The Thomas Crown Affair

  • Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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1999’s remake of the 1968 film about a multi-million dollar heist is certain an improvement on the original trading in a lackluster bank heist for stylish museum thefts of fine art. Casting Pierce Brosnan is the middle of his James Bond run as the bored rich man who steals art for his own amusement, the film never hits the Ocean’s 11 level of cool but it certainly has some cachet. Opposite our thief we get Rene Russo as the insurance investigator suspicious of Thomas Crown who also starts dating him (first for access but later feelings do develop as the pair consistently trade barbs).

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Quigley Down Under

  • Title: Quigley Down Under
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Tom Selleck stars as Wyoming sharpshooter Matthew Quigley who arrives in Australia having been hired by land baron Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman). After discovering Marston wants Quigley to use his skills, and his experimental rifle, to hunt Aboriginal Australians, Quigley not-so-politely declines leading to him being left for dead in the Outback with a half-crazed woman locals refer to as Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo) whom constantly refers to Quigley as Roy.

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NCIS: Origins – The Edge

  • Title: NCIS: Origins – The Edge
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Dedicated to David McCallum, the actor who played Ducky on NCIS For more than 450 episodes, “The Edge” guest-stars Adam Campbell (who also played the younger version of the character on NCIS) as Ducky is sent to NIS to discover if the West Coast branch needs its own full-time medical examiner. Met initially with anger and suspicion, based largely on the baggage characters are already carrying around this season and due to the rumors that Ducky is a spy sent to judge whether or not they should be shut down, the good doctor wins over members of the team one by one. As for Gibbs (Austin Stowell), who Ducky met years earlier and who the doctor credits with helping changing his life, he also leaves an important gift in which another key component aspect of the show’s main character is unlocked.

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Nights #16

Life continues for our odd trio on the island of Thule. While Erik earnestly takes to learning magic, Gray becomes the island’s new night watch, and Agent Tsukumari continues to learn and document events on the island and its peculiarities, casting letters to his superiors to the ocean in bottles wondering if anyone will ever find them.

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