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How I Met Your Mother – Something New

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  • Title: How I Met Your Mother – Something New
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How I Met Your Mother - Something New

The show’s Eighth Season finale opens on the eve of Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney’s (Neil Patrick Harris) wedding as the pair decide to break-up an annoying couple (Keegan Michael Key, Casey Wilson) at a restaurant after they steal Robin and Barney’s table. Meanwhile, Marshall’s (Jason Segel) takes an emergency trip back home to Minnesota with baby Marvin after his mother (Suzie Plakson) learns Marshall and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) are moving to Rome for a year and no one bothered to tell her.

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Superman: Unbound

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  • Title: Superman: Unbound
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Superman: UnboundBased on the 2008 Superman: Brainiac arc by Geoff Johns, DC’s latest animated feature introduces Superman (Matt Bomer) and Supergirl (Molly Quinn) to a redesigned version of Brainiac (John Noble) for the first time when the Collector of Worlds heads to Earth to add Metropolis to a collection that already includes the Kryptonian city of Kandor. The result is a solid entry into the DC Animated Universe whose main issues come more from the original source material rather than the adaptation.

Given her role in the film this could easily have been titled Superman/Supergirl: Unbound as much of the emotional weight of the straight-to-DVD animated feature falls on Superman’s younger cousin. Screenwriter Bob Goodman also increases the role of Lois Lane (Stana Katic) and makes some intriguing parallels over the course of the film between how both Brainiac and Superman try to control those of interest to them.

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Jack Reacher

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  • Title: Jack Reacher
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Jack ReacherBased on the character created byLee Child, Tom Cruise stars as former Military Police officer turned professional nomad Jack Reacher who shows up after an old enemy (Joseph Sikora) is arrested for killing five people. What follows is part dumb action movie and part conspiracy thriller as Reacher uncovers the troubling fact that, as much as he wants the man to be guilty, the Army sniper the police have in custody was framed for the crime (which itself has complicated reasons far beyond a random crime by a lone gunman).

Reacher is the typical old school 80’s action hero, smarter than everyone else and able to take down five men without even breaking a sweat. Rosamund Pike stars as the man’s attorney, who also happens to be the daughter of the city’s cutthroat District Attorney (Richard Jenkins). Pike’s main job in the film is to get Reacher engaged in the case and then constantly question his theories before finally being relegated to the damsel in distress.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Pulverizer Returns!

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Pulverizer Returns!
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Pulverizer Returns!

The ease with which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have dispatched the Shredder‘s (Kevin Michael Richardson) Foot soldiers has forced The Foot to broaden its recruitment, even accepting someone like The Pulvirizer (Roger Craig Smith) as a member of the clan. Realizing something must be done, Shredder decides to try and use Krang technology to create better soldiers. Meanwhile, aware his students are becoming complacent, Splinter (Hoon Lee) forces the Turtles to swap weapons in an attempt to teach them resourcefulness and keep them focused and on edge.

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Nashville – Why Don’t You Love Me

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  • Title: Nashville – Why Don’t You Love Me
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Nashville - Why Don't You Love Me

As Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) hires a private security firm to track down her new manager Dante (Jay Hernandez) who disappeared with half a million dollars of her money, and Rayna (Connie Britton) and Deacon (Charles Esten) deal with the morning after (and the friends and family who try to talk them out of renewing their romance after all these years), the record label throws a party in honor of Rayna and Juliette both earning CMA nominations for female vocalist of the year.

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