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Secret Six #2

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Secret Six #2 is your basic longtime staple of comics in which the “heroes” have a run-in and fight and then decide to work together. With the previous issue dropping Jon Kent, Gossamer, and Dreamer at the House of Secrets in a cliffhanger ending, issue #2 is really just about pitting that trio against Black Alice, Deadshot, and Catman. During the various fights we learn that both Deadshot and Dreamer want to find the missing Amanda Waller (who may be with Checkmate now?), but for vastly different reasons.

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Princess Mononoke

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Princess Mononoke
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When I first saw Princess Mononoke more than 25 years ago I thought it was weird, but a very pretty and visually striking film. Rereleased into theaters in a remastered 4K version, the film still looks terrific. Credited with helping to elevate anime to a new level and discussion as a serious art form, Princess Mononoke remains a favorite of many, including influencing several modern-day filmmakers. Sadly, it’s still a little too weird for me with emotional beats that don’t always hit their mark.

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NCIS: Origins – To Have and to Hold

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – To Have and to Hold
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“To Have and to Hold” focuses as much on the underappreciated Mary Jo (Tyla Abercrumbie) as the case of the week which involves the death of a woman recently released from prison for stealing millions of her clients money. The tie-in with NIS is the woman’s husband who believed the woman  had changed, although facts uncovered over the course of the investigation suggest otherwise. Notably, it’s another episode of the series where Gibbs (Austin Stowell) is pushed mainly to the sideline while other characters are highlighted.

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F/X

/ / Home Video
  • Title: F/X
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to 80s action. 1986’s F/X, which would later spawn both a lesser sequel and 90s TV-show, stars Australian actor Bryan Brown as practical special-effects expert Roland Tyler. Enlisted by members of the Justice Department (Cliff De Young and Mason Adams) to fake the assassination of a mob witness (Jerry Orbach), Tyler agrees only for things to go wrong very quickly. Soon Tyler is running from corrupt cops and attempting to expose what is really going on with an overly-complicated plot that works best when you don’t put too much thought into how it all fits together.

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Watson – Teeth Marks

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Watson – Teeth Marks
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While Watson (Morris Chestnut) and his team begin diagnosing a scared and erratic young woman (Caitlin Stasey) whose short-term memory resets every three minutes, Moriarty (Randall Park) blackmails Shinwell (Ritchie Coster) into messing with the good doctor’s medicine once again. This time, however, despite the hallucinations, Watson is clear enough to suspect the medication and the most likely source of its tampering. Stepping into to allow for an alternate fall guy (Ryan Robbins), Moriarty still reveals himself to Watson and recruits another member of his staff for purposes that are yet to be revealed.

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