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The Power of the Dog

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  • Title: The Power of the Dog
  • IMDb: link

Sometimes a movie just doesn’t work for you. I didn’t hate director Jane Champion‘s The Power of the Dog but I’ll admit to being underwhelmed by the critical darling so many are quick to praise. Yes, it has a strong performance by Benedict Cumberbatch and some lovely scenery but it’s also saddled with a predictable plot and a host of single-note characters whom I never became invested in.  In fact, on my first viewing, the film literally put me to sleep.

Our leads are Benedict Cumberbatch as rough-and-tumble rancher Phil Burbank (the mean one), Jesse Plemons as his more genteel brother George (the bland one), Kirsten Dunst as inn owner and George’s new wife Rose (the female one), and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Rose’s nearly full-grown son Peter (the creepy one). The plot mainly involves Phil acting horribly to everyone and the eventual fallout of that behavior. The payoff of which, for me, wasn’t worth the time spent to get there.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Spies

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Spies Part 1 / Spies Part 2
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The two-part “Spies” story brings back Tennant‘s (Vanessa Lachey) mentor from the CIA Maggie Shaw (Julie White) when a colleague of hers is kidnapped. Thanks to the help of an intelligence officer (Beulah Koale) from New Zealand, NCIS knows to be on the lookout of a legendary Far East spy, who eventually kidnaps Maggie as well. However, holes in the story after Maggie’s rescue make Tennant begin to suspect her closest friend may not be exactly who she appears to be.

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The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight

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  • Title: The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight (One-shot)
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  • Writer: Si Spurrier
  • Artist: Bob Quinn

A tie-in issue to The Death of Doctor Strange ongoing Marvel story arc, The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight is more an issue to flesh-out Jacks Chopra than anything else as both daughter and father work out their trust issues in the middle of a battle against demons.

Doctor Strange is dead and the mystical barriers he had erected to keep Earth safe have fallen. London (and the X-Men) have been swallowed up and Jackie joins the fray. Unfortunately, the X-Men have all been turned into demons by Necromon the Netherking and Jacks is out to prove she doesn’t need any help to save the day. On the plus side, some back up does arrive in Excalibur’s wielder Faiza Hussain whose prescience does allow Dane to come up with a ridiculous plan based on the visions of Merlin he sees from the Ebony Thone.

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Naomi – Unidentified Flying Object

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Naomi – Unidentified Flying Object
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The second episode of Naomi continues to make some pretty substantial changes to the comic as Dee (Alexander Wraith) becomes more mentor to Naomi McDuffie (Kaci Walfall) than just her introduction to a brand-new world. Her parents’ casual disinterest in Naomi’s current “school project” (looking into the UFO sighting on the day she was adopted) seems to suggest they aren’t aware of their adopted daughter’s origins (or maybe just oblivious to what’s happening?). If true, that’s a shame as some of the comic’s best moments come within those shared family reveals which further open up Naomi’s world.

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Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath

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  • Title: Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath
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Superman & Lois returns for its Second Season with characters trying to get back to normal after the summer. Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is in uber-bitch mode while still not dealing with the emotions that a daughter from a different reality is walking around Smallville. Most of the episode deals with teens as Natalie (Tayler Buck) struggles with fitting in to a new world (and apparently will become part of the family), Sarah (Inde Navarrette) begins pulling back from Jordan (Alex Garfin) after returning from her summer trip, and Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) continues to struggle with the team while also getting a little frisky with his girlfriend sending an already tense Lois over the edge. Although less featured, Lana‘s (Emmanuelle Chriqui) role in the political campaign seems to set the stage for a larger arc which will play out over the season.

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