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Truth Seekers – The Haunting of Connelly’s Nook

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  • Title: Truth Seekers– The Haunting of Connelly’s Nook
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Truth Seekers - The Haunting of Connelly's Nook television review

Horror-Comedy is an odd genre. When it works you get something like Evil Dead 2 or Shaun of the Dead. When it doesn’t, you get something… odd. The first episode of Truth Seekers is more the later as it struggles to find the proper tone while introducing the audience to its world. Our main character is cable installer and repairman Gus Roberts (Nick Frost who is also one of the show’s creators). In his spare time Gus also investigates the paranormal. The first episode finds Gus saddled with a trainee named Elton John (Samson Kayo) whose attendance in the van and on a couple of calls to Connelly’s Nook is propitious to Gus.

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Once Upon a Snowman

/ / Short Films
  • Title: Once Upon a Snowman
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Once Upon a Snowman television review

Taking place during Frozen, “Once Upon a Snowman” offers viewers a look at Olaf‘s (Josh Gad) first few moments of life. Shoehorning the character different spots of existing archival footage taken from the film, the short places the living snowman on a parallel path to Anna (Kristen Bell) and Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) searching for Elsa (Idina Menzel). With plenty of callbacks to Frozen, Once Upon a Snowman is fun but doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises, other than explain where Olaf’s fascination with summer comes from, and is more of an odd curiosity than anything else.

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Double Dragon

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Double Dragon
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Based on the video game series, Double Dragon offers the story of brothers Billy Lee (Scott Wolf) and Jimmy Lee (Mark Dacascos) living in a dystopian 2007 New Angeles who are tasked with preventing one hell of a goofy super-villain (Robert Patrick) from getting his hands on both halves of an ancient Chinese talisman. While neither the best nor worst movie based off a video game, Double Dragon is a fair example of just what kind of mixed results the genre is known for.

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Snake Eyes: Deadgame #2

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Snake Eyes: Deadgame #2 comic reviewRob Liefeld’s bizarre mini-series continues as Snake Eyes and Scarlett meet some more odd characters in the woods first in another large warrior who Snake Eyes faces off and then in a woman who claims to be his mentor and also works for the god Kirigun. Snake Eyes is apparently a warrior trained to offer sport to Kirigun during the “Deadgame.” Um… yeah.

So two issues in the story doesn’t make much more sense, if any. There is plenty of action here with Snake Eyes in action against both the warrior and his former mentor. Liefeld also provides some narration from Scarlett about her relationship with our title character.

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Next – FILE #1

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  • Title: Next – FILE #1
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Next - FILE #1 television review

The opening episode of Next brings together FBI Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) and brilliant but disgraced tech billionaire Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery). She’d rather be finishing a case her team has worked on for the past year. He’d rather be doing almost anything else. However, the suspicious death of Salazar’s mentor (John Billingsley) makes LeBlanc believe his former company has dusted off an Artificial Intelligence project he destroyed his reputation to keep under wraps. Branded as “Next,” LeBlanc believes it took deadly action in attempts to keep its existence a secret.

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