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Sentimental Value

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  • Title: Sentimental Value
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The death of Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes’ (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) mother brings their estranged father (Stellan Skarsgård) back into their lives. A celebrated auteur filmmaker who chose his career over his family years before, Gustav brings with him a script for his first project in 15 years which is inspired by his family’s history. After his hopes to get his eldest daughter to star in the film fall through, Nora being a local stage and television actress, Gustav casts a young Hollywood actress (Elle Fanning) seeking her first serious role.

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NCIS: Origins – The Edge

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – The Edge
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Dedicated to David McCallum, the actor who played Ducky on NCIS For more than 450 episodes, “The Edge” guest-stars Adam Campbell (who also played the younger version of the character on NCIS) as Ducky is sent to NIS to discover if the West Coast branch needs its own full-time medical examiner. Met initially with anger and suspicion, based largely on the baggage characters are already carrying around this season and due to the rumors that Ducky is a spy sent to judge whether or not they should be shut down, the good doctor wins over members of the team one by one. As for Gibbs (Austin Stowell), who Ducky met years earlier and who the doctor credits with helping changing his life, he also leaves an important gift in which another key component aspect of the show’s main character is unlocked.

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Frankenstein

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  • Title: Frankenstein (1931)
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Mary Shelley’s novel has been adapted several times over the years on both stage and screen, but no version is more notable nor done more to bring the story to a wider audience than the 1931 Frankenstein. The Universal Studios’ film set the look of the classic Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff) which, despite being diffent than described in Shelley’s work, is still immediately recognizable today and synonymous with the name.

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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

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  • 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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