Fantasy

The Librarians – And the House of Cards

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  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the House of Cards
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Coming back from the retrieval of an artifact, Lysa (Olivia Morris), Charlie (Jessica Green), and Connor (Bluey Robinson) find themselves redirected through the Door to a classic Agatha Christie mansion where a party, and series of murders, are underway. The Christie trappings, the importance of the tarot card reading (both in the real world and inside the prison), and the absence of Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), forcing them to work through the mystery themselves without the knowledge of their Librarian, are a some fun pieces to one of the season’s more memorable episodes.

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Escape to Witch Mountain

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  • Title: Escape to Witch Mountain
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 50 years to the Disney adaptation of Alexander H. Key’s novel. The film, which whitewashes the protagonists and tones down the violence for a younger audience, is an odd tale of two orphans (Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann) with paranormal powers who are adopted by rich industrialist Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) obsessed with the subject. Bolt’s interest in them causes the pair to flee to a spot known for bizarre phenomena called Witch Mountain. Eventually revealed to be extraterrestrial witches, the two kids are reunited with their people at the end of the film flying back into space.

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Ironheart – We in Danger, Girl / Bad Magic

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  • Title: Ironheart – We in Danger, Girl / Bad Magic
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“We in Danger, Girl” and “Bad Magic” are where Riri Williams‘ (Dominique Thorne) life takes a turn. More interested in investigating the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) than doing her part in the next heist, for no real reason other than curiosity, Riri nearly botches another robbery and her actions not only cause to be killed (Manny Montana) but also throw the life of Joe (Alden Ehrenreich), who it turns out isn’t really Joe, into chaos allowing the Hood to recruit him as well. The two episode arc is all about bad decisions and regret and Riri creating a number of enemies who now want her dead. Of course what this means is that Riri doesn’t get to make a hero turn but will be forced into becoming on due the fallout of her own actions.  That’s not the most intriguing hero’s journey.

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The Wheel of Time – The Shadow in the Night

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  • Title: The Wheels of Time – The Shadow in the Night
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The most memorable moment of “The Shadow of Night” doesn’t come from Egwene (Madeleine Madden) eventually confronting Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) about seeing him with Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe) nor the tragedy at the end of the episode where Rand struggles at how helpless the one power is even against death. Instead, the best moment of the episode is courtesy of Elayne (Ceara Coveney), covering for herself after being recognized in the bar, with the help of Mat‘s (Dónal Finn) old friend Thom Merrilin (Alexandre Willaume), by delivering a rowdy rendition of “The Hills of Tanchico” which is so good the episode reuses the song for the outro and credit sequence. Also of note, Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and Faile (Isabella Bucceri) finally admit their feelings for each other on the eve of an army about to hit the Two Rivers.

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The Secret World of Arrietty

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  • Title: The Secret World of Arrietty
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Back in theaters as part of Studio Ghibli Fest, the 2010 Japanese animated film explores the world of tiny people known as Borrowers who live secret lives hidden away by borrowing small amounts from the human world and carefully hiding their existence. Our main character is Arrietty (Mirai Shida | Bridgit Mendler) who comes of age in the course of the film taking part in her first borrowing with her father (Tomokazu Miura | Will Arnett) and also, against her peoples’ custom and her mother’s (Shinobu Otake | Amy Poehler) warnings, beginning a friendship with a sickly human child name Sho (Ryunosuke Kamiki | David Henrie).

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