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Mitch CyrusYesterday Mitch ran through the first two hours of "24" that aired Sunday night. Today the Mitch Man moves on to the second two hours, which were shown Monday night on FOX. This episode featured the return of Renee Walker. Not the Renee Walker we knew and loved from season seven though. An even better version. A distant, dark, vacant, rogue version of Renee Walker. Who hacks off the hand of a Russian mobster with a saw. I'm in love! If you watch "24", and haven't been reading Mitch's recaps ... do yourself a favor and get on board.

Welcome back.  Did you miss me?  No?  OK, let's get right to it, then.

Recap

Meredith Lewinski is still holding back "something" from CTU...yeah, the fact that she's a ho.  But of course her "holding back" is enough to make Dana and Cole think she's guilty of being part of the assassination attempt, diverting attention away from the real target.

Jack slips $100 to one of the local gangbangers playing across the street from Officer Jimmy's place to find out where Percy might be.  So how can you tell Jimmy and Maggie weren't very important?  Because Jack shows up just in time to find them accessorized with bullets to the foreheads.  Unfortunately, Jack is too late to catch Percy, but is there in time for Plot Device Movement #27: Getting Arrested by Clueless Police Officers.  Jack gets tasered as well...and then they screw things up even more by dragging him inside for more fun and games.

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If Jack Bauer was a Spartan in the movie "300", it would have been called "1"

Welcome back!

No 20 month break this time due to a writers' strike, so just a mere seven months after Jack was facing an almost certain death due to a bio-weapon, with only a slight chance of survival due to a completely experimental and untested procedure...Jack.  Is.  Back.

And so is my weekly recap.

Swerb and I were pleasantly shocked last year with how this column exploded in readership, stretching far beyond our normal target audience of Cleveland sports fans.  So for them...this year I promise to TRY to make a few less obscure references that mean nothing to anyone who doesn't live (or used to live) in Northeast Ohio.  Note that I said "try".  Just like the writers on the show will try not to re-use various plot devices from seasons past.

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Mitch CyrusThe End of the World has been getting a lot of attention lately, which probably is directly related to the recession still going on in America and most of the rest of the world.  Nothing like feeding off the feelings of uncertainty and apprehension to fill the seats at the theaters.

First came the actual end of (most of) the world in "2012", then came the long delayed release of Viggo Mortensen's uber-somber "The Road", where a man and his young son travel across a United States ten years after a catastrophe wiped out almost every living thing.  You could possibly even include last week's "Daybreakers" in this category, as in that film, humans were nearly extinct, leaving only vampires.

Into that mix comes the Denzel Washington star vehicle "The Book of Eli", a wildly uneven headscratcher that is nonetheless highly watchable.

In comparing this film to the deluge of post-apocalyptic movies, I'd have to say that "The Book of Eli" is basically a cross between "The Road" and "Mad Max"...with a little "Waterworld" thrown in for good measure.

Washington's character never states his name...it is inferred from a K-Mart nametag in his backpack that says "My name is Eli".  It has been 30 years since nuclear holocaust destroyed the world, and Eli is now on a mission of faith.  He is travelling west, certain that he has something needed in starting mankind back on the path towards civilization and redemption.

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Mitch CyrusLet's get down to it...there is only one important non-football thing to know about this weekend. Jack. Is. Back. That's right. "24" starts its eighth day...er...season Sunday night with a two hour kick-off, followed by another two hours Monday night (since we won't have football to watch that evening for the first time since July). Mitch's "24" recaps will be back as well, starting on Wednesday. Mitch hits on the return of Jack Bauer, as well as all of this week's new movie releases at the theater and on DVD in this week's "Crystal Ball".

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Mitch CyrusAs of Wednesday, "Avatar" is now the second highest grossing movie ever, having just passed "LOTR: Return of the King" at $1.13 Billion, and still going strong entering its fourth week. Is "Titanic's" record of $1.8 billion in jeopardy? Could be. Mitch touches on that, all this week's new releases at the theaters and on DVD, all the latest film industry news and rumors, and which interesting future projects are in the works in this Friday night's edition of The Crystal Ball.

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