Rosalía – Berghain
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MacGyver – The Gauntlet
- Title: MacGyver – The Gauntlet
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With “The Gauntlet,” MacGyver Monday sends our intrepid science-adventurer MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Central America to extract a photojournalist (Robin Curtis) obsessed with taking down the corrupt regime. Curtis is your typical guest-star, at first fighting Mac until the danger of the situation, which also involves an old adversary (John Vernon) of MacGyver hellbent on revenge, becomes much too real. Although initially captured, the pair escape, but to get to freedom they’ll need to travel 100 kilometers to the Mexican border with the country’s army standing in their way.
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Silk Stalkings – Powder Burn
- Title: Silk Stalkings – Powder Burn
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“Powder Burn” brings back Christopher Mayer as Rita’s (Mitzi Kapture) short-term fling earlier in the season in “Hardcopy.” Back in town, Tyler wants to pick up where the pair left off, but it takes him the entire episode, including asking Chris (Rob Estes) for advice, to win himself a second shot. Given the time devoted to the subplot it seems likely there were plans to use Mayer as a recurring character in fleshing out a long term romance for Rita, but, for whatever reason, this is his final appearance on the show.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
- Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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1999’s remake of the 1968 film about a multi-million dollar heist is certain an improvement on the original trading in a lackluster bank heist for stylish museum thefts of fine art. Casting Pierce Brosnan is the middle of his James Bond run as the bored rich man who steals art for his own amusement, the film never hits the Ocean’s 11 level of cool but it certainly has some cachet. Opposite our thief we get Rene Russo as the insurance investigator suspicious of Thomas Crown who also starts dating him (first for access but later feelings do develop as the pair consistently trade barbs).
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Quigley Down Under
- Title: Quigley Down Under
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Tom Selleck stars as Wyoming sharpshooter Matthew Quigley who arrives in Australia having been hired by land baron Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman). After discovering Marston wants Quigley to use his skills, and his experimental rifle, to hunt Aboriginal Australians, Quigley not-so-politely declines leading to him being left for dead in the Outback with a half-crazed woman locals refer to as Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo) whom constantly refers to Quigley as Roy.
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