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A Separation

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  • Title: A Separation
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, A Separation is a study in a family’s struggles after the husband and wife separate over differences surrounding the future of their daughter. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to move the family to America and give her daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) opportunities she will not find in Iran, but her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) will not consent to a divorce and refuses to abandon his invalid father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) for the promise of a better life in a country that is not his own.

When his wife moves out Nader has no other choice but to hire someone to look after his father while he is at work. Nader agrees to give the work to a husband (Shahab Hosseini) of a friend of Simin’s, but when he’s unable to take the job due to legal troubles it falls to his wife Razieh (Sareh Bayat) to take care of elderly man suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia, which proves to be a much harder task then she initially envisioned.

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Psych – Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger

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  • Title: Psych – Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger
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When a shipment of priceless art is stolen right from under their noses Shawn (James Roday) calls in an expert to help solve the case – Pierre Despereaux (Cary Elwes). Needless to say Gus (Dulé Hill) is slightly less enthused with trusting the art thief to recover the missing treasures than his best friend, especially as he’s still not satisfied with Shawn’s explanation about the engagement ring he’s carrying around for Juliet (Maggie Lawson).

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Castle – Once Upon a Crime

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  • Title: Castle – Once Upon a Crime
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“You get cute when you get angry, but not when you get angry with me.”

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When a young lawyer is found dead, apparently mauled by an animal and wearing a Red Riding Hood costume, and another victim dressed as Snow White, Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) are put on the trail of an elaborate serial killer with a fairy tale fetish.

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The Flash #6

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the-flash-new-52-6-coverWith the Mob Rule story finished the Flash turns his attention to Captain Cold who escaped prison during the blackout. An unintended side-effect of the blackout, which everyone mistakenly believes the Flash caused, is it left Cold’s sister slowly wasting away in the hospital who no longer have the power to operated the laser necessary to perform the brain surgery to save her.

The comic does a good job re-introducing the character of Captain Cold. I’m not sure I like that he’s now a guy with cold powers, rather than his old freeze gun, but writer Francis Manapul does through longtime DC readers a bone by allowing the Flash to mention how the villain has changed.

Aside from Flash’s battle with Cold, and the reason for the villain’s new motivations, we also get Barry siting down as an awkward go between between Patty and Iris, and a continuation of the seed planted in last month’s issue about the hero’s need to watch his speed because there’s a chance it could rip apart time and reality. We even get a giant treadmill. Sweet! Best of the week.

[DC, $2.99]

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The Mentalist – His Thoughts Were Red Thoughts

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  • Title: The Mentalist – His Thoughts Were Red Thoughts
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Malcolm McDowell returns as cult leader Bret Styles, a leading suspect in the CBI’s investigation into the murder of the head of an anti-cult activist organization, especially after they discover evidence that the victim was close to tying Styles to a murder in the 1970’s and that a police officer, and member of the cult (Jorge-Luis Pallo), cleaned up the crime scene to hide evidence before the CBI’s arrival.

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