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Worlds’ Finest #9

/ / Comics

Worlds' Finest #9When Karen Starr‘s private island is invaded by a group of masked thieves it falls on a wounded Huntress to suit up and stop them from stealing her best friend’s technology.

The main story works well, but the flashbacks to earlier adventures of Helena and Karen are only slightly tied to the new tale and don’t add anything of significance other than to take up several pages which could be used for the main story. And once again it takes several artists to take over half the artist duties from the missing Kevin Maguire. The result of which are better than last month but still more mixed than I’d like.

Things do pick up in the end with the arrival of Power Girl and the reveal of who the thieves are actually working for. Although the prospect of Mr. Terrific showing up doesn’t do much to excite me, it is a nice twist and it looks like the comic is finally ready to deal with Karen Starr’s relationship to the hero whose pretty much disappeared from the New 52 since his book was cancelled. For fans.

[DC, $2.99]

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Flight

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Flight
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flight-blu-rayDenzel Washington stars in the character study of an airline pilot whose heroic actions save the lives of an entire commercial flight of passengers, but when his history with alcohol and drug abuse sees the light of day new questions begin to be asked about that fateful day.

The screenplay by John Gatins is pretty straightforward. Washington’s Whip Whitacker is your basic hero with feet of clay who is unwilling and unable to admit or address his own demons. As such there are really only two possible outcomes to the film. Either Whitacker will get away with flying drunk the day of the crash or he’ll finally admit his problem with alcohol and drugs.

Robert Zemeckis gets the best out of his actors, paticularly Washington and Kelly Reilly as a recovering heroin user who tries to help Whip get and stay clean, but the themes of the film often feel too simplistic and it’s all too easy to see where Whip’s journey will eventually end.

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The Spoiler Alert Segmentation

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Spoiler Alert Segmentation
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The Spoiler Alert Segmentation

A fight between Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) forces Leonard to leave the apartment and move in across the hall with Penny (Kaley Cuoco) who doesn’t have the heart, or words, to tell her boyfriend she’s not ready for such a big step. On hearing the news Amy (Mayim Bialik) proposes to a stunned Sheldon that she take Leonard’s spot as his new roommate.

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Arrow – Betrayal

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  • Title: Green Arrow – Betrayal
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Arrow - Betrayal

As Thea (Willa Holland) begins her 500 hours of community service in Laurel’s (Katie Cassidy) law firm, Oliver (Stephen Amell) confronts his mother with the list of names Walter (Colin Salmon) was snooping into before his disappearance. Although he’s less than thrilled with Moria’s (Susanna Thompson) explanation of the list, Oliver continues to argue with Diggle (David Ramsey) that his mother is not mixed up in the the list or the lies that killed his father. Green Arrow also has his hands full with the release of sociopath Cyrus Vance (David Anders) from prison who plans to take over all of organized crime in Starling City by taking down the city’s masked vigilante.

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The Cooper/Kripke Inversion

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Cooper/Kripke Inversion
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“Tell him my coitus with Amy is frequent, intense, and whimsically inventive.”

The Cooper/Kripke Inversion

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) is outraged to lean he’ll be forced to work with Kripke (John Ross Bowie) on the proposal for the university’s new fusion reactor. What frustrates Sheldon even more is admitting to Amy (Mayim Bialik) that after trading research with Kripke, as they prepare to work on the proposal together, he has discovered his nemesis work is “leaps and bounds” ahead of his own.

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