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The Fog

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  • Title: The Fog (1980)
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The Fog

Flashback Friday takes us back to John Carpenter‘s ghost story about vengeful spirits returning to Antonio Bay to enact revenge 100 years after their death. The film is more notable for its feel and atmosphere than its script. Despite Carpenter being dissatisfied with the project following principal photography, leading to reshoots, and earning mixed reaction from critics, the film was a tremendous box office hit for Carpenter and AVCO Embassy Pictures whose next collaboration would be Escape from New York.

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The Dark Tower

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The Dark Tower

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to an ill-fated Stephen King adaptation. What had been meant to be the launch of a new movie franchise, the 2017 adaptation of King’s eight-novel series made back its money at the box office but failed to impress either critics or fans. Cannibalizing material from the first few books, and presenting the story as kid-centric gives it a half-assed Percy Jackson or NeverEnding Story structure without fully exploring the worlds or concepts it throws troubled youth Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) into.

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Hang ‘Em High

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Hang 'Em High

Flashback Friday takes us back to the Old West. Set in the middle of Clint Eastwood‘s cowboy phase, Hang ‘Em High starred Eastwood as a rancher who becomes a hanging victim, then a criminal, then a marshal, then a vigilante, and then back to a marshal again. A few years after completing the Man with No Name Trilogy and before High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales, the film doesn’t rank among the best of Eastwood’s time in the genre taking a little too long to get the lynched man, wrongly assumed guilty by a posse and left for dead, back on the road of vengeance and revenge.

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28 Outs: An Imperfect Story

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28 Outs: An Imperfect Story

It was the perfect game, except according to Major League Baseball it wasn’t. Framed in part by law professor Lawrence Jones presenting the case before his class to teach an example how rules and laws can sometimes work contrary toward justice, 28 Outs: An Imperfect Story takes a hard look back at Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga‘s 28-out perfect game marred only by a controversial on-field decision that even umpire Jim Joyce regretted just moments after the game. A perfect storm created a historic event for the wrong reasons, keeping Galarraga from being recognized for throwing a perfect game which, to this day, MLB has refused to officially acknowledge.

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Reacher – The Complete Second Season

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  • Title: Reacher – Season Two
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Reacher - The Complete Second Season

The Second Season of Reacher offers the chance for a new mystery for the former military investigator that also ties in with his past allowing the sophomore season of Amazon’s series to explore Jack Reacher‘s (Alan Ritchson) time in the military, and the events which brought it to an end, as well as a current murder when a member of the 110th Special Investigators Unit turns up dead.

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