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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

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  • Title: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
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We get the rise and fall of Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) and Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) in this examination of the televangelist couple. While recreating moments of the pair’s life, there’s no real point or perspective offered to the events. The Eyes of Tammy Faye isn’t a character study. It isn’t commentary of events. Nor is it a satire.

The film is simply a shallow collection of events that never digs beneath the surface to provide anything of much interest. While we see the odd pair begin their their time as televangelists, the movie isn’t concerned with the rise of the PTL Satellite Network nor the good or ills of the The PTL Club, nor really the fall of grace of the Bakker’s which makes up only a small percentage of the film.

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MacGruber – A Good Day to Die

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  • Title: MacGruber – A Good Day to Die
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Originally conceived as a series of sketches for Saturday Night Live, the MacGyver-inspired spoof MacGruber eventually became a feature film in 2010 which was quickly forgotten by all but its most die-hard fans. Now MacGruber is back with a new series on Peacock. Picking up years later, MacGruber (Will Forte) has spent a decade in prison but is released for a suicide mission to exchange for the President’s kidnapped daughter which he’ll eventually get around to after stopping in to see a few familiar faces.

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Agnes

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  • Title: Agnes
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Agnes is an odd film. Actually, it’s two odd films strung together loosely by a single thread, neither of which leaves the audience with any kind of resolution (although one could argue that’s the point of the second storyline). In some ways it’s the most frustrating film of 2021 as so much is wasted on a bi-polar tale that at times seems as lost as the nuns themselves.

The first-half of the film is a delightful exorcism plot of a priest (Ben Hall) who is facing damning charges of inappropriate behavior with children, but also with experience in the act of exorcism, but who doesn’t really believe in the rights or demons, and a neophyte (Jake Horowitz) who has not yet taken his vows, sent to a nunnery where Sister Agnes (Hayley McFarland) has shown signs of possession. We also get a defrocked priest (Chris Browning) turned sleazy celebrity for his work in the field, added to the mix when our overwhelmed priest turns to him for help.

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Red Sonja Holiday Special

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The 2021 Red Sonja Holiday Special offers a pair of mostly forgettable stories set in the cold of winter for readers that take place outside of Sonja‘s current timeline.

After being cursed by a dying wizard, Red Sonja finds herself haunted by a ghost in “Sonja’s Carol” forcing the She-Devil with a Sword to look back at her recent choices and how continuing to kill for Draken will poison her future.

In “The Dance of Fire” Sonja sets out after a pair of thieves and killers known as the Gallows Brothers only to stumble across an odd ritual in the woods as a wizard forces Sonja to dance around a fire with the other maidens, offering their lives to the gods for a plentiful harvest. Despite forcing Sonja to dance all night, things don’t turn out as the wizard had hoped.

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Mayday

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  • Title: Mayday
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Mayday is a far less creepy and sexually-explorative version of similar themes found in Zack Snyder‘s 2011 travesty Sucker Punch. Grace Van Patten stars as Ana, an abused and unappreciated hotel worker who retreats from her world into a fantasy where she awakes as part of a small all-girl battalion acting as sirens leading soldiers to their death with a series of false mayday messages that steer them into oncoming storms.

The movie is primarily focused on Ana, her introduction and ultimate rebellion against her new life bringing her into conflict with the sirens’ leader Marsha (Mia Goth). Figures from Ana’s real life appear as different characters on the island including her brutal boss and a few of her coworkers. Mayday is an interesting idea on a shoestring budget that doesn’t quite work but does offer a solid message about standing up for yourself, embracing life’s hardships, and not running away from your problems.

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