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Nickel Boys

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Nickel Boys
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Presented from a first-person perspective with the camera acting as the eyes of our protagonist, Nickel Boys is a hard film to review both in terms of subject matter and in how the story is framed for the audience. The technique certainly allows the film to stick out, even when the person whose perspective unexpectedly shifts between our main character Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) who finds himself in a reform school after being in the wrong place at the wrong time and Turner (Brandon Wilson) who he meets at Nickel Academy. 

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Night and Day

/ / Books & Magazines
  • Title: Night and Day
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Throwback Tuesday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and its sheriff, Jesse Stone. The second-to-last of the Jesse Stone series to be written by Robert B. Parker, Night and Day makes use of a device Parker employed before in both Crimson Joy and Thin Air in which we see small snippets interspaced throughout the novel from another character’s perspective. In the case of Night and Day that character is the sexually-frustrated Seth Ralston whose voyeuristic peeping gets increasingly more aggressive with the armed invasion of women’s’ homes, romanticizing the encounters by calling himself the Night Hawk and sending letters to Stone and the Paradise Police Department.

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Batgirl #3

/ / Comics

Against her wishes, Batgirl flees with Shiva from Gotham where every new discovery just adds to her confusion on a train out of town. In her mother’s followers she discovers the possibility of Shiva caring for others. Her distrust of her mother returns with the discovery of the League of Assassins, now apparently allies, also onboard the train leading to a reveal of other unexpected riders and more questions for Cassandra Cain.

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Interior Chinatown – Chinatown Expert

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Chinatown Expert
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Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) continues down the rabbit hole looking further into his uncle (Archie Kao) who he now suspects knows something about his brother’s disappearance. Looking to get into his uncle’s office leads to Willis and Lana (Chloe Bennet) attending family dinner as something more than friends and an ill-conceived night out afterwards with Fatty (Ronny Chieng) whose ill-tempered waiting continues to draw in large audiences. The episode is notable for a nice moment between Lana and Lily Wu (Diana Lin), which continues to suggest a personal connection to the case for Lana that hasn’t yet been revealed, and the ripples of Willis’ tampering with the natural order which lead Turner (Sullivan Jones) to question the nature of his reality and his true place in the world.

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Black Doves – Go Bang Time

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Black Doves – Go Bang Time
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While suggesting there’s something more keeping Sam (Ben Whishaw) from killing Hector (Luther Ford), who he lets go again, the raid does snag the missing Kai-Ming (Isabella Wei) who sadly can shed no light on who killed her father or Helen’s (Keira Knightley) lover Jason (Andrew Koji). There’s plenty of carnage in the shoot-out, but its the maneuverings and the bits of info that begin to trickle out in the rest of the episode where things start to pick up. Given a new assignment, in getting the CIA Agent (Finn Bennett) out of the American Embassy for Mrs. Reed (Sarah Lancashire), Helen also hopes to get the answers she seeks. However, very little goes according to plan.

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