The Rewatchables – Before Sunrise
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Arcane – Killing Is a Cycle / The Dirt Under Your Nails
After peaking with “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern,” the Second Season of limps to the finish line with a what if multiverse style story followed by two episodes more concerned with the Noxian army’s collaboration with Viktor (Harry Lloyd), while never truly exploring the moral ramifications of what he has accomplished or Jayce‘s (Kevin Alejandro) obsession which cause the conflict, and their attack on Piltover rather than the characters who have made up the emotional core of the series. The result is an underwhelming finale with some individual moments that ends with a whimper rather than a bang.
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Back in Action
- Title: Back in Action
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Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx star in this lame action thriller as former spies forced out of retirement after being spotted getting into a public altercation involving their rebellious teenage daughter (McKenna Roberts) in a night club. Back in Action is a charmless paint-by-number genre flick with the cast going through the motions as the family finds itself on the run eventually pulling in Emily’s (Diaz) British mother (Glenn Close) and her ridiculous boyfriend (Jamie Demetriou).
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Watson – Watson
- Title: Watson – Watson
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Something akin to House with Sherlock Holmes trappings, the opening episode of Watson gives us Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) starting up a cutting-edge clinic six-months after the deaths of Holmes and Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The case of the week involves a pregnant woman (Anjelica Bette Fellini) believed to have a genetic disorder that will soon kill her, although Watson and his team begin to investigate alternatives as the episode runs through various false diagnoses before finding the true cause of her symptoms. Along the way we also get glimpses of Watson’s troubled relationship with his ex (Rochelle Aytes) who he abandoned to help Holmes on a final adventure that only Watson returned from.
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New on DVD
Previously-reviewed films being released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K this week include Just Friends and Hundreds of Beavers.
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