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The Green Knight

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  • Title: The Green Knight
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Writer/director David Lowery‘s adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight casts Dev Patel in the role of King Arthur’s (Sean Harris) nephew and youngest knight Gawain who sees a chance to prove himself when a Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) arrives in Camelot for a game. He offers any knight the opportunity to lay a blow on him that he will return in kind one year later.

The adaptation takes some liberties with the source material, making Gawain a bit more of a coward and whoremonger than in the original chivalric poem. After the Green Knight survives Gawain beheading him, and takes his leave, the story flashes forward a full year, meaning we don’t see the looming threat play on the knight over time.

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Alex Rider – Hunt

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Hunt
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An attempt by Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) to find the Department of Special Operations and convince them that Gregorvich (Thomas Levin) is responsible for the attack in Cornwall is only partly successful. With the help of  Tom (Brenock O’Connor), Alex is able to find and track Blunt (Stephen Dillane) at his private club. However, instead of leading him back to spy headquarters, Alex accidentally stumbles into a stakeout and the attempted capture of a cyber-hacker who recently made an attack on the Pentagon.

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Usagi Yojimbo #24

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“Ransom” concludes as Miyamoto Usagi, Yukichi Yamamoto, and Kitsune look to rescue the kidnapped Kiyoko. The ransom trade is complicated by a few factors including Kiyoko freeing herself before her friends even arrive and the ledger that Boss Hasegawa wants in exchange for Kiyoko being stolen back by one of his own agents.

It doesn’t take long before all hell to break loose. Although our protagonists come out victorious, and Kistune and Kiyoko find a way to make a profit on the ordeal, Usagi has made a new enemy in Boss Hasegawa (but also a new friend in Aoki, the honorable samurai who accepts Usagi’s wisdom about not serving an dishonorable lord). The ronins hit the road once more, but where will their travels take them next and will Yukichi get to meet any more of Usagi’s friends?

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Hit-Monkey – Bright Lights, Big City

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  • Title: Hit-Monkey – Bright Lights, Big City
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The second episode of Hit-Monkey takes our unlikely duo of a murderous monkey and his ghostly sidekick Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) into Tokyo in search of those responsible for the death of the assassin and the monkey’s tribe. “Bright Lights, Big City” reveals how Hit-Monkey acquires his suit and introduces him to Akiko (Olivia Munn), who has convinced her father (George Takei) to run in the election in place of the assassinated candidate, at the man’s funeral (which quickly devolves into a bloody shoot-out between Hit-Monkey and the Yakuza).

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