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Hackers

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  • Title: Hackers
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Newly released on 4K, 1995’s Hackers is a very silly movie about a group of “innocent” high school hackers who despite breaking multiple laws throughout the film are the victims and heroes of the plot when another hacker (Fisher Stevens) decides to frame them for his crimes. The film stars Jonny Lee Miller as a child prodigy banned from using computers until his 18th birthday where he returns to the world of computers and takes up with a group of local hackers which include the hyper-competitive girl (Angelina Jolie) he has a crush on.

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The Company You Keep – The Truth Hurts

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – The Truth Hurts
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With the future of the show still in doubt, The Company You Keep completes its First Season with one more con against the Maguires which Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) and his family also use to tank the deal with Frankie (Tony Shalhoub) after learning his plans for the neightbor should they sell the bar. The series also makes a dramatic shift in the life of Emma (Catherine Haena Kim) which would pull her more into the gray of Charlie’s world and suggest a path where the pair could stay together.

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The Company You Keep – The Truth Shall Set You Free

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – The Truth Shall Set You Free
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The penultimate episode of the season makes some big shifts heading into next week’s finale. Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) and his family pull off a double con to give Emma (Catherine Haena Kim) the evidence she needs on the Maguires and keep the Daphne’s (Felisha Terrell) arms dealer (Michael Gladis) from Patrick (Timothy V. Murphy) and Connor (Barry Sloane) and provide evidence back to Daphne of his father’s decision to cut her out of the operation. The risky gambit prove sucessful, with even Ollie (Shaylee Mansfield) getting involved in the family business, and allows Charlie the opportunity to walk away from the entire situation… or so he thinks.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Pyramid Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Pyramid Job
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The Leverage crew tackles a pyramid scheme which has ensnared the granddaughter (Taina Dominguez) of one of Sophie‘s (Gina Bellman) old associates (Max Baker). “The Pyramid Job” plays on several common themes of Leverage: Redemption with Harry (Noah Wyle) getting in over his head as part of the con attempting to bromance one-half of the couple (Christopher Gorham) running the scam and teasing more information about Sophie’s past. It’s notable for the female-half of the operation (Virginia Williams) being smart enough to see through Sophie’s con, but not smart enough to realize she’s self-incriminating herself to her pyramid of mommy saleswomen. As for Sophie’s story, we learn a bit more about one of her largest regrets and get a mention of another man from her past foreshadowing more trouble for the team down the line.

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The Company You Keep – A Sparkling Reputation / Against All Odds

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – A Sparkling Reputation / Against All Odds
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After some proverbial will-they-or-won’t-they, the second and third episodes of The Company You Keep play on the emerging relationship between criminal Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) and CIA Agent Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) whose stories are also tied together by Daphne Finch (Felisha Terrell) who forces our thief’s family to do jobs for her to pay off their debt as Emma and the government continue to investigate her. 

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