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The Mentalist – The Complete Third Season

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  • Title: The Mentalist : The Complete Third Season
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the-mentalist-season-3Season Three brings more cases, a conspiracy within the CBI, and Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) will come face to face with Red John. The team’s division gets a new boss (Michael Gaston), Jane gets into trouble involving his brother-in-law (Kevin Rankin), the CBI investigates a religious cult with a charismatic leader (Malcolm McDowell), the team goes after a cop killer, Jane goes head to head with a criminal profiler (Linda Park) assigned to the CBI, a protected witness gets killed on Van Pelt’s (Amanda Righetti) watch, Jane gets held hostage by a man (Josh Randall) accused of killing two women, and Jane tries to trap a matchmaker (Morena Baccarin) he’s sure murdered her husband.

Other cases involve a dead jokey, murder in the home of a federal judge (Cristine Rose), a dead Santa Claus, a murdered writer (Jaimi Paige) covering a MMA fight, a murdered state lobbyist, the murder of an antique dealer, a doctor is killed with a nine iron.

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The Flash #1

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flash-new-52-1-coverThe newest relaunch of The Flash is one of the DC Reboot’s better first issues. Although the main plot involving the death of an old friend of Barry Allen‘s isn’t as engaging as I’d like writer and artist Francis Manapul does a good job reintroducing the character of the Flash with a couple of the character’s Silver Age trademark trappings (including storing his suit in his Flash ring).

Despite a so-so first adventure Manapaul does get the feel of Barry Allen right. There are nice early moments including the Flash’s guilt over the loss of his friend, a terrific opening splash panel, and a humorous conversation between Iris West and the Flash after he’s saved the day.

Yes, I say Iris West because in DC’s New 52 it appears Barry and Iris aren’t married (and maybe haven’t ever dated). I’ve got to say this change was shocking to me as Barry’s relationship to Iris is one of the defining pieces of his character. DC is really starting him back at square one (which is the exact opposite choice they made for Hal Jordan, who appears to gone through his entire DC history in a condensed time period).

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Doctor Who – The Wedding of River Song

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Wedding of River Song
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Series Six comes to a close with The Doctor (Matt Smith) meeting his destiny on the shores of Lake Silenco and surviving, but with a cost. River Song (Alex Kingston) figured out a way to save The Doctor but all of time has collapsed into a single event, everything in history is happening at the same moment as time itself slowly disintegrates.

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The Mentalist – Little Red Book

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  • Title: The Mentalist – Little Red Book
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With Lisbon (Robin Tunney) on suspension and the rest of the team reassigned to menial tasks within the CBI Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) returns to work for a new team led by a by-the-book detective (Reed Diamond). His first case back involves the death of a personal trainer who was popular with the gym’s female clientele.

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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

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  • Title: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
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“Oh, hi de ho officer. We’ve had a doozy of a day. There we were, minding our own business, just doing some chores around the house when kids starting killing themselves all over my property.”

tucker-and-dale-vs-evil-posterYou’ve seen this story before, but never quite like this. A group of college kids on a road trip run into a couple of unsavory types in the back woods and terror and mayhem ensue. So what makes Tucker & Dale vs. Evil so different? The script by Morgan Jurgenson and Eli Craig turns the overused premise sideways and provides one of the craziest movies of the year.

Tucker & Dale vs Evil casts the two scary looking hillbillies not as potential killers but victims in a world turned completely upside down. Dale (Tyler Labine) and Tucker (Alan Tudyk) are no killers. They’re just a pair of guys looking for some time away at their new summer home in the Appalachian Mountains.

When they save one of the girls from drowning her friends believe they pair have kidnapped Alison (Katrina Bowden) and plan to kill her. What follows is a level of insanity that’s hard to describe without giving away some of the film’s funniest moments.

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