Leo

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  • Title: Leo
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Leo

Leo starts with the same premise of one of my favorite films from one of my favorite years of movies. Joseph Vijay stars as a shop owner who defends his cafe against armed intruders. News of the event, however, brings out even more trouble. First we get the wave of violence from the dead robbers’ friends and family which only draws more attention to the reclusive Parthiban. This brings the attention of a criminal empire who believes this local hero to be a mass murderer known as Leo.

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The Holdovers

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The Holdovers

From director Alexander Payne comes this tale of an unlikely group of miserable people spending the holiday break together. In a Summer School-esque setup, we get Paul Giamatti as a frumpy history teacher at a prestigious New England boarding school dragged into filling in as the faculty member necessary to stay around while the rest of faculty and students return home for the winter holiday. Everyone’s least favorite teacher, Mr. Hunham (Giamatti) is paired with one of the school’s most unruly students (Dominic Sessa), abandoned by his family at the last-minute, and the school’s head cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) still grieving the loss of her son.

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #302

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #302

Although they refer to themselves as mutants, call we all just admit this feels an awful lot like G.I JOE ZOMBIES? Picking up from the previous issue, G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #302 gives us Zombie Serpentor (as I will be referring to him from here on) taking control of the mutanized rabble on Cobra Island from where he plans to lead his troops on a quest to first take over the rest of Cobra and then the world. It’s exactly what you would expect a zombie horror comic of G.I. JOE to be.

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Black Orchids

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Black Orchids

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a New York City, a famous detective, and murder. Sent day after day to New York’s flower show to report back to Nero Wolfe on Lewis Hewitt’s famous orchids which have Wolfe obsessed, Archie Goodwin takes notice of a couple in one of the other exhibits who perform the same scene of a summer picnic every day. On the day Wolfe himself arrives to get a look at the orchids, Archie notices something odd about scene, discovering murder has been committed in public and that he, without realizing it, was the method used for the performer’s death.

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