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The Grifters

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Grifters
  • IMDb: link

Stephen Frears‘ 1990 neo-noir crime thriller centered around three grifters in the City of Angels comes to the Criterion Collection on 4K and Blu-ray. One could make a strong case The Grifters, now 35 years-old, remains the director’s best film. Trust may be hard for the characters to find in the script, given the shadowy world of half-truths and lies, but the talent is evident in every frame of this stylish look at con artists getting in over their heads.

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Nights #12

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Nearly four months after the release of Nights #11, the end of the opening arc finally hits stores with an extra-sized issue with big revelations and changes for multiple characters. The first-half of the issue focuses primarily on how well everything is finally going for our main characters as each has managed to grab and hold onto a little happiness as life begins to move on, happily for once. However, life is about to get a lot more serious with a trip to the local generic, if recognizable, theme park.

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Black Doves – The Cost of It All / In the Bleak Midwinter

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  • Title: Black Doves – The Cost of It All / In the Bleak Midwinter
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Most, although not quite all, of the threads are wrapped up in the final two episodes of Black Doves. “The Cost of It All” gives us shit hitting the fan, Helen (Keira Knightley) finding herself behind the eight-ball with few cards left to play, a violent confrontation with her would-be replacement (Agnes O’Casey), and trouble for Sam (Ben Whishaw), Eleanor (Gabrielle Creevy), and Kai-Ming (Isabella Wei) all of whom are scooped up by the Clarks. However, Helen also finds the missing footage, providing answers to the ambassador’s death and leverage to save her friend and get the answers she’s been seeking concerning Jason’s (Andrew Koji) death.

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Arcane – The Message Hidden Within the Pattern

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – The Message Hidden Within the Pattern
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Is Jayce (Kevin Alejandro) now officially the worst guy ever? There’s a moment near the end of “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern” where Jinx (Ella Purnell) and Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) have come together, Vander has been cured by Viktor, the plans of Ambessa (Ellen Thomas) have been stymied, even Caitlyn (Katie Leung) has seen the error of her ways, and all is right with the world. I feel as if I skipped several episodes of this series which would help explain Jayce’s now murderous obsession with destroying Hextech which I don’t believe has been adequately explained on-screen. That said, enter Jayce to destroy everything ending perhaps the show’s best episode on one hell of a sad note.

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Will Trent – I’m a Guest Here

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  • Title: Will Trent – I’m a Guest Here
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Months after the end of Season Two, the retiring , who has relocated to Tennessee taking odd private investigator jobs, Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) is pulled back into the department to help investigate the shooting of a cop whose prime suspect demands Trent’s involvement in the case. There’s a lot of Trent struggling to fit into his old life while yearning to return to his new one here, getting the cold shoulder from the friends he disappeared on and the cops who blame him for Angie (Erika Christensen). Even Nico (Cora Lu Tran) is less than inviting.

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