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NCIS Season 22, Episode 10 introduces a perfect mix of guest stars led by Jordyn Owens, Melina Kanakaredes, and Ken Garito. 

NCIS returns with its first episode in 2025, "Baker's Man," and it revolves around the team solving a robbery-turned-murder fiasco inside a bakery that ultimately ties to an all-out drug war that is unraveling in the outskirts of D.C. 

At the center of the conflict is Agent Parker's favorite bakery, and he will stop at nothing to learn what is going on. Meanwhile, Nick's new relationship presents a conflict in the workplace. 

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Michael Imperioli may be best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on the TV series The Sopranos, but he has over 100 other screen acting credits and several writing credits (including multiple episodes of The Sopranos). His first writing credit came on 1999 crime drama Summer of Sam (watch it Here), which was directed by Spike Lee… and during an interview for the documentary Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Imperioli revealed that he visited a witch and used otherworldly means in an effort to get Summer of Sam into production!

Scripted by Imperioli, Lee, and Victor Colicchio, Summer of Sam has the following synopsis: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders. The philandering Vinny unwittingly almost becomes a victim of the psychopath, and soon he and numerous people in his orbit — including his wife,...

"You have nothing to fear, after all, I'm dead - or am I?" Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for an indie survival thriller titled Captors, another new film made by the filmmaker James Cullen Bressack - who's been churning out mostly dull action films with Bruce Willis recently. A story of survival set against the backdrop of a cold, bleak winter. It centers on a woman, Alys, who had been the victim of sex trafficking and escaped her captor in the dead of night. Ten years later, a man lures her to a cabin in the woods, where he will test her sanity and force her to fight to survive. Everything at this secluded place - including the food - is booby-trapped. And the man who lured her there might still be alive. Yulia Klass stars as Alys, with a cast including Bruce Davison, Josh Kelly, Michelle Burke, Michael Paré,...

Today we are recognizing BlacKkKlansman, as well as co-writer/director Spike Lee, plus co-stars Adam Driver and John David Washington. Our Hollywood Film Tributes recognize films and talent for their excellence in the art of filmmaking. One of the awards season’s most consistent players, BlacKkKlansman is a timely film that deserves to be recognized for the masterwork from Spike Lee that it is. Lee arguably has made one of his best movies ever here, while Driver and Washington are nomination worthy. It’s one of 2018’s best, plain and simple… From our rave review back in the summer: Spike Lee is not a subtle filmmaker. Sometimes, the stick of dynamite works better than the scalpel. Other times? Not so much. That’s sort of been the hallmark of his career, and in particular, the last handful of years. Well, this week, Lee is back with a vengeance, as he...

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller, Michael Buscemi, Damaris Lewis | Written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee | Directed by Spike Lee

[Note: With the film out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday (Christmas Eve) here's a reposting of our review of BlacKkKlansman from its cinema release earlier this year]

Spike Lee returns to cinema screens after a small absence taking his mantel up at Netflix with the Roger Guenveur Smith one-man show Rodney King, as well as retooling his breakout 1986 hit She’s Gotta Have It into a critically acclaimed television series. Lee, famed in the same breath as he has been clouded in controversy, has been at the forefront of pioneering positive attitude on the representation of African Americans in cinema since is seminal 1989 work of Do the Right Thing, concerning the irrefutable oppression of his people and the police brutality governed in one of...

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller, Michael Buscemi, Damaris Lewis | Written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee | Directed by Spike Lee

Spike Lee returns to cinema screens after a small absence taking his mantel up at Netflix with the Roger Guenveur Smith one-man show Rodney King, as well as retooling his breakout 1986 hit She’s Gotta Have It into a critically acclaimed television series. Lee, famed in the same breath as he has been clouded in controversy, has been at the forefront of pioneering positive attitude on the representation of African Americans in cinema since is seminal 1989 work of Do the Right Thing, concerning the irrefutable oppression of his people and the police brutality governed in one of the hottest summers Brooklyn has seen. Taking a few hits along the road,...

Spike Lee is not a subtle filmmaker. Sometimes, the stick of dynamite works better than the scalpel. Other times? Not so much. That’s sort of been the hallmark of his career, and in particular, the last handful of years. Well, this week, Lee is back with a vengeance, as he’s got one of his best movies to date coming out. The film in question is BlacKkKlansman, a piece of vital cinema that stands tall among anything else the auteur has done. Not only is it one of Lee’s best, it’s one of the year’s best as well, in addition to being a major Oscar player. This is something special folks. Based on an incredible true story, the movie centers on Colorado Springs Police Officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington). Teamed with partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), they would go undercover and take down the local...

'Crash' movie: Ryan Phillippe. 'Crash' movie review: California tossin' and turnin' Screenwriter Paul Haggis' multiple award-winning directorial debut, Crash, is set in a Los Angeles that is part Quentin Tarantino, part Paul Thomas Anderson, part Spike Lee, part Bret Easton Ellis. Haggis' L.A. also happens to be a place with precious little in common with the Southern California metropolis located on Planet Earth. In the film, Haggis and co-screenwriter Robert Moresco tell us – or rather, scream at us – that the Angeleno boiling (definitely not melting) pot is about to explode at any moment, as Los Angeles denizens spend all their spare time hating, fearing, misunderstanding, and cheating on one another. And perhaps much of that is true, except that most of that hate, fear, misunderstanding, and cheating have absolutely nothing to do with ethnic or national differences. But not in this particular L.A., situated in some warped La...