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The Hofstadter Insufficiency

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Hofstadter Insufficiency
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The Hofstadter Insufficiency

In the show’s Seventh Season premiere Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) bond while Leonard (Johnny Galecki) parties in the North Sea on his science excursion, Howard (Simon Helberg) attempts to shake Raj (Kunal Nayyar) out of his funk caused by loosing his girlfriend (Kate Micucci) by taking his best friend to a faculty mixer, and Amy(Mayim Bialik) and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) room together during a science convention out of town. The result is a rather lackluster opener to the season, with a few fun moments, that provides three separate stories, only one of which has much to offer.

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Don Jon

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  • Title: Don Jon
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Don JonWritten and directed by star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon is a romantic comedy presented from the male perspective that’s likely to appeal more to men than women. A film about how a man loves porn more than the woman he’s with is certainly a tricky topic for a date movie (while making certain aspersions to the emotional porn of romcoms and Catholicism along the way), but Gordon-Levitt manages to pull off the intriguing premise even if it looses steam when the film takes its inevitable dramatic turn.

Jon (Gordon-Levitt) really only cares about a handful of things in his life: his friends, his car, his apartment, his religion, and, even more than the bevy of beauties the man takes home every night, his porn. And he really takes his porn seriously. You might even go so far as to call Jon a porn connoisseur. Even when he begins dating the stunning Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), Jon is incapable at letting go of his true love which is always presented in a series of quick-cuts featuring the sound his Mac powering and various porn clips before the inevitable shot of a wad of Kleenex hitting the trash can.

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The Big Bang Theory – The Complete Sixth Season

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – Season Six
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The Big Bang Theory - The Complete Sixth SeasonThe Big Bang Theory‘s Sixth Season offers Howard (Simon Helberg) time aboard the International Space Station, a girlfriend (Kate Micucci) for Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Bob Newhart in an appearance as Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) boyhood hero Professor Proton, and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) given the chance to work with Stephen Hawking.

Highlights of the season include a D&D night for our the guys and their girlfriends, a trip to Comic-Con, Alex‘s (Margo Harshman) crush on Leonard which Sheldon handles poorly, Leonard, Howard, and Sheldon attempting to sell science to middle school girls, Sheldon attempting to nurse Amy (Mayim Bialik) back to health, a parking space dispute, Raj hitting rock bottom, Howard and Raj spying on Sheldon, the return of Will Wheaton, Sheldon’s attempt to bond with with Kripke (John Ross Bowie), and in the season’s best episode Sheldon’s discovery of an unopened letter to Howard from his father which brings the whole cast together in one of the series’ best sequences.

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Austenland may be a fun place to visit, but…

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  • Title: Austenland
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Austenland

Based on the novel of the same name by Shannon Hale, writer and first-time director Jerusha Hess (co-writer of both Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) delivers a quirky, over-the-top, odd film that is more charming than it has any right to be. Showcasing how one may take fandom too far, Keri Russell stars as Jane Hayes, a middle-aged single woman with a lifelong obsession for the works of Jane Austen and a romantic life that has never lived up to her fantasies. Spending her entire savings, Jane books a vacation at an Austen-themed destination getaway where she might finally live out those fantasies as a woman from Austen’s era.

In the spirit of a Christopher Guest film that simultaneously celebrates and pokes fun at a particular niche, Austenland‘s premise could turned around any number of overzealous fans and the properties they embrace so religiously. However, anyone who has ever known a woman obsessed with Austen’s books may take a somewhat perverse glee in Jane’s realization that her time-period-appropriate assigned role isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

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