Nobody

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  • Title: Nobody
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Falling into the same pattern of films such as First Blood, John Wick, The Equalizer, and Taken, Nobody offers the same advice that you should be very careful with who you pick a fight with. Bob Odenkirk stars an unassuming middle-aged family man who is woken out of his slumber by a break-in. Allowing the robbers to make off with a limited amount of cash, which only makes friends and neighbors think less of him, Hutch hits a breaking point that isn’t satisfied by tracking down the thieves. However, he is mollified by beating up a gang of thugs on-board his regular bus route that leads to an entirely new set of problems. Hutch’s wild night triggers a battle with Russian mobsters reveals his past as a covert agent working as an auditor and eliminating threats for the United States Government when no other outcomes were available.

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The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews on the trail of clues to finding a hidden treasure hidden in riddles taught to a set of parrots. The Three Investigators begin the case when looking for a single missing parrot, one who stutters (thus giving the novel its title) and is owned by a friend of Hector Sebastian (Alfred Hitchcock in the original printing).

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

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  • Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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Released in 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is little more than the window dressing of a plot to allow Jim Carrey to go crazy on film for 86 minutes. The film was heavily rewritten after Carrey was cast and much of the scenes were improvised on set to take advantage of Carrey’s humor and growing popularity. Much like his role in Batman Forever, Carrey is unleashed where films like The Mask, The Truman Show, and Dumb and Dumber made more effort to fit his style into the larger context of the film.

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Ballard – BYOB

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  • Title: Ballard – BYOB
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Investigation into other cases is largely put on hold as Ballard (Maggie Q) and her team are ordered to reopen a different cold case involving the death of a young man at a fraternity given the victim’s sister and her most recent stunt getting play on social media. In that aspect, “BYOB” is mostly a case-of-the-week episode where the truth behind the crime isn’t what anyone initially expects. There are scenes here and there tied to the larger mystery including Martina (Victoria Moroles) being stalked by one of the lower-ranking members of the conspiracy and Ballard and confirming evidence from years ago was destroyed until suspicious circumstances including forgery of a retiring cop to hide who within the department wanted the bullet destroyed. And we get several scenes involving Parker (Courtney Taylor) agonizing over if she really wants to return to duty (despite all outward signs showing she’s pretty much all-in at this point).

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #5

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums concludes with the second-half of “Tabo” which opens with Miyamoto Usagi, Yukichi, and the pilgrims running into further resistance on their way to the shrine. It’s hard not to feel a bit of current events creeping in to the story with the anti-immigrant guards attempting to keep out undesirables. The ronin manage to quicky convince the men, one of whom Usagi notices as one of the bandits who have attacked the pilgrims on the trail, the error of their own ways.

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