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Rookie Blue – The Complete Fourth Season

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  • Title: Rookie Blue – Season Four
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Rookie Blue - The Complete Fourth SeasonNew relationships and new cases are on tap for the Canadian cops as the adventures of Officer Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) and 15 Division continue in a season highlighted by Swarek‘s (Ben Bass) new girlfriend Cruz (Rachael Ancheril) and her obsession with a suspect (Michael Cram) which will end in lies and blood when he begins targeting the officers leading into the the season finale.

Frank (Lyriq Bent) and Noelle (Melanie Nicholls-King) will finally get married, after loosing Nick (Peter Mooney) to Andy, Gail (Charlotte Sullivan) will find love in an unexpected place with a forensic pathologist (Aliyah O’Brien), Oliver (Matt Gordon) will finally close the book on his marriage and find love with a Wicca named Celery (Emily Hampshire), after fighting his feelings for weeks Epstein (Gregory Smith) will finally begin a relationship with Chloe (Priscilla Faia), and Diaz‘s (Travis Milne) world will be completely turned upside down when he leaves the Division, his son is kidnapped, and later when he discovers he isn’t the boy’s biological father.

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The Great Films – Double Indemnity

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  • Title: Double Indemnity
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“How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”

The Great Films - Double IndemnityIt wasn’t the first film in the genre that would come to be known as film moir, but it’s one of the best. Directed by Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the film with Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye), Double Indemnity is often referred to as “the paradigmatic film noir,” raising the bar and setting the standard for all others that followed.

Our story begins with Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a cocky insurance salesman bleeding out in his boss’ office of a gunshot wound while recording his confession on Dictaphone. Through Neff’s narration the events which led him to this gruesome end are slowly revealed.

A simple house call to get his client to renew his auto insurance becomes anything but when Neff falls hard for the man’s younger wife (Barbara Stanwyck) who, at their first meeting, suggests procuring accidental life insurance for her husband (Tom Powers), without his knowledge.

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Re-Released on Home Video: Rock Star

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  • Title: Rock Star
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Rock StarBased loosely on the real life of Tim “Ripper” Owens, a Judas Priest tribute band member who was chosen to replace the real band’s lead singer, 2001’s Rock Star centers around a similar journey for Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg). Shortly after being kicked off the tribute band he started, the Steel Dragon obsessed singer gets a chance to live his dream by replacing the Dragons’s lead singer (Jason Flemyng).

The script is hardly original as the dream life of sex, drugs, and rock and roll eventually destroys Cole’s relationship with his girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) and makes the singer stop to reexamine what is truly important in his life. That said, the Steel Dragon world, complete wit over-the-top antics and odd characters such as the tour’s road manager (Timothy Spall) and a public relations manager (Dagmara Dominczyk) packing more than just a love of the music, provides some entertaining moments.

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Re-Released on Home Video: Mallrats

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  • Title: Mallrats
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Mallrats

I know some who believe Mallrats is Kevin Smith‘s best film. I don’t. Although I think you can enjoy the slacker young adult comedy for what it is, Mallrats hasn’t aged all that well. The film stars Jeremy London and Jason Lee as best friends hanging out at the mall attempting to win back their girlfriends, one of whom (Shannen Doherty) is now dating Ben Affleck and another who (Claire Forlani) is a contestant on a dating game show taking place that night in the mall.

Filling out the cast with an assortment of odd characters the likes of slacker drug dealers Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) as well as Stan Lee (playing himself), Michael Rooker (as the overprotective father of Forlani’s character who ropes her into performing on the dating show causing the break-up), Priscilla Barnes (as a low-rent psychic), and Renée Humphrey (as a sexually experienced minor whose sexual adventures play a major role in the final sequence of events).

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The Counselor

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  • Title: The Counselor
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The CounselorDespite the talent of director Ridley Scott, screenwriter Cormac McCarthy and an all-star cast, The Counselor is a mess. To be sure it’s a well-acted and well-produced mess with stand-out scenes, but it’s a mess none the less. The movie’s major flaw, other than McCarthy attempting to over-think a drug deal gone bad, is the less-than-believable dialogue from several of the film’s stars who come off as reading lines they haven’t quite fully bought into rather than delivering it naturally from the the mouths of fully-embodied characters.

Michael Fassbender stars as a character only ever referred to as “the Counselor,” a lawyer who makes the bad decision to get into the drug smuggling trade only to put the lives of himself, a friend (Javier Bardem), associate (Brad Pitt), and his beautiful fiance (Penélope Cruz) in danger.

Unfortunately for the Counselor, his friend’s crazy girlfriend (Cameron Diaz) has her own plan for the drugs, leaving everyone else to take the fall after executing her plans from the shadows.

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