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Escape Plan

  • Title: Escape Plan
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Escape PlanSylvester Stallone thrown into prison at the whims of a madman is hardly a new story (the plots of both Tango & Cash and Lock-Up include these themes). In Escape Plan, Stallone stars as expert prison escape artist Joe Bresslin who has been working for the last several years to find holes in various prison systems, 14 of which he’s successfully escaped.

After a brief introduction involving Breslin’s escape from his latest job, he and his associates (Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Vincent D’Onofrio) are approached by a CIA agent (Caitriona Balfe) offering $5,000,000 to Breslin to test out the government’s top secret, and privately run, new rendition facility for those criminals too dangerous to house on U.S. soil once Guantanamo Bay is closed down for good.

Breslin accepts the job, despite the fact that his location will be kept completely secret from his team, meaning he will be going in blind without back-up (breaking all of his usual rules). Of course, it doesn’t take long before things go wrong.

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The Crazy Ones – The Breakfast Burrito Club

  • Title: The Crazy Ones – The Breakfast Burrito Club
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“I feel terrible I ruined your vacation you never wanted to go on.”

The Crazy Ones - The Breakfast Burrito Club

Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar) cancels her forced vacation with a lesbian adventure club in Hawaii to help Simon (Robin Williams) lead the rest of the staff in an 11th hour strategy session to come up with a campaign for breakfast burritos. However, the team quickly gets offtrack with any distraction they can find including Lauren’s (Amanda Setton) poetry and discoveries that Andrew (Hamish Linklater) is back with his crazy ex and Zach (James Wolk) is dating a woman he actually cares for.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Trust Me

  • Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Trust Me
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - Trust Me

Alice (Sophie Lowe) and the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) set out to Mimsy Meadows to recover the genie’s bottle under the Towering TumTum Tree and move one step closer to rescuing Cyrus (Peter Gadiot) from his cage of silver, but first they must deal with various obstacles including a spiteful fairy (Jordana Largy) who the Knave had previously wronged and with Jafar (Naveen Andrews) and the Red Queen (Emma Rigby) who have their own plans for the bottle and are using the White Rabbit (John Lithgow) to help discover its location.

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Batman and Two-Face #24

Batman and Two-Face #24After months of giving us issues with rotating members of the Bat Family the latest issue of Batman and Robin begins a new arc featuring an updated New 52 origin of Two-Face. Although the basics stay the same, a criminal exposes Harvey Dent to acid, the specifics are unnecessarily updated (something the New 52 excels at) as the person responsible for Two-Face’s creation is now Erin McKillen.

The issue begins with McKillen’s return to Gotham to attend a meeting with the other Gotham crime families who have decided to team-up against the freaks who have been encroaching on their turf. The scenes of McKillen and Dent are shown in flashbacks, although the reasoning behind such brutal actions on her part, especially for the first issue of an extended arc meant to specifically with Dent’s transformation into Two-Face, aren’t well explained.

All that said, even the changes can’t ruin one of Batman‘s most interesting villains. As the beginning of a true origin for the character it’s flawed, but fans may still enjoy the issue.

[DC, $2.99]

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Sleepy Hollow – John Doe

  • Title: Sleepy Hollow – John Doe
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Sleepy Hollow - John Doe

The arrival of an odd young boy (Matthew Lintz) with unusual symptoms (including an unknown illness and the ability to only speak Middle English) brings the CDC to Sleepy Hollow to stop the spread of any possible infection. After speaking briefly to young Thomas, Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) believes he may have lived in the lost colony of Roanoke. Taking Abbie (Nicole Beharie) into the woods in search of the boy’s origins where they find an entire colony of Middle English folk all infected with the same disease which is already spreading through Sleepy Hollow.

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