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Person of Interest – Trojan Horse

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Person of Interest - Trojan Horse

After another unusual game of chess with Elias (Enrico Colantoni), Finch (Michael Emerson) goes undercover at a tech company to try and discover if the latest number, one of the company’s executives (Tracie Thoms) who has begun digging into the suspicious death of one of her co-workers, is working for the company’s best interest or trying to destroy it. As Finch works on his own Reese (Jim Caviezel) seeks out Shaw (Sarah Shahi) who has been watching over her former partner’s parents whose son’s name the government smeared after they had him killed.

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Jurassic Park 3D

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Jurassic Park

Originally released 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg‘s dinosaur movie (adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton) gets a new run in theaters sporting retrofitted 3D effects. Despite CGI effects two decades old, the film holds up remarkably well and the 3D works (most of the time) to enhance what is still a thoroughly enjoyable popcorn movie.

The film, for those need a refresher, stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum as scientists recruited by a wealthy billionaire (Richard Attenborough) to sign off on his new amusement park which features cloned dinosaurs. Also along for the weekend are the billionaire’s grandchildren (Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards) and his “blood-sucking lawyer” (Martin Ferrero).

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Fatale #13

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Fatale #13Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips provide a single-issue tale of another Fatale. Set in the Old West, we’re introduced to “Black” Bonnie Smith, a woman with the (eerily familiar) power to bend men to her will and a bloody past that includes the slaughter of an Indian village and dying twice before meeting a pair of men who would change her life.

Killed and then kidnapped by a Native American named Milkfred and a elderly snake oil salesman, both who are immune to her spell, Bonnie is saved from a (eerily familiar) cult who have been hunting her for days. For the first time in years Bonnie has more questions than answers and continues travelling with the unlikely pair to a lighthouse on the prairie to grab the group’s bible which may just have the answers they all seek.

Once again Brubaker and Phillips craft tale with familiar characters in new settings. I’d like a little more revelation about the cults as we see them over time, but the various protagonists continue to entertain. Worth a look.

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Castle – The Lives of Others

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Castle - The Lives of Others

Castle celebrates its 100th episode with a homage to Rear Window as Castle (Nathan Fillion) believes he witnesses a murder while cooped up in his apartment two days before his birthday with a broken leg. While Castle goes stir crazy, Beckett (Stana Katic), Esposito (Jon Huertas), and Ryan (Seamus Dever) investigate a woman beaten to death with a baseball in a back alley whose body was left in a dumpster.

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Guardians of the Galaxy #1

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Guardians of the Galaxy #1The new adventures of Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Gamora, Groot, and Drax begins with Peter Quill receiving a surprise visit from his estranged father and a warning that Earth has been deemed off-limits to all extra-terrestrials. Realizing such a bold pronouncement would only paint a bullseye on his homeworld, the Guardians of the Galaxy head into the Milky Way where they find Iron Man, in his spiffy new space armor, fighting off an entire battleship of Badoon.

After a pretty good reintroduction to Peter Quill (and his major daddy issues) the comic ramps up the action pretty fast as Iron Man and the Guardians work together to stop whatever the Badoon have planned. The good news is the group is successful. The bad news is the Guardians crash land on Earth, immeadiately violating the treaty his father just signed (which may have been his plan all along).

A strong first issue, even if Quill and (to a lesser extent Iron Man) get the spotlight shone of them far more than the rest of the team.

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