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The Solid (But Far From Spectacular) Now

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  • Title: The Spectacular Now
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The Spectacular NowAdapted from Tim Tharp’s novel of the same name by the writing team that gave us (500) Days of Summer and Pink Panther 2, The Spectacular Now is a movie of great moments than never really lives up to the promise of the edgy indie coming of age story it so desperately wants to be. Much like last year’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (which is a stronger film), the movie rides a group of strong performances to just the right notes at times, but too often it also absent-mindedly gets lost in the melody.

Our story centers around Sutter (Miles Teller), a popular 18 year-old alcholic who begins hanging out with the shy and awkward Aimee (Shailene Woodley, who even without makeup is far too pretty and outgoing for the role) while trying to get over being dumped by his longtime girlfriend Cassidy (Brie Larson). Despite the cliched pairing of the cool dude with the uncool mousey chick who his friends can’t fathom why he would date (even though she’s the cutest girl in the entire movie), the story eventually takes darker direction (although not nearly soon enough for my tastes).

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Fairest #18

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Fairest #18The odd plague which was introduced in the last issue is further developed here as Prince Charming loses a pair of fingers to the the malady only to regrow his hand. Whether his healing came from the notoriety of his legend or the discovery of the depths of his feelings for Nalayani is a left a bit up in the air.

I thought last month’s issue got far too sidetracked with Charming’s story while shoving Nalayani to the background. This issue focuses much more on the pair together. Although it’s hard to accept Charming’s feelings as true love (wasn’t he just gleefully boffing members of his harem an issue ago?) I will be curious to see where exactly these new-found feelings lead the story and Prince Charming.

Fairest #18 is certainly an improvement over last month’s issue, but it does have weird jumps in action such as the rivalry back at the maharaja’s camp and Charming’s attack of the crocodile that aren’t properly set-up and seem a bit out of place with the focus of the issue, and whose inclusion disrupts the flow of the story. For fans.

[Vertigo, $2.99]

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Beware the Batman – Broken

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  • Title: Beware the Batman – Broken
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Beware the Batman - Broken

Batman (Anthony Ruivivar) has his hands full with the mentally unbalanced Humpty Dumpty returns to town taking vengeance out on everyone he blames for attack which cost him his sanity. Targeting gangsters and city officials equally with his life-sized toy killing machines, Batman has to stop the madman before he makes Lt. Gordon (Kurtwood Smith) his latest victim.

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Elysium

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  • Title: Elysium
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ElysiumWith District 9 writer/director Neill Blomkamp crafted an original character study of a man (Sharlto Copley) trapped on the wrong side of the Earth’s treatment of alien refugees as a thinly-veiled metaphor for the social segregation in Blomkamp’s home country of South Africa. The result was one of 2009’s best films. Sadly Elysium, Blomkamp’s latest, is no District 9.

While dealing with similar themes of class warfare, inequalities, and a greedy one-percent, Elysium trades in metaphor for far less subtle preaching about the evils of social inequality between the haves and have nots.

The haves include the wealthiest members of the human race who have abandoned their world to live in luxury on the space station Elysium, leaving the polluted planet to the less fortunate. The inequality doesn’t end there, however. Whereas as the rich partake of miraculous medical advancements that can literally cure any affliction in the matter of seconds, the rest of the world is left with nothing more advanced than current medical devices and training.

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King & Maxwell – Locked In

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  • Title: King & Maxwell – Locked In
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King & Maxwell - Locked In

While dropping off a piece of evidence for analysis at the FBI, King (Jon Tenney) and Maxwell (Rebecca Romijn) get locked in the federal building when a key whistlebower is killed on Rigby’s (Michael O’Keefe) watch only hours before his testimony would have taken down the CEO (Derek Green) of a chemical manufacturer that poisoned the water supply of a small town. As the pair of detectives help Rigby hunt down a killer inside the FBI, Benny (Dichen Lachman) and Edgar (Ryan Hurst) work to find a second whistleblower in less than six hours to save both the case and Rigby’s career.

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