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Burn Notice – Desperate Measures / Means & Ends

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  • Title: Burn Notice – Desperate Measures
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Betrayed by his mentor (John C. McGinley), Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) finds himself trapped in Panama with no exit strategy along with Fi (Gabrielle Anwar), Sam (Bruce Campbell), and Jesse (Coby Bell) as the Burn Notice returns from its mid-season hiatus with a two-hour premiere. With the CIA, FBI, and a Panama drug cartel on their tails (after they steal a plane full of their drugs) Michael has to forgo killing the man (Kenny Johnson) who killed his brother (Seth Peterson) in order to make it home and use Gray to take the fight to Card.

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The Sessions

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  • Title: The Sessions
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the-sessions-posterSex is a mysterious, terrifying, and wondrous thing, especially for someone like Marc O’Brien (John Hawkes) who has lived nearly his entire life unable to move a single muscle below his neck. After contracting Polio at the age of six, Marc has spent most of his life in an iron lung or strapped to a gurney. At the age of 38, inspired while writing an article about the sex lives of people with physical disabilities, he decides it’s about time he lost his virginity.

After getting the consent of his priest, Father Brendan (William H. Macy, in another terrific supporting performance), Marc engages the services of Cheryl (Helen Hunt), a sex surrogate. Marc’s journey is far from an easy one, with both sad and humorous obstacles to be overcome.

Based on the true experiences of Marc O’Brien, adapted and directed by Ben Lewin, this little film about sex turns out to be a funny and sweet character study of a man and his relationships with the three most important women in his life (Hunt, Moon Bloodgood, and Annika Marks).

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Covert Affairs – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

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  • Title: Covert Affairs – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
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“I told you a long time ago that there’s no such thing as trust among spies.”

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The fallout from last week’s botched drone bombing of a suspected terrorist continues as Arthur (Peter Gallagher) is ordered in front of a Senate Oversight Committee, Joan (Kari Matchett) orders Annie (Piper Perabo) to return to the Blue Bonnet facility to resume her complete Moscow debriefing, and Annie’s asset (Michelle Nolden), who is now targeted for death by the man (Haaz Sleiman) the CIA failed to kill, has disappeared. As Auggie (Christopher Gorham) and Barber (Dylan Taylor), and a boatload of CIA agents, are called into help circle the wagons Annie is left a difficult choice to play it safe, keep her head down, and follow orders or head out without support to find the missing journalist. For our heroine it’s no choice at all.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 Annual

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tmnt-annual-2012-coverFor the first time in years co-creator Kevin Eastman does double duty writing and providing the art for a Teenage Mutant Turtle comic. The annual is set in the current IDW timeline as Raphael and Casey Jones accidentally get the Turtles involved in a skirmish between the Savate Clan and Foot Clan all due to an unfortunate traffic accident and a missing briefcase.

Although it’s very well done, the story certainly isn’t central to the ongoing plot of the current IDW series. This one is for longtime fans of the characters as we’re able to see the Turtles, in stark black and white, as those of us old enough to remember them from their original comic run in the mid-1980’s.

I’m not the biggest fan of the Rashomon storytelling angle Eastman uses here, but I I love the look and feel of the characters and their surroundings. At $9 it’s certainly going to scare off a few buyers, but Eastman fills the comic with as many of the reintroduced characters as possible and provides tons of story and action, along with a great wrap-around cover, longtime fans should enjoy. Best of the week.

[IDW, $8.99]

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Castle – The Final Frontier

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  • Title: Castle – The Final Frontier
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“I was a sci-fi-loving, costume-wearing geek.”

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The mysterious murder of a young woman (who was apparently killed with a phaser) at a sci-fi/pop culture convention where Castle (Nathan Fillion) is hawking his latest graphic novel brings Beckett (Stana Katic), Ryan (Seamus Dever), and Esposito (Jon Huertas) to investigate. The case also brings out Beckett’s inner-geek and her love for a short-lived sci-fi series on whose “fan experience” the body was found.

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