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Glee – The New Rachel

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  • Title: Glee – The New Rachel
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Season Four (wow, has Glee really been on the air this long?) begins with Rachel (Lea Michele) having trouble with harsh dance teacher Cassandra July (Kate Hudson) at NYADA. Meanwhile, back in Lima, Kurt (Chris Colfer) tries to find a new role while the remaining members of New Directions compete to find their new leader and hold open auditions for new recruits for the glee club. With the focus of the show split in so many directions the season premiere feels a little schizophrenic as it tries to balance the lives of McKinley High School’s current and former students.

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The Lone Ranger #9

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the-lone-ranger-vol-2-9-coverThe “Native Ground” storyline continues as we see further into Tonto‘s past after the death of his wife and before his days as “the Lone Ranger‘s faithful Indian companion.”

The Lone Ranger #9 certainly gives us the darkest version of Tonto we’ve seen Dynamite Entertainment (or any other publisher) present recently as he stalks and murders the soldiers responsible for the raid on his tribe. With his revenge complete, it will be interesting to see how events weigh on him throughout the rest of the arc.

I don’t know that I’m excited to see three more issues of “Native Ground,” but what we’ve gotten so far has been enough to keep my interest. Writer Ande Parks continues his use of Native American folk tales to help frame the story, which works well here given how little we get verbally from Tonto himself in this issue. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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XIII – The Bank Job

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  • Title: XIII – The Bank Job
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XIII (Stuart Townsend) follows former Director of the CIA Frank Giordino (Paulino Nunes) to Moscow where he is trying to retrieve his box of dirty little secrets in an FSB controlled bank before regrouping and figuring out his next move. To get to Giordino’s burn box first XII and Agent Jones (Aisha Tyler) recruit a Federally imprisoned safe-cracker (Nicholas Campbell) and their favorite genius computer hacker (Aaron Ashmore) for a government approved bank robbery in Russia.

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Rookie Blue – I Never

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  • Title: Rookie Blue – I Never
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In the season finale Gail (Charlotte Sullivan) deals with being stuck behind a desk following her recent suspension while the precinct hunts down kidnapper Jon Grey (Greg Bryk) who has escaped custody. Andy (Missy Peregrym) and Epstein (Gregory Smith) try to find the young girl (Niamh Wilson) who the man kidnapped and kept in a basement against her will for seven years while Swarek (Ben Bass) and Collins (Peter Mooney) try to get clues from the man’s cell mate about what his next move might be.

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Robot & Frank

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  • Title: Robot & Frank
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robot-and-frank-posterRobot & Frank isn’t the kind of film that will surprise you. The story about a grump old ex-jewel thief with early onset Alzheimer’s who learns valuable lessons about life, friendship, and family is fairly predictable, and more than a little schmaltzy.

Frank Langella stars as Frank, a thief who spent the better part of his offspring’s childhood in prison creating a resentful son (James Marsden) and a loving absentee daughter (Liv Tyler). Unable to give his father the daily care he needs in the New York wilderness outside the small town, his son comes up with a solution – a personal robot.

Although initially resistant to the idea, Frank begins to soften to the robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) when Frank sees the potential to use his criminal past and the robot’s skills to resume his life of crime. As you might expect from a film like this, Frank begins to see the robot as more of a friend than a tool and the robot proves to be far more human than Frank, or the audience, is initially led to believe.

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