Host Jimmy Fallon and The Roots sing Hello with Adele (Photo by Douglas Gorenstein / NBC)
Adele is the latest singer to sit down with The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform a hit song using only classroom instruments. Adele sang “Hello” backed up by Fallon and The Roots, with a surprise ‘easter egg’ appearance in the video of a very special bust. Here’s the list of classroom instruments used, courtesy of The Tonight Show:
Adele – vocals, flip phone;
Jimmy Fallon – wood block, huge bass drum, Casio keyboard;
Questlove – hand clappers, orange shaker;
Kamal Gray – xylophone;
James Poyser – melodica;
Captain Kirk – ukulele;
Tuba Gooding Jr. – kazoo, banana shaker;
Mark Kelley – kazoo;
Frank Knuckles – bongos;
Black Thought — tambourine.
If you’ve ever attempted to have a photographer take a special holiday photo of your dog or cat, then you should get a laugh out of the new video from The Secret Life of Pets. The animated pet-friendly comedy film from Illumination Entertainment offers up a holiday video featuring the film’s animated stars posing in costumes for their winter holiday photos. Directed by Chris Renaud (the Despicable Me movies) and Yarrow Cheney, the voice cast includes Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Albert Brooks, Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, and Hannibal Buress.
The Secret Life of Pets opens in theaters on July 8, 2016.
The Plot:
For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
“It’s alive,” says Victor (James McAvoy). “Do you realize how significant this is?” asks Igor (Daniel Radcliffe). “I have an inkling, yes,” answers the mad doctor in this retelling/reboot of the classic horror story about a man obsessed with creating a living man from the dead in the horror film, Victor Frankenstein.
Told from the view point of the doctor’s assistant, Igor, the film opens with Igor being in a circus both as the clown everyone picks on and as the traveling group’s doctor. It seems Igor, although struggling with being a hunchback all his life, has a brilliant mind for science and human anatomy. One night at the circus the beautiful flying trapeze artist Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay), who Igor is in love with from afar, falls while performing. Igor comes to her aid, as does a stranger from the audience. Both men having knowledge of medicine and work together to save her life. As Lorelei is being taken to a hospital, the stranger begins to leave. Igor asks the man what his name is before he leaves and he turns to reply, “Victor Frankenstein.”
The bosses of the circus aren’t too happy with the stranger suggesting to Igor his medical talent is wasted working at the circus so they decide to lock up poor Igor in an old lion’s cage for the night. Victor returns just a little later and frees Igor, using a magnet to unlock the cage. The team up to fight their way out of the circus grounds.
Victor takes Igor to his loft and tells him that from now on he is to be Frankenstein’s assistant on his experiments and no questions are to be asked. Together the unlikely pair quickly become good friends and a great medical team as they attempt to bring life to a creature made from different animal parts. It turns out that was why Victor was really at the circus that night: looking for spare animal parts. His work has caught the attention of Inspector Turpin (Andrew Scott) from Scotland Yard who’s investigating the crimes.
Finally, Victor and Igor are successful enough in bringing the mangled, horribly put-together animal that’s part chimpanzee to life that they do a presentation at the medical school Victor is attending. It works but is a disaster, with the beast getting loose and almost hurting several people before Victor and Igor put it down. Still, Victor finds a benefactor to further finance his experiments to bring a superior stitched together man to life. That prompts Igor to question the moral, ethical and religious boundaries they’re crossing, all while watching his good friend become obsessed with his experiments and obsessed with bringing to life his horrifying creation.
Hectic and oddly paced, Victor Frankenstein is an action/thriller buddy movie with a great larger-than-life performance by James McAvoy as the mad doctor and an almost too normal Igor portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe.
Both McAvoy and Radcliffe have strong chemistry together as master and servant who become friends, partners, and eventually surrogate brothers to each other. This is the film’s greatest strength, in particular McAvoy as the obsessed doctor who is more out of place out in the real world than his trusted assistant. The film also injects some effective humor into what could be an otherwise lifeless retelling of the classic building-a-monster story. One perfect example of this is when Victor tells Igor not to embarrass him while they are out at a high society party celebrating their latest achievement and in the very next scene an intoxicated Victor is arguing with two lovely and distressed young ladies about creating life without the use of their ovaries and Igor telling him that perhaps this isn’t the time or the place for this conversation.
The film is also full of scenes, props, and sets, including the mad doctors laboratory both in England and later in Scotland, that pay homage to many of the earlier Frankenstein films. The fate of the Inspector’s hand is the same as the Inspector in the classic film Son of Frankenstein and the general design and look of the creature near the end of the film replicates the iconic creature as played by Boris Karloff.
The film does suffer from changing from a fast almost frenzied pace early on to a much slower and drawn-out middle that begins to remove the kinetic energy between the two leading men. Also, the romance between Igor and Lorelei comes off forced and detracts from the real story which is the bond formed between Victor and his trusted assistant.
With great chemistry between the film’s two leading men and a stand-out, at times very funny, performance by McAvoy, Victor Frankenstein is actually worth seeing up on the big screen, especially for devoted Frankenstein movie fans.
GRADE: B-
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for macabre images, violence and a sequence of destruction
David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova in ‘Gotham’ season 2 (Photo by Jeff Neumann / FOX)
“Whatever Galavan is planning, it’s going down today,” says Gordon (Ben McKenzie). “Stop it,” replies Capt. Barnes (Michael Chiklis). Barnes has changed his mind and put his top detective back on the case right before Galavan (James Frain) is scheduled to go to court for the kidnapping and attempted murder of the Mayor of Gotham in season two episode 10 of FOX’s gritty comic-book crime series Gotham.
The episode begins with a terrified woman running from what seems to be yet another Gotham thug. As he grabs her things and gets ready to shoot her, he’s suddenly pulled down a dark alley and seems to disappear.
Gordon, Capt. Barnes, Bullock (Donal Logue), and other members of the GCPD are dressed in their dress blues to attend the funeral for the young woman officer murdered by the cannibal, Flamingo. After the service, Gordon pays a visit to Galavan in prison to see if the name Catherine Parks means anything to him, but Galavan says it doesn’t. However, Galavan’s attitude and constant smiling have Jim on edge.
Gordon goes home and tells Lee (Morena Baccarin) about his “mistake.” If he had shot Flamingo in the face instead of arresting him, the young officer would be alive now. Lee tries to reassure Jim he did the right thing and that he’s about justice, not vengeance, but Jim is in no mood to hear it.
Selina (Camren Bicondova) has been able to convince Bruce (David Mazouz) that Silver (Natalie Alyn Lind) is a no-good lying backstabber and the two of them work together to set her up to try to get the name of the man who killed Bruce’s parents. It seems Bruce is still convinced she knows the name of the actual killer. While the two of them work out their plan, it’s obvious Selina is happy to be back with her only true friend again – but she still feels threatened by Silver. In setting up Silver, Selina tells Bruce, “The best liars always tell the truth,” right before she quickly climbs up a tree to her perch to listen in on Bruce and Silver’s conversation.
Barnes returns to the precinct and puts Gordon on the new case of the missing thug who tried to attack the woman. Gordon tries to talk Barnes out of it telling him Galavan is up to something but Barnes is tired of Galavan, saying he’s locked up and it will be good for Jim to work on another case.
Meanwhile, Bruce’s manipulation of Silver is going very well. He’s using his “feelings” for the girl to get her to ask Galavan for the name of Bruce’s parents’ murderer and he tells her he’ll pay for her uncle’s legal defense. Silver is reluctant at first but Bruce whispers a few sentences in her ear and she asks him if he really means that. He nods yes and kisses her which starts to get to Selina who’s watching and listening to everything from above.
Later, Bruce gets a message on his phone from Silver saying to meet her in the park and that she has the name he wants. When Bruce gets there a van pulls up and a group of thugs, led by The Knife (Tommy Flanagan), open the side door of the van and reveal a kidnapped Silver. The Knife tells Bruce to get in and he complies.
They take both Bruce and Silver to an old, abandoned warehouse just outside the city and have Silver and Bruce tied to two chairs. The Knife tells the two that he knows someone has been snooping around trying to find out who the killer of Bruce’s parents is and he wants to know what Galavan knows about it. He threatens to cut off their fingers in order to try to get them to talk.
Twice Bruce interrupts The Knife, trying to tell him to back off and let them go. The Knife responds by slapping Bruce hard across the face, telling him to only speak when asked a question. The Knife then begins to drag Bruce into the other room to begin to cut off his fingers, and Bruce yells to Silver to tell them the name and he will still honor the deal with Galavan. Silver says she’s sorry but she doesn’t know it and was told to lie to keep Bruce busy until Galavan was released later that night.
Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue in ‘Gotham’ (Photo by Jessica Miglio / FOX)
Gordon and Bullock get a tip about a massage parlor (that gives happy endings) that Galavan tried to purchase. They go to check it out and end up confronting a member of the Order of St. Dumas, the last name Galavan once held and hopes to return to Gotham. All they get out of the man dressed as a monk is that “a day of reckoning is at hand and the blood of the nine will wash away the sin and Gotham shall be cleansed.” They find a few dead clients and the monk killer tries to escape and gets hit and killed by an oncoming truck.
After making the connection between the killer monks and Galavan because of the names, Barnes puts Jim and Bullock back on the Galavan/killer monks case. Gordon and Bullock go back to the alley where the thug disappeared with the other killer monk – there seems to be a small army of them – and Jim realizes they are using the sewers. Harvey groans, knowing they are going back into the bowels of Gotham. While searching the sewers the two detectives discover the dead thug and Harvey is attacked by a knife-wielding monk.
Luckily, the killer is no match for the two cops and they are able to knock him out. Harvey wants to apply some force to try to get him to talk but Jim reminds him that the guy is a religious nut not motivated by pain or greed. So Harvey heads up to try to get a cell signal to call for back up and Jim stays with the unconscious monk. Gordon blindfolds the Order member and gives him a blessing of blood by slicing his own hand open with a blade. The killer monk reveals to Jim that the Son of Gotham will die. Could he be talking about Bruce Wayne?!
Speaking of Bruce, The Knife reappears with a blood-soaked towel praising how little Mr. Wayne really manned up and didn’t cry or scream while he cut off all his fingers. Silver begs The Knife to stop and he begins to pull her closer to get at her hands. The real Silver finally emerges telling The Knife her uncle will kill him and everyone he cares about if he touches her. He smiles down at her and says, “There she is,” referring to Silver’s real personality. He pulls out one of her fingers and puts the blade of his big knife to it. Silver quickly reveals the name of the man who murdered the Waynes, naming him as Malone with a first name that begins with M. She swears that’s all she knows.
Bruce and Selina come walking out from the other room and, yes, it’s all been a big con to get Silver to reveal what she really knew. It’s obvious that this marks the beginning of Bruce slowly turning into the man and the Bat who he is destined to become. He reveals to Silver that Selina found the file she had on him and it was obvious now that she was never his friend and was only interested in manipulating him for her uncle, Galavan. Silver tries to convince Bruce that it’s not true but it’s way too late. She begs him not to leave her and that her uncle will kill her. She tells him he would never let that happen because it’s not who he is. Bruce stops walking away and turns to Silver and says, “That’s exactly who I am.” Bruce and Selina then leave together after paying The Knife for his excellent performance and assistance.
Meanwhile, Alfred (Sean Pertwee) is of course looking for Bruce and goes to Galavan’s penthouse apartment and comes across Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) who’s looking for something thrown into the fireplace. The two taunt each other and fling insults and it finally escalates into a fight. It turns out the two are an equal match for each other with Tabitha pulling a knife to try to gain an advantage. Alfred knocks Tabitha out for a bit after getting stabbed but ends up taking a knife to the back during his escape.
Jim and Barnes attend the court hearing of Galavan to discover that the mayor has recanted and now says that the Penguin was responsible for his kidnapping. Galavan is released and turns and smiles big at Jim who loses it and punches Theo in the face. Gordon is then taken out of the courtroom by two officers who taser him and take him to the docks. Obviously, the two crooked cops work for Galavan.
Back at Wayne Manor, Bruce and Selina have arrived with Bruce looking for Alfred. Figuring he must be out looking for him, Bruce thanks Selina for her help and she asks him what he’s going to do with the information. Is he going to give it to Detective Gordon or follow up on it himself? Bruce admits he hasn’t thought that far ahead yet. Selina asks Bruce what he whispered into Silver’s ear to get her to trust him. Bruce tells Selina that he told Silver that he trusted her with his life and felt tied to her in a way he had never felt before. “Was that true?” asks Selina, obviously hoping it wasn’t. “Yes, but not about her,” replies Bruce revealing that’s how he feels towards Selina. Blushing, smiling, and looking a little embarrassed, Selina goes to exit out her favorite window but turns and says to Bruce, “It’s good you’re changing, but don’t change too much.”
Back at the docks, Gordon is tied up and Galavan confronts Jim revealing that it was his family that really built Gotham and how his forefathers were betrayed by the Wayne family. Galavan thanks Gordon for all his help saying he couldn’t have done it without him. He then changes his mind and tells his men to release Gordon so he and Jim can fight. Letting his anger get the better of him and underestimating Theo, Gordon gets his ass kicked by Galavan and ends up passed out on the ground. As he leaves, Galavan tells his men to kill him but not quickly. The two corrupt cops begin to beat Jim to what looks like his death when they are both shot by Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) who had been told by Gabe that Galavan was released earlier in the evening. Penguin tries to get Jim to tell him where Galavan is but Jim is unconscious.
Speaking of Penguin, throughout the episode are sprinkled scenes of Penguin and Ed Nygma bothering each other on the phone. It’s an entertaining dynamic developing between the two Gotham villains, which unfortunately is cut short by Galavan’s release from prison.
The episode ends with Galavan invading Wayne Manor and praising Bruce for his ingenuity, but that’s not going to stop Theo’s plans. He pulls out a blade and tells Bruce he wants his life.
Review of Gotham Season 2 Episode 10:
Dark, intense, and violent, season two episode 10 titled “Son of Gotham” sets up and brings to a head all the major characters involved in Galavan’s revenge plans. It seems to be a dark time for the heroes as Jim has just been saved by the villain Penguin rather than his partner, Bullock, and poor Bruce is at the mercy of Galavan and his big knife and killer monks.
The stand-out performance in this episode once again goes to David Mazouz as young Bruce Wayne who for the first time since the series began shows a glimmer of the man and the Caped Crusader he is destined to become. The scene where he explains to Silver what has been really going on and how he knows now that she was never his friend is almost chilling…besides being completely awesome. His matter-of-fact cold demeanor makes the scene even that much more powerful.
Another strong performance in this episode is delivered by Camren Bicondova as Selina. Her character has really been down and hurting this season after losing an old friend, her trust and faith in Gordon, and almost losing Bruce, her only true friend. She displays subtlety in her jealousy and concern for Bruce who she’s not sure isn’t still smitten with Silver. The scene where Bruce tells Selina, who just can’t shake the great performance he gave in convincing Silver he really cared for her, what he said and that it was true but about Selina is one of the episode’s best because of Camren’s reaction to it as Selina. The way she looks so happy yet a little embarrassed to know that her first love still loves her back is perfect.
With Jim out cold, Bruce in the hands of Galavan and his Order, and Alfred off somewhere with a knife in his back, here’s hoping our heroes’ luck greatly improves in the mid-season finale.
Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett are featured in the second trailer for Knight of Cups from Broad Green Pictures. Knight of Cups comes from writer/director Terrence Malick, the filmmaker behind Tree of Life, The New World, The Thin Red Line, and Days of Heaven, and features Natalie Portman, Isabelle Lucas, Teresa Palmer, Antonio Banderas, and Wes Bentley. We can expect to see Knight of Cups in theaters on March 4, 2016.
The Plot:
Knight of Cups follows Rick, an uninspired screenwriter living on the event horizon of all the vice, and some of the virtues, Los Angeles has to offer. He is a slave to the Hollywood system; addicted to success but simultaneously despairing at the emptiness of his life.
With the death of his brother Billy hanging over him like a shadow and his surviving brother down on his luck, Rick seeks distraction in the company of women. Women seem to know him better than he know himself, bringing him closer to the heart of things, closer to understanding his place. And while the parties, the dalliances, and the career remain unfulfilling – each woman, each man he’s met through the course of his life has served him in some way as a guide, a messenger. This visceral journey through one man’s City of Angels has just begun.
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr put in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on November 24, 2015 to deliver a pre-Thanksgiving weekend treat. Evans and Downey Jr debuted a new poster and trailer from Captain America: Civil War, the upcoming action film from directors Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Emily VanCamp, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl.
Captain America: Civil War opens in theaters on May 6, 2016.
The Plot:
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps—one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.
Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit and Vanessa Hudgens in ‘GREASE: LIVE’ (Photo by Tommy Garcia / FOX)
Fox unveiled three character posters on November 23, 2015 and then followed that up with the first teaser video from Grease: Live. The live musical event is set to air on January 31, 2016 with Julianne Hough taking on the role of Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John in the feature film. Aaron Tveit (Graceland) is Grease‘s Danny Zuko, the part brought to life on the big screen back in 1978 by John Travolta. The cast also includes Vanessa Hudgens as bad girl Rizzo, Keke Palmer as Pink Lady Marty Maraschino, and Carlos PenaVega as Kenickie. Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen will be handling the role of Pink Lady Frenchy.
Marc Platt (Wicked) is executive producing and Tony Award-nominated director Thomas Kail is set as the director overseeing the stage direction. Alex Rudzinski is on board as the live television director.
Grease: Live Plot:
Featuring a young ensemble cast, Grease: Live will reintroduce and reimagine some of the show’s most memorable moments, great music and timeless love story to an entirely new generation. In this live television adaptation of the musical classic, the beginning of senior year means the end of Danny and Sandy’s summer romance – until Sandy unexpectedly transfers to Danny’s high school. Can Danny maintain his bad-boy image as the coolest member of the T-Birds, once he and Sandy start going together, and can Sandy remain a good girl after she joins the Pink Ladies? With their friends Rizzo and Kenickie pulling them in different directions, it’s up to Danny and Sandy to stay hopelessly devoted as they make their way from Rydell High to a new frontier.
Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt and Rachel Keller as Simone in ‘Fargo’ (Photo by Chris Large / FX)
FX’s Fargo, which just received a third season renewal, continued season two with yet another outstanding episode that found a key player biting the dust. Season two episode seven titled “Did You Do This? No, You Did It!” had a little bit of everything, including one of the most touching scenes of the season, the police getting in bed with the Gerhardts, and Betsy discovering a bizarre secret about her dad, Hank.
Recap of Fargo Season 2 Episode 7:
Bear (Angus Sampson) and an associate travel to Kansas City where they masquerade as high-rise window washers and shoot up a business meeting. KC strikes back with the surviving Kitchen brother killing a Gerhardt associate. The deaths pile up, graves are dug, Rye and Otto Gerhardt are buried, and the war between KC and the Gerhardts continues to escalate. Even associates from Buffalo make the trek to Fargo to help protect the Gerhardts’ interests.
Bear tells Floyd (Jean Smart) South Dakota is now with KC, and Hanzee (Zach McClarnon) hasn’t reported in and neither has Dodd (Jeffrey Donovan). Bear thinks Dodd is dead and so does Simone (Rachel Keller), but Floyd isn’t ready to even think about that. Simone isn’t the least bit sad her dad could be dead and gets a slap from Floyd for disrespecting the family. She drives off in a huff.
Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) and Ben Schmidt (Keir O’Donnell) arrive at the Gerhardt farm with backup. They’re there to collect Floyd and take her back to the police station. As they drive off, Ricky from Buffalo tells Bear there’s a guy on the phone who knows where Dodd is. Bear doesn’t care and tells him to take a message.
Lou and Ben explain to Police Chief Gibson (Terry Kinney) why Floyd’s been brought in, and Hank (Ted Danson) says they still haven’t located Ed the Butcher (Jesse Plemons) or his wife, Peggy (Kirsten Dunst). Lou and Ben are hoping to talk to both sides of this war and see if they can work this out. Gibson sends them off to visit the out-of-towners while he and Hank talk to Floyd.
Chief Gibson says he’s sorry Otto passed and Floyd’s angry the KC mafia shot him in his own home with kids sleeping right upstairs. Hank wants to know how far this war will go, with her family paying a stiff price. Floyd says her back’s to the wall, claiming the Butcher of Luverne killed her boy and he’s working for KC. Hank’s known Ed since he was a kid and says there’s no way that’s what happened. Floyd calls Ed a sleeper agent and insists Hank doesn’t really know him. Chief Gibson wants the war to be over, but Floyd says her boys won’t stop; they’re too proud. Hank suggests she point the police in the right direction to take down the KC mafia, but she thinks that would be snitching.
Bokeem Woodbine as Mike Milligan, Keir O’Donnell as Ben Schmidt, Patrick Wilson as Lou Solverson, Brad Mann as Gale Kitchen, and Rachel Keller as Simone in ‘Fargo’ (Photo by Chris Large / FX)
Simone heads over to the Pearl Hotel to see Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine), getting high first to give her a little courage. Mike’s on the phone with his boss who’s back in KC at the shot-up office building, and he’s not happy with Mike’s work. Mike tells him he can still break this family and his boss gives him two days and then he’ll send in the Undertaker. Simone runs in and yells at him for shooting up her house. Mike tosses some quotes at her that she’s never heard before, angering Simone even more. Just then there’s a knock and Lou and Ben barge in, taking down the Kitchen brother who was about to attack Simone. Ben escorts her out while Lou holds the Kitchen brother and Mike at gunpoint.
In the elevator, Ben asks Simone if Floyd knows she’s there. Simone flirts with Ben to try and get him not to tell her mom she was with Mike. Ben falls for it and then Simone knees him in the groin. She heads out to her car and Bear and Ricky from Buffalo pull up next to her. She’s completely shocked to see them and makes up a story about being at the hotel to buy drugs. Bear appears to buy the story but then tells her Ricky will drive her car home and she can ride with him.
Mike wants to know if he has to go home but Lou says no, “Just don’t be here.” Mike asks if he knows about Manifest Destiny, and Lou says he owns two pairs of shoes because you don’t need to own more than you need. They discuss capitalism, greed, and making this war an all-or-nothing proposition. In walks Ben and he’s in a lot of pain. Mike tells a story of a guy who steals wheelbarrows and says sometimes the answer is too obvious. “See, we can’t leave because we’re the future and they’re the past. Past can no more become the future than the future can become the past.” Lou and Ben prepare to leave, telling him they’ve said their peace. Lou warns him that maybe next time he’ll shoot first.
Betsy Solverson (Cristin Milioti) arrives home to see a strange pair of boots next to Molly’s on the floor. She gets a shotgun from the closet, heads upstairs, and finds Sonny (Dan Beirne) and Karl Weathers (Nick Offerman) cooking in her kitchen. Lou gave them a key and asked them to look out for her and Molly while he’s gone. They’re going to hang out there and spend the night, whether she likes it or not. Karl jokes that he’s the Breakfast King and she should just grab a plate and deal with it.
Bear is driving Simone home and they’re pretty quiet until Simone asks how grandma is after being taken in by the police. She keeps trying to convince Bear she was just buying weed and no one on their side of town would sell it to her because of her dad. Bear wants to know why she doesn’t ask about Charlie, so she does. Bear says he’s in the state pen and she thinks they should visit without Dodd. Bear tells her to call him dad, not Dodd. She really hates her father and gets fired up when Bear talks about him. Bear takes a detour out in the middle of nowhere and forces her out of the truck. He tells her he knows she’s sleeping with the enemy.
They walk through the snowy woods for a while and then Simone says she can give Mike fake info, but Bear says that’s not the Gerhardt way. She says the KC mafia are kicking their ass, and Bear says that’s on her. The deaths of her uncle and her grandfather…that’s all on her. Simone blames her father because he wouldn’t let Floyd negotiate. Bear draws a gun and tells her to kneel. She does and begs for her life. She says they’re family and he answers, “None of us are family anymore.” She wants to be banished and claims she’ll go away forever. He hushes her and says, “It’s already done.”
“Danny Boy” plays as Bear walks alone back to the truck. A split-screen montage shows Floyd at the police station, Dodd walking into the Blomquist home, Charlie in jail, Hanzee loading his gun, Rye on a street, and Simone at Rye’s funeral.
Bear arrives home and Ricky tells him the guy called about Dodd again. Bear thinks Dodd is dead and tells Ricky not to mention the call to anyone else.
Lou calls and checks in on Molly to see if the guys are still there. She tells him she doesn’t need looking after, but he says it’s bad out there. Lou wants her to rest and take care of herself. Hank walks up and Lou tells her his dad says hi and to feed his cat. After the call Hank lets Lou know he thinks Floyd will flip and snitch on the KC mafia.
At the station, Floyd wants it known she’s doing this because there’s no other way. She makes a deal that any old crimes won’t go against her kids; it’s all on her. She tells Hank and the Chief Gibson the KC people run their drugs through a trucking company’s tires. They also have a nail salon and auto repair shop with weapons.
The phone rings in Mike’s hotel room and it’s his boss telling him the Undertaker is coming and he’s done.
Bear collects his mom at the Fargo police station and she whispers to him to find Hanzee and Dodd, and to finish the KC mafia while they’re reeling. As they pull away, Hank tells Ben and Lou that Hanzee shot two troopers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Hanzee was looking for Ed and Peggy and shot up a bar. Hank thinks that means Ed and Peggy must be close to them, and Ben reminds them they just gave the Gerhardts a free pass. Lou calls him a shit cop and heads out with Hank to save the day, minus Ben.
Back at the Solverson house, Karl keeps a watchful eye on Betsy who claims she feels fine. She tells the story of how her older sister was supposed to marry Lou but he went off to serve in Vietnam and she couldn’t wait. Karl’s happy it’s Betsy and Lou, telling her he’d take the two of them over Lou and her sister any day. Betsy is touched and asks Karl if he’ll look after her family when she’s gone. She knows she got the sugar pills and isn’t getting better. She says to pass on to Lou that it’s okay to get married again when she’s gone. She tells him to stop drinking, he says okay, and then they hug. It’s a very touching scene.
Betsy goes to her dad’s house to feed the cat and spends time looking over the family photos hanging on the wall. She keeps searching for Snowball and opens a door to her dad’s office, discovering his walls are covered in what looks like hieroglyphics.
Bear and Floyd return home and she asks him to send Simone in. Bear says she left in a hurry and he doesn’t think she’s back yet. Ricky has another message for Bear’s ears alone, but Floyd wants to know the message too. Hanzee’s on the phone and says he found Dodd.
At the hotel, Mike stares in the mirror until he’s interrupted by a knock. The Undertaker is on his way up. He’s accompanied by two men and upon entering the room Mike and the Kitchen brother take all three out quickly before they can reach for their guns. Mike tells the Kitchen brother to drop them in the woods and tell the boss the Gerhardts got them. The phone rings and it’s Ed who says he has Dodd Gerhardt in his car and wants to know if Mike wants him.
Director Scott Derrickson (Deliver Us From Evil) has begun shooting Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange based on the comics and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The cast also includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton.
According to Marvel’s official start of production announcement, Doctor Strange will be shooting in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Nepal. Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Charles Newirth, Stephen Broussard and Stan Lee are on board as executive producers and Kevin Feige is producing. The behind the scenes team includes director of photography Ben Davis, production designer Charles Wood, costume designer Alexandra Byrne, editors Wyatt Smith and Sabrina Plisco, and visuals effects supervisor Stephane Ceretti.
Doctor Strange opens in theaters on November 4, 2016.
Doctor Strange Plot:
Doctor Strange follows the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.
The upcoming third film in the new of Star Trek film series, Star Trek Beyond, will be digitally remastered in IMAX and will have a July 22, 2016 IMAX release. The IMAX release was announced by Paramount Pictures, Skydance, Bad Robot and IMAX Corporation, with the companies confirming the IMAX version will be remastered using IMAX DMR® technology.
Justin Lin, the director of four Fast and Furious films, directed Star Trek Beyond. The cast includes returning Star Trek stars Chris Pine, Jon Cho, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban, and Anton Yelchin. New to the franchise with the upcoming film are Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, Lydia Wilson and Joe Taslim. The writers for this third Star Trek film are listed as Roberto Orci & John D. Payne & Patrick Mckay; and Douglas Jung & Simon Pegg.
“IMAX provides a one-of-a-kind movie going experience to audiences all over the world,” said Lin. “I am excited to bring the newest journey into the Star Trek universe to its screens.”
“Star Trek is an iconic franchise and IMAX is delighted to once again be a part of its world and to partner for the third time with Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Bad Robot on Star Trek Beyond,” said Greg Foster, Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. and CEO of IMAX Entertainment. “This space epic is exactly the type of event film that our exhibitor partners and fans around the world eagerly anticipate, particularly as it is so ideally suited to the IMAX format.”
