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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Saved by the Spell

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The best thing about this episode of sending Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) to a non-magical school for the first time is the pun in its title (sadly the episode doesn’t feature Billie stopping time and directly speaking to the audience). Despite being told “no magic,” Billie uses plenty in her attempt to win over Roman‘s (Alkaio Thiele) best friend Winter (Taylor Cora) after striking out making friends of her own. Playing on the tease from the previous episode we also see a phantomus drawn to the school by Billie’s magic and attack Roman (after he steals her wand).

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Cross – Ride the White Horsey

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  • Title: Cross – Ride the White Horsey
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While being so riled up with his wife’s killer fucking with him, and working on finding the missing phone which is now in the hands of the dead man’s baby mama, Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) nearly shoots his daughter. And the poor girl, distrustful of anyone who could actually help her, runs into a hitman staying the same hotel who eventually gets bored of waiting and just kills her. So, it’s not a great week for the master detective. Meanwhile, our serial killer (Ryan Eggold) targets his next victim which will complete the bizarre recreation set by targeting her at a coffee shop and over a dating site. However, a clue found by Cross will allow the actual investigation to get started.

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Red One

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Red One

When Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) is kidnapped days before Christmas, the head of his security (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) will team up with a snarky bounty hunter (Chris Evans), whose actions led the kidnappers to the North Pole, in order to find Santa and save the holiday. Geared mostly towards preteens and teens, Red One is exactly what you would expect for a family Christmas action film with a big budget to blow on stars and special effects and far less time spent on plot.

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Cross – Hero Complex

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Cross - Hero Complex

I really want to like this new Amazon series starring Leverage‘s Aldis Hodge as James Patterson‘s super-sleuth Alex Cross but I’m finding it quite hard to become emotionally invested in the story of a great detective getting the runaround by not one but two uncatchable serial killers in separate storylines that only somewhat overlap. My issues have more to do with Patterson and the structure of his work, always focusing on making the killers as genius and unstoppable as possible (and here throwing in two!) than Hodge or any member of the cast which also includes short appearances from Alona Tal who I would happily watch more of.

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Mortal Vibes Only

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - Mortal Vibes Only

The second episode of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is a by-the-numbers episode of Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) screwing up with magic, accidentally revealing their father’s magical past to Milo (Max Matenko) and Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and then making half of each invisible, all while attempting to fit in leading to various shenanigans. Meanwhile, in attempts to cover up everything,  Justin Russo (David Henrie) lies to his wife (Mimi Gianopulos), badly. 

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