Point Blank

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  • Title: Point Blank
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point-blank-blu-rayWhen a hospital worker (Gilles Lellouche) saves a comatose patient (Roschdy Zem) whose life support had been tampered with he gets more than he bargained for. His pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) is kidnapped, and he’s ordered by the man responsible to get the patient out of the hospital or he will never see his wife again.

Two cops (Gérard Lanvin, Mireille Perrier) work the case from opposite angles, and as it turns out cross purposes, as the truth about the night the gunshot victim was wounded comes out and leaves our hapless nurse’s aide in even more trouble than he thought.

Without knowing who to trust, framed for a crime he didn’t commit, frantically searching for his wife, and on the run from the police, Samuel finds his world turned upside down when the only man he can trust is the killer he sprung from the hospital and the partner of the man who kidnapped his wife.

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The Debt

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  • Title: The Debt
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the-debt-blu-raySecrets always come out. When a former Mossad agent (Ciarán Hinds) is killed on the eve of the release of a book glorifying the events that made him and two others national heroes, Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren) is forced to face the past and weigh the consequences of telling the truth after so many years.

Most of The Debt takes place in Cold War flashbacks as Mossad agents Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain), David Peretz (Sam Worthington), and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas), are chosen to kidnap a Nazi scientist known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau” (Jesper Christensen), and smuggle him out of East Berlin for trial in Israel.

When the escape plan is compromised the three agents are forced to sit on the Nazi for days, as tensions fray, until a new plan can be devised. Eventually the doctor is shot by Rachel while trying to escape. At least that’s what history records.

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Daredevil #6

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daredevil-6-coverAfter being beaten dumped overboard by Bruiser, Daredevil works his way back onto the boat to save Austin Cao before he (and his former boss) are killed by representatives of five terrorist organizations (A.I.M., HYDRA, Agence Byzantine, Black Spectre, The Secret Empire) to tie up any loose ends by removing anyone who might have knowledge of the Omegadrive.

The Omegadrive contains billions of gigabytes of information about each of the terrorist organizations, which has now fallen into the hands of Daredevil. After defeating Bruiser, and finding himself and the two hostages, Matt Murdock realizes he can’t fight his way out of the situation so he changes tactics and makes an argument for their release the terrorist agents simply can’t refuse.

Whether or not these vast terrorists organizations coming together (or being willing to give their data up to their competitors) is feasible, the comic works well in wrapping up this story arc and painting a bright new target on Daredevil’s back. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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Coming Soon

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  • Title: John Carter
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Disney has released a second action-packed trailer for Andrew Stanton‘s John Carter, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs character (played here by Taylor Kitsch) who finds himself miraculously transported to Mars. Lynn Collins, Ciarán Hinds, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Dominic West, and Samantha Morton also star. John Carter will open in theaters next March.

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