Backdraft

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BackdraftReleased in 1991, Backdraft may be director Ron Howard‘s most underrated film. Starring William Baldwin and Kurt Russell as estranged brothers and firefighters, the script by Gregory Widen (mostly known for his ties to the Highlander and Prophecy franchises) deals with several themes including family dysfunction, a mystery concerning a rash of unexplained arson, and the younger McCaffrey brother’s (Baldwin) quest to prove himself in the line of work that killed his father and consumes his older brother to the point it cost him his marriage.

Despite featuring Howard’s weakest leading man, Backdraft has held up well over two decades and the scenes of characters both fighting fire and discussing it remain its biggest strengths. Russell and Baldwin sell the contentious older/younger brother dynamic and the backstory of Brian’s historic lack of direction also explains his older brother’s attitude towards his new career.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Kupouli ‘la

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Hawaii Five-0 - Kupouli 'la

Halloween comes to a Hawaii with a new bizarre mystery as Max (Masi Oka) witnesses, and is infected by, a doctor behaving like a zombie during a outside screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Although Five-0 doesn’t accept that the man is actually a zombie, the more the delve into the unusual case the more creepy it becomes. The team discovers the doctor was overdosed with a mind-controlling and hallucinatory drug which was used by his puppet masters to force the doctor to remove the head of a corpse of a young woman who died in a routine traffic accident from the morgue before going into a homicidal rage.

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Powerpuff Girls #2

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Powerpuff Girls #2Professor Utonium agrees to Mojo Jojo‘s request of wanting to return to life as a simple monkey rather than face any more crushing defeats at the hands of the Powerpuff Girls. Once exposed to Antidote X, Mojo Jojo looses his mojo and his intellect and returns to the Utonium’s simple lab monkey Jojo.

Although Bubbles is happy at the prospect of having a pet monkey and Blossom believes Jojo deserves a second chance, Buttercup isn’t happy with the news that their former archnemesis is returning home with them. The monkey quickly makes a mess of the house and the lab, but Jojo does so without any evil intent of the old Mojo Jojo. The same can’t be said for Him who decides to use his mind control for an odd purpose: to make all the other villains of Townsville as helpful as possible and teach the Powerpuff Girls a lesson about second chances.

The issue does a great job with Mojo Jojo’s transformation and fallout, and the introduction of Him’s odd new scheme seems to spell trouble for the Girls for the next few issues. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Covert Affairs – No. 13 Baby

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Covert Affairs - No. 13 Baby

Having been outsmarted once again by Henry Wilcox (Gregory Itzin), Annie (Piper Perabo) returns to D.C. to meet with Calder (Hill Harper) and discuss their next move which includes Annie discovering the location of one of Henry’s safe houses. It’s a risky move that Calder doesn’t approve of, and he does his best to make sure Annie doesn’t take any more unnecessary risks like reaching out to Auggie (Christopher Gorham). The accidental destruction of said safe house nearly gets Calder and his team killed and forces Henry to redouble his efforts to find and kill Jessica Matthews.

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