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Real Steel

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  • Title: Real Steel
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real-steel-posterReal Steel is a rather simple story about the connection between a father and son mashed up with a movie adaptation for Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. It’s not going to wow you, but it’s a farily harmless family film with better than average effects, its share of charm, and lots of fightin’ robots!

In the not-too-distant future boxers have been replaced with robots. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a former fighter who never got his shot, now works the edges of robot boxing in state fairs and underground clubs. Charlie barely makes by, owes markers to everyone he knows, including the daughter (Evangeline Lilly) of his former trainer, and has just been given the responsibility of raising a son (Dakota Goyo) who he has never bothered to get to know.

Seeing how the boy’s aunt (Hope Davis) wants to adopt him Charlie makes a deal with her husband (James Rebhorn). For $100,000 he’ll take Max (Goyo) for the summer and then sign him over afterwards. In Charlie’s mind, everyone wins. And so father and son hit the road with Charlie’s new robot in tow.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Kame’e

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Kame’e
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When one of his former soldiers is killed in an apparent suicide Joe White (Terry O’Quinn) asks McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) for help. Not only does Five-0 discover that the soldier was murdered but the team uncovers a conspiracy to kill all the members of his SEAL team. As Five-0 tries to discover who is responsible the recently fired Kono (Grace Park) looks for new employment in the seediest of places.

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Castle – Head Case

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  • Title: Castle – Head Case
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A murder without a body and a van fleeing the scene lead Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) to a cryogenics laboratory which raises more questions than it solves. Add to that a unsupervised experiments in a seedy motel and a stolen frozen head, and you’ve got the makings for another strong episode of Castle (including a killer who’s all kinds of crazy).

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Person of Interest – Ghosts

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  • Title: Person of Interest – Ghosts
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Created by Jonathan Nolan, Person of Interest stars James Caviezel as a man with a unique set of skills who is approached by a computer programmer who has built a system that can predict the identity of people connected to violent crimes. The project was funded by the government to find terrorists but Finch (Michael Emerson) soon learned that it could also predict “non-essential” crimes of other individuals. Together Finch and Reese (Caviezel) set out to save the lives of those the machine discovers are in danger.

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Snake Eyes #5

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snake-eyes-5-coverSnake Eyes and his team made it off the mountain alive, but a new threat has been unleashed upon the world by another agent of Cobra hoping to earn himself the title of Cobra Commander. Scientist Rodrigo Vargas has released a pandemic to spread fear and death across the world. The disease, it turns out, is the same strain that is slowly killing Duke.

As the rest of his team lick their wounds Snake Eyes and Duke (in a protection suit designed to slow the process of the disease and stop him from spreading it to others) prepare to set out to find Vargas and a cure before a world-wide spread of the virus.

Chuck Dixon gives us a solid issue that sets up a new story arc for Snake Eyes. It might not be as strong as my favorite JOE trapped in a mountains surrounded by Cobra agents trying to kill him, but I’ve got a feeling things should begin to pick back up next issue (especially once we learn how the disease can psychologically effect those infected). Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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