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Monday February 2nd 2026
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
from the series Movie Corner…
4/5 Stars
Action/Adventure/Spy/Drama
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
Like all the previous seven Mission Impossible films, The Final Reckoning is a high octane adventure that seems boundless. There’s always a purpose for The Mission Impossible installments and The Final Reckoning is no exception. There’s one man Ethan Hunt, a hero (like Superman, Batman or Spider-Man) and a spy who performs stunning stunts in the air between airplanes, on the ground or risking his life in a sunken Russian submarine on the verge of going over the edge.
Hunt, along with his longtime covert fixers Luther Stickell, Benji Dunn, and a new member Grace, a former girlfriend, are out to save the world from a monstrous, self-serving Gabriel. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), as The Entity, has seized all the nuclear power available.
Nothing will stand in the way for Hunt, including the antagonists Briggs and Degas, two vexing agents. Hunt convinces a former nemesis, Paris, to join him against a formidable opponent. Hunt has a powerful ally in U.S. President Erika Sloane. He takes on the most heroic undertaking ever: to save the world.
There’s plenty of adrenaline in The Final Reckoning. There’s plenty of awe to bring the audiences along.… Read the rest “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning”
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The Spirit of Marv Davidov
from the series Raise Your Voice…
By PETER MOLENAAR
The stately apartment complex at 2615 Park Avenue was Marv’s home for a spell before his final passing in the year 2012. As a member of the War Resisters League, he had famously given leadership to the Honeywell Project, which exposed the corporate war profiteering of the day.
Note:
My generation still recalls the image of Vietnamese children running naked beneath clouds of napalm… their skin melting away.
June 7, 2025…
Beneath the banner of Women Against Military Madness, we marched upon the headquarters of Lockheed Martin, Inc., an outfit which profits from precision guided Hellfire missiles, deployed to take out journalists in Gaza.
A few days ago…
‘False flags’ were waving in LA.
1970 something, Honeywell…
Marvin admonished the crowd: “We will deem anyone who commits property damage an agent provocateur.”
Now…
In keeping with the spirit: “the moment violence or property damage begins, every other protestor must immediately sit on the floor or the ground in silence, with signs down. The media will then reveal paid thugs posing as protestors becoming violent… the rest of us will demonstrate our non-violent innocence and retain our right to peaceful protest.”… Read the rest “The Spirit of Marv Davidov”