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Bat-Fam – Bat-Trip

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The second episode of the series plays on both Bruce Wayne (Luke Wilson) as a helicopter parent and Damian‘s (Yonas Kibreab) proclivity to bend the rules, even if for a good cause, leading to trouble. Along with Judy (Reese Lores) and Trudy Dent (Natalie Palamides), Damian hatches a plan to sneak off on a field trip to S.T.A.R. Labs and break into the secure crime wing. Unable to chaperone, because of more Damian shenanigans, Bruce finds a way to push himself into the trip anyway making Damian’s plan all that harder to pull off.

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Jay Kelly

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  • Title: Jay Kelly
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The latest from writer/director Noah Baumbach, which he co-wrote with Emily Mortimer, is a sentimental look at aging movie star Jay Kelly (George Clooney) just entering a reflective period of his life (explored in flashbacks) whose attempts to connect with either of his grown daughters (Riley Keough and Grace Edwards) is hindered by decades of him choosing his career over them.

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Murder in a Small Town – Trust, But Verify

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  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Trust, But Verify
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Returning from a romantic weekend together, Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) has an unexpectedly productive meeting with the Mayor (Marcia Gay Harden) whose troubled son looks to an ongoing problem, and, with the help of Holly (Dakota Guppy), who finds more examples, she continues to investigate more into the odd case of the same flowers being left over the years on graves and the site of the death (also leading her to reexamine the death of a friend in high school). Neither the larger case nor concern over the Mayor’s son is shared with her boyfriend, leaving both subplots to perculate over the remainder of the season.

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Die My Love

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  • Title: Die My Love
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Adapted from the novel of the same name, Die My Love is most notable for the standout performance of Jennifer Lawrence whose character Grace falls into postpartum depression following moving into the suburbs with her husband (Robert Pattinson) and delivering their first child. The film often blurs the lines of what’s real and what’s hallucinatory fantasy of Grace including visions of a mysterious man (LaKeith Stanfield) on a motorcycle, conversations with her dead father-in-law (Nick Nolte) who it seems is the only one she ever truly bonded with, a mysterious black stallion, and the film’s fiery conclusion.

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Outland

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  • Title: Outland
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Set in a mining station on the moon of Jupiter, 1981’s Outland stars Sean Connery as the recently-assigned Marshal William T. O’Niel. With his wife (Kika Markham) and son (Nicholas Barnes) unable to deal with the conditions of his job any longer, and leaving for Earth, O’Neil finds himself increasingly isolated especially after he begins looking into a series of suspicious deaths and uncovers a company-approved amphetamine smuggling operation increasing the productivity of the miners but also making a number of the workers insane.

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