Shadow of Maul #1

/ / Comics

Set prior to the events of the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Shadow of Maul, the first issue of the five-issue mini-series is a Maul comic in name only (as the character only appears on the final page). The man protagonist of Shadow of Maul #1 is bounty hunter turned police officer Captain Brander Lawson struggling to bring justice to the corrupt planet of Janix (with the help of a robot sidekick).

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D.E.B.S.

/ / Home Video
  • Title: D.E.B.S.
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Giving off strong Disney Channel TV-movie vibes, 2004’s D.E.B.S. offers a campy teen spy story most notable for its central Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers romance being set between two young women on opposite sides of the law. Sara Foster stars as Amy Bradshaw, the star pupil at the clandestine academy for young women (recruited from secret SAT questions designed to uncover those with the aptitude for espionage) training them in Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength.

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Murder in the Himalayas

/ / Radio

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another classic radio adventure featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Set between the events of “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House,” this episode of the The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio program provides an opportunity for Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to recount an overseas adventure retold to him during the years the world believed Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) was dead when the detective uncovers murder in an isolated Tibetan monastery deep in the Himalayan Mountains.

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Soul Power – Growing Pains

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association – Growing Pains
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Moving into the 1970s, the aptly-titled second episode of the series focuses on the ups and downs of the struggling league starting with the dominance of Spencer Haywood, the first underclassman drafted to play professional basketball, who led the league in both scoring and rebounding, but who left the league after discovering most the money in his contract was smoke and mirrors and not actually guaranteed. Life in the NBA for the young player, whose teams took out their aggressions for the ABA, and their drafting of the young star on Haywood, was little better with the Seattle SuperSonics forcing legal action by Haywood leading eventually to a landmark Supreme Court decision.

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