Alan Rapp

Seven Secrets: Volume One

/ / Comics

Volume One collects the first six issues of Seven Secrets about a secret order of Keepers and Holders who are charged with protecting the seven most dangerous secrets from being released upon the world by a different secret sect known as Seekers.

The collection starts with an attack on the secrets and the rise of a new Holder just as a face from the Order’s past returns to throw the society into chaos.

Even through six issues, Seven Secrets doesn’t give up just what is in each of the seven briefcases as it teases us as to what exactly is being protected. However, we do get to know the aspiring new Holder in Caspar, his parents, a bit about the other members of the Order, and see glimpses of the maniacal force out to destroy what the Order has successfully kept safe from the world for millennia. 

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The Cleaning Lady – TNT

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: The Cleaning Lady – TNT
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Adapting the 2017 Argentinian television series La Chica Que Limpia for American audiences, the opening episode of The Cleaning Lady introduces Elodie Yung as Cambodian medical doctor Thony De La Rosa who, after witnessing a murder, gets pulled into a job as a cleaner by local mobster Arman Morales (Adan Canto) removing all evidence from a crime scene. “TNT” introduces multiple subplots such as Thony’s son struggling with a life-threatening immunodeficiency disorder, the antics of her less-reliable Filipino sister-in-law Fiona (Martha Millan), a teasing a possible relationship between Thony and Arman (who risks his life to save his cleaner). 

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Josie and the Pussycats

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Josie and the Pussycats
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“Du Jour means seat belts.”

I’m still waiting for a Du Jour spinoff. Even 20 years after its release, 2001’s adaptation of the Archie Comics series and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon is simply a delight. A satirical take on pop culture and consumerism underneath a tale of a band’s meteoric rise to the top of the pop charts, Josie and the Pussycats was well before its time carving out a cult status in the years since its lukewarm reception in theaters.

Following the plane crash of the delightful boy band Du Jour (Donald Faison, Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, and Alexander Martin), who discover something unexpected when listening to their latest mix tracks, their manipulative promoter (Alan Cumming) seeks another band to hide subliminal messages within their music and so we meet the Pussycats: Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Val (Rosario Dawson).

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