (an army of good guys protecting all life in the forest) trying to save the forest from the forces of Mandrake (Christoph Waltz) and the Boggans (evil creatures who are trying to bring forth the rot and destroy the forest). The death of the Leafman’s queen (Beyoncé Knowles) has given the villains a window which to strike where no power in the forest can stop them.

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The Crazy Ones – She’s So European

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: The Crazy Ones – She’s So European
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The Crazy Ones - She's So European

The arrival of one of the firm’s favorite clients (Saffron Burrows) puts everyone in a tizzy as she takes both Simon (Robin Williams) and Zach (James Wolk) as her lovers on back-to-back nights and shares secrets about her relationships with both men with Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Sydney’s discomfort with the situation gradually rubs off on both men creating a problem to properly service the client (so to speak).

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The Tomorrow People – In Too Deep

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  • Title: The Tomorrow People – In Too Deep
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The Tomorrow People - In Too Deep

In the second episode of the series Stephen (Robbie Amell) struggles with his decision to work for Ultra while struggling to keep his friendship with the Tomorrow People and hiding all of the changes in his life from his mother (Sarah Clarke) and younger brother (Jacob Kogan). The truth of just how ruthlessly his uncle (Mark Pellegrino) runs Ultra is made clear to Stephen after witnessing the attempts to kill a young man (Nick Eversman) using his new found powers to rob banks. Unwilling to be a party to murder, Stephen convinces Cara (Peyton List) and John (Luke Mitchell) to step-up and take the kid in before Ultra gets their hands on him.

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