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Daredevil – With Interest

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – With Interest
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In what is the obligatory standalone crossover episode, “With Interest” continues themes of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) struggling with his need to put his skills outside of the courtroom to use. In this episode this involves Hell Kitchen’s most famous blind lawyer walking into a bank during a robbery and finding ways to keep everyone safe, prevent the theft of a rare jewel from a safe deposit box, and dole out a little punishment. The episode works in a vacuum with the various other storylines put on hold for this single adventure which, in part, is also used to introduce Matt to the bank’s assistant manager Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur) who happens to have a hero in the family.

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The Grifters

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  • Title: The Grifters
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Stephen Frears‘ 1990 neo-noir crime thriller centered around three grifters in the City of Angels comes to the Criterion Collection on 4K and Blu-ray. One could make a strong case The Grifters, now 35 years-old, remains the director’s best film. Trust may be hard for the characters to find in the script, given the shadowy world of half-truths and lies, but the talent is evident in every frame of this stylish look at con artists getting in over their heads.

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Topkapi

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  • Title: Topkapi
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Topkapi

1964’s Topkapi is an odd film. Starting with a psychedelic opening in which a character breaks the fourth wall to talk directly to the audience, a device which is never seen again, the film then vacillates between a heist film and a farce before finally settling in as a serious heist film (with an admittedly farcical epilogue). The story involves a thief (Melina Mercouri) who recruits an old partner and lover (Maximilian Schell) and a collection of amateurs for a risky heist in Istanbul. Their plan relies, in part, on smuggling the tools needed into the country through the use of unaware small-time hustler Arthur Simpson (Peter Ustinov).

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Leverage: Redemption – The Museum Makeover Job / The Crowning Achievement Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Museum Makeover Job / The Crowning Achievement Job
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The final two episodes of Leverage: Redemption‘s Second Season offer tie-ins to Sophie‘s (Gina Bellman) past. “The Museum Makeover Job” is the better of the two episodes with the team heading overseas to investigate what went wrong with a job and uncovering Sophie’s old boss Ramey’ (Ralph Brown) involvement. It’s a family affair all around as Sophie’s step-daughter Astrid Astrid (Alexandra Park) is the agent on the ground looking into the recent break-in. The follow-up episode deals with the crew being framed for a different heist inside the museum and working to solve the mystery and clear their names before being caught.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Belly of the Beast Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Belly of the Beast Job
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Leverage: Redemption - The Belly of the Beast Job

In one of the more interesting setups of the relaunched series, “The Belly of the Beast Job” features our team taking on a sexual predator of a music producer (Jeffrey Vincent Parise) but keeps them mostly in the background allowing the guest-stars to take over center stage when the naive Jenna (Emily Hall) gets hired for the new assistant position that their plans relied on. Working their way around less access than they planned, Leverage gives Jenna the proper nudges at the right time to lead her to uncover the truth about her boss and expose him, and his crooked business partner (Gail Rastorfer), to the world.

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