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The Blacklist – The Good Samaritan Killer

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The Blacklist - The Good Samaritan Killer

With the entire operation under investigation each member of the team forced to answer questions posed by an interrogator (Eisa Davis) charged with finding the leak that led Anslo Garrick (Ritchie Coster) to the black site, Agent Keen (Megan Boone) asks for Ressler‘s (Diego Klattenhoff) help in hunting a serial killer (Frank Whaley) she has tracked for years (after one of his victims died in her arms) who has just claimed his latest victim (Kate Nowlin).

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The Spoils of Babylon – The War Within

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The Spoils of Babylon - The War Within

Slightly funnier than the first episode of IFC’s new mini-series, but still suffering from the same problems, “The War Within” is concerned mainly with Lt. Devon Morehouse’s (Tobey Maguire) adventures during WWII including being shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. After surviving a fiery plane crash without a scratch and later making his ridiculous escape from the POW camp, Devon eventually returns to his adopted home with his new wife Lady Anne York (a mannequin voiced by Carey Mulligan).

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Guilty Pleasure – Blind Date

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  • Title: Blind Date
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“I warned you not to let her drink.”

Blind DateNeeding a date for an important business dinner with a prestigious Japanese firm, workaholic Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), against his better judgement, allows his brother (Phil Hartman) to set him up on a blind date. Warned not to get Nadia (Kim Basinger) drunk, Walter doesn’t realize just how crazy his night will get after sharing a few glasses of champagne. By the end of the night Walter is fired, crazed, robbed, his car are best suit are both ruined, and he’s arrested for a violent scene involving Nadia’s psychopathic ex-boyfriend (John Larroquette).

Directed by Blake Edwards, Blind Date is pretty much a one-joke movie as Nadia’s increasingly wild behavior drives Walter further and further over the edge. Despite the worst night of his life, and everything he looses over the course of the evening, Walter falls for Nadia using her weakness to alcohol to win her back from her ex-boyfriend in the film’s final moments after Nadia, blaming herself for the entire night, makes a deal with him to keep Walter out of jail.

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August: Osage County

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  • Title: August: Osage County
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August: Osage CountyAin’t family dysfuncion fun? If you could condense a single message from the two-hour running time of August: Osage County this, it appears, is all the film has to say. Having not seen the play of the same name by Tracy Letts I don’t know if the source material was any deeper, but since Letts alone adapted the play for the big screen I’m betting he didn’t make many significant changes.

The movie’s plot centers around the various troubled, bitchy, deceitful, and argumentative women of the Weston family who all return home to (theoretically) help their cancer-ridden mother (Meryl Streep) after their father (Sam Shepard) runs off and leaves her only a Native American nurse (Misty Upham) for support, because apparently Indians and racially-inappropriate comments from seniors are hilarious.

What follows, of course, is a series of fights, disagreements, the airing of family laundry and secrets, and the long overdue discovery by the entire group that they are all far better off separated by great distances.

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Killer Women – La Sicaria

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Killer Women - La Sicaria

Based on the Argentine drama Mujeres Asesinas and the series of books by Marisa Grinstein, Tricia Helfer stars as Texas Ranger Molly Parker, a recently divorced former beauty queen turned Ranger in the male-dominated law force. Brought in to apprehend a woman (Nadine Velazquez) who killed a bride in the church on her wedding day in front of hundreds of witnesses, Parker immediately suspects there’s far more to the story than a love triangle gone wrong (which all the local police are interested in).

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