Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

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  • Title: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
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Mixing magicians into a hesit film for something undeniably cool, if a bit overly-complicated, Now You See Me gave us Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher as four young magicians brought together by a mysterious secret organization to use their skills and sleight of hand to deal a bit of justice to the wealthy who have skirted their responsibilities. The clusterfuck of a sequel even further over-complicated the story, removed key figures from the plot, and retconned the motivations of a key antagonist leading to a dismal follow up that somehow didn’t kill this franchise.

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Jay Kelly

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  • Title: Jay Kelly
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The latest from writer/director Noah Baumbach, which he co-wrote with Emily Mortimer, is a sentimental look at aging movie star Jay Kelly (George Clooney) just entering a reflective period of his life (explored in flashbacks) whose attempts to connect with either of his grown daughters (Riley Keough and Grace Edwards) is hindered by decades of him choosing his career over them.

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Watson – Lucky

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  • Title: Watson – Lucky
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In an episode that keeps several plates spinning simultaneously, “Lucky” features the return of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) far sooner than I expected, but again only for a single episode. Spending a bit of time poking around Pittsburgh, Holmes stays with Watson (Morris Chestnut) and offers some advice on the doctor’s latest case involving a man in a coma ward suffering from undiagnosed locked-in syndrome who has witnessed multiple murders by an angel of death over the years. Along with helping the patient, Watson and the team also work to prove there is someone killing end-of-life patients and identifying her before she murders again.

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Bat-Fam – Game Knight

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  • Title: Bat-Fam – Game Knight
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Set in the world of Merry Little Batman, Bat-Fam is the goofiest attempt at a Batman series since the late 60s that seems to be aiming for the Teen Titans Go! audience. The first episode of the series involves Damian‘s (Yonas Kibreab) attempts to win over Wayne Manor’s latest resident 12 year-old former super-villain Claire Selton (Haley Tju). The two bond over the arrival of Alicia Pennyworth (London Hughes) whose business dealings with super-villains Claire finds suspicious.

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The Running Man

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  • Title: The Running Man (1987)
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Set in the distant future of 6 years ago, 1987’s The Running Man starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, an escaped convict and disgraced former police officer who was arrested for refusing to open fire on an unarmed mob in a totalitarian police state run by lies, propaganda, and brutal force that looks more and more prescient every day. Framed for the murders he refused to commit, Richard is tapped by Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), the host of the world’s most popular reality-TV game show, and forced into competing on The Running Man.

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