Set in 1979, writer/director Ti West‘s X stars Mia Goth in dual roles as a stripper who heads off with friends to a Texas farmhouse to make a porn and also as the elderly resident of the home who goes on a sexually-frustrated murderous rampage as she begins picking off the visitors one at a time with the help of her equally bat-shit crazy husband (Stephen Ure).
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Saoirse Ronan stars in director Nora Fingscheidt‘s stylish memoir based on Amy Liptrot’s true story. Jumping around her timeline to showcase various moments of Rona’s (Ronan) life from childhood to present provides context to how she ended up one one of the most remote Orkney Islands fighting her addiction with alcoholism and building a new life. While following her inner journey, the film also examines life on the island and nature beyond as her relative isolation brings her a peace she hasn’t seen in years.
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But, why? Fans of 2000 film will remember that both the primary protagonist and antagonist die in Gladiator. Usually everyone being dead is a pretty good reason not to have a sequel. Not only that, but Maximus Decimus Meridius’ entire quest to avenge the death of his family and remove control of Rome from the hands of a corrupt emperor succeeds in every way imaginable. The self-contained story is complete. So why, more than two decades later, are we getting a sequel?
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While being so riled up with his wife’s killer fucking with him, and working on finding the missing phone which is now in the hands of the dead man’s baby mama, Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) nearly shoots his daughter. And the poor girl, distrustful of anyone who could actually help her, runs into a hitman staying the same hotel who eventually gets bored of waiting and just kills her. So, it’s not a great week for the master detective. Meanwhile, our serial killer (Ryan Eggold) targets his next victim which will complete the bizarre recreation set by targeting her at a coffee shop and over a dating site. However, a clue found by Cross will allow the actual investigation to get started.
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