Featuring interviews and clips from the likes of Björn Borg, Billie Jean King, Keith Richards, Patrick McEnroe, and John McEnroe and his children, the documentary McEnroe examines the tennis career of the volatile former No. 1 tennis player in the world whose mouth often got him in trouble his talent would have to back up. I don’t know that it strikes new ground for those familiar with his career, but there’s still plenty worth checking out for tennis fans.
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With so many vampire movies made over the years, filmmakers have looked to put their own spin on the concept by offering something new. Sometimes that gives us Buffy the Vampire Slayer introducing the idea of a young woman destined to stand and fight against the vampires which would eventually spawn a for more interesting television franchise that drove female-led stories being developed across the medium. Sometimes that gives us goofy comedies such as Once Bitten playing on the gender-swapped sexuality of a cougar vampire and a virgin. And sometimes it gives us Day Shift.
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The opening episode of Little Demon introduces us to teenager Chrissy (Lucy DeVito) who discovers she’s the Antichrist, a secret her mother (Aubrey Plaza) has been keeping from Chrissy her whole life (although it helps explain the pair constantly moving over the years). The discovery comes on Chrissy’s first day of school when her mensuration leads to a giant black hole above the school, the awakening of new powers which she uses to brutally kill a pair of bullies, and finally the truth from her mother.
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Dream‘s (Tom Sturridge) search for his missing sand takes him to London and the acquaintance of Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman). We’ve seen various versions of Constantine in both television and film, but this one of the best. Coleman is terrific here and I’d love to see this version of Constantine spun off into her own adventures. Smart enough to see what Dream is and guess what happened to him with the slightest information, Johanna leads him to his missing item although it means walking back into her past and discovering what has become of a former loved one.
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