Things start innocent enough with decorated WWII soldiers Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) and Drake (William Prince) are brought back from Paris to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor respectively. Panicking before the pair reach Washington D.C., Drake runs from the train and leaves his old war buddy holding the bag at a loss to make sense of the situation.
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to 1929 and Basil Rathbone on the case, but not yet as Sherlock Holmes. The Bishop Murder Case is an intriguing piece of film history with Rathbone taking on the role of S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance 10 years before he would first step into the shoes of the world’s most famous detective.
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LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian is a broadly fine attempt to distill the entirety of The Mandalorian TV-series (and his appearances in The Book of Boba Fett) into a single animated LEGO adventure for younger viewers. The setup allows various characters to tell stories about the Mandalorian (Gavin Hammon) and Grogu at a surprise party in their honor. LEGO fans should get a kick out of seeing several scenes recreated, and it would work as a simple primer for younger audiences, but there’s nothing here that’s must-see.
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Released 40 years ago, director Ivan Reitman‘s Legal Eagles is a little of everything. Part romance, part legal drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Reitman and screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. throw basically everything into the blender. The result is an entertaining, if a bit tonally Frankensteinish, movie that never quite clicked with audiences or critics.
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“You’re trying the save the life of the man who ruined your career, and avenge the death of the guy that fucked your wife.”
1991’s The Last Boy Scout is the kind of odd couple action story screenwriter Shane Black has explored over his long career before perfecting it in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The film stars Bruce Willis as down on his luck private investigator Joe Hallenbec who gets roped into a case by a colleague (Bruce McGill) secretly screwing his wife (Chelsea Field) that involves a dead stripper (Halle Berry), a washed-up NFL quarterback (Damon Wayans), and a greedy NFL owner (Noble Willingham).
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