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Descendants: The Rise of Red

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  • Title: Descendants: The Rise of Red
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Looking to further extend the Descendants brand, Descendants: The Rise of Red offered the first spin-off film without any of the original core characters. Anne McClain was brought back as Uma, who takes up her new role as new principal for the school, but she’s really here only to kick off events (by knocking down the first domino in allowing Wonderland into Auradon) rather than partake in them.

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The Warrior and the Sorceress

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  • Title: The Warrior and the Sorceress
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One of 10 films produced by Roger Corman in Argentina in the 1980s, The Warrior and the Sorceress is a thinly-veiled retelling of Yojimbo on an alien world (featuring the most modest of fantasy or sci-fi trappings). More sword than sorcery, the story opens with Kain (David Carradine), a former holy warrior turned mercenary, wandering into the village of Yamatar where the most precious resource is a well fought over by two warring gangs.

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The Astronaut

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  • Title: The Astronaut
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I’ll give Kate Mara credit for taking unusual projects. However, when they don’t work they really don’t work. The Astronaut starts out as a psychological thriller with Mara cast as our astronaut recently returned from space and suffering “common” side effects while kept in seclusion in a secure facility off the grid (which at least makes for an interesting setting as events devolve). Mentioning several times what our astronaut is experiencing is normal, the film continues to push and prod Mara’s character to question her reality and her sanity.

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Raw Deal

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  • Title: Raw Deal
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Inarguably lesser Schwarzenegger, Flashback Friday takes us 40 years to 1986’s Raw Deal when Hollywood was still struggling with turning the former bodybuilder into a consistent blockbuster action star. Perhaps not surprisingly, throwing Arnold Schwarzenegger into the middle of a crime drama as a blackballed cop turned small town sheriff working undercover with the mob, with no sense of humor given the absurdity of such an idea, isn’t the most believable of scenarios.

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Mercy

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  • Title: Mercy
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Set in a dystopian near-future (which seems to loosely blame the growing homeless for all crime in the city), the convoluted thriller from screenwriter Marco van Belle and director Timur Bekmambetov stars Chris Pratt as LAPD Detective Chris Raven. As the film opens, Raven has already been strapped to an electric chair and forced to prove his innocence to an Artificial Intelligence (played by Rebecca Ferguson) who has already judged him guilty.

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