Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (Official Demo Trailer)
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The Librarians – And the House of Cards
- Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the House of Cards
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Coming back from the retrieval of an artifact, Lysa (Olivia Morris), Charlie (Jessica Green), and Connor (Bluey Robinson) find themselves redirected through the Door to a classic Agatha Christie mansion where a party, and series of murders, are underway. The Christie trappings, the importance of the tarot card reading (both in the real world and inside the prison), and the absence of Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), forcing them to work through the mystery themselves without the knowledge of their Librarian, are a some fun pieces to one of the season’s more memorable episodes.
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The Naked Gun
- Title: The Naked Gun (2025)
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It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new Naked Gun movie. The failed 80s TV-show turned successful movie franchise in the late 80s and early 90s gets a refresh with Liam Neeson stepping in as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen‘s character. Like his namesake, Frank is a talented, if problematic, detective for Police Squad. Playing on Neeson’s history with B-move action-thrillers, he slides right into the straight man role of the film in what turns out to be some rather inspired casting.
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In the Lost Lands
- Title: In the Lost Lands
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There’s a moment, perhaps 80-minutes into the film, where our protagonists battle cursed skeleton warriors inside a hollowed-out nuclear reactor which provides the only momentary thrill of an otherwise dreadful adaptation of a George R. R. Martin short story featuring a witch (Milla Jovovich) with pulsating eyeballs and a hunter (Dave Bautista) traveling through a dystopian desert in search of a werewolf. Filmed on a modest budget for large-scale sci-fi/horror, In the Lost Lands earned back one-ninth of the film’s cost. The term is often overused nowadays, but this is what a true flop looks like. It did no better with critics than audiences with its hackneyed storytelling and half-developed concepts finding little to no support.
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