Dead Boy Detectives – The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

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Dead Boy Detectives - The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

For their latest case, the detectives investigate a number of people who willingly are jumping to their deaths into the sea from the local lighthouse. Playing on the ideas of a siren’s call, albeit one with a more unusual creature revealed a the end, offers an unusual setup that is quite effective, especially after Crystal (Kassius Nelson)  becomes attracted to the call. The town’s reluctance to acknowledge the supernatural, including the local police, as illustrated in no one believing the eye witness of multiple people seeing a suicide helps explain how so much wacky stuff can go down without anyone giving it any mind.

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Power

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Power

Director Yance Ford‘s documentary examines the history and historical impact the rise of police power has had in the United States. While not all of the various threads work equally well, the film does a solid job in explaining the genesis of police in terms of methods of stability and control of the status quo which have almost always been at odds with the needs of the disenfranchised. The film pulls in interviews from several authors and experts on the subject, including spending time on the job with an African-American police officer, as well as making us of various archival footage.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Tales from the Fox’s Tails

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Abominable and the Invisible City - Tales from the Fox's Tails

When people across the city report their prize possessions being stolen by a creature they can only hazily remember, Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng (Ethan Loh) go in search of the Nine-Tailed Fox who has a hypnotizing effect to distract and trick its victims and steal items they believe they need. After stealing an important textbook from Jin, and injuring Everest, the fox distracts Yi forcing Peng to go to Burnish (Alan Cumming) for help.

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Rush Hour

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Rush Hour

The late 90s and early 2000s were the time for Hollywood to pair up Jackie Chan with a more comedic American co-star. Rush Hour gave us Chan as Chief Inspector Lee who is brought to the United States by Ambassador Han (Tzi Ma) after his daughter (Julia Hsu) is kidnapped. The FBI, not wanting Lee to get in the way, enlist mouthy LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) to babysit Lee and keep him out of the investigation. That doesn’t go well with neither happy about their limited role in the investigation.

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