Based on a real practice in Japan where a company offers professional stand-ins to clients, Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as a struggling actor living in Japan who is initially hired to be a token white guy for a client setting up their own funeral. Confused, but in need of work, Phillip (Fraser) agrees further roles (most of which are covered in montages while two key roles make up the core of the main story).
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The H2SH storyline continues as Hush‘s machinations have turned the Bat-Family against Batman. It’s not really explained how he did that in this issue, but it’s happened enough times over the years that even if you are picking up this issue without reading the larger storyline it’s easy enough to go with the flow. The art is good, the yellow oval Bat-symbol is back, and we get plenty of Bat-on-Bat action.
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Presenting the second-half of the Broadway musical Wicked as its own movie, I’ll admit enjoying Wicked: For Good slightly more than Wicked: Part I. Tension is already set at the beginning of the film as time has past since Elphaba Thropp’s (Cynthia Erivo) decision to stand against the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum). And, honestly, things are not going all that great for the most powerful witch in Oz. The Wizard’s soldiers are hunting her with his propaganda machine in full gear painting Elphaba as the cause for all evil. And the animals which Elphaba wishes to save, those who aren’t being caged, are fleeing Oz in great numbers unable to trust any humans.
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As the peace between Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) the Mayor (Marcia Gay Harden) crashes given her attempts to sneak changes into the budget proposal just prior to the vote (gutting the common ground the pair had worked on), all hands are on deck as Karl (Rossif Sutherland) leads an investigation into the kidnapping of a young boy and his babysitter that isn’t what it initially appears to be.
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In an episode that keeps several plates spinning simultaneously, “Lucky” features the return of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) far sooner than I expected, but again only for a single episode. Spending a bit of time poking around Pittsburgh, Holmes stays with Watson (Morris Chestnut) and offers some advice on the doctor’s latest case involving a man in a coma ward suffering from undiagnosed locked-in syndrome who has witnessed multiple murders by an angel of death over the years. Along with helping the patient, Watson and the team also work to prove there is someone killing end-of-life patients and identifying her before she murders again.
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