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Kung Fu – Alliance

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After exhausting all other options to find Mia (Vanessa Yao), Nicky (Olivia Liang) reaches out to Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) for help. Despite their distrust of each other, the pair work good together, and her addition is the last piece necessary to find Russel Tan (Kee Chan). Unfortunately, despite discovering several facets of Russell Tan’s plan and the location where he plans to ring the bell, our heroes aren’t able to stop events as Tan uses Mia’s blood, the body of his own son, and the hammer and bell to create an earthquake across the city.

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Femme Fatale

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Now 20 years-old, I have some definite affection for writer/director Brian De Palma‘s 2002 film even if it relies on a pair of problematic twists for its ultimate payoff, either one of which could easily turn a viewer off. Rebecca Romijn stars as a thief and con-woman who disappears with the loot after double-crossing her partners in the opening scene set during the Cannes Film Festival. She disappears into the life of a random stranger who just happens to look identical to her and whose life suddenly becomes available. The second twist involves life being a dream which is as least as fanciful as the first. Fast-forward seven years and our thief is living the good life as the wife of an American ambassador in Paris. However, a Spanish paparazzo (Antonio Banderas) taking her picture will bring dangers from the past flooding back.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria

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“Ghosts of Illyria” offers a couple of classic Star Trek themes with members of the away mission trapped on the planet and a mysterious illness sweeping through the starship after members of the ship visit the abandoned colony on Hetemit IX. With Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) trapped on the planet during a storm, command of the ship falls to the capable Number One (Rebecca Romijn) who is revealed to be a genetically-altered Illyrian like those who once lived on the colony. Because of her advanced physiology, she is able to burn through the infection quickly but the rest of the crew isn’t nearly as lucky.

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Legacies – By the End of This, You’ll Know Who You Were Meant to Be

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Legacies returns from a month’s hiatus to ramp up to the finale beginning with “By the End of This, You’ll Know Who You Were Meant to Be” in which Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) has to make a hard choice about who will get the most dangerous assignment in the upcoming battle and Ken (Luke Mitchell) makes preparations of his own enlisting Aurora de Martel (Rebecca Breeds) to help Jen (Piper Curda) in crafting a weapon capable of killing the tribrid. The god will also turn his attention to the curious Cleo (Omono Okojie) attempting to gain some knowledge of what the god plans only to set a series of events in motion in which one cast member will exit the show a couple of weeks before the finale.

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Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer

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Despite his enjoyment in the stars last season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has returned home to his vineyard and awkward relationships. But not to fret, a new menace (which just coincidentally involves several of the characters from last season) has happened deep in space and Starfleet pulls the admiral back into action once more. “The Star Gazer” is mostly set-up, focusing on Picard’s life back on Earth and teasing just what the threat may be. The reveal turns out to be something as a red herring as the characters aren’t going to fight what come through the hole in space but instead the new lives in which they find themselves trapped in an alternate timeline far different than they remember.

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