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Sophie is trying to move on from her short-lived relationship with Jesse in Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father. And when Val’s parents, Juan and Raquel, introduced Sophie to Oscar in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 5, sparks flew between them. Read on to learn more about the actor who plays Oscar — Victor Rasuk.

[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 6, “Universal Therapy.”]

Victor Rasuk as Oscar and Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Oscar started dating Sophie in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2

Sophie and Val visited Val’s parents in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 5, but the couple had an ulterior motive for inviting them to brunch. They have been scheming to find Val a boyfriend for years because they wanted their daughter to find a love like theirs. However, after several failed attempts, Juan and Raquel tried a different approach.

A.J. Cook is glad to be back where many fans feel she belongs.

After being let go from her role as FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit sleuth Jennifer "Jj" Jareau, the actress was brought back to CBS' long-running Wednesday crime drama "Criminal Minds" for its current season. With the show's seventh round nearing its end, and repeats shown regularly on both A&E Network and Ion, Cook feels as if she never left ... almost.

"Because of all that has happened in the past year, there's a huge sense of pride and accomplishment there," she reflects. "I'm happy to see the long way that Jj has come. I always think back to the first episode, and I don't even know who that character is anymore.

"She's grown so much, and we've watched her grow up on-screen in a way," Cook adds. "I feel like I've done a lot of growing up in...

Remember Me

Robert Pattinson's first big mainstream starring role away from the supernatural, Remember Me is a divisive feature that many love, but just as many loathe. A story of romance and tragedy, Dawn Taylor wrote in her review: "that Remember Me is literate, sensitive, often quite funny, and altogether engaging, despite its formulaic underpinnings." It's ending is controversial, indeed, though I argue just as it should be. Rent it and check it out for yourself on DVD or Blu-ray.

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Green Zone

Reality gets a taste of fiction with Paul Greengrass' spin on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's experiences in Iraq's Green Zone, with Matt Damon leading a search for weapons of mass destruction. Jeffrey M. Anderson writes: "Green Zone turns out to be a rather routine thriller. But on the upside, it's more fun than most other Iraq war movies, and there...

The other day I sat down and watched an indie that came and went without much buzz a handful of years ago -- 2006's I'm Reed Fish. The film starred Jay Baruchel -- after the likes of Undeclared, but before the likes of Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder -- as the radio voice of the people for a small town called Mud Meadows. Trying to exist under the heavy arm of his dead father's shadow, Reed has it rough, being romantically linked (either in real life or his own art) with the following beauties: Alexis Bledel, Schuyler Fisk, Shiri Appleby, and Valerie Azlynn. Additionally, one of his only friends is played by DJ Qualls (the weird guy from Road Trip), who is engaged to A.J. Cook (Mary Lisbon from The Virgin Suicides) in the film. Another apt title for the comedy would have been: How Awkward Geeks Get the Hotties.

I really wanted to like She's Out Of My League. It had a bunch of things going for it, a likable lead from the Apatow school, a script coming from one of the geniuses behind Sex Drive and the upcoming Hot Tub Time Machine, there's a hot blonde and a gaggle of friends who don't know any better. Despite having a lame trailer, I thought that would just be because they can't give away the funny jokes in an R-rated sex comedy. But what we want and what we get are rarely the same, and instead we get this movie, a lame attempt to try and make a bromantic comedy that navigates the perils of the modern dating scene.

Jay Baruchel plays Kirk, a lovable aloof loser who works in airport security in Pittsburgh, which is a nice change of pace from most lovable loser vocations. He's surrounded by his friends,...

The casting process of Columbia and Imagine's untitled Gus Van Sant drama is keeping with the project's familial theme.

The feature, on which Bryce Dallas Howard is teaming with father Ron Howard to produce with Brian Grazer, is opening its arms to Dennis Hopper's son Henry Hopper, who will star opposite Mia Wasikowska.

Schuyler Fisk, daughter of Sissy Spacek, also is boarding the movie, as are Chin Han, Ryo Kase and Jane Adams.

The drama, formerly known as "Restless," revolves around a teenage boy and girl (Wasikowska) who share a preoccupation with mortality.

In his first starring role, Hopper is playing the boy, who is trying to get over the death of his parents. Fisk will play Wasikowska's sister.

Chin Han plays a doctor treating Wasikowska, and Kase is a spirit of a World War II kamikaze pilot who regularly visits the boy. Adams plays the boy's aunt.

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Cinema is filled with multi-talented young actors who bring to life all types of characters. Sometimes, a role is given to the wrong guy - just because he has the looks (pin-up pretty, looks awesome wearing trunks) and the connection (a powerful talent agent at his side). But when the role is given to the right guy - moviegoers get to witness something unique, memorable and powerful, even magical. Anyway, even the 'right guy' needs an agent, of course...

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- - - Underrated versus Overrated: If you've watched Jumper, then you'll notice the difference between Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen - Bell has undeniable screen presence, I can't say the same with Hayden. It could have been different if Tom Sturridge was retained to play Hayden's part. Anyway, who am I to argue? Christensen has more box office appeal than the relatively unknown Sturridge, but acting-wise?

So,...

Cinema is filled with multi-talented young actors who bring to life all types of characters. Sometimes, a role is given to the wrong guy - just because he has the looks (pin-up pretty, looks awesome wearing trunks) and the connection (a powerful talent agent at his side). But when the role is given to the right guy - moviegoers get to witness something unique, memorable and powerful, even magical. Anyway, even the 'right guy' needs an agent, of course...

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- - - Underrated versus Overrated: If you've watched Jumper, then you'll notice the difference between Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen - Bell has undeniable screen presence, I can't say the same with Hayden. It could have been different if Tom Sturridge was retained to play Hayden's part. Anyway, who am I to argue? Christensen has more box office appeal than the relatively unknown Sturridge, but acting-wise?

So,...

Cinema is filled with multi-talented young actors who bring to life all types of characters. Sometimes, a role is given to the wrong guy - just because he has the looks (pin-up pretty, looks awesome wearing trunks) and the connection (a powerful talent agent at his side). But when the role is given to the right guy - moviegoers get to witness something unique, memorable and powerful, even magical. Anyway, even the 'right guy' needs an agent, of course...

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- - - Underrated versus Overrated: If you've watched Jumper, then you'll notice the difference between Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen - Bell has undeniable screen presence, I can't say the same with Hayden. It could have been different if Tom Sturridge was retained to play Hayden's part. Anyway, who am I to argue? Christensen has more box office appeal than the relatively unknown Sturridge, but acting-wise?

So,...

Cinema is filled with multi-talented young actors who bring to life all types of characters. Sometimes, a role is given to the wrong guy - just because he has the looks (pin-up pretty, looks awesome wearing trunks) and the connection (a powerful talent agent at his side). But when the role is given to the right guy - moviegoers get to witness something unique, memorable and powerful, even magical. Anyway, even the 'right guy' needs an agent, of course...

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- - - Underrated versus Overrated: If you've watched Jumper, then you'll notice the difference between Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen - Bell has undeniable screen presence, I can't say the same with Hayden. It could have been different if Tom Sturridge was retained to play Hayden's part. Anyway, who am I to argue? Christensen has more box office appeal than the relatively unknown Sturridge, but acting-wise?

So,...

Cinema is filled with multi-talented young actors who bring to life all types of characters. Sometimes, a role is given to the wrong guy - just because he has the looks (pin-up pretty, looks awesome wearing trunks) and the connection (a powerful talent agent at his side). But when the role is given to the right guy - moviegoers get to witness something unique, memorable and powerful, even magical. Anyway, even the 'right guy' needs an agent, of course...

- - -

- - - Underrated versus Overrated: If you've watched Jumper, then you'll notice the difference between Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen - Bell has undeniable screen presence, I can't say the same with Hayden. It could have been different if Tom Sturridge was retained to play Hayden's part. Anyway, who am I to argue? Christensen has more box office appeal than the relatively unknown Sturridge, but acting-wise?

So,...

I'm among those who can't wait to see Josh Brolin take the screen as the legendary gunslingin' bounty hunter Jonah Hex, but when Variety announced the creative team behind the upcoming film I have to say I was somewhat baffled. Now, the Jonah Hex story is strange even by comic book accounts with one storyline taking the ex-Confederate into the future - but I would argue the team assembled to bring the anti-hero to life is even stranger.

Here's the team:

Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who)

This will only be Jimmy's second directorial duty and I have to say I'm a bit concerned. Turning from an animated Dr. Seuss feature to a dark and wry, anti-hero western tale seems a bit of a stretch.  Horton Hears a Who was easily the best Seuss adaptation to come along in the last 10 years but even so, the source material...