Over the years several films and TV series have made use of female American outlaw Belle Starr, most highly fictionalized. The 1968 spaghetti western The Belle Starr Story with Elsa Martinelli is problematic for multiple reasons not the least of which is Belle’s response to fall in love with attempted rapists not once but twice in the film.
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Based on true events, James Norton stars as charming conman Robert Hendy-Freegard who ruined several lives over the years while pretending to be an agent of MI5. While alluding to several of his victims, the film focuses on a lawyer (Gemma Arterton) he seduced and stole from who worked to find and bring him to justice. Not only did the conman steal from several of his victims, to many he applied psychological stress while introducing them to the spy life or inspiring fear that others were after them.
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The unscripted drama Dead Hot: Season of the Witch follows Vanessa Hudgens and Georgia Magree on their journey into the mystical involving learning more about ghosts and witchcraft. While you can tell the subject is important to both Hudgens and her real-life friend, the results are mixed. In the end you can’t help but wonder if a bit more scripting or a more traditional documentary style would have served the pair better in the personal interests they want to explore.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to year 2000 and the attempts of two braindead wrestling fans (David Arquette and Scott Caan), who have obviously never heard the term kayfabe, to help their shitcanned hero (Oliver Platt) reclaim his championship after being buried and fired. Ready to Rumble is a bizarre film, created during the height of World Championship Wrestling’s popularity and features several wrestlers of note including Sting, Diamond Dallas Page, Goldberg, Curt Henning, Booker T, Bam Bam Bigelow, and more.
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The Sixth Season of Rick and Morty offered more wacky adventures for Rick (Justin Roiland) and Morty (Justin Roiland). While there are several good episodes in the ten episode run, for me the highlight has to be the the completely insane “Full Meta Jackrick” which offers the return of Story Lord (Paul Giamatti) in one of the most Rick and Morty episodes of Rick and Morty.
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