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Mitefall!

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  • Title: Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Mitefall!
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After watching Batman (Diedrich Bader) and Aquaman (John Di Maggio) stop Gorilla Grodd (Di Maggio) from stealing a ocean laboratory with the use of robotic sharks Bat-Mite (Paul Reubens) laments the Silver Age hijinks of his favorite show who he believes has jumped the shark (literally!). In the mood for a more dramatic version of the Caped Crusader the imp decides to use his power to sink the show for good in Batman: The Brave and the Bold‘s final episode.

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Take Shelter

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  • Title: Take Shelter
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take-shelter-posterWhen a construction worker starts to have apocalyptic nightmares and hallucinations he becomes obsessed with spending his time and his family’s limited resources to build onto a fallout shelter in their backyard.

Curtis (Michael Shannon) is convinced that a storm, unlike anyone has ever seen, is approaching and the shelter is his only hope of keeping his wife (Jessica Chastain) and daughter (Tova Stewart) safe. He’s also well-aware that his problems might be linked to his family’s history of mental illness. His mother (Kathy Baker) was diagnosed as a schizophrenic at the age he is now. Are his visions real or is he too loosing his mind?

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter works well because the lead character is able to admit the possibility that everything he’s experiencing may be nothing more than his delusions. But that admission doesn’t mean he’s not still at their mercy. Over the course of the film the gathering storm in his mind grows louder and louder until it finally erupts.

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Castle – Cops & Robbers

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  • Title: Castle – Cops & Robbers
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“Even as a hostage I help you solve murders.”

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A trip the bank to help his mother (Susan Sullivan) secure a loan for her acting studio starts out boring Castle (Nathan Fillion) out of his mind, but things soon heat up when four robbers dressed in hospital scrubs (Darren Pettie, Jonah Wharton, Ty Upshaw, Noa Dori) start robbing the bank and taking hostages.

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The Ides of March

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  • Title: The Ides of March
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ides-of-march-posterThe loss of innocence is the theme for George Clooney‘s latest directoral effort which centers around a high-ranking political staffer whose idealism is shattered over the course of the two-hour film as he learns just how dirty a business politics really is.

The youthful Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) has worked on more campaigns that most staffers twice his age but he believes he’s finally found the real thing in Governor Mike Morris (Clooney). Morris is one of two front-runners for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. With Myers help he might even make it, if he’ll agree to make the backroom deals to get him the delegates needed to sew-up the nomination.

Myers is approached by the campaign manager (Paul Giamatti) for Morris’ opposition who attempts to woo the wunderkid over to his campaign. Although he declines the offer, Myers’s hyper-paranoid boss (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is angered over his protege’s willingness to meet with the enemy.

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Time Out for Vengeance!

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  • Title: Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Time Out for Vengeance!
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When Batmen of various eras start disappearing from history its up to Batman‘s (Diedrich Bader) friends to travel in time and save them before the world forgets the Dark Knight Detective. This episode is so jam-packed full of action it’s hard to know where to begin. We get Guy Gardner (James Arnold Taylor) and Ice (Jennifer Hale), Blue Beetle (Will Friedle) and Booster Gold (Tom Everett Scott), Caveman Batman (with a giant Cromagnon coin in his Bat-Tree), Fire (Grey DeLisle), Timemaster Rip Hunter (Bloom) and his time sphere, Robot Batman, giant statues coming to life, Pirate Batman, a T-Rex, the JLI, pompous (yet always highly entertaining) Aquaman (John Di Maggio), sea monsters, Roman Centurion Batman, and the all too brief return of Catman (complete with the giant robotic cat he used in his very first comic book appearance)!

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