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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory

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  • Title: Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory
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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory takes wildlife filmmaker and documentarian Bertie Gregory to the Serengeti where he focuses on two groups of cheetahs to highlight the struggles of the fastest land animal which finds itself stuck in the middle of the food chain. Bertie and his team spend time with both a mother and her two young cubs, noting that 95% of cheetahs don’t make it to adulthood, and a pack of three young males all struggling to survive.

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Ash

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  • Title: Ash
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I enjoy amnesiac stories, whether the character is missing just a day or their entire lives, and watching the process of them solving the mystery of who they are (ending in the obvious question of whether, through that process, they are still the same person). I’m also a sucker for both sci-fi and Eiza González who is certainly the highlight cast in the central role of a space explorer waking up on an alien planet with all of the other crew dead and no idea what happened.

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The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop

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Director Simon Ennis‘ documentary The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop examines the culture of boardgames from a variety of angles including friends playing with each other, podcasters attempting to carve out a brand, contestants attempting to win in the first ever tabletop tournament, designers working on getting their own games developed and sold, and even a bit of history of the start of board games from a historian.

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Never Say Die, Iron Eagle

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  • Title: Iron Eagle
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In 1986 a film hit theaters with fast jets, high-flying dogfights, a killer soundtrack, and a young maverick pilot who broke the rules in order to get the job done. Then, four months later, Top Gun was released. Largely panned for its admittedly ridiculous plot (albeit one that looks far more plausible today given the scripts of movies like Top Gun: Maverick), Iron Eagle starred Jason Gedrick as high school student Doug Masters who, along with his friends and a reservist (Louis Gossett Jr.), stole Air Force assets and helped plan and execute a rescue mission halfway around the world.

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