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The Replacements

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Replacements
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The ReplacementsDespite being nearly old enough to drive (the film was released in theaters in 2000), The Replacements hadn’t been available on Blu-ray until now. Based very loosely on the 1987 NFL strike, the script by Vince McKewin centered around a ragtag group of replacement players for the Washington Sentinels (a fictional stand-in for the Redskins). Keanu Reeves stars as college star and NFL bust Shane Falco who is given a second chance by Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) who assembles his team from a hodgepodge of unknowns.

Playing on various underdog themes The Replacements isn’t that far removed from a number of sports movies (most notable Necessary Roughness which follows a very similar plot at the college level). Joining Reeves on the football field are Jon Favreau (as the character most likely to kill someone on the field), Orlando Jones (as the bigmouth wide receiver), Faizon Love, Michael Jace, Michael Taliferro, David Denman, and Rhys Ifans.

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Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash-Up! #1

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Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash-Up!Spinning out of events from Super Secret Crisis War the first issue of the new Powerpuff Girls series introduces the idea of Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttecup jumping realities to have unusual team-ups throughout the various Cartoon Network interconnected worlds. Opening with the girls defeating Fuzzy Lumpkins‘ attempt to kidnap Miss Bellum (by showcasing a bizarre new power) and a visit to Dexter’s Laboratory that ends in a mutated DeeDee jumping through a portal, the first episode is largely a set-up for the premise (while allowing Professor Utonium to geek out over someone else’s lab for a change).

Personally I’d prefer a solo Powerpuff Girls series but it seems IDW is more interested in growing the comic brand of the various Cartoon Network characters. Team-up books are a bit iffy as some of the various rotating guest-stars are likely to interest some readers more than others. I also have to wonder with the Powerpuff Girls traveling through other dimension whether we’ll get to see much of the various Townsville villains in the series? For fans.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Backstrom – Takes One to Know One

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  • Title: Backstrom – Takes One to Know One
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Backstrom - Takes One to Know One

One of the hardest needles to thread for a TV-show with a persnickety lead characters is how much of an asshole you allow he/she to become before they go from gruff to unlikable. Last week’s episode of Backstrom edged over that line but “Takes One to Know One” attempts to reign in Detective-Lieutenant Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) in a little this week with the introduction of Sarah Chalke as an old girlfriend, now in a position of power in the department to enforce changes she wanted him to make when they were together, and the reveal of the guilt the man feels for some of his more underhanded antics.

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Scandal – Run

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  • Title: Scandal – Run
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Scandal - Run

Scandal returns from mid-season break with an unusual episode that rehashes the mid-season surprise abduction of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) by a group of well-trained kidnappers. Aside from scenes dealing with Jake‘s (Scott Foley) reaction to his disappearance we get nothing from the series regulars (except for a short hallucination sequence) or their reaction to her disappearance. Instead the entire episode focuses on Olivia in captivity of what appears to be a Middle Eastern prison. Of course appearances can be deceiving.

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Backstrom – Dragon Slayer

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  • Title: Backstrom – Dragon Slayer
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Backstrom - Dragon Slayer

The quirky detective drama doesn’t appear to be in any danger of dying out. The genre’s latest stars Rainn Wilson as an unhealthy, politically incorrect, police detective with self-destructive tendencies and a gift for closing cases. Reinstated to his previous position after serving time as a traffic cop, Backstrom now heads the Special Crimes Unit. The pilot episode centers around Backstrom pissing off nearly everyone he meets while working the murder of a senator’s son which was staged to look like a suicide.

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