Maul – The Dark Revenge

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  • Title: Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord – Chapter 1: The Dark Revenge
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Stuck with one of Star Wars‘ unnecessarily complicated naming conventions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord – Chapter 1: The Dark Revenge reintroduces the character of Maul setting events of the series prior to those in Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or Solo: A Star Wars Story. As the series opens, Maul (Sam Witwer) is working from the shadows on the planet Janix pitting various underground mobsters against each other while attempting to regain his lost power. By the end of “The Dark Revenge,” one mobster will be dead with another in Maul’s clutches, a police station will be decimated by Maul and his crew (in the highlight action sequence), and the former Sith Lord will come across the unexpected.

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Pretty Lethal

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  • Title: Pretty Lethal
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Maddie Ziegler leads a group of bickering ballerinas (Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, and Avantika) overseas for a recital who become trapped in a house full of Hungarian mobsters where they witness the murder of their instructor (Lydia Leonard) and find themselves hunted. In order to survive, the dysfunctional group will have to put their petty squabbles aside and use their dance moves with quite literally lethal efficiency.

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Poirot – The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

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  • Title: Agatha Christie’s Poirot – The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to early 20th Century London and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Adapted from one of Agatha Christie’s short stories chronicling Poirot’s early cases, “The Adventure of the Clapham Cook” offers Poirot (David Suchet) a case he believes is beneath him searching for a missing cook (Freda Dowie), and a client who promptly fires him well before the case is closed, only for the detective to stumble on a much larger mystery involving murder, fraud, and the theft of thousands from the local bank.

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