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Selma

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  • Title: Selma
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Released just months before the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march through Alabama, 2014’s Selma is most notable for David Oyelowo‘s lead performance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the unflinching framing of events from director Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young who never shy away from the brutality of racism which King and others met with grace, strength, dignity, and perseverance to fight for the rights guaranteed to them by the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Batman #323

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Flashback Friday pulls back the page to 1980s comics and my introduction to one of my favorite Bat-villains of all time. I can trace my love of comics back to what I still consider the best birthday present I’ve ever received when my father gave me a stack of comic books on my birthday. There was Green Lantern, the Flash, Captain America, Iron Man, Superman, Spider-Man, the one true Captain Marvel, Justice League, Daredevil, X-Men, and Batman. And one of those Batman comics was Batman #323.

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Turn Every Page

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  • Title: Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
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Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb examines the five decade professional relationship between journalist and author Robert Caro and his longtime editor, her father Robert Gottlieb. Filmed over the course of five years, Gottlieb’s film is her attempt to make sense on how the pair initially came together and worked for decades on a series of books not yet finished.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Clone Conspiracy

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Clone Conspiracy
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Not featuring a single regular character of the series, and set on Coruscant rather than in deep space, “The Clone Conspiracy” is an anomaly for the series in more ways than one. It also seems to answer the longest running question of the series by reintroducing the character of Senator Riyo Chuchi (Jennifer Hale) who is far to similar to Omega to not make note of, although why someone may have wanted a more human clone of the Senator is still unclear. In a storyline that demands better treatment of veterans, Riyo fights for the rights of decommissioned Clones as the Empire attempts to push through legislation of a new conscripted military force.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Misplaced Targets

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Misplaced Targets
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An explosion during the raid of a meth lab leads NCIS to uncover Kai (Alex Tarrant) was the target of his old frenemy A.J. Hale (Jonah Ho’okano) who later baits the agent into an assault in his father’s restaurant. Unable to pin anything on A.J., NCIS squeezes his wife (Diana Lu), although in the frenzy afterwards Kai makes a discovery that will change his views of the criminal he’s spent the past several months attempting to take down. The conclusion of the A.J. story is notable, however, it’s the return of another cast member that provides several of the episode’s best moments.

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