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The Blacklist – Laszlo Jankowics

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  • Title: The Blacklist – Laszlo Jankowics
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In an episode where the task force looks to take down an insane dealer in psychedelic drugs, The Blacklist continues to tease the possible return of Mr. Kaplan. While the cliffhanger seems to suggest Kaplan is still alive, it seems also quite possible someone is gaslighting Reddington (James Spader) and taking on the identity of his old associate for their own reasons (possibly with inside help?). Whether or not it is Kaplan, or some new threat, it’s obvious the threat of this new player is quite real and whoever it might be they seem to have far too much knowledge of Raymond’s organization.

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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  • Title: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Following the likes of WandaVision, Loki, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Moon Knight, and The Eternals, Marvel Studios continues to push Phase Four in new and different ways. While not everything has been as strong as some of the earlier core Marvel titles, it certainly hasn’t been boring. In many ways, you could refer to Phase Four of the MCU as Marvel Studios’ experimental teenage years. Enter director Sam Raimi.

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Starward #1

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The first issue of Starward introduces us to pre-med student an part-time lifeguard Stephanie Cohen on her 20th birthday on which she experiences something quite peculiar when she faints, falls to the bottom of the pool, doesn’t drown, and wakes up to a whole new reality as an extradimensional warrior with a destiny. Along with six unknown “sisters” whom she must find, Stephanie is tasked with returning the demon Kaos back to his reality prison.

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Mystery Incorporated – Welcome to Coolsville

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  • Title: Mystery Incorporated – Welcome to Coolsville
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There are several issues when attempting a live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo. When taking the characters out of a half-hour cartoon and placing them in a feature film or ongoing hour-long drama, you have to think about why this unusual collection of meddling kids (none of whom look high-school age) are actually hanging out together. The solution for the Mystery Incorporated series is to kill off a couple of parents and bring together the group to solve the mystery. That means for most of this first episode the characters are left on their own various, not all that interesting, subplots that almost all revolve around some kind of bullying at the school.

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The Magic Sword

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  • Title: The Magic Sword
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The goofy 60s fantasy film The Magic Sword stars Gary Lockwood as an orphan raised by a sorceress (Estelle Winwood) who steals a number of magical gifts from his foster mother to save the princess (Anne Helm) he’s fallen in love with from afar when she is abducted by an evil sorcerer (Basil Rathbone) who has a habit of kidnapping princesses and feeding them to his dragon. Armed with a magic sword, armor, and steed, along with chivalrous knights, Sir George begins his quest to fight through the seven curses put in place by the sorcerer while also dealing with a traitor in his midst.

The magical effects, as you may guess, are pretty limited for the time and haven’t aged that well, likely one of the reasons the movie earned a spot on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (although two of the characters admitted it was better than they expected).

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