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Doc Hollywood

Alan Rapp / August 3, 2016 / Home Video

Title: Doc Hollywood
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1991’s Doc Hollywood is one of Michael J. Fox‘s better feature films that doesn’t involve a time-traveling DeLorean. On his way to Los Angeles to begin a promising career as a plastic surgeon, Dr. Benjamin Stone (Fox) runs into trouble in a small southern town where he’s sentenced by the local judge (Roberts Blossom) to hours of community service at the town’s hospital. Initially resistant to the situation, Stone eventually becomes enamored with the town’s charms – particularly those of the ambulance driver Lou (Julie Warner).

Doc Hollywood is a simple big city vs. small town story that Cars accomplishes with far more flair, but the supporting cast is strong (David Ogden Stiers, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda), and Fox and Warner are good together on-screen providing the chemistry needed to make the story work.

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Person of Interest – The Complete Fifth Season

Alan Rapp / July 31, 2016 / Home Video

Title: Person of Interest – Season Five
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Person of Interest‘s final season focuses on the the war between The Machine and Samaritan. Highlights of the shortened season include an entire episode revolving around the virtual reality nightmare a captured Shaw (Sarah Shahi) has been forced to live, Finch‘s (Michael Emerson) struggle to get his machine up and running, Root (Amy Acker) spending some time on conspiracy theory radio, the season premiere, Reese (Jim Caviezel) working to save a number targeted by the CIA without alerting his old boss that he’s still alive, the return of Elias (Enrico Colantoni), Finch’s plan to destroy Samaritan, preventing an outbreak, the team crashing a wedding, the return of The Voice, a mission in Washington D.C., and the heartwrenching 100th episode and series finale – both of which say farewell to beloved characters.

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1986 – Flight of the Navigator

Alan Rapp / July 30, 2016 / Home Video

Title: Flight of the Navigator
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On or around this day 30 years ago Disney’s Flight of the Navigator flew into theaters. The live-action sci-fi film starred Joey Cramer as a normal 12 year-old boy abducted by an alien spacecraft and returned to Earth eight years later without having aged a day to the confusion his parents (Cliff De Young and Veronica Cartwright) and once younger (now older) brother (Matt Adler). NASA grows interested in David (Cramer) as well when a medical examination links the boy to a recently crashed spaceship.

Flight of the Navigator is you typical all-ages Disney adventure. It does boast quite a few recognizable faces in supporting roles including WKRP‘s Howard Hesseman as the lead NASA scientist studying the spacecraft, Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens as the voice of the alien craft, and Sarah Jessica Parker as a NASA intern.

Telepathically linked to the ship, David helps it escape government control and begina to understand just what happened to him, why the ship’s artificial intelligence (named Max) needs his help, and how he ended up back home eight years too late.

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Justice League: Gotham City Breakout

Alan Rapp / July 25, 2016 / Home Video

Title: LEGO DC Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout
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Another lukewarm entry to the LEGO DC Super Heroes line, Justice League: Gotham City Breakout features two separate stories. First, Nightwing (Will Friedle) and Batgirl (Sarah Hyland) convince Batman (Troy Baker) to finally take a vacation leaving Gotham City in the hands of Superman (Nolan North). The trip to visit his old teacher Madame Mantis (Amy Hill) unveils a plot by Deathstroke (John DiMaggio) and Bane (Eric Bauza) to use a normally peaceful underground tribe to take over the world. While providing its moments, the adventure begins to drag during its second-half.

The other storyline features Superman having more trouble with the super-villains of Gotham City than he expected. Tricked by the Joker (Jason Spisak), Superman accidentally causes a break-out at Arkham Asylum. Even calling on the help of Cyborg (Khary Payton) and Wonder Woman (Grey Griffin), the heroes struggle to stop the chaos eventually allowing Robin (Scott Menville) to show them what crime-fighting in Gotham is all about.

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