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Cold Slither #1

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Presented as something akin to VH1’s Beyond the Music, the new Cold Slither one-shot examines the history of the band Cold Slither (as introduced in the G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero TV episode of the same name) in which Zartan and the Dreadnoks become the front men for a band with hidden subliminal messages within the music. We then learn that years later that same music hit streaming and spread like wildfire giving Cobra control of the world. But what of the band?

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Nine Puzzles – Episode 10 & 11

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Nine Puzzles – Episode 10 & 11
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Following a murder in the hospital, evidence leads both Yoon E-na (Kim Da-mi) and Han-saem (Son Suk-ku) separately to Hwang In-chan (Roh Jae-won) who is responsible for the artwork on the puzzle pieces but is not their killer. However, his connection to the artwork leads to the confirmation of the killer’s identity as more and more information is uncovered explaining the motivations for the murders and how everything traces back to the Seojin Diner, where Yang Jung-Ho (Kim Sung-Kyun) worked before becoming a police officer, located in the Shindonga Market which was destroyed in the name of progress to make way for the One City.

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The Hunt for Red October

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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One Battle After Another

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  • Title: One Battle After Another
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Strongly inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, which Paul Thomas Anderson has been attempting to adapt, on and off, for more than two decades, One Battle After Another tackles a litany of themes including revolution, government corruption, interracial couples and racism, and the generational divide between a father and a daughter.

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The Lady Vanishes

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  • Title: The Lady Vanishes
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Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1938 thriller follows English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), one of several tralevers temporarily stranded in Bandrika, home via train. Priot to boarding the train Iris recieves a head injury but is looked after by an eldery English woman who she befriended the previous night. However, after the effects of her head injury subside she is unable to find Mrs. Froy (May Whitty) or anyone onboard the train who remembers seeing her. Convinced something odd is going on, and finding no other help avaiable, she accepts the help of the obnoxious Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) who she had a run-in at the hotel.

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