Black Cat #9

/ / Comics

While helping Mary Jane Waston steal from a secret vault in the Negative Zone, Felicia and MJ find themselves pulled into an alternate reality and given to chance to live without costumes and capes, heroes and villains, and explore lives which might have been. For Felicia that means marriage and kids with a Peter Parker never bit by a radioactive spider, and for MJ that means the acting stardom she’s always dreamed of. It’s a great life… for awhile.

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Poirot – Death on the Nile

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Poirot – Death on the Nile
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to early 20th Century London and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Despite a tighter budget than either of the feature film adaptations, Poirot‘s adaptation of Death on the Nile is the best of the bunch. Introducing, then quickly dispensing with, the the superfluous early bits of the story, the double-sized episode gets us to Egypt in less than 6 minutes, gets us on the boat in less than 20, and gets us to the fateful night where murder and shenanigans start occurring prior to the halfway-point of the episode allowing the majority of time to be set aside for Poirot (David Suchet) to solve a case where the two most obvious suspects have iron-clad alibis for the crime.

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Victoria Abril stars as a former porn actress attempting to transition to mainstream films in the final project of the smitten renown director Máximo Espejo (Francisco Rabal) whose lust for the actress is the worst kept secret on set. Our other main character is recently-released mental patient Ricky (Antonio Banderas) obsessed with Marina who kidnaps the actress in hopes of making her fall in love with him. Keeping her bound to the bed, Ricky takes no physical advantage while also attending to her needs including procuring drugs to help with her toothache. However, there is no debate that she is his prisoner.

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