Blue Beetle #1

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Blue Beetle #1The new Blue Beetle comic begins with giving us a look at Jaime Reyes‘ high school life, introducing a new group of super-powered vigilantes known as the Posse and foreshadowing a confrontation down the line between Blue Beetle and Dr. Fate of the hero’s scarab.

There’s a bit too much of the high school setting in this issue for my tastes. As with Blue Beetle: Rebirth #1, the best part of this issue is the back-and-forth between Blue Beetle and the last hero to use that moniker, his mentor Ted Kord. Kord is also on hand to be the butt of one of the issue’s jokes as the entrepreneur’s presentation at Jaime’s school doesn’t get him the response he hoped for.

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Hawaii Five-0 – No ke ali’i wahine a me ka ‘aina

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – No ke ali’i wahine a me ka ‘aina
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Hawaii Five-0 - No ke ali'i wahine a me ka 'aina

Hawaii Five-0 enters the world of espionage as Chris Vance guest-stars as a British spy hunting down computer code which terrorists plan to use to hack nuclear silos across Europe creating the largest nuclear meltdown in history. Aside from the script which expects us to believe all nuclear weapons across multiple countries can be hacked remotely by a single hack, “No ke ali’i wahine a me ka ‘aina” provides it share of enjoyable fun and intrigue as Five-0 first hunts down the spy and then begins working with him to stop a world-wide disaster.

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Money Monster

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  • Title: Money Monster
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Money MonsterDirector Jodie Foster‘s Money Monster is an intriguing set-up that gets lost along the way falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy and increasingly hard-to-swallow events. The film features George Clooney, as the cable host of a financial program known more for its host’s outrageous behavior than honest stock tips, and Julia Roberts as his disapproving producer. When one of his viewers (Jack O’Connell) shows up with a gun and a bomb vest demanding answers to how a guaranteed stock dropped due to an unexplained “glitch,” cast and crew are held hostage and forced to begin investigating matters.

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The Good Place – Jason Mendoza

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  • Title: The Good Place – Jason Mendoza
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The Good Place - Jason Mendoza

The relief Eleanor (Kristen Bell) feels at discovering she isn’t the only one mistakenly let into heaven is short lived as she discovers Jianyu (Manny Jacinto) isn’t so much a wise Buddhist monk but a failed idiot DJ from Jacksonville, Florida, named Jason Mendoza. Tired of living a lie, something we see Jason did plenty of in his old life, Jianyu nearly comes clean to the entire community forcing Eleanor to take drastic action to prevent the truth from coming out and getting both herself and Jianyu sent to Hell.

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