Following the departure of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega after the last film, the seventh film in the Scream series attempts to go back to well one more time pulling Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) back into a new series of murders involving a Ghostface who may or may not be a character from the original film but is certainly using AI deepfakes for the inclusion of characters killed on screen in previous films.
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1995’s Copycat is more notable for its casting of two female leads, neither relegated to a romantic interest, while still relying on the typical Hollywood serial killer script complete with plot holes and an absurd final act. Sigourney Weaver stars as former serial killer expert Dr. Helen Hudson who goes into seclusion after nearly being killed by the disturbed Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick Jr.) following on of her lectures. Sometime later, having noticed a pattern in a series of killings around San Francisco, the agorophobic Helen reaches out to the police with her theory.
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Emerald Fennell‘s adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s Wuthering Heights focuses primarily on the incestuous and destructive relationship between spoiled aristocrat Cathy (Margot Robbie and Charlotte Mellington) and her boorish and emotionally abusive adopted brother Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi and Owen Cooper) who her louse of a father (Martin Clunes) rescued one night on one of his drunken benders (providing someone to take out his aggression on over the coming years).
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Writer/director Bart Layton‘s adaptation of Don Winslow‘s novella offers a mix between a heist film and a drama featuring the interconnected lives of strangers who converge. Our characters include our noble and uncatchable thief (Chris Hemsworth), the girl (Monica Barbaro) he begins dating after she literally crashes into him, a good cop (Mark Ruffalo) on the outs with his own department for following evidence rather than towing the company line, a middle-aged insurance agent (Halle Berry) passed over for another raise, and a second, more reckless, thief (Barry Keoghan) looking to steal a big score from Hemsworth’s character.
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The Beekeeper fits right in among the litany of action flicks centered around a former highly-skilled killer living a normal life who is woken out of his slumber for revenge. From First Blood to John Wick, it’s a well-tread road. Jason Statham stars as Adam Clay, a retired elite assassin (known as a Beekeeper) living off the grid keeping bees on a farm owned by a kind old woman (Phylicia Rashad). However, when she’s targeted by a phishing scam that destroys her life, Clay comes out of retirement for revenge.
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