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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Law & Order: Svu Season 26 Episode 8 “Cornered.”] What should be a regular day turns into a very traumatic one for Carisi (Peter Scanavino) in the Law & Order: Svu fall finale. After forgetting his paralegal’s birthday, Carisi goes to a corner deli to pick up flowers—only to walk in on a robbery. He ends up a hostage, can’t keep the deli worker from being killed or one of the other hostages from being raped, and lies to one of the robbers to get him to turn on the other to put an end to the situation. After it’s over, he insists to Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Rollins (Kelli Giddish) that he’s fine, but it’s clear he’s not. Below, Scanavino breaks down the episode and teases how the ...

Hey, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" fans. We're back in your faces with another new spoiler session for you guys. In this one, we're going to take a look at what's going down in the next, new episode 8 of this current season 26, which is due out tonight, November 21, 2024. We were able to dig up a new, official teaser description for one of episode 8's main storylines via NBC's official episode 8 press release synopsis. So, we're going to see exactly what it has to say right now. Let's go. For starters, we've got the official title for this new episode 8. The writers decided to name it, "Cornered." It sounds like episode 8 will feature some very scandalous, intense, dramatic, action-filled, suspenseful and interesting scenes. In this new episode 8, two women that are taken hostage is the main focus of this one and only storyline that NBC chose to reveal.

On Thursday November 21 2024, NBC broadcasts an episode of the series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit!

Cornered Season 26 Episode 8 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” titled “Cornered,” promises to deliver intense drama and gripping moments. In this episode, Carisi finds himself in a challenging situation as he works to protect two women who have been taken hostage. The tension rises as a violent thief holds them captive, creating a standoff that puts everyone at risk.

Benson and Rollins are also in the thick of the action, as they come up with a risky plan to ensure the safety of everyone involved. Their quick thinking and teamwork will be crucial in navigating this dangerous scenario. The stakes are high, and the pressure is on as they try to resolve the situation without further harm.

Viewers can expect a mix of suspense and emotional depth as the characters face difficult choices.

Ada Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino) can talk his way to verdicts in the courtroom, but will that skill—or what he learned as a detective—come in handy in the November 21 episode of Law & Order: Svu, when he’s in the middle of the crime? In “Cornered,” Carisi tries to protect two women taken hostage in a tense standoff between police and a violent thief while Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Sergeant Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) devise a risky plan to get everyone to safety. Below, Scanavino previews the hostage situation, how Rollins handles her husband in danger, and more. How does Carisi end up in this hostage situation? Peter Scanavino: It’s one of those days where everything seems to be going right, he seems very much in a good mood. And then he forgets that he’s got to do something for a colleague of his,...

Brace yourselves, “Svu” fans, for a hostage situation that’s less about intricate legal maneuvering and more about sheer, pulse-pounding tension. In “Cornered,” the detectives face a scenario ripped from a Hollywood thriller, although the usual “dun-dun” might be drowned out by the sound of everyone holding their breath. Forget the courtroom drama; this week, Ada […]

Law & Order: Svu “Cornered”...

Uh-oh, this isn’t looking good for Carisi (Peter Scanavino)! The Law & Order: Svu Season 26 fall finale airs November 21, and the promo for “Cornered” has us very worried about the Ada. It begins with Captain Benson (Mariska Hargitay) calling Sergeant Rollins to apprise her of the situation. “It’s Carisi. He interrupted a robbery in progress. He is being held hostage,” Benson tells her friend and his wife. Detectives Velasco (Octavio Pisano) and Silva (Juliana Aidén Martinez) join the Svu captain at the scene. The video then shows just how that happens; it looks like there are two robbers, and one puts his gun in Carisi’s face. What leads to him being so mad he hits the wall? “I need you to tell me that he’s okay,” Rollins says, but it looks like Benson won’t be able to do that. One of the thieves has Carisi ...

In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 26, Episode 8, titled “Cornered,” the tension is palpable as the squad faces one of their most harrowing situations yet. Carisi finds himself in the midst of a high-stakes hostage crisis when two women are taken by a violent thief during a dangerous standoff with the police. As the clock ticks down, Carisi must use all of his skills to protect the hostages and prevent the situation from spiraling further out of control.

Meanwhile, Benson and Rollins work together to come up with a daring and risky plan to get everyone to safety. The stakes are incredibly high as the team faces not just a dangerous criminal, but the lives of innocent women hanging in the balance. Viewers can expect intense moments, sharp decision-making, and the kind of high-pressure drama that Svu is known for. As always, the episode promises to keep fans...

Midnight Releasing is set to release Hunter G. Williams' The Madness Within at the end of 2019. The dramatic thriller features Williams (who also stars in the film) as a tormented businessman who falls victim to his own vices. The film is produced by Busted Knuckle Productions who have made several genre films recently including 2011's Tomorrow's End, 2012's Cornered and 2013's horror thriller The Crying Dead. Along with the release announcement, Midnight Releasing has provided us the trailer. Synopsis: Russ Washington is a successful businessman on top of the world. But when addiction, secrets, and faulty relationships send him spiraling down the rabbit hole, will he continue to plummet, or find the strength to carry on? Midnight Releasing has set December 6th as the film's...

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If an all-female “Avengers” movie comes to fruition, “Ant-Man and the Wasp” director Peyton Reed said he would like to see Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne take charge.

“I’d like her running things. I’d like to see her as the head of the all-female Avengers,” Reed told The Huffington Post.

Of course, he added, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) — who has “captain” in her name — might ultimately beat The Wasp out for the role of lady Avenger ringleader.

“Maybe that would be ‘Captain Marvel,’ because she does have the word ‘captain’ in her name. But I think Hope van Dyne is a very decisive leader and a tactician, in addition to being a brilliant scientist. So she checks a lot of boxes in terms of who’s going to be running the Avengers, theoretically,” Reed said.

In a previous interview, Reed said Hope van Dyne had her own...

Some actors manage to catch lightning in a bottle twice. It’s impressive enough to find your niche in Hollywood’s A-list even once. Occasionally, an actor will reinvent him/herself and begin a new phase of their careers that will be even more successful than it was before. Here are nine actors who had a cinematic rebirth.

Liam Neeson- Neeson has had a long career, and the early part of it was in dramatic roles. An intense dramatic actor, he apeared in films like The Dead Pool, Dark Man, Schindler’s List, Rob Roy and Les Miserables. His career rebirth came after playing Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars-Episode one: The Phantom Menace. After that, he got more offers for actions parts and recreated himself as an action hero in films like Gangs of NY, Batman Begins, Taken, Clash of the Titans, the A-Team, Unknown, the Grey, Taken 2,...

By John M. Whalen

It’s night and a ship moves in the water through a dark curtain of fog. We see George Raft as Captain Johnny Angel on the bridge peering out into the pea soup as another vessel looms ahead suddenly in the darkness, abandoned and drifting in the water. Raft sounds the foghorn but there’s no response. He boards the derelict with several of his crew to search for clues as to what happened. They go below to the captain’s quarters and finds it wrecked. A picture lies on a desk in a shattered frame. Raft picks it up and we see it is a picture of him as a younger man standing next to an older one. A crew member enters the cabin and says there is blood below, and water in the hold, but no signs of life.

“Maybe your father’s okay,...

This adult film noir masterpiece showcases the most glamorous pin-up dream girl of the 1940s. Rita Hayworth, a young Glenn Ford and a sinister George Macready form a sophisticated, poisonous love triangle. Criminal intrigues and killer striptease fill out the bill. Gilda Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 795 1946 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 19, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer, Gerald Mohr, Ludwig Donath, Argentina Brunetti, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ruth Roman. Cinematography Rudolph Maté Film Editor Charles Nelson Music underscore Hugo Friedhofer Written by Marion Parsonnet, Jo Eisinger, E.A. Ellington Produced by Virginia Van Upp Directed by Charles Vidor

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Some of the best 'movie' times I remember were seeing classic pictures cold, with no knowledge beforehand. Back at film school they'd show us things we'd never heard of, often in prints of incredible good quality.

Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock heroine (image: Joseph Cotten about to strangle Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt') (See preceding article: "Teresa Wright Movies: Actress Made Oscar History.") After scoring with The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, and The Pride of the Yankees, Teresa Wright was loaned to Universal – once initial choices Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland became unavailable – to play the small-town heroine in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. (Check out video below: Teresa Wright reminiscing about the making of Shadow of a Doubt.) Co-written by Thornton Wilder, whose Our Town had provided Wright with her first chance on Broadway and who had suggested her to Hitchcock; Meet Me in St. Louis and Junior Miss author Sally Benson; and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, Shadow of a Doubt was based on "Uncle Charlie," a story outline by Gordon McDonell – itself based on actual events.

Mary Boland movies: Scene-stealing actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day on TCM Turner Classic Movies will dedicate the next 24 hours, Sunday, August 4, 2013, not to Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Esther Williams, or Bette Davis — TCM’s frequent Warner Bros., MGM, and/or Rko stars — but to the marvelous scene-stealer Mary Boland. A stage actress who was featured in a handful of movies in the 1910s, Boland came into her own as a stellar film supporting player in the early ’30s, initially at Paramount and later at most other Hollywood studios. First, the bad news: TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" Mary Boland Day will feature only two movies from Boland’s Paramount period: the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award nominee Ruggles of Red Gap, which TCM has shown before, and one TCM premiere. So, no rarities like Secrets of a Secretary, Mama Loves Papa, Melody in Spring,...

Cornered

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Screenplay by John Paxton, story by John Wexly

U.S.A., 1945

Of all the villains to have in a film, among the most popular are the Nazis. Cinema has always depicted the Nazis for what they were: very nasty people. Granted, some movies embellish the villainy of the organization to exaggerated heights, but given what history tells us of the party’s ideologies and how they went about putting said ideology into motion during their few years in power in the 1930s and 1940s, there is a strong case to support the notion that they do in fact make for pretty solid movie antagonists. Merely striking the Nazis in the European theatre is one thing, but hunting down those party members who fled Europe in order to find temporary hiding grounds across the globe is an altogether different matter, and possibly even more ripe for adventure and suspense.

The past several years have seen a resurgence in interest in the Film Noir genre, not just in recreations via a host of films, but in the classics that started it all. That interest has spawned a series of releases on DVD, and The Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 5 is filled with treats.

You might expect that we would be reaching by the time we got to the fifth installment, a set with eight films, but in some sense the opposite may be true here.

While not the biggest names in the genre, the set gives us some true favorites, as well as some great actors.

Cornered (1945):

From England to continental Europe to Buenos Aires, ex-rcaf pilot Dick Powell stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bride. But one fact constantly surfaces during his quest: no one can describe the mysterious man. Joining Powell in the film shadows are...

Film Noir Classic Collection: Vol. 5, has dusted off eight films of the celebrated genre and adapted them to DVD format. Collections like these, which bring older films to newer light, are godsends regardless (to a degree) of which films are selected, because as timeless as some of these stories and performances might be, the barrier of being stuck in an old format can bury them forever. And these stories deserve to be told. If you watch a few well made noir thrillers you will no doubt see the seeds that were planted in the heads of crime-thriller filmmakers the likes of Martin Scorsese or Michael Mann. Though there are better films in the noir genre that this collection could have culminated, there are also a lot worse. Any fan of noir films or old mysteries and thrillers will be pleased at what this box set has to offer.

Desperate (1947)

Directed...