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The Flash – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: The Flash – Season One
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The Flash - The Complete First SeasonRacing out of the events of Arrow‘s Second Season, The Flash introduces us to Central City and the world of police forensics officer Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) who, thanks to the explosion of a particle accelerator and getting hit by lightning, is imbued with super-speed making him the fastest man alive.

Highlights of the show’s First Season include the the the Flash fighting a new Weather Wizard (Chad Rook), Flash taking on a teleporter, introduction of Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Cold’s team-up with Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), the two-part team-up with Green Arrow (Stephen Amell), the first appearance of the Reverse-Flash, Barry’s first run-in with the U.S. Military, a two-part storyline involving Firestorm (Robbie Amell, Victor Garber), Mark Hamill reprising his role as the Trickster, the introduction of Grodd, and the show’s final arc concerning the investigation into Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh), the confirmation of Wells’ identity as a time traveler, and the season finale.

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Scorpion – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Scorpion – Season One
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Scorpion - The Complete First SeasonBased loosely on the real experiences of a group of geniuses helping the United States Government solve crimes and save the world, the First Season of Scorpion introduces us to Walter O’Brien‘s (Elyes Gabel) unorthodox team of Happy (Jadyn Wong), Toby (Eddie Kaye Thomas), Sylvester (Ari Stidham), Homeland Security agent Cabe Gallo (Robert Patrick), and Paige (Katharine McPhee) – a waitress who proves to be the missing ingredient needed to make the group successful.

Highlights of the First Season include the team heads to Las Vegas, prevents a nuclear meltdown, is forced to go through psychological tests, track a bio-hacker, protect Cabe’s ex-wife (Jessica Tuck), stop terrorists planning to release a poisonous gas, save the lives of CIA witnesses who are endangered by Ralph‘s (Riley B. Smith) involvement in a video game, attempt to prevent a war, take an unexpected road trip, break into a lab controlled by a mad man, and save Walter’s life in the season finale.

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Jumanji Reloaded

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  • Title: Zathura: A Space Adventure
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Zathura: A Space AdventureDanny (Jonah Bobo) and Walter (Josh Hutcherson) are brothers left alone by their father (Tim Robbins) one afternoon, with their older sister Lisa (Kristen Stewart) ignoring them upstairs.  Walter is the the bullying older brother who has outgrown Danny and thinks of himself as more mature than his little brother.  Danny finds an old board game in the basement.  Zathura is a game about space travel and to win you must be the first to the end.  After Danny pushes the button the boys are trapped in the game as all sorts of things start to go wrong:  meteor showers, spaceships full of Zorgons, the cryogenic freezing of their sister, a malfunctioning robot, and a stranded astronaut.

One of the best decisions in this movie is to center the movie on the boys and their reactions to what is happening.  The director gets the bickering of brothers so good that in parts I wanted to pull out my hair to stop the whining.  Kudos, but I wish you had turned it down just slightly.

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Malice

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  • Title: Malice
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Malice

1993’s Malice is your typical thriller, except for the fact that everyone involved isn’t typical at all. Written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Newsroom, and Sports Night) and Scott Frank (Out of Sight, the underrated Heaven’s Prisoners, and The Lookout) and starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, and Bill Pullman, the story takes an expected number of twists and turns down a dark road until the truth is fully revealed. And you also may have heard of its cinematographer Gordon Willis who shot a little series known as The Godfather Trilogy.

The story centers around a young couple (Pullman and Kidman) whose lives are shattered when their friend (Baldwin) operates on her making a mistake in surgery that costs her the ability to have children. The fallout for the couple and the doctor leads to grief, a lawsuit, and the husband to begin looking into a situation that he discovers is far more complicated than he ever imagined.

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Castle – The Complete Seventh Season

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  • Title: Castle – Season Seven
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Castle - The Complete Seventh Season

Although the weakest of the show’s seven seasons so far, opening with a convoluted storyline to explain Castle (Nathan Fillion) missing his own wedding (a storyline which would rear its ugly head later in the season as well), Season Seven is not without its share of memorable moments. There are that cases that involve an invisible man, a crash test dummy, murder at 30,000 feet, and a mission to Mars, Castle lives out his fantasy as an 80s action star, Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle head into the Old West to solve a murder, Jerry Tyson (Michael Mosley) returns and abducts Beckett, Castle begins life as a private eye, Linda Park guest-stars as a Hong Kong version of Beckett, and the season finale explains Richard Castle’s life-long obsession with death and murder.

The five-disc set includes audio commentary for two episodes by cast and crew, Castle’s “Raging Heat” webmercial, a Ryan (Seamus Dever), and Esposito (Jon Huertas) music video, bloopers, and deleted scenes.

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