Christopher Hampton's stage play The Talking Cure provides the cerebral basis for David Cronenberg to dive into the largely overlooked story of Sabina Spielrein and her influence on the fathers of modern psychoanalysis—Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Sabina (played with astonishing authority by Keira Knightley) is a Russian Jewish mental patient brought to Jung's Burgholzli Clinic in Zurich in 1904. Sabina’s "hysteria" impedes her speech as she contorts her face, neck, and head in violent spasms. Outwardly, she seems obviously quite insane. Michael Fassbender's Jung is able to calmly look beyond Sabina's off-putting physical demeanor in the interest of curing her. Jung is determined to use Sabina as a premier test patient for Freud's revolutionary and conversational therapy, which he mistakenly calls "psychanalysis."

Cronenberg’s film glides effortlessly across years as Jung meets Freud (Viggo Mortensen) to discuss psychoanalysis and enjoin in a friendship fraught with lurking tension. The filmmaker masterfully controls the soundscape to underpin shifts of physical, emotional, and intellectual import. Howard Shore's delicate music is never allowed to intrude on a scene. Ugliness becomes beautiful; beauty becomes divine.

Liam Neeson, the actor best known for playing thoughtful, sometimes heroic men, has somehow managed (in his late 50s, no less) to reinvent himself as a steely-eyed action star in the vein of Clint Eastwood or the late Charles Bronson. Watching him beat the living hell out of absolutely everyone in his path in movies like Taken and Unknown proved more fun than anyone imagined. Because of that, the marketing campaign for The Grey has almost exclusively been focusing on the novelty of Liam Neeson fist-fighting giant grey wolves. However, if the film trailer’s shot of him taping broken glass to his hands and charging a wolf is the only thing that has you excited about this movie, then you will likely walk out of the theater disappointed. Director Joe Carnahan had more on his mind than wolf punching.

Though one might think my sole talent is “monkey and poop jokes,” I’ll have you know I’m actually extremely talented in one other area: ACTING!! Before I became America’s most un-beloved TV columnist, I was a practitioner of the THE-UH-TAH. (That’s “theater” for those who don’t speak “annoying.”) What roles did I play? WELL! Ever heard of a little play called Hamlet? Me, neither. Sounds dumb and boring. HOWEVER! I have auditioned for many of the great community THE-UH-TAHS, and once came very close to scoring the role of Eva Peron in the Dubuque Little Theater production of Evita. Ahhh… I remember the audition like it was yesterday… (INSERT WAVEY “DREAM” LINES HERE.)

I walked onto the empty stage and faced the musical’s director, producer, and pianist. Clearing my throat I announced, “I am Wm.™ Steven Hump-Me, and I am here to play… EVITA!” (I did that last part with an elaborate hand flourish.) Apparently I’d yet to impress them, because I heard the director mumble, “Okay, Mister… ‘Hump-Me,’ was  it? Let’s start with a song. Do you need accompaniment?” “Ohhhhhh, no, no, no, no, NO!” I laughed. “I brought my own!” And running off stage, I returned wearing a huge marching band bass drum, which I began loudly banging while skipping around the stage singing, “I feeel pretty! OH! So pretty! I feeeel pretty and witty and GAAAAAAY! And I pity….”

Tekken Hybrid is a triple-threat, with two games and a movie on one discount-priced disc. One of the games is a remastered, fully unlocked version of the original Tekken Tag Tournament—more on that in a moment. The other is a preview (called a prologue) of the upcoming sequel that will arrive in America later this year.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue is a stand-alone, four character fighting game that features two leggy young girls in schoolgirl uniforms (well, sort of) who can kick and punch with the best of them, and two towering, intricate demons with horns, wings and superpowers. It's the sort of juxtaposition—innocence and extravagance—that animates most anime cartoons.