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John Candy: I Like Me

/ / Home Video
  • Title: John Candy: I Like Me
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Colin Hanks‘ documentary examines the life of John Candy through friends and family while featuring a number of clips from TV and movie performances, interviews (both archival and new), and home videos of Candy with his family. The film works as a celebration of Candy’s life and work, rather than a more critical delve into the man, while also examining into demons he struggled with before dying of a heart attack at the age of 43.

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Batgirl #12

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Led by the journals of her mother, through battles with both the Unburied and the Blood, Batgirl‘s globetrotting travels have now taken her into the shadows as “The War of the Shadows” begins. Now in the company of the Jade Tiger and Jaya Jayesh, the trio train and continue to follow the path laid before them as old nightmares return for Cassandra Cain and her life in Gotham begins to become a dim memory blotted out by her need for vengeance.

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Only Murders in the Building – Flatbush

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Flatbush
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In an episode that offers the return of Loretta (Meryl Streep), who returns under sad circumstances of her apartment burning down, the investigation turns towards the widows of the two murder victims when Oliver (Martin Short), Charles (Steve Martin), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) discover a potentially suspicious link between the pair. Loretta and Oliver’s doesn’t turn up a killer, but their little undercover mission does allow Oliver to share a bit of his childhood with Loretta and reconsider the possibility of leaving the Arconia. While Mabel is disheartened by the news, she does gets a chance to mend fences with Althea (Beanie Feldstein) putting past misunderstandings to rest.

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Murder in a Small Town – Acts of Murder

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Acts of Murder
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The Second Season of Murder in a Small Town introduces some season-long conflicts for Karl (Rossif Sutherland) and Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) to deal with following her election to the town council with the mayor (Marcia Gay Harden) attempting to pit the pair against each other suggesting the town’s limited resources can’t handle an increase in both police funding and the arts center central to Cassandra’s campaign platform. While the pair don’t fall for the trap, it’s easy to see how this conflict could continue to linger (as well as a B-story involving the teenager of one of Karl’s officers acting out).

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Eleanor The Great

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  • Title: Eleanor The Great
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Eleanor The Great is a story about love, loss, the lies we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves while struggling through grief and searching for connection and meaning in this crazy ride we call life. We first meet the goodhearted truth-bending Eleanor (June Squibb) in Florida before her return to New York, for the first time in decades, after the death of her longtime friend Bessie (Rita Zohar). Living with the daughter (Jessica Hecht) she doesn’t get along with, and struggling for connection, Eleanor walks into a room which will change her life.

Mistaken for a Holocaust survivor, Eleanor shares Bessie’s story as her own finding a new community and a new friend in a college student (Erin Kellyman) struggling with the recent death of her mother, and the growing distance with her father (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who becomes interested in sharing Eleanor’s story unaware of the lie which holds all of it together.

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