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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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Warfare

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  • Title: Warfare
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Crafted from the memories of the soldiers who lived through events, Warfare documents a Navy SEAL platoon deployed at night into a two-story home in the Anbar Province. Narratively weak, the film doesn’t attempt to put events of the film into any historical context, nor does it offer any explanation as to why this location is of any strategic importance. Instead we’re thrown into the situation with the (mostly interchangeable and underdeveloped) soldiers who live through the lulls and extreme action that make up modern warfare as they attempt to survive and escape a situation that quickly grows untenable.

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MacGyver – The Gauntlet

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  • Title: MacGyver – The Gauntlet
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With “The Gauntlet,” MacGyver Monday sends our intrepid science-adventurer MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Central America to extract a photojournalist (Robin Curtis) obsessed with taking down the corrupt regime. Curtis is your typical guest-star, at first fighting Mac until the danger of the situation, which also involves an old adversary (John Vernon) of MacGyver hellbent on revenge, becomes much too real. Although initially captured, the pair escape, but to get to freedom they’ll need to travel 100 kilometers to the Mexican border with the country’s army standing in their way.

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