Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Amazing Fantasy

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  • Title: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Amazing Fantasy
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Set in one of the many spider-verse realities, the opening episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man introduces us to incoming freshman Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) who gets bit by a radioactive spider from another dimension on his first day at high school. The episode is a mix of modern and throwback, giving Peter a nostalgic look while replacing the older supporting characters with slightly different choices. Speaking of different choices, the moment from Captain America: Civil War arrives, but its not Tony Stark talking to Aunt May (Kari Wahlgren) when he walks into the apartment but Norman Osborne (Colman Domingo) instead. Although Osborne is there with a legitmate internship offer (not asking for his helping in taking down Captain America). Yes, a different world indeed.

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Dog Man

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  • Title: Dog Man
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Based on the children’s books of the same name (spun off from Captain Underpants), Dog Man is exactly what you would expect from the premise of a police officer and his dog merged together after an explosion when the dog’s head is sewn on the cop’s body (but keeps his paws for some reason?) leading to the mediocre cop becoming a “supa cop” beloved by the entire city, except apparently the Mayor (Cheri Oteri).

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The Grifters

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  • Title: The Grifters
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Stephen Frears‘ 1990 neo-noir crime thriller centered around three grifters in the City of Angels comes to the Criterion Collection on 4K and Blu-ray. One could make a strong case The Grifters, now 35 years-old, remains the director’s best film. Trust may be hard for the characters to find in the script, given the shadowy world of half-truths and lies, but the talent is evident in every frame of this stylish look at con artists getting in over their heads.

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NCIS: Origins – Flight of Icarus

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Flight of Icarus
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NCIS takes on a case involving the apparent suicide of a general’s son just days before the soldier’s redeployment which have elements that hit home for Franks through a series of flashbacks. While I don’t have an issue with exploring Franks’ past, nor using a current case to provide the framework for those flashbacks, I’m not sure the script of “Flight of the Icarus” was necessarily the best episode to do so (when you think the actions of the dead solider would hit harder for our main character who attempted suicide himself not all that long ago). With so much time focused on Franks, Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and his new romantic relationship with Dominguez (Mariel Molino) gets mostly pushed to the side without an immediate follow up, although one of their colleagues appears to have sniffed out the change in their relationship.

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