Like many, I found Eddie and the Cruisers on HBO. After a bit of a fumbled theatrical release, low box office numbers, and mixed reviews from critics that caused the film to be pulled from theaters after only a couple of weeks, the movie found a home on cable in part to its terrific soundtrack going quadruple platinum, and, unlike the film, being a runaway success.
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Bryan Mills is a pussy. Director Kenji Tanigaki offers a tale of a mute handyman (Xie Miao) out to find his kidnapped daughter (Yang Enyou). At the same time we’re given a parallel story of a journalist (Joe Taslim) searching for his partner (Jeeja Yanin) who goes missing in the opening scene while investigating the human trafficking ring scooping up children from the poorer regions of the city.
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the early 20th Century and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to solve while on his travels. While vacationing with Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) in the Cornish resort town of St. Loo, Poirot (David Suchet) makes the acquaintance of Nick Buckley (Polly Walker). After hearing her recount a series of close calls, Poirot becomes convinced someone is attempting to kill her. Setting out to prevent a murder, however, Poirot’s actions only lead to a different murder taking place.
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Doty, take this down. This is the episode where Taryon Darrington (Wayne Brady) proves his worth leading Vox Machima home. While Percy (Taliesin Jaffe) and Grog (Travis Willingham) keep his father at bay in a game of chance by pulling from a Deck of Many Things (leading to one of the funniest one-off closing lines of the series), Taryon takes the group to the mines mistakenly believing his father is innocent of all the chicanery afoot. Confronting his parental issues, Taryon proves instrumental in the travelers’ victory earning him an official spot on the team. Other fun moments include Pike‘s (Ashley Johnson) fake pregnancy and a callback to the previous season with an appearance by the skull of Umbrasyl.
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to early 20th Century London and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Murder hits close to home for Poirot (David Suchet) when his new downstairs neighbor Mrs Ernestine Grant (Josie Lawrence) is found murdered. Returning from the theatre with Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser), for a play which the downstairs neighbors of Grant also attended, Poirot is alerted to the crime by the two men (Nicholas Pritchard and Robert Hines) attempting to get back to their locked apartment using the dumbwaiter system, and, on accidentally arriving on the wrong floor, discovering the body.
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