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Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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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Secret Headquarters

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  • Title: Secret Headquarters
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A mediocre mash-up of teen misadventures and a super-hero film, Secret Headquarters follows the actions of Charlie (Walker Scobell) and his friends (Momona Tamada, Keith L. Williams, and Abby James Witherspoon) who discover a super-hero cave in the basement of his estranged deadbeat dad (Owen Wilson) and proceed to have a blast while accidentally alert an evil cooperate goon (Michael Peña) and his minions to the location of the super-hero’s alien power source.

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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – The Mystery of Witches’ Hollow

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  • Title: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – The Mystery of Witches’ Hollow
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a Hardy Boys mystery from the late 70s series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. In an opening straight out of Scooby-Doo, Frank (Parker Stevenson), Joe (Shaun Cassidy), Callie (Lisa Eilbacher), and Chet (Gary Springer) drive around some dark and stormy woods in a van while discussing the mysterious legends about a local witch. On their way to visit Callie’s uncle, they find the man missing and the local sheriff (Brad Trumbull) not all that concerned even after finding the missing man’s bloody sleeve in the woods, someone breaks into the house, and an escaped puma on the loose.

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