Entertainment Week: This Weekend - What 'The Leftovers' could learn from 'Battlestar Galactica' about grief, Can Luc Besson score another French-import blockbuster with 'Lucy'?, and more

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What 'The Leftovers' could learn from 'Battlestar Galactica' about grief 'The Leftovers' hits hard, but so far it has struggled to weave its intersecting set of individual traumas into cohesive web of collective grief.

The happy ending of the 'Justice League Unlimited' cartoon July 23rd is Batman Day, and there's not better way to celebrate 75 years of Batman stories than by looking at the 'Justice League Unlimited‘ second season finale “Epilogue”—a Batman-centric episode that honors the character’s legacy.
Can Luc Besson score another French-import blockbuster with 'Lucy'? The director’s FX-heavy sci-fi thriller 'Lucy' presents Scarlett Johansson as a Taipei-based expatriate-turned-reluctant drug mule who, through a freak accident, taps into a reservoir of superhuman brain power—and ends up kicking no small amount of ass in the process.
Here's what it's like to attend a Nicolas Cage-themed art show While working the night shift at Bed, Bath & Beyond, producer/curator Ezra Croft had an epiphany: He should hold a Nicolas Cage-themed art show.
Really, Man Booker Prize? 10 male authors, 3 female?
So the longlist for the lucrative Man Booker Prize arrived with a thud this morning: On it are 10 men and three women. Really, Man Booker Prize? Ten men and three women—that’s the best you could do?

TV: What To Watch

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Manhattan
9-10PM WGN AMERICA

WGN America's 'Manhattan' — whose producing team includes walk-and-talk director extraordinaire Thomas Schlamme ('The West Wing') — brings history to energetic life, with a host of well-played characters, including John Benjamin Hickey as a tormented genius and Olivia Williams as his botanist wife. A megawatt start to a show crackling with megaton ambition. A- -Jeff Jensen

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IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND
Lucy On paper, 'Lucy' is nothing more than a standard Milla Jovovich action movie, but Besson amps it up by going way past the recommended dosage of cinematic insanity. The whiplash imagery and frenetic editing give the audience a contact high of sorts, transforming what should be ridiculous into genuine bizarro excitement. B – Jeff Labrecque
Magic in the Moonlight At 78, Allen seems to have decided to make only two kinds of movies: the profound and the placeholders. In the first group are deeper, more challenging films such as 'Match Point' and 'Blue Jasmine'. In the second are his conceptually slight gag pictures, which have a one-joke premise and agreeably spin their wheels for a while. 'Moonlight' falls squarely in that second category. B- – *Chris Nashawaty*
The Purge: Anarchy For most of the film, returning writer-director James DeMonaco favors gore and shock inserts of music over the edgy, nasty parody for which the materials seems ready made. It's only in the last twenty minutes that he boosts the film merrily over the top. C- – *Joe McGovern*