Alan Rapp

Alex Rider – Assassin

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Alex Rider – Assassin
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Alex (Otto Farrant) and Kyra (Marli Siu) spend much of “Assassin” running for their lives trying to get out of Damian Cray‘s (Toby Stephens) compound alive as the mad billionaire chases them down with a killer drone. With his friends needing all the help they can get, Tom (Brenock O’Connor) calls on Jack (Ronke Adekoluejo) putting her in an uncomfortable situation which will cost her both a new job and a new friendship. With Jack’s help, our heroes make it out and hand the code to Mrs. Jones (Vicky McClure).

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Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #1

/ / Comics

A tie-in to Marvel’s current Devil’s Reign event, the first issue of Daredevil: Woman Without Fear teases us with moments from Elektra‘s past including glimpses of her training under both Stick and the Hand (introducing the character most responsible for her training within the cult).

The comic hits the highlights of the character, explaining both who she is and who she is trying to be while adopting the persona of the man she loves. Looking for who Fisk may have sold her out to takes Elektra on a journey through the past where she runs into Aka, but the Hand assassin isn’t her current problem.

We don’t actually get the confrontation teased at the end of Devil’s Reign #2 as the comic comes to an end in relatively the same place with Elektra standing face-to-face with Kraven for the first time.

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MLK/FBI

/ / Home Video
  • Title: MLK/FBI
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Director Sam Pollard‘s film examines J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI‘s extensive, and legally ambiguous, investigation into Martin Luther King Jr.‘s life through recently declassified documents, archival footage, and interviews from those involved.

The documentary is a sobering reminder how the broad brush of Communism could justify nearly anything during the height of the Red Scare, even allow Hoover and his minions to wiretap King in hopes of discrediting one of the leaders of the Civil Rights movement based not on his political or civil rights agenda but the man’s private life taking place behind closed doors. With the wiretaps themselves not declassified until at least 2027, the documentary mainly has to speculate what is on those tapes (and their legitimacy), but the range of the FBI’s dirty tricks to discredit a black man who they saw as dangerous to their own interests couldn’t be more clear.

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