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Little Demon – First Blood

  • Title: Little Demon – First Blood
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The opening episode of Little Demon introduces us to teenager Chrissy (Lucy DeVito) who discovers she’s the Antichrist, a secret her mother (Aubrey Plaza) has been keeping from Chrissy her whole life (although it helps explain the pair constantly moving over the years). The discovery comes on Chrissy’s first day of school when her mensuration leads to a giant black hole above the school, the awakening of new powers which she uses to brutally kill a pair of bullies, and finally the truth from her mother.

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Red Notice

  • Title: Red Notice
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An overly-convoluted heist flick from writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber, Red Notice relies on the odd-couple buddy-comedy interactions between smart-ass thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) and FBI Agent John Hartley (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) forced to work together to beat another thief (Gal Gadot) from acquiring all three of Cleopatra’s legendary jeweled eggs while being chased by an agent of Interpol (Ritu Arya).

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Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai

  • Title: Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai
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The second episode of Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles finishes the set-up for the series as Yuichi Usagi (Darren Barnet) is imprisoned for the various trouble he has caused in the city with those he has met eventually coming to his aid (and getting arrested as well). However, the city’s new Yokai problem needs a solution and Yuichi, Gen (Aleks Le), Kitsune (Shelby Rabara), and Chizu (Mallory Low) working together appear to be the solution.

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The Adam Project

  • Title: The Adam Project
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Ryan Reynolds stars in this convoluted story of a time-traveler looking for a disruption in the timeline who travels back from 2050 to 2022 and is forced to work with his preteen self (Walker Scobell) to avoid other time travelers following him. The premise allows for an older and younger version of the same character on-screen, a very Disney Channel kind of tale, although the lengths the story goes to to explain and support this get unnecessarily complicated for the kind of film The Adam Project is in its willingness to both change time in very important ways and at the same time avoid other changes that its writers just decide shouldn’t be messed with.

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Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – The Big City

  • Title: Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – The Big City
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Poor Usagi, what has Netflix done to you? Inspired by the rabbit ronin creation of Stan Sakai, but feeling more like a watered down version of the TV adventures of Kung Fu Panda (which themselves were watered-down version of the Kung Fu Panda films), Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles introduces us to Yuichi Usagi (Darren Barnet). Unlike his ancestor, Miyamoto Usagi, our new Usagi is a bit of a screw-up who dreams of becoming a samurai although his only true skill is bringing chaos and disaster with him. 

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