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The Closet Reconfiguration

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Closet Reconfiguration
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The Big Bang Theory – The Closet Reconfiguration

While rearranging Howard (Simon Helberg) and Bernadette’s (Melissa Rauch) closets during the pair’s dinner party for the gang Sheldon (Jim Parsons) discovers an unopened letter to Howard from his father with whom the engineer has neither heard from nor spoken to since he was 11 years-old. Rather than read the letter Howard decides to burn it, but taking Amy’s (Mayim Bialik) suggestion, a curious Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Bernadette trick Sheldon, who read the letter before showing it to Howard, into divulging its contents.

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Community – Advanced Documentary Filmmaking

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  • Title: Community – Advanced Documentary Filmmaking
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“Enjoy your collective delusion. I’m going to go get a sandwich, which, unlike Changnesia, is real.”

Community - Advanced Documentary Filmmaking

Abed (Danny Pudi) takes up the role of documentary filmmaker (again) focusing on the mystery behind Chang’s (Ken Jeong) amnesia. In order to offset the monetary strain of searching for the cause of “Changnesia” the Dean (Jim Rash) enlists the support of the entire Greendale community to help the school procure a $40,000 grant from the MacGuffin Neurological Institute. And so, despite Jeff’s (Joel McHale) objections, the Study Group decides to help their troubled former enemy.

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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and the Brain Rapist

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  • Title: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
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The Incredible Burt WonderstoneThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone is an odd film about the change in magic from old school tricks and illusion to elaborate and dangerous stunts of endurance during the 1990’s, and the petty jealousies that go on behind the curtain, that feels at least a decade late. Written by Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (who gave us the equally uneven Horrible Bosses) the script is inconsistent, especially during the movie’s third act, but it delivers a surprising number of laughs when it embraces the sheer absurdity of its premise and characters with a gleeful zeal.

The film stars Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as a pair of old school Las Vegas magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton (think Siegfried & Roy without the tigers) whose act and decades of friendship have seen better days. The pair’s partnership comes to an end when popular new street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey as a mix of David Blaine and Criss Angel) forces the pair into uncharted territory doing dangerous stunts that leave Anton severely injured and Burt out on the street looking for a new job.

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Psych – Lassie Jerky

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“O’Hara, I forbid you to buy into this load of crap!”

Psych - Lassie Jerky

Shawn (James Roday) tricks Gus (Dulé Hill) into the woods to meet up with a pair of film students (Kate Rogal, Alex Enriquez) attempting to capture proof of Bigfoot on video. Convinced the pair are concocting a hoax of their very own to win a student film award no one is more surprised than Shawn when the foursome are attacked a very large furry creature, but not as surprised as Gus when he stumbles into a shallow grave containing three fresh corpses (and one panicking pharmaceutical salesman) while running from Bigfoot.

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The Intouchables

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  • Title: The Intouchables
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the-intouchables-blu-rayBased on the nonfiction book by Abdel Sellou, this French odd couple comedy stars Omar Sy as an ex-con out on the street who is hired as a caregiver for a rich French aristocrat (François Cluzet) with whom he has nothing in common. Most of the humor early on deals specifically with Driss’ (Sy) learning his new responsibilities, his discomfort with various aspects of his new job such as dressing Phillipe and “draining the ass” of a man he doesn’t know, and his fumbling juvenile attempts to woo Philippe’s completely uninterested assistant (Audrey Fleurot) into bed.

From there The Intouchables moves into the inevitable phase of the two finding common ground and becoming friends. Subplots involve Driss’ attempt to be a painter and keep his cousin () from following his same path, the relationship between Philippe’s daughter (Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi) and her boyfriend (Thomas Solivéres), and Driss pushing Philippe to meet the woman (Dorothée Brière) he’s been corresponding with for months.

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