Claire Forlani

Meet Joe Black

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  • Title: Meet Joe Black
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Director Martin Brest‘s 1998 remake of Death Takes a Holiday stars Brad Pitt as Death who grants the ridiculously rich Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) a few extra days of life in exchange for letting him stick around in a stolen body and discover what’s so great about life for himself. The body chosen by Death just so happens to be the same man Parrish’s daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) falls for in an earlier scene. Rechristened as Joe Black, who refuses to provide any more information about himself, Joe inserts himself into Parrish’s world causing havoc for Bill and romantic confusion for Susan.

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The Rock

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Flashback Friday takes us back to director Michael Bay‘s best film. Sure you could make a case for Armageddon, and some (not me) would argue for Bad Boys II. However, the most successful movie of the popcorn director’s career is unquestionably the 1996 film that united Sean Connery as an aging British Secret Agent unjustly imprisoned for decades after stealing the United States’ most precious secrets and Nicolas Cage as an FBI chemist who find themselves responsible for saving the lives of 81 hostages from mercenaries who have taken control of Alcatraz.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua
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Hawaii Five-0 - Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua TV review

Multiple-personality antagonists are a hard-sell as Hawaii Five-0 learns with “Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua” which casts Michael Weston as a traumatized schizophrenic off his medication who begins a series of violent acts. The unusual case allows for the return of Claire Forlani as profiler Alicia Brown who proves instrumental in ending things without further bloodshed. More of a running gag than a B-story, the episode also puts a stress counselor with McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) for most of the episode, hired by his friends in hopes of finding ways to lower Steve’s stress. Neither storyline is all that memorable, at least not in a good way, although Danny‘s (Scott Caan) attempt to look out for his partner is eventually appreciated.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Kama’ oma’ o ka ‘aina huli hana

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Na La ‘Ilio
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Hawaii Five-0 - Kama' oma' o ka 'aina huli hana TV review

As is the show’s custom around Halloween, the latest episode brings a series of bizarre murders to the Five-0 task force’s attention, all of which appear to have been inspired by local myth and folklore. The episode’s B-story takes the long road to get Grover (Chi McBride) what he needs to take down his former best-friend who has, until now, gotten away with murdering his wife and putting a hit out on Grover. While the death row sequence involving an inmate with only hours left to live never quite pays off (and ends pretty damn gruesomely with the prisoner having to be electrocuted multiple times to finish him off) apparently the show is finally ready to put this thread to rest.

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Hawaii Five-0 – He Moho Hou

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – He Moho Hou
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Hawaii Five-0 - He Moho Hou

While Kono (Grace Park) reconnects with a former surf competitor facing hard times and Alicia (Claire Forlani) is paid a visit by Five-0’s chess-obsessed serial killer, McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and his team search for a drug dealer who parachuted from a plane killing both a DEA agent (who wasn’t lucky enough to have a parachute) and the witness whose house they landed in. The drug-dealing storyline will provide most of the episode’s action, including Kono highlighted in the most kick-ass sequence of the young season, but the heart of the episode comes from Kono’s subplot reconnecting with an old rival and coming to understand what she can do, and what she can’t, to help the veteran.

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