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The Mentalist – The Crimson Ticket

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  • Title: The Mentalist – The Crimson Ticket
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With their boss dead, Red John in the wind, and their suspensions lifted the CBI team goes back to work, thanks in no small part to some finagling between Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston) and his opposite number at the FBI (Polly Walker). Jane (Simon Baker) is much more interested in talking with Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and learning all he can from her about Red John, but until a deal with the FBI can be worked out no one will be speaking with the captured member of Red John’s inner circle.

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Doctor Who – The Angels Take Manhattan

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Angels Take Manhattan
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“I’m sorry Rory, but you just died.”

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Doctor Who‘s mid-season finale begins with a lazy day in Central Park with The Doctor (Matt Smith) reading aloud from 1930’s pulp novel by Melody Malone and ends with the Time Lord’s final farewell to Amelia Pond (Karen Gillan). In between writer Steven Moffat gives us the Weeping Angels, a paradox that nearly destroys New York City, the return of River Song (Alex Kingston), and a pair of heart-wrenching decisions involving the future of Amy and Rory (Arthur Darvill).

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XIII – The Key

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  • Title: XIII – The Key
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XIII (Stuart Townsend) and Agent Jones (Aisha Tyler) return from Montana with the third watch, and the final piece of the mysterious code, but they’ll have to call in the help of their favorite computer hacker (Aaron Ashmore) to explain to them what exactly they’re sitting on. What he uncovers in a complex encryption and password protection hiding what he believes may be the legendary Internet Skeleton Key which would allow a user to hack any online system.

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Elementary – Pilot

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  • Title: Elementary – Pilot
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Taking a page from the success of Sherlock, BBC’s modern-day interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, CBS gives us Elementary which stars Jonny Lee Miller as the drug addicted, but brilliant, former Scotland Yard consultant recently relocated to the United States and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson, a personal live-in doctor hired by Sherlock’s father to help him transition from the rehabilitation center back to, as she puts it, “everyday life.” For Sherlock this means picking up where he left off by becoming a consulting detective in New York City.

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Hotel for Monsters

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  • Title: Hotel Transylvania
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hotel-transylvania-posterI usually enjoy animated films in all shapes and sizes, but I can sum up my heightened interest for Hotel Transylvania in two words – Genndy Tartakovsky. For those who don’t recognize the name, Tartakovsky is responsible for creating Dexter’s Laboratory, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and a little slice of awesome known as Samurai Jack. Tartakovsky also help produce The Powerpuff Girls (and write my favorite episode of the series).

Although Hotel Transylvania isn’t Tartakovsky’s creation, you can certainly see his fingerprints all over the film in a script he helped punch-up and his influence to push the movie towards a more high-energy animation style resembling Tex Avery’s classic cartoons. The result is a fast-paced, zany comedy with just enough of the director’s deft touches and humor to make it stand-out from more generic animated fare. At times the film certainly panders with obvious (and even cheap) jokes for the kids, but Tartakovsky’s take on a hotel for monsters is better than it has any right to be and should satisfy kids and most adults as well.

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