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Doctor Who – The Power of Three

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One week before the mid-season finale, and final episode featuring Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) as The Doctor’s (Matt Smith) primary companions, Doctor Who delivers an episode about millions of mysterious small black cubes that suddenly appear all across the world. The cubes’ inactivity forces The Doctor to do the one thing he hates more than Daleks – to wait.

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Doctor Who – A Town Called Mercy

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“Why would I be curious? It’s a mysterious space-cowboy-assassin. Curious? Of course I’m not curious.”

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The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), and Rory (Arthur Darvill) take a trip to the Old West where they come across a small town terrorized by a cyborg known as The Gunslinger (Andrew Brooke). The cyborg’s soul purpose is to wait for an opportunity to kill an alien doctor named Kahler Jex (Adrian Scarborough) who has taken refuge in the Sheriff’s (Ben Browder) office.

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Doctor Who – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

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“Dinosaurs ahead, a lady at my side, about to be blown up, not sure I’ve ever been happier.”

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In the year 2367 The Doctor (Matt Smith) is called in to help with a Silurian spaceship on a collision course with Earth that happens to be populated with dinosaurs. Along with him for the ride are the Doctor’s “gang” which includes Amy (Karen Gillan), Rory (Arthur Darvill), Queen Nefertiti (Riann Steele) of Egypt, an early 20th Century big game hunter (Rupert Graves) and, quite unexpectedly, Rory’s father Brian (Mark Williams).

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Robot & Frank

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robot-and-frank-posterRobot & Frank isn’t the kind of film that will surprise you. The story about a grump old ex-jewel thief with early onset Alzheimer’s who learns valuable lessons about life, friendship, and family is fairly predictable, and more than a little schmaltzy.

Frank Langella stars as Frank, a thief who spent the better part of his offspring’s childhood in prison creating a resentful son (James Marsden) and a loving absentee daughter (Liv Tyler). Unable to give his father the daily care he needs in the New York wilderness outside the small town, his son comes up with a solution – a personal robot.

Although initially resistant to the idea, Frank begins to soften to the robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) when Frank sees the potential to use his criminal past and the robot’s skills to resume his life of crime. As you might expect from a film like this, Frank begins to see the robot as more of a friend than a tool and the robot proves to be far more human than Frank, or the audience, is initially led to believe.

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Doctor Who – Asylum of the Daleks

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“Don’t be fair to the Daleks when they’re firing me at a planet!”

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When the Daleks need assistance they turn to their greatest enemy, “the predator of the Daleks,” and separately kidnap The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), and Rory (Arthur Darvill), whisking off the threesome to the Asylum – a planetary prison even the Daleks are too afraid to enter because it contains the most unstable and terrifying Daleks ever created. And somewhere, admist all that insanity, is a single ship, with a single human crew member who has managed to survive and cause no end of trouble to the Daleks for the better part of a year. Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Who introduces you to its newest companion – Clara Oswin (Jenna-Louise Coleman).

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