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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #55

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #55For someone who hasn’t kept up with the series in recent months, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #55 offers a good opportunity to catch up with the Heroes in a Half-Shell and some very big changes in their lives. Victorious over the Shredder, Splinter and his sons have taken back control of New York and control of the Foot Clan. All seems well for most of the Turtles, although Michelangelo has decided life among his former enemies isn’t for him.

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Point Break

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  • Title: Point Break
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“You’re about to jump out a perfectly good airplane Johnny, how do you feel about that?”

Point BreakNot unlike Keanu Reeves himself in the film, Point Break is as dumb as a bag of rocks… but gloriously so. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker), the 1991 film casting Reeves as an undercover FBI agent looking for bank-robbing surfers led by the charming Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) has no illusions about what kind of movie it is. A pure B-movie action flick about surfing and sky diving, Point Break proves to be better than the sum of its parts.

Throw in Gary Busey and Lori Petty and you’ve got the makings of a complete disaster and unwatchable trainwreck. Yet, somehow, Bigelow and company pull it off by embracing the sheer ridiculousness of what we see unfold (something the best-forgotten recent remake failed to understand) set around some well-shot action sequences. The result isn’t Shakespeare, but Point Break works as an enjoyable action bromance between cop and robber who, in another life, could have been the best of friends. And its very existence inspires Hot Fuzz two of its best moments.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Bouncing Back

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Bouncing Back
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Bouncing Back

After a short tease of things to come, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns from it’s extended winter hiatus with Coulson (Clark Gregg) devoting his time to find Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe). To do so he’ll demand the help of the half brain dead Werner von Strucker (Spencer Treat Clark) even dust off the old torture device he himself was once strapped into for information about his resurrection.

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Pretty Little Liars – Did You Miss Me?

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – Did You Miss Me?
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Pretty Little Liars - Did You Miss Me?

After the new A’s looming deadline and Aria‘s (Lucy Hale) injury being followed up by Alison (Sasha Pieterse) taking a hard fall on her honeymoon, circumstances will force the most impulsive of the Liars to suggest changing the game. Prepared to admit to Charlotte’s murder, Hanna (Ashley Benson) enlists the help the Liars and Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) to seize on the opportunity to turn the tables on their unseen nemesis by baiting a trap she believes will put an end to all their troubles.

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Zootopia

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  • Title: Zootopia
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Zootopia

Part wacky buddy movie, part crime drama, part small town girl in the big city, there’s no shortage of themes in Disney’s latest animated feature Zootopia. Boasting three directors and more than a half-dozen writers, the various story elements pull the movie in numerous directions over its 108-minute running time. What the film lacks in a coherent vision it makes for in old-school animated fun.

Zootopia has two great strengths. The first is the world itself which is excellently designed and large enough to encompass far more stories than just the mystery we’re given here. The second is its leading lady in spunky new police officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) whose can-do attitude never falters, even when everyone around her scoffs at the idea of a bunny cop.

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