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Scandal – Inside the Bubble

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  • Title: Scandal – The Price of Free and Fair Election
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Scandal - Inside the Bubble

After returning from her tropical seclusion with Jake (Scott Foley) and choosing to stay and reopen Pope & Associates, Olivia (Kerry Washington) responds to a friend (Sonya Walger) concerned about the whereabouts of her missing teenage daughter. It doesn’t take long for Quinn (Katie Lowes) to find the girl in a posh D.C. hotel, however when the group discovers the mother was sleeping with the daughter’s boyfriend and the girl turns up dead in the hotel room after the mother was led their by Olivia things turn dicey very quickly.

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Stalker – What Ever Happened to Baby James?

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  • Title: Stalker – What Ever Happened to Baby James?
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Stalker - What Ever Happened to Baby James?

While continuing to build on storylines begun in the “Pilot” involving Detective Jack Larsen (Dylan McDermott) stalking his ex (Elisabeth Röhm) and son and Perry Whitley’s (Erik Stocklin) new obsession with Lieutenant Beth Davis (Maggie Q), the team is called in to investigate a home invasion they believe is tied to the stalking of an attractive high school student (Sammi Hanratty) but whose true motives are far more complicated. The team almost discovers the true subject of the stalking too late to prevent a second tragedy involving a disturbed woman (Tara Summers) attempting to replace a son she may or may not have intentionally killed years ago.

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Dracula Untold

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  • Title: Dracula Untold
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Dracula UntoldWhat would you sacrifice to save the loves of the ones you love? That’s conundrum is central to the events of Dracula Untold which recasts Vlad the Impaler as a former child soldier drafted into the service of the Turkish Army. After making a name for himself for the brutal ways in which he left enemy soldiers on the battlefield, Vlad eventually returned home to Transylvania to resume his role as prince. After a decade of peace Vlad’s peaceful tranquility is shattered by the return of the Turks who demand 1,000 children including Vlad’s son to grow the ranks of their upcoming campaigns.

Casting Vlad as a tragic figure long before his transformation into the world’s most famous vampire, the film lucks out on the casting of Luke Evans who is better than the source material and somehow keeps the story together through its rougher patches. The other casting of interest is Charles Dance as the vampire who agrees to sire Vlad in exchange for being granted his own freedom from a curse that has kept him hidden the mountains of Transylvania for centuries. Dance’s villain is by far the creepiest part of film and the closest it ever reaches to being a real horror movie.

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The Blacklist – Dr. James Covington

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  • Title: The Blacklist – Dr. James Covington
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The Blacklist - Dr. James Covington

While dealing with loyalty issues inside his own organization, Reddington (James Spader) sends Lizzie (Megan Boone) and the FBI after an once-prominent heart surgeon (Ron C. Jones) operating on the black market who allows the criminal elite to rent organs from transplants for an exorbitant fee every year of their prolonged life. Eventually tracking the man down from the dead clients whose organs were removed when they couldn’t keep up with the payments, Lizzie is faced with a hard choice whether or not to allow the doctor to perform a risky experimental procedure on a patient or allow the young boy to die.

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Magneto #10

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Magneto #10Helping setting up Marvel Comics’ Fall Avengers/X-Men crossover Axis (which I will likely be giving a very wide berth), Magneto‘s search leads him to be captured by the Red Skull who, imbued with a part of Charles Xavier‘s mental gifts, uses his mind to turn Magneto’s own past against him.

Taking place mostly inside Magneto’s mind, Magneto #10 focuses on Magneto attempting to keep his sanity and stop the Red Skull from breaking him (which would happened if not for the timely arrival of the Scarlet Witch, Rogue, and Quicksilver). As to the now mutant-powered Red Skull… meh.

For a comic that has gone out of its way to keep its lead character off the grid throwing him into the middle of a crossover this big is more than a little jarring. That said, the tease at the end of the issue involving Magneto’s rash decision allows readers who stick around to see what an amped-up version of his former self might accomplish. For fans.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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