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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Red Sonja

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Red Sonja (2025)
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Director MJ Bassett‘s Red Sonja is a bit of a mixed bag that makes several decisions about Sonja and her world that drastically limit the character’s effectiveness on-screen. The first choice is to offer a tragic origin story but somehow not allow for Sonja’s communion with a god granting her the fighting skills necessary to take her revenge until the end of the movie. The choice leaves Sonja a capable warrior for much of the film but far short of the larger-than-life She-Devil with a Sword who has entranced readers for more than 50 years.

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CIA – Fatal Defect

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  • Title: CIA – Fatal Defect
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The second episode of CIA continues the odd couple dynamic of Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) and Colin Glass (Tom Ellis) working uncover the true purpose of a foreign intelligence officer (Melinda Michael) smuggled into the United States. We get a few twists and turns along the way before the episode ends with the pair preventing another attack. Along the way Bill gets more close-up evidence of Colin spinning lies to suit the occasion (although only the audience partakes in the reveal of how much the man has lied over the course of the episode).

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