Alan Rapp

Titans #22

/ / Comics

A new arc begins here beginning with a flashback to Absolute Power and explaining it was Terra who restored and freed Deathstroke during Amanda Waller‘s reign of tyranny. Jumping forward, we don’t get a confrontation between the Titans and their deadliest foe, instead we get the group (with Vanadia) looking over a crime scene where Nightwing reconstructs the events of a prison break (“Boy-Wondering” as Starfire calls it) providing the action of the issue in another series of flashbacks.

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The Rock

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Rock
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Flashback Friday takes us back to director Michael Bay‘s best film. Sure you could make a case for Armageddon, and some (not me) would argue for Bad Boys II. However, the most successful movie of the popcorn director’s career is unquestionably the 1996 film that united Sean Connery as an aging British Secret Agent unjustly imprisoned for decades after stealing the United States’ most precious secrets and Nicolas Cage as an FBI chemist who find themselves responsible for saving the lives of 81 hostages from mercenaries who have taken control of Alcatraz.

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Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution
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Doctor Who returns for a new season by introducing us to The Doctor‘s (Ncuti Gatwa) new companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu). You can feel the writers trying to pull a bit from Clara Oswald here with Sethu having already been introduced as a different character (a distant relative of Belinda) in last season’s episode “Boom.” And like Clara, there’s some mystery for The Doctor to unravel about how he’s linked to Belinda who has a very bizarre day when she’s kidnapped from Earth by a race of robots (the best thing about the episode) and taken to a solar system named after her where, to her surprise, she’s a queen. 

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