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Coming Soon – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

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  • Title: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
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Along with giving us a longer look at a couple of the film’s stunts, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is mostly notable for explaining Alec Baldwin‘s role in the film and the (apparent) end of the IMF as an official government agency. Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Jingchu Zhang, and Sean Harris star. The latest impossible mission opens in theaters on July 31st.

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Samurai Jack – Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack

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  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack
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Samurai Jack - Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack

“Episode II” introduces both the hero and audience to a bizarre dystopian future filled with talking canine archaeologists, aliens and robots of every type, and a worldwide kingdom ruled over by Aku (Mako). Although centuries of Aku’s rule has morphed the world into a technological dictatorship, for our hero no time has passed. Earning the name Jack from some alien teens, and learning the sad history of the world by a trio of talking dogs hoping to hire the swordsman, Samurai Jack‘s (Phil LaMarr) long journey to find his way home begins.

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Sense8 – Limbic Resonance

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  • Title: Sense8 – Limbic Resonance
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Sense8 - Limbic Resonance

At this point I think we can stop refering to the Wachowskis as talented filmmakers who have lost their way and consider The Matrix may instead be the exception to their otherwise mediocre filmmography. Created and produced along with J. Michael Straczynski (last seen doing anything interesting in the Third Season of Babylon 5), the pair’s latest is a Netflix series surrounding an assorted group of people from all walks of life who, at least based on this first episode, seem placed on-screen as walking plot points for the show discuss various themes such as racism, inequality, crime, sexual identity and relationships, drug use, politics, and a sense of being lost and alone in the world. It’s like Crash was made into a series by the people responsible for The Matrix Revolutions and Ninja Assassin. Oh, wait, that’s exactly what happened.

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