{"id":362,"date":"2010-06-21T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/06\/21\/stuff-received-62110\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:40","slug":"stuff-received-62110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/06\/21\/stuff-received-62110\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff received 6\/21\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Brooklyn’s Finest<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Something of a genre homecoming, Antoine Fuqua’s latest film once again finds him delving into the gritty, brutal realm of cops and crooks\u2014as he did in Training Day<\/span><\/a>. Tango is an undercover officer on a narcotics detail that forces him to choose between duty and friendship. Having been to hell and back, he wants out, but the powers that be won’t let him quit. Family-man Sal is a detective tempted by greed and corruption. He can barely make ends meet, and now his wife has an illness that threatens the life of their unborn twins. Eddie is nearing retirement age and has long since lost his dedication to his job as a cop. He wakes up every morning trying to come up with a reason to go on living…and he can’t think of one. Fate brings the three men to the same Brooklyn housing project as each takes the law into his own hands. Crosscutting between multiple subplots, Brooklyn’s Finest<\/span> unfolds violently and passionately as coiled, constantly roving cinematography contributes a measure of unease to the underworld action. <\/p>\n

I reviewed Brooklyn’s Finest<\/span><\/a> during its theatrical run.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fuqua relies on excellent acting, as he did in \u201cTraining Day,\u201d to power this character-driven picture. \u201cBrooklyn’s Finest,\u201d essentially an inferior two-hour episode of \u201cThe Wire,\u201d ultimately provides an entertaining, if not terribly unique, crime drama.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Blood Law<\/span><\/a> by Jeannie Holmes<\/span><\/p>\n

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To stop a vampire killer, she\u2019ll have to slay her own demons first.<\/p>\n

A provocative and savvy vampire, Alexandra Sabian moves to the sleepy hamlet of Jefferson, Mississippi\u2014population 6,000, half vampires\u2014to escape the demons lurking in her past. As an enforcer for the Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigations (FBPI), Alex must maintain the uneasy peace between her kind and humans, including Jefferson\u2019s bigoted sheriff, who\u2019d be happy to see all vampires banished from town. Then really dead vamps start turning up\u2014beheaded, crucified, and defanged, the same gruesome manner in which Alex\u2019s father was murdered decades ago. For Alex, the professional has become way too personal.<\/p>\n

Things get even more complicated when the FBPI sends in some unnervingly sexy backup: Alex\u2019s onetime mentor, lover, and fianc\u00e9, Varik Baudelaire. Still stinging from the betrayal that ended their short-lived engagement, Alex is determined not to give in to the temptation that soon threatens to short-circuit her investigation. But as the vamp body count grows and the public panic level rises, Varik may be Alex\u2019s only hope to stop a relentless killer who\u2019s got his own score to settle and his own bloody past to put right. <\/p>\n

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Nights of Villjamur<\/span><\/a> by Mark Charan Newton<\/span><\/p>\n

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Following in the footsteps of writers like China Mi\u00e9ville and Richard K. Morgan, Mark Charan Newton balances style and storytelling in this bold and brilliant debut. Nights of the Villjamur<\/span> marks the beginning of a sweeping new fantasy epic.<\/p>\n

Beneath a dying red sun sits the proud and ancient city of Villjamur, capital of a mighty empire that now sits powerless against an encroaching ice age. As throngs of refugees gather outside the city gates, a fierce debate rages within the walls about the fate of these desperate souls. Then tragedy strikes\u2014and the Emperor\u2019s elder daughter, Jamur Rika, is summoned to serve as queen. Joined by her younger sister, Jamur Eir, the queen comes to sympathize with the hardships of the common people, thanks in part to her dashing teacher Randur Estevu, a man who is not what he seems.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the grisly murder of a councillor draws the attention of Inspector Rumex Jeryd. Jeryd is a rumel, a species of nonhuman that can live for hundreds of years and shares the city with humans, birdlike garuda, and the eerie banshees whose forlorn cries herald death. Jeryd\u2019s investigation will lead him into a web of corruption\u2014and to an obscene conspiracy that threatens the lives of Rika and Eir, and the future of Villjamur itself.<\/p>\n

But in the far north, where the drawn-out winter has already begun, an even greater threat appears, against which all the empire\u2019s military and magical power may well prove useless\u2014a threat from another world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Brooklyn’s Finest Promo copy: Something of a genre homecoming, Antoine Fuqua’s latest film once again finds him delving into the gritty, brutal realm … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n