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Crain, who is brought into the covert world of the American Resistance after her sister is killed by the Japanese and she is entrusted with a film that ex- poses an alternate reality where America and its allies won the war. Later in the series, we learn that there is more than one alter- nate reality, and that some will stop at nothing to control them all. Rufus Sewell (“Victoria”) and Joel de la Fuente (“Hemlock Grove”) also star as the Resis- tance’s strongest opposition, the complex Nazi Reichsmarschall John Smith (Sewell) and the con- flicted Chief Inspector Kido (de la Fuente) of the Kempetai, respec- tively. In Season 4, which is the last installment of this acclaimed series, the rebels become a real fighting force, and war and re- bellion rock the United States of America. Showrunners have de- scribed the final season as “very epic — very conclusive and very ambiguous.” “The Report” (2019) Adam Driver as seen in “The Report” series explores that hypothetical By Jessica Gosse world, and Season 4 premieres TV Media WHAT’S NEW: “The Man in the High Castle” Season 4 What would the world have become had the Allies been defeated in World War II? This Friday, Nov. 15. Based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick, this intense drama takes viewers to 1960s America, where the East has been taken over by Nazi Germany and the West is occupied by Imperial Japan. Alexa Davalos (“Clash of the Titans,” 2010) stars as Juliana Starting Friday, Nov. 15, this riv- eting political thriller — which is based on actual events — is available for streaming. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the CIA created the Detention and Inter- rogation Program as a method of ensuring such attacks never happened again on American soil. When staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” 2017), who has de- voted his life to national security, is put in charge of investigating Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan in “Creed II” the program by his boss Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Ben- ing, “Captain Marvel,” 2019), he is shocked by what he finds. As Jones works on the case, he learns some harsh truths that the CIA doesn’t want the world to know: how evidence is destroyed and the justice system is manipu- lated in order to get the results the CIA wants. The film also stars Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Corey Stoll (“The Deuce”) and Maura Tierney (“The Affair”). It’s an examination of power and the fine balance between corruption and justice, and chronicles the lengths to which one man will go to to make the truth known. “Creed II” (2018) Alexa Davalos in “The Man in the High Castle” On Friday, Nov. 15, the latest installment in the Balboa/Creed saga comes to Amazon Prime. It’s been three years since Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan, “Black Panther,” 2018) won the WBC World Heavyweight Champion- ship with the help of his coach, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, “Escape Plan,” 2013). Now a worldwide star, life is been go- ing well for Adonis. He proposes to his girlfriend Bianca (Tessa Thompson, “Avengers: End- game,” 2019), and the pair be- gins to make plans for their life together, a life away from Phila- delphia. But conflict arises when Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren, “Aquaman,” 2018) shows up in town with his son, Viktor (Florian Munteanu, “Bogat,” 2016), and challenges Adonis in the hopes of reclaiming the glory and pride he lost when Rocky defeated him 30 years earlier. Knowing that it was Ivan who killed Adonis’s father, and that the desire to participate in this fight comes from nothing but hatred and revenge, Rocky refuses to train Adonis for the event. A pregnant Bianca worries that if Adonis steps into that ring, he may not come home, and a question lin- gers: What is he fighting for? His father, or his own pride? East Oregonian and Hermiston Herald | November 13, 2019 Screentime | 23
