Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban star in this throwaway revenge porn with a bit of swashbuckling thrown in. Chopra stars as a former slave turned pirate whose past comes back to haunt her when Captain Connor (Urban) hits her shore in search of both his former lieutenant and the chest full of gold she stole before leaving that life behind.
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While I understand the idea behind 2024’s Azrael, in which Samara Weaving stars as a young woman on the run from a cult who believe speech is a sin and plan to sacrifice her to wandering burnt humanoids who they worship, the film never finds a way to transcend the basic concept in a way to make it work for an entire film. Without speech or narration, director E.L. Katz limits himself on how to frame the story relying mostly on Weaving running through the woods in fear of her life.
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Set prior to the events of the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Shadow of Maul, the first issue of the five-issue mini-series is a Maul comic in name only (as the character only appears on the final page). The man protagonist of Shadow of Maul #1 is bounty hunter turned police officer Captain Brander Lawson struggling to bring justice to the corrupt planet of Janix (with the help of a robot sidekick).
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Giving off strong Disney Channel TV-movie vibes, 2004’s D.E.B.S. offers a campy teen spy story most notable for its central Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers romance being set between two young women on opposite sides of the law. Sara Foster stars as Amy Bradshaw, the star pupil at the clandestine academy for young women (recruited from secret SAT questions designed to uncover those with the aptitude for espionage) training them in Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength.
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Director MJ Bassett‘s Red Sonja is a bit of a mixed bag that makes several decisions about Sonja and her world that drastically limit the character’s effectiveness on-screen. The first choice is to offer a tragic origin story but somehow not allow for Sonja’s communion with a god granting her the fighting skills necessary to take her revenge until the end of the movie. The choice leaves Sonja a capable warrior for much of the film but far short of the larger-than-life She-Devil with a Sword who has entranced readers for more than 50 years.
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